You fail to understand. That's my fault. I, the player, went against the rules. The character did what he thinks right in his position of power (right or wrong, he didn't care... he must have - or at least he believes it - power over his regions). If you want to imply that character must know the !@#$ing social contract, put them on it! Also, if you will say my character must know it because it's played by the player, forget the !@#$ing Roleplay games.
The character can think what he wants. But you, the player, are
not allowed to
make the character do things that are against the game rules. And the character cannot do anything that you do not make them do, so they can only do things against the game rules
if you make them.
Basically, you just need to think about these rules as being, for the world of BattleMaster, like gravity is for our world. They are fundamental constants. They are true everywhere, for everyone, and always have been. So in that light, what you are suggesting is that Erik should be able to say, "Hah! I am so powerful, I will fly from this cliff to that one over there!" And then run off the cliff, and expect not to fall 1000 feet to the ground.
But what happened was that he
did fall 1000 feet to the ground. And he's lucky he's alive, and is now under the best medical care in Avamar, and his whole family is at his bedside for the next 3 days, and he will be unfit to hold high office for a month.
