One of my FoNs in our upcoming game is a former Church Inquisitor who has been installed as Archcotare to bring some order to the chaos on the planet (Celedon). As a result of LP traits, he has a bunch of overlapping Affiliations.
Devotees to Fire, 1D affiliation (from Devoted to Fire)
The Church, 3D affiliation (1D from Dregutai)
The Church, 3D reputation (1D from Dregutai)
The Temple of Celedon, 1D affiliation (from Keeper of Fire)
Order of the Seeking Fire, 1D affiliation (from OotSF)
So if I wanted to Circle up an Inquisitor, do I get 8 dice in addition to my base Circles? (I’m assuming there isn’t one locally, so the Temple of Celedon affiliation doesn’t help.) I presume so, but my previous experience with Burning Wheel hasn’t dealt as much with stacked affiliations.
An Archotare is a planetary bishop. His Church Aff is limited to that planet. Terrible, I know. The Inquisition is NOT an organization subordinate to Archotares. They’re part of the council of Metropolitans.