I mean hell it was fairly common to delete straight up if you ate a mob death after 40, if you ate 2 in a row it should have been an automatic your never ever getting past this rank flag.

this was also a time when all arbitters had guards and could use them out of the city as well as manacles. hero arbies hunting down level 20 criminals as they ranked in the past and piling up xp penalties for sylvans and villagers bleh.