You may consider that it was intended that religion leaders have total power, but I do not consider it normal intended behavior that an enemy of a religion can come infiltrate it and replace the whole religion leadership with people bent on its destruction.
Well, guess what? If enemies of a religion are really good at infiltrating, they can do that over and over again, and there's absolutely nothing abusive about it.
The key to all of this was Enoch becoming Regent, despite the fact that he wanted to damage SA. There is absolutely
no reason why that couldn't happen again—with a guild, a religion, or a realm. The main difference with a realm is that because realms are
the first-class grouping unit in the game, there are a fair number of safeguards against one person being able to tear them down in a short period of time. As I've said, the dev team has begun discussions of what kinds of safeguards would be appropriate to add to guilds and religions.
However, I don't believe any significant "tearing down" has actually taken place. Has it?
