Law Proposal: Consorting with the Monsterous
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Count Immerdusk,
Following our conversation regarding Elsa Brown, this is my draft of what a law against assisting monsters may look like.
While adding this law, I also believe it is wise to separate the explanation of citizenship from beneath the list of capital crimes. It also clarifies the path to legal citizenship for planestouched or those with mixed lineage.
I have changed:
- Added the 'Consorting with the Monsterous' crime of Capital severity.
- Moved the explanation of citizenship to be before the list of capital offenses.
- Explained the path to legal citizenship for a plane touched.
Laws of the Kingdom of Arabel
Arabellan Citizenship
People of civilized descent who do not pose an inherent risk to the Kingdom of Arabel are automatically considered citizens.
Conspiracy with and/or assisting creatures of evil and traitors of the Kingdom may be charged and treated as a Capital crime at the discretion of the Realm's law enforcement or may have their citizenship revoked and cast out of the protection of the Kingdom's law.
Individuals who are planes-touched or otherwise possessing a parent from a civilized race must report to the Precept Arcanum there to fall under their cognizance and, if benign, be registered with all reasonable haste, by a parent when born within the confines of, or by their self if traveling into, the Kingdom of Arabel.
Creatures of evil such as Drow, Lycanthropes, the Undead, and other monsters are to be killed on sight (Normal PvP Rules Apply).
Descents considered civilized are the following.
- Humans
- Half-Elves
- Half-Orcs
- Elves
- Dwarves
- Halflings
- Gnomes
- Kenku
Capital Offenses
Disciplinary actions: execution, re-education, or exile.
Public executions must be approved by the Royal Council of Peers or the Crown of Arabel.
- Consorting with the Monsterous- The act of providing aid or assistance or abetting in the persistence of monstrous creatures such as lycanthropes, drow, etc., or other creatures or beings posing an inherent risk within the Kingdom is forbidden.
This makes it clear that assisting monsters within the kingdom is a punishable and capital crime.
Tyr's mercy,
//Jasda al Tyr//
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@paramour We are in discussion about it.
Count Immerdusk
Puffy's bumbling Scum-goblin minion.
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The were-rats have declared that they now have a 'Kingdom', and while this law is under discussion, I feel like this elevates assisting them to a potential treason charge precedent.
//Jasda yr Mirai//
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We will state assisting them is an act of rebellion.
- Count Immerdusk
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Jasda
Whilst I find most of this agreeable I would change it to planetouched individuals must report to the Crown Guard.
We should handle registration and citizenship papers, the Precept after all thinks these races are special because of their blood. They are not suited to assessing what risk they pose to the peasantry.
After all it should be nobility and those of the Crown Guard determining who is fit for citizenship
Adrian
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That's an option that would, again, require the law to be changed by that selfsame Council of Peers.
To be plain, Adrian; at some point, the Council's fear of the Precept Arcanum must be addressed, and to do that, we must weigh something on our side of the scale that will be heavier than that fear. Our political position at the moment might be better than theirs, but I suspect the reason the Precept Arcanum is maintaining its position is twofold.
First, this country has no countermeasure against the War Wizards of Cormyr. They are not as terrifying as the Cowled Wizards of Amn, but they are rather far-famed, and Arabel's war of secession was, I understand, only narrowly won. It's not my own preference to put a body so untrustworthy in control of the country's magical defense, but they are all the country has at present.
Second - they are untrustworthy, and I suspect the council fears that removing their powers and disbanding them all at once might lead to open conflict in the capital and there are other nobles that would take immediate advantage. All a certain Duke needs at the moment is an excuse to march south, and I heavily suspect he would use the churches of Cyric and Talona, both powerful in their own right, to assist the Precept Arcanum - whom he has allied with - in 'restoring good order.' That is also probably the reason that the Arcanum has chosen not to interfere with the rats in the sewers; they're hoping the situation goes so out of control that their allies in the Talonite church and in Tilverton will support a change of regime.
I agree with you. The Precept Arcanum are incompetent at best, and frankly treasonous at worst, but we must dismantle them in some other way. I do not envy the Queen. I think she speaks and acts wisely in judgment and in council, yet there are limited options. We can't just write them away with a law we don't yet have the political or martial power to enforce, so we must work with them, at least, until we can raise or find more powerful support for their removal.
Forcing the Precept Arcanum to take on more codified responsibility that we know they aren't capable of achieving or intending to perform just makes us look better, and them look worse. I doubt we can disband the Arcanum, but I would like to suborn them and force them back to their duty. I think we've enough clout for that.
//Jasda al Tyr//
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Last night a nobles estate was attacked by undead aided by death touched individuals more commonly known as Dhampyrs. Another sort this Precept favours.
Quite simply this is an outrage and cannot stand.
It is the place of those of us with fine noble blood to guide commonors even if at times they do not agree.
The Precept may whine and throw tantrums but they cannot have any legal authority if things like this happen in the city
Adrian
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This law is hereby approved.
- Count Immerdusk
