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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3352883" data-attributes="member: 7883">This is one reason the paradigm of having adventurers able to slaughter armies is kind of silly.  How do you make the law apply to someone so far above everyone else that they can never conceivably be held to the same standards that bind everyone else in that society?I think Raymond Feist's novels actually deal with the topic in some ways, with the best magician in the world still being expected to serve his king.....and when he decides not to, it causes major ripples.  Sure, the king is limited in what he can do about it.  He's not going to give up an entire army to make the magician bend.....but at the same time, that magician might be cut off from resources within those lands etc. and at the very least, he's not very welcome.Banshee</blockquote>