Return of Reckoning

Ok that explains quite a lot, but it is still really weird to let me allow to level up to 15 and when I reach 15 I get pushed down why not just stop at 11, i saw the scrolls and find it weird that they cost 1 silver, why pay for a needed feature, does anybody know why the chicken debuff still exists ...

So I decided to do a bit of PVP, then the T1 area of Nordland opened up and I level up to 16 and immediately got turned in a chicken, even while other level 16 players were around me and even a couple of level 17, now I went out of the pvp are and was forcefully leveled down to level 10, why can we ...