The Laws of Jericha
The Lawful framework for life, death, property, registration, relic handling, nature, tribunal authority, and civic order in Jericha.[1]
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Reference overview
Overview
The Lawful framework for life, death, property, registration, relic handling, nature, tribunal authority, and civic order in Jericha.[1]
How to use this reference
Step 3
Pair this with Undying Pact and Phoenix Circuit when resurrection consent, corpse rights, Reborn disputes, or illegal revival questions matter.[2]
Step 4
Pair this with Vayne, Duskborn, and Mass Resurrection when scroll-based revival, Gertie bargains, corpse custody, or nonconsensual return complicate the law.[2]
Step 5
Pair this with Lawful Contract and Consent Enforcement when a signature, rescue, gift, bargain, custody arrangement, or magical contract may not be valid consent.[2]
Terminology
Description
Witchborn refers to the recognized peoples of Jericha as a whole, including all sapient species protected under Lawful authority. A registered Witchborn has identity, rights, property, resurrection consent, and civic status recorded by the Lawful. An unregistered Witchborn is not outside the law, but their rights, protections, and obligations may be subject to tribunal review until registration is resolved.[3]
The Sanctity of Life
Description
The murder, maiming, rape, torture, or permanent unlawful alteration of any registered Witchborn is a Capital Crime. Punishment may include execution, permanent imprisonment, exile, conscription, or magical containment, subject to tribunal ruling.[4]
The Rights of the Dead
Description
No soul shall be revived, bound, questioned, reanimated, preserved, or restored against its will. Consent must be verified by divine, arcane, or Lawful-certified means and recorded by a recognized Lawful officer, licensed clergy, or approved tribunal witness.[5]
Protection of Property
Description
Theft, destruction, fraud, sabotage, or unlawful seizure of property exceeding 1,000 gp in Lawful Equivalent Value constitutes a Class-A Crime. Property exceeding 5,000 gp may be treated as a civic threat if its loss endangers public order, infrastructure, trade, or magical stability.[6]
The Anti-Slavery Doctrine
Description
No Witchborn shall own, sell, bind, breed, traffic, or enslave another Witchborn. Unregistered Witchborn may be placed under temporary indenture only by order of a Lawful tribunal, pending identity review, civic risk assessment, and an offer of registration if applicable.[7]
The Relic Recovery Mandate
Description
Any adventurer, arcan agent, licensed guild, mercenary company, or private citizen who discovers a relic must report it to the nearest Lawful office. Relics include magical, void-touched, dragon-touched, Centrum-era, divine, cursed, sentient, historically restricted, or otherwise risky items. A finder may retain the relic by paying a 10% Recovery Tax, surrender it for a 1% Finder's Reward, or petition for legal ownership if it requires Required by Law attunement, civic registration, or supervised use.[8]
Required by Law Attunement
Description
Certain magical items, void-touched objects, relics, weapons, armor, and wondrous items may be designated Required by Law. No Witchborn may legally attune to, sell, transfer, conceal, or carry such an item without Lawful registration. These items may require a registered owner, recorded attunement holder, 10% attunement fee, periodic inspection, and surrender upon tribunal order.[9]
The Sanctity of Nature
Description
The land, sea, sky, and living systems of Jericha shall not be despoiled beyond repair. Void incursions, ecological ruin, reckless magic, industrial poisoning, dragon-blood contamination, mass blight, or any act that permanently alters the natural world may be charged as an Environmental Crime.[10]
Civic Registration
Description
All Witchborn dwelling, working, adventuring, trading, studying, or holding property within Lawful-recognized territory are subject to civic registration. Registration establishes legal standing, property rights, trial rights, resurrection consent records, inheritance status, and protection under the Laws of Jericha.[11]
Tribunal Authority
Description
All major crimes shall be judged by a Lawful tribunal under the observation of The Eye of the Law. Tribunals may consider intent, harm, civic risk, magical influence, void contamination, divine interference, coercion, and prior record.[12]
Quick effect
Tribunals may impose fines, restitution, imprisonment, exile, conscription, transformation, containment, execution, or other lawful remedies.[12]
Crimes Against Civic Order
Description
Treason, mass panic, unlawful insurrection, sabotage of public infrastructure, interference with Lawful officers, conspiracy with hostile powers, or concealment of void-touched threats may be charged as Crimes Against Civic Order.[13]
References
- [1] The Laws of Jericha↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] The Laws of Jericha↩1↩2↩3↩4↩5↩6
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Published reference laws-of-jericha; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] The Laws of Jericha · Terminology↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#terms-terminology; source entry 1 - [4] The Laws of Jericha · The Sanctity of Life↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#1-the-sanctity-of-life; source entry 2 - [5] The Laws of Jericha · The Rights of the Dead↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#2-the-rights-of-the-dead; source entry 3 - [6] The Laws of Jericha · Protection of Property↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#3-protection-of-property; source entry 4 - [7] The Laws of Jericha · The Anti-Slavery Doctrine↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#4-the-anti-slavery-doctrine; source entry 5 - [8] The Laws of Jericha · The Relic Recovery Mandate↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#5-the-relic-recovery-mandate; source entry 6 - [9] The Laws of Jericha · Required by Law Attunement↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#6-required-by-law-attunement; source entry 7 - [10] The Laws of Jericha · The Sanctity of Nature↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#7-the-sanctity-of-nature; source entry 8 - [11] The Laws of Jericha · Civic Registration↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#8-civic-registration; source entry 9 - [12] The Laws of Jericha · Tribunal Authority↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#9-tribunal-authority; source entry 10 - [13] The Laws of Jericha · Crimes Against Civic Order↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference laws-of-jericha#10-crimes-against-civic-order; source entry 11