> I followed the High Elf and
>Maran guildlines to a T only to get the crappy end of the RP
>stick handed to me. Not cool.

I'm going to have to disagree here. No surprise.

1) Something you have to realize is that RP does not render you magically impervious to the RP of others. RPing well is not an "I win" move in this or most games, although it is rewarded in this one. For example, if you play a character who calls the god of rage stupid to his face, the fact that it might be in your RP to do so in no way shields you from the fact that it is in his RP to crack you in the head with something blunt and heavy for it. The fact that it might be in your RP to always think you're right and act like everyone who doesn't agree with you is stupid, crazy, or ####ty doesn't mean those people who think you're a dirty, dirty misguided crackwhore shouldn't treat you like one.

You didn't get shafted because these players weren't roleplaying. You got shafted because they were.

2) To pick apart one point of your RP not 'fitting the Maran guidelines to a T', from what I could tell, your character wanted to war on every cabal with evil characters.

Okay, so let's think about that for a minute.

You raid Outlander, and let's pretend you could actually kill the evil Outlanders. So far, so good.

However, in the process you're going to have to kill a lot of neutrals. Sometimes okay, sometimes not. You're also almost certainly going to have to kill the good-aligned Outlanders, who serially outnumber the evil ones severalfold. They're probably going to have something to say about you murdering their guardians and violating their most sacred land.

So now you're a character who finds it acceptable to kill any number of goods who basically don't want to fight you in order to kill evil.

That's not really Maran, as I understand it. It's not even really good anymore, I'd argue. If your character had been able to back up his talk with action I'd probably have made him neutral. It's valid roleplay, it's just not good-aligned.

At which point you've fallen off the elf wagon too.