Investiture Controversy

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== Burden of Leadership: ==
The Order of Priests are the real leaders to the world-wide Adept community. The Kings wield political power, and the Judges have the threat of forgiveness or reprobation, but the one thing an Adept needs more than anything is God Himself.
The Priests have always been looked upon as the people who determine how a community sees God.
That fact alone gives them immense power, even in the world where the Shepard Kings base Tribal structures off democratic models. Even in small, rural churches with no real hierarchy, the truth is that people go to the pastor and they view him as the mouthpiece of God (not that he isn't, just that they often assume anything he says about God is infallible).
Society will always have a religious branch to it, a 'priest class,' and so there will always be a pool of recruitment for the Order of Priests.
== The Investiture Controversy: ==
The Order of Priests has long had a love / hate relationship with the Order of Kings. Each Order has repeatedly tried to assert its full authority over the other, and in return the other has retaliated in kind. The historical truth of the matter is that the Kings wield earthly, political power, where else the Priests wield the power of belief, of holy mother church.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy
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