Level and story skips also exist as items in your inventory. Are they real in game? If so who wrote them - if you own one and play through the content it refers to anyway did your character really do it or did the in game author? Is your character just supplanting the true warrior of light ever after? This is an equivalent item to fantasia, not boar leather.

And yes, by nature of being an encompassing structured community they do have the power to enforce their cultural norms through exclusion or peer pressure. You are much more limited if the only person you can rp with is yourself.