Amontaar Law

Laws

This section covers all laws in Amontaar, split into categories. Amontaar Guards exist both as NPCs, and as Player Characters hired as either full Mercenary Companies or Individuals by the Sol’s Captain, Sinelor. This page is about to undergo heavy change, due to Sinelor's successful coup of the Guard force, and ensuing reform to follow Artarel law code derived from Elven religious principles.

Light Crimes

Committing one of these crimes, your Character can Roleplay out avoiding the Guards over. No Wanted posters or bounties are put out (usually), so without a witness or victim directly asking the Guards for help, no intervention is likely. These result in fines, and no imprisonment. Fines can be paid via Wealth Tokens by any Family in the Aristocracy System. If a Wealth Token fine is not paid within a few (3) days, then a bounty will be put out.

Light Crimes include:

• Possession of illegal goods,
• (Minor) theft (pickpocketing),
• (Minor) assault (no blood, no weapons),
• Trespassing,
• Hosting non-Estelley Religious sermons.

Bounty Crimes

Committing one of these crimes will lead to a bounty being put out to capture your Character. Guards and hired Mercenaries will come after them. These result in imprisonment, until a Trial is arranged. A Wealth Token can be spent to remove a bounty from someone, or to free someone before a Trial.

Bounty Crimes include:

• Assault,
• theft,
• being Afflicted,
• possession of Spirits outside of Canopic Jars,
• conversion of Estellians from Estelley.

Infamous Crimes

Committing one of these crimes will lead to your Character becoming a prime capture target, and NPC Guards will also go after them. These result in imprisonment.

• Attempting the life of an Amontaar Noble,
• murder,
• Offending the Sol.

Imprisonment

The Guards in Amontaar can hold a Character indefinitely until their punishment can be processed by the Guard Commander. Most initial punishments are minor, but limbs start coming off if they see the same person in prison too many times.

Trial

Infamous Crimes (and egregious Bounty Crimes) can lead to a Character undergoing Trial under Allorn Law, which is an argument between the defender and accuser (sometimes the State Prosecutor). Whoever more successfully sways the listening Commander is considered the winner. If the defender is familiar with Fin’ullen Culture, they can demand a Trial by the Will of Vyrë, which is a battle underwater to first blood where whoever strikes the first hit is considered in the right. This trick should not be pulled more than once, and will probably not work if it is an Infamous Crime they are being tried for.

Exist Spirit Exception

Exist Apparitions with directly verifiable ties to the Estelley Gods (being created by one of them and loyal to them) as assessed by the High Priestess of Sapphora (who provably has this power) can legally exist in Amontaar as holy entities unless they do something anti-Estelley.

Regalian Positions

The positions of Regalian Consul and Regalian Alderman are privileged positions in Amontaar with sanction to exist and possess certain powers from the Sol. These powers are enumerated in bullet points.

Regalian Consul

The Regalian Consul is the diplomatic representative of the Regalian Empire in Amontaar. This position currently falls to Count Florian du Poncaire, who was elected in a closed-chamber deliberation between all Regalian peers currently within the geographical boundaries in Amontaar. Text that is parenthesized and italicized (like so) is implicit information that is not written down in the law codes, but that the DM feels it is valuable for those with this position to know OOCly. According to Amontaari law, the Regalian Consul is afforded the following privileges:

• To negotiate when Regalian Citizens are imprisoned to have them released without trial, but must always make some sort of bargain with the Sol's government in return.
• To negotiate for a criminal of specifically Regalian Archipelago birth to be tried under Regalian Law instead of Amontaari Law, but must always make some sort of bargain with the Sol's government in return.
• To sanction the hosting of Regalian religious ceremonies (implicitly, only Unionism) within the walls of the Regalian Consulate, and with only Regalian Citizen attendees.
• (To offer sanctuary to any Regalian Citizen accused of a crime, and shelter them in the Embassy, as it is Regalian Soil. This is not an offered power, but an implicit one. This will deeply anger the Sol.)
• To use the inheritance of powers from the last acting Consul, the Ithanian Consul, to declare an official Regalian position on Amontaar. (A declaration of hostility would be considered an act of war.)

Regalian Alderman

The Regalian Alderman is the representative responsible for the inherent rights and conduct of Regalian expatriates in Amontaar. This position currently falls to Sverre (no last name), a Half-Kathar Prideborn. According to Amontaari Law, the Regalian Alderman is afforded the following privileges:

• To impose Tariffs on a Mercenary Company during a Skirmish, disabling the use of their Company Ability during that Skirmish.
• To sanction a Mercenary Company (not their own), giving them 2 Skirmish Points (only once per skirmish).
• To put a Bounty on a Mercenary Company (cannot be the same as the one Tarriff'd), meaning that in any CRP with members of this Company, an extra .5 Skirmish Points are rewarded (this could also be that Company).
• To specifically illegalize things for Regalian Expatriates relative to Amontaari Law. For example, can declare Regalian Magic Law, which is stricter, to apply instead of Amontaari Magic Law for all expatriates.
• To write new laws and restrictions, so long as they do not give freedoms that contradict Amontaari Law.
• To control the 'exit papers' for Regalian Expatriates in Amontaar to journey to Macaïaal or Basq overland (this will be relevant in certain events).

Unlike the Consul, the Regalian Alderman can be re-elected. If 15 Player Characters petition (make a ticket) to choose a new Alderman, a new Election will be declared, and the position provisionally suspended until the Election is complete.