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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibram" data-source="post: 3564673" data-attributes="member: 17640">A central religious authority with wide reaching power has been in the background of most of the campaigns I've run, becoming important campaign components in two of them.  The Temple  of Solaris (also the Church of the Nine) usualy serves as an element of control against powerful player characters (a visable 'big dog' whos attention is usualy unwanted).The Temples power and relation to different governments depends on how powerful that government is.  The two largest powers are not bound directly by its dicates, while smaller nations have no choice but to comply with any demands made.  It is the Temple that officialy crowns kings, officiates (if thats a word) over weddings, and blesses just about anything imaginable.  Added to this are formittable magical capabilities (both divine and arcane casters are part of the Temple).  A king who acts openly against the Temple can find that the local priests speaking against him, the Temples assistance going to a rival, or (in an extream case) outright excommunication.  The more powerful the nation the less it has to bow to the churches dictates.</blockquote>