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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7128406" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Absolutely nothing; if you're at the power level that could do so. Why would their be anything stopping you and more than anything stopping you from assassinating the King of Cormyr for example? . . . And then your DM asks "OK. Now what do you do?" Divine power comes from belief. The vast majority of members of a church don't have access to spells. Many Clerics aren't necessarily part of an official church. Even more so for Paladins.If something else appeared and started granting normal people spells for following it, cough*Warlocks*cough, then that religion is going to tempt a lot of people. Sounds like a pretty worldshaking event. Maybe a group of adventurous people would start looking into that . . .I do, however think that you might not have got the mindset of most clerics correct. They don't follow that deity because it gives them power. They follow that deity because they believe in the tenets of that deity. Some are given power by the deity (or their own belief that the deity would grant that power.) The terrible undead tyrant that is one of the major proponents of peace? Who was responsible for the outlawing of the necromantic previous state religion? Who keeps the warring nobles from attacking each other's peoples and oversaw the destruction of many of the undead in the nation?I think that opinions would be divided within the Church of the Silver Flame, but many would decide that ensuring that Kaius remains in power is the best way to fulfil its prime goal: to protect against supernatural evil.Frankly, Kaius is more like Fantasy Lenin.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> For the kind of money and considerations the ruler of a nation can grant, time, materials and expertise can compensate for level. Its one of the purposes of Eldritch Devices.If you want to declare for a game that you are in that the DM is limited only to things explicitly spelled out in the PHB, go for it. You can speculate that House Cannith created the Mourning, but that is all it is: speculation. Until your DM answers it for their particular campaign.There were no laws about creating warforged when they (mostly accidentally) managed to create a free-willed artificial race. Making their creation illegal was one of the major parts of the treaty that ended the war. (Along with officially granting them status as free beings.)</blockquote>

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