General Rules

The admin team reserve the right to change the rules at any time. Breaking the rules might result in temporary or even permanent bans.

We don’t allow any:
- Racism.
- Sexism.
- Harassment.
- Hacking.
- Exploiting.
- Duping.
- Metagaming.
- Powergaming.
- Stream sniping.
- Slavery roleplay.
- Erotic roleplay.
- Suicide roleplay.
- Combat logging.
- Accusations without proof.
- Admin abuse claims without proof.

You have to:
- Be part of our discord.
- Have a working microphone.
- Follow Twitch TOS
  https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/terms-of-service/.
- Be at least 16 years old.
- Set your discord-name to “nickname | character name”.
- Mark your discord name with * at the beginning if you are under the age of 18.
- Respect the immersion of other players.

You cannot:
- Recognize other roleplay characters by voice.
- Do any mutilation roleplay if:
  - You don't have the agreement of the affected player (screenshot of dm).
  - The affected character is a child.
  - It includes any kind of sexual content.
- Play PC (player character) and NPC (non-player character) at the same time.
- Be a lone wolf (single-player-tribe).
- Live or build on neutral territory.
- Kill other roleplay characters on sight (KOS).
- Access restricted areas with grapples or climbing picks if your not a thief.
- Keep any blueprints found from bosses or loot crates unless you have been told otherwise by the admin team.
- Use beds or sleeping begs to magically teleport yourself around the map unless you wake up in the wrong location upon a death.
- Grow Plant X/Y/Z unless you have been told otherwise by the admin team.
- Hatch any wyvern eggs.

You can:
- Use local chat to express emotions and actions that can't physically be done in ark (for example: "Sally reaches for Billy's hand and holds it").
- Use local chat to excuse yourself from roleplay (for example: “ooc: brb my dog escaped”).
- Use grapples to get yourself unstuck or for building (not for any kind of pvp).
- Live on neutral land and be your own tribe if all the following conditions are met:
  - You roll in as a group of at least 5 people.
  - You have a very good roleplay concept behind it.
  - The populations of all the main factions are big enough.
  - The admin team approves it.
- Reroll your characters as often as you want as long as its within reason and not avoiding roleplay.
- Switch classes without rerolling your character (only 1 class at a time) if:
  - The admin team is informed.
  - A mentor character of the desired class is involved.
  - Apprenticeship roleplay lasted at least 1 week (your previous class will be lost or your 2 point class reduced to its 1 point version).

You should not:
- Ask for help by direct messaging an admin (and especially not when the task could be done by everyone). That even includes deity requests (every admin will most likely know everything that any other admin knows)! Please always use the #player-admin-help channel in the discord. We know, some of you might think it takes less time to get help by dming your favorite admin, but keep in mind, said admin might be busy or just already on their limits. We don’t want some admins to burn out while others still have a lot of capacities. That way the whole team can stay informed and help you as quickly as possible while using their capacities in the most efficient way. We are all not monsters and are very approachable.
- Go out-of-character (OOC) in-game voice chat at any given time (for example: "did you see the game last night on tv?").

Character Creation

We leave the aging of your character up to you. If you want to make your child character become an adult just send in a reroll app.

Player Characters

You have to:
- Name your character properly.
- Put “[C]” in front of your characters name if he/she is considered as a child (under the age of 16).
- Create your own original backstory.

Your character cannot:
- Be a person from history, a celebrity, or famous character from book, show, movie, game, etc.
- Have unrealistic proportions.
- Inherit items, knowledge, faith, creatures (anything really) from former characters.
- Be a mythical creature like vampires or werewolves or any race that is not human.
- Have powers that are not part of your classes.
- Be a character from pop culture, other video games, book, tv shows, or movies (be creative).

Non-Player Characters

You have to:
- Always follow admin instruction when playing requested NPCs.
- Follow PC rules when you play Idle-NPCs.
- Put “[N]” in front of your characters name.
- Put “[NC]” in front of your characters name if he/she is considered as a child (under the age of 16).

You cannot:
- Make your own NPC without arranging it with an admin.

NPC’s

Non-Player Characters are predefined roles to fulfill certain tasks (throw away characters like traders, bandits, loot goblins, etc.), to drive lore (guides, villains, etc.) or to provide meta-resources (ambassadors, sages, oracles, etc.). Those players will work together with the admin team very closely. It is a very good opportunity for new players to get familiar with RP, for old players do something new (like if they need to take a break from their characters or just to see how it is to provide events). Also, an excellent way to find new potential admins. Admins will play NPCs if needed.

NPC’s will always have a “[N]” or “[NC]” in their names!

Some of the NPCs will be so-called “Homunculi”, human-like servants of the deities without their own will.

You should not:
- Kill a Homunculi.
- Harm a Homunculi.
- Rob a Homunculi.
- Imprison a Homunculi.

Those actions will very likely be punished by the respective deity!

Inactivity

You are considered inactive:
- If you did not log on within 7 consecutive days.
- If you did not log on within 3 consecutive days and you are a leader or co-leader.
- Nobody ever sees you around.
- We catch you only standing/sitting/laying around afk all the time or just too often.
- You don’t respond and return even when you notified your leadership or the admin team.

You are not considered inactive:
- If you notify your leader or co-leader about your upcoming absence.
- If you are a leader or co-leader and you notify the admin team about your upcoming absence.
  (make sure there is always someone in charge and a proxy available, such as co-leaders or co-co-leaders).

Inactive leadership will be removed after warning!

Leaders are allowed to remove inactive players from their tribes with the permission of the admin team. That includes removing their buildings and bodies (will be treated as permadeath by “death in sleep”) and taking their animals and belongings.

Life & Death

Value your Life

You have to:
- Act cautiously in deadly situations.
- Try to save your life in imminent danger.

You cannot:
- Act stupidly brave, because you know oocly that your character is not in danger.

New Life Rule

NLR applies during:
- PvP Open World Fights.
- Assaults.
- Admin Events.
- Fights with NPCs.
- Death to food or potion administration or experimentation.

NLR does not apply:
- During PvE death (death to the environment or wildlife).
- During training sessions.
- During sparing.
- During horse play.
- During drunken brawls.
- If told otherwise by the admin team.

You have to:
- Wait 10 minutes before respawn as long as NLR applies.

Soul Disruption

Characters who die will be revived by their respective deity. If the character was killed with bad intentions (pvp) then it will cost the deity some Faith to do so and the soul of the player will get disrupted, otherwise it happens under the soul protection of deities and no soul disruption will occur. Deaths during events count towards soul disruption unless otherwise stated by the admin team. Soul treatment can only be given once per hour to the same player!

1st death: minor soul disruptions (cost 1 Faith), must be healed by adepts or scholars within 24 hours.
2nd death without treatment in 24 hours: critical soul disruption (cost 2 Faith), can be healed by scholars only within 3 hours.
3rd death without treatment in 3 hours: the soul has been shattered (Permadeath).

You have to:
- Report your death in the discord channel #death-report if soul disruption occurs.

Permadeath

Means your character has been permanently killed and there is no way to revive that character ever again. In this case, you will have to roll a new character. Permadeath is not supposed to be abused. That means if the admin team has the impression that a Perma Death only happened for OOC reasons, we will preserve ourselves the right to step in.

You will be permanently killed if:
- Your soul gets shattered through soul disruption.
- You lose a trial by combat.
- You get killed while being the target of an Execution-Assault.
- You stay inactive for too long.
- You die while being under the effect of “Curse of Soul Shattering”.
- You get executed by a deity (e.g. punishment for killing a Homunculi).

You can:
- Voluntarily perma kill your own character, but it has to be arranged with admin team.

Building

You have to:
- Make your buildings accessible by foot or ladder at any given time.
- Build greater buildings (barns, farms, etc.) outside of epic render distance to capitals, sparring pits, and roads.

You cannot:
- Make buildings that don’t obey the laws of physics.
- Use CKF “Dark Matter” or “Hellfire” materials.
- Build on neutral territory.
- During combat in an active combat zone.
- Destroy building parts to avoid conflict (e.g. pick up walls/etc).
- Build taverns (special & pre-built).
- Build libraries (special & pre-built).

You can:
- Use CKF “Obsidian” for accents, but keep it moderate (to prevent server performance issues).
- Paint CKFR, but keep it moderate.
- Decorate with any mod available, but keep it moderate.

You are not allowed to:
- Change pre-built major structures without admin permission.

Meta-Resources

Faith

Faith will be generated weekly and can be used to get divine support from respective deities.

Faith is a currency that can be spent on divine blessings, subclasse-contracts and other stuff. Faith is generated weekly.

Income can be increased furthermore through relics, sub classes, or deity-perks.

Faith can be used for different divine blessings:

Knowledge

Knowledge is a meta-resource that is needed to unlock certain divine blessings or to use certain relics or subclass-contracts and that can be increased by storing compendiums into faction libraries.

Honor

Honor is a meta-resource that is needed to unlock certain divine blessings or to use certain relics or subclass-contracts and that can be increased or decreased through certain PvP actions.

Luck

Luck is a value that can be between -6 and 6 (0 by default) and directly affects your dice rolls. It can be increased or decreased by certain relics, subclasses or divine blessings.

Valuables

Compendiums

Compendiums are special journals containing important lore information. They are only made by admins and marked with a * at the beginning. Compendiums can be found through RP, quests, etc.

Example: “*Book of Avir“.

Pages are special notes containing important lore information. They are only made by admins and marked with * at the beginning. Pages can be added to compendiums to complete them. Only original pages can be added to original compendiums.

You are not allowed to:
- Forge or fake a compendium.
- Change the content of a compendium.
- Intentionally destroy a compendium (if it gets lost please report it to the admins and explain when and how).
- Forge or fake pages.
- Intentionally destroy pages (except when they get added to a compendium. If they get lost please report it to the admins and explain when and how).

You can:
- Copy 1 compendium per week, if you play scholar class (needs to be marked with "[c]" after the "*" in the title, for example: “*[c] Book of Avir“).
- Add pages to compendiums to complete them (the full content of the note has to be copied into the journal and the note has to be destroyed afterwards), if you play an adept or scholar class.
- Copy 3 pages per day, if you play adept or scholar class (needs to be marked with "[c]" after the "*" in the title, for example: “*[c] Page 01 (Book of Avir): …”).

You have to:
- Report the following actions (Adept & Scholar) in the respective discord library channel of your faction:
  - Storing a compendium into the library.
  - Removing a compendium from the library.
  - Copying of compendiums.
  - Copying of pages.

Relics

Relics are special items (represented by notes marked with a # at the beginning). Relics can be found through RP, quests, etc. The change of ownership needs to be reported to the admins.

For Example: #Ring of Piety: Grants 10 extra faith every week for your faction.

You are not allowed to:
- Forge or fake a relic.
- Destroy a relic (if it gets lost please report it to the admins and explain when and how).

You have to:
- Keep a relic that is in your possession in your inventory at any given time.
- Report to the admins if a relic gets in your possession.

Subclass-Contracts

Players can become special classes by using so called subclass-contracts. These are special journals only made by admins and marked with a # at the beginning. Subclass-contracts can be found through RP, quests etc. They are single use only and will be consumed upon use. The player who signs a contract will become that class until perma death, gaining special perks and powers, but maybe also disadvantages.

You are not allowed to:
- Copy, forge or fake a subclass-dontract.
- Change the content of a subclass-contract.
- Destroy a subclass-contract, except after it has been used. (if it gets lost please report it to admins and explain when and how).

You have to:
- Report to the admins to sign up for a subclass-contract.

Alliances

We don’t allow:
- Permanent alliances (they need to be dissolved after their purpose is fulfilled. For example: preventing friendly fire during an admin event).
- Alliances without RP reason.

Thievery

You can:
- Do thievery only if you are playing the thief class.

The following actions against other factions or players without permission are considered as thievery:
- Breaking doors.
- Breaking containers.
- Knocking out animals.
- Taking items from inventories of containers, animals, or sleeping/unconscious players.
- Reading, copying, forging or changing mail.

Thieves have to:
- Declare every heist in the discord channel #thieves-log.
- Pick a commander for every heist before declaration (the commander leads and declares the heist).
- Follow PvP rules.

Thieves can:
- Do thievery only during declared heists.
- Do only 1 heist per day.
- Raid only 1 building per heist (any container or animal outside and close to the building is part of the heist. Compounds without buildings or collections of very small buildings are considered as 1 building. Admins can be asked for clarification before the beginning of a heist).
- Raid the same building only once per week.
- Can defend themselves during a heist without initiation.

Thieves cannot:
- Be part of Assaults.
- Use anything else than falchions or daggers as a melee weapon.
- Use armor higher than primitive.
- Excessively hit the same kingdom without a good reason to (at admin discretion).

Heists are always permadeath situations and cannot last longer than 1 hour (heists start after declaration and end when leaving the place of crime).

Heists and Assaults can never happen against the same faction on the same day!

Rules for thief quests:
- Breaking doors is allowed.
- Knocking out animals is allowed (no looting).

PVP

General Combat Rules

During the first 3 days of a season:
- No PvP that causes soul disruption.
- No Permadeath.
- No robbing.

During the first 7 days of a season:
- No Assaults.
- No thief heists.

You cannot:
- Engage in PvP with a player or a player's mount without initiation.
- Use bolas, whips, tranq arrows, clubs, or torches against players or their animals.
- Use tools as weapons.
- Use any beer or eco effect food/drinks in combat that causes soul disruption.
- Use grapples, climbing picks, oil jars, or small bear traps during combat.
- Wear armor or use weapons outside of your class quality tier restrictions.
- Knock out other players to win a fight.
- Knock out other player’s animals to win a fight, unless you play a thief and only during heists.

You have to:
- Indicate your intention of harming someone with 5 minutes of dialogue before attacking.

You can:
- Loot dead players who died through PvP.
- Attack thieves during their heists without initiation.
- Only have 1 set of armor and 3 shields.
- Swap your shields in combat.
- Repair in combat.
- Use any armor or weapon up to the ramshackle tier unless fighter who can use above ramshackle.

You are not allowed to:
- Do the “act of pop-corning” (throwing out things simply to deprive another of the items without any intention to take them)
- Attack sleeping players unless they crash/log out during combat.

Trial by Combat

Trial by combat is a valid way to settle disputes between two factions or characters. Trial by combat is always and only a 1-on-1-fight to the death and is always a permadeath situation for both participants!

All trials by combat:
- Are always and only “1-on-1-fights” to the death.
- Cannot be yielded!
- Are permadeath situations for both participants!
- Can be refused.
- Must be reported to the admin team before they happen.
- Can be held by representatives.

Assaults

Assaults and heists can never be declared against the same faction on the same day! Every faction can do 1 assault per day and only 1 assault of each type per week. All assaults are reset for each faction every Sunday at 12:00 AM EST.

(for example; If the Highland kingdom does a raid-assault on Tuesday then they cannot use the raid-assault again till that Sunday at the reset time. This is per week, not per 7 days.)

No faction can be assaulted upon twice in 24 hours. (for example; Highland kingdom cannot be declared assaulted upon by both Pirates and Mountain Tribes within 24 hours.)

The same type of assault cannot happen against the same faction for 3 days. The cool down timer begins once the assault is done. (for example; If the Highland kingdom is raid-assaulted by the Mountain Tribes, then no other faction can raid-assault them for 3 days after the raid-assault has ended. Same deal with execution and abduction-assaults. If the king of the Highlands is declared upon for execution-assault, then no other faction can declare any kind of execution-assault upon the Highland kingdom for 3 days after it takes place.)

Every Assault:
- Must be arranged with the admin team and be declared at least 24 hours before happening. The reason, point of time, type and target of the assault must be part of the declaration.
- Has to start within 2 hours after the 24 hour declaration (for example; declaration on monday at 5pm, assault must begin anytime between tuesday at 5pm - 7pm.
- Cannot last longer than 2 hours.
- Can only be declared by leadership or co-leadership and only after the desired target has been informed through proper RP. Other factions can declare aid after the assault declaration.

You can:
- Use grapples if you are trapped/stuck and have no way of exiting an area via doors. If there is a door, but you fell into a hole then you must break the door to get out. You cannot grapple out of a room you fell into if there is another way out.
- Break any locked door.
- Can break any decoration that blocks a pathway.

You have to:
- Have your front gates unlocked unless an assault has been declared against your faction.

You cannot:
- Breach walls, bypass walls, climb over walls, etc with any tames, tools, etc. You must always go through any available gates.

You are not allowed to:
- Kill passive animals that were locked in a barn/stable.

Raid-Assault

You can:
- Break any locked container (aiding factions cannot).
- Knock out any passive animal.
- Loot any unconscious animal (aiding factions cannot).
- Loot any dead body.
- Loot any container (aiding factions cannot).
- loot sleeping bodies (aiding factions cannot).

There are no permas in raid-assaults

Execution-Assault

One character has to be declared as a target!

The assault will become a permadeath situation for the declared target. Target must present within the capital of their faction before the execution-assault begins.

Abduction-Assault

One character has to be declared as a target!

Target must present within the capital of their faction before the execution-assault begins.The declared target and only the declared target is allowed to be grappled during the assault for kidnapping. Said target cannot participate in combat and has to wait in a locked room until the attackers retreat or break into said room.

If the attacking faction manages to bring the declared target to their prison, then no hostage can be kept for more than 24 hours. Hostages can still get permanently killed through trial by combat or the curse of soul shattering.

Raid-Assault = strictly looting items.

Execution-Assault = killing one particular person.

Abduction-Assault = kidnapping one particular person.