[DF/Ars Magica] The power to Excommunicate

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by malloyd

If it's a purely social ability, with no supernatural effects, then you don't pay anything extra for it over and above your Religious Rank. Being able to demote or fire your inferiors, possibly with the agreement of your superiors, possibly on your own decisions, is a pretty central feature of Rank in that organization, and that's all this is as a social ability.

IIRC, it required more rank in the Catholic hierarchy to excommunicate a high-ranking noble, or even excommunicate an entire country.

For social excommunication, it might make sense that the clergyperson doing the excommunucation must have more levels of Religious Rank than the target has levels of Status (and for multiple slightly lower Rank clergypeople to be allowed to act together to ecommunicate someone of slightly higher Status).