you dont understand that the backstory dousnt mattter. its still roleplaying,, its still lets say rufio from the nords is traveling to this villag to trade goods, oh no there he is jumped by casimir from the templars on his way back, oh no what to do now fight i guess. and contact casimir that he decided to attack our faction and that we demand him return the won goods, or we go to war? you see all roleplay , without enybackstory mentioned.
now you adding this backstory, adding more depth, harpag with his backstory, and now the already known story of you guys communicating about him wanting to be pope, you dissagreeing, him now attacking you and if he crushes you. you think you can say, well ye ye the pope didnt lose, he was on vacation, or yeye the pope got a way with his army, or whatever, no...
harpag defeated you , and thus defeated your backgroundstory to, and if he wants to then claim being the pope he has all the right, since he beat you with your roleplaying characters within strategus.
you saying well you didnt play fair or enything dousnt matter, ofc you are free to roleplay on in crpg, but within strat, harpag has won the battle , and won the storyline,
starting to comprehend more?