>>96116515
>How do you "telegraph" (as much as I hate that word) to players that they SHOULDN'T fight something?

Something like this.
>You come across a very large man guarding the way forward. No, on second look you realize it's some kind of giant, but it has two heads.
>It has a name over it's head labeling it as "Ettin".
>The color of the name is a deep purple.

>>95875253
Well, Japan had a weird court system too. In a way, they are just retelling their own history.

Having a position in government was considered the same as having a position in the heavenly hierarchy. If you died, you go to heaven as someone important and whatever. You are no longer a man. You are considered among the gods. Though not usually a high ranking one. Getting promoted? Same as becoming a higher ranking diety. I think you get the idea. Slaying your current government, for being massively corrupt, thus became the same as slaying your current gods.

But this also then made you the new gods because you are the government now. And the cycle begins again.