Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax
LEV, or Lawful Estimated Value, is the Lawful office's working value for a magic item, relic, weapon, armor, tool, or treasure packet. It determines taxes, attunement fees, property-crime thresholds, audit pressure, and what paperwork follows an adventurer after the dungeon is over.[1]
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Overview
LEV, or Lawful Estimated Value, is the Lawful office's working value for a magic item, relic, weapon, armor, tool, or treasure packet. It determines taxes, attunement fees, property-crime thresholds, audit pressure, and what paperwork follows an adventurer after the dungeon is over.[1]
How to use this reference
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Pair it with Lawful Contract and Consent Enforcement when attunement paperwork, receipts, item declarations, or hidden relics become legal evidence.[2]
Lawful Estimated Value
Description
Lawful Estimated Value is the number Lawful offices use when assessing relic recovery, ownership risk, attunement fees, property crimes, surrender rewards, and audit stakes. It does not necessarily equal what a shopkeeper, black-market buyer, desperate adventurer, or institution will actually pay, especially in the Void Era economy where gold prices, relic energy value, and political scarcity keep pulling apart.[3]
Attunement Price
Description
Items marked Required by Law usually require an attunement or retention fee equal to 10% of the item's LEV. Paying the fee does not make the item harmless or consequence-free; it records a lawful holder and gives the Lawful a paper trail if the item later causes trouble.[4]
Declaration and Inspection
Description
After a dungeon, raid, relic recovery, dragon lair, or suspicious windfall, a Lawful officer may ask for an item declaration. A party can declare personal gear, surrender items, register a lawful attunement holder, mark institutional property, or invite further inspection by being evasive.[5]
Hidden Items Create Heat
Description
Concealing a Required by Law item, swapping a lesser item into the record, selling around the books, or pretending a registered item does not exist can turn ordinary loot into Unlawful Relic Possession, Unlawful Attunement, fraud, or a later tribunal problem.[6]
Keeping, Surrendering, or Institutional Ownership
Description
A finder may keep some items after paying fees, surrender items for a smaller finder reward, or place them under institutional ownership such as QUEST or VQU custody. Institutional ownership can reduce personal heat, but the item may remain subject to assignment, recall, inspection, or faculty review.[7]
Aleklot's Rest Loot Packet
Description
The system already existed before the Aleklot's Rest job; that audit is simply where the party first saw the math land hard on their own haul. A 15,000 gp LEV Ring of Absorption carried a 1,500 gp attunement price, a 350 gp LEV Knife of the Cardinal Carver carried a 35 gp price, and common items such as the Steady Step Band or Minor Acid Ward Charm still had small fees because they were magic and registered.[8]
References
- [1] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax↩1↩2↩3↩4↩5↩6
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax · Lawful Estimated Value↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax#lev-lawful-estimated-value; source entry 1 - [4] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax · Attunement Price↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax#10-attunement-price; source entry 2 - [5] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax · Declaration and Inspection↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax#audit-declaration-and-inspection; source entry 3 - [6] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax · Hidden Items Create Heat↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax#concealment-hidden-items-create-heat; source entry 4 - [7] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax · Keeping, Surrendering, or Institutional Ownership↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax#surrender-keeping-surrendering-or-institutional-ownership; source entry 5 - [8] Lawful LEV and Attunement Tax · Aleklot's Rest Loot Packet↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference lawful-lev-attunement-tax#examples-aleklot-s-rest-loot-packet; source entry 6