Character from A Practical Guide to Evil by ErraticErrata
The Hierarch — a bureaucrat from Bellerophon so devoted to procedure that he put the Gods themselves on trial for operating without a proper mandate. The Free Cities' most absurd and wonderful creation.
Anaxares was a diplomat from Bellerophon — a city-state so fanatically egalitarian that it executes anyone who stands out. He gained the Name of Hierarch not through ambition but through the sheer bureaucratic purity of his belief that all authority must derive from proper procedure. He put the Gods on trial. Not metaphorically — literally summoned Above and Below to answer for operating without a mandate from the people. It's either the bravest or the most insane thing anyone has ever done in the series, and the distinction doesn't matter because it worked. He is the series' funniest character and its most pointed critique of both divine authority and institutional madness.
A nondescript bureaucrat — the kind of person who fills out forms in triplicate and considers it a sacred duty. He looks exactly as boring as someone who challenged divine authority through parliamentary procedure should look.
Also known as: Anaxares, Hierarch