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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tariff" data-source="post: 2850543" data-attributes="member: 18635">Cormyrian Adventuring Laws*ADVENTURING CHARTER: Any group of four or more adventurers who plan to travel together on missions must register with the crown as an official adventuring force.  The group must obtain a "royal charter of arms" in Suzail from the court, usually the current chancellor, lord high marshal, or ruler.  The chancellor, currently Beri Huntsilver, is available to take applications for charters in Suzail.  An application must be signed by all members of the group, who must disclose their real names and places of residence, and the group must describe its collective name, badge, seal, coat of arms, standard flag, or other identifying symbols.  Any permanent change to the groups title, symbols, or size requires a revision of the charter; charter records are updated on the first of each month.  A copy of the charter is issued to the group as a whole, with extra copies available for 100gp each.The charter for five plus adventurers (forming a legal "fellowship") costs 1,000gp, with an annual tax of 300gp on the anniversary of the date of signing the charter.  *The group's projected date of disbanding (within two tendays) must be registered and adhered to.  A longterm or permanent adventuring charter for a group of 10-30 )legally, a "band") costs a flat 5,000gp per person.*A group leader must be designated to speak for all the band in legal matters.  The annual tax on a band as a whole is 1,500gp.*A late fee of 20gp per day, for up to ten days, is assessed on annual taxes on adventuring groups.  Failure to pay the tax and late fee within this period will cause the charter to be revoked.  Revocation means that the group (if it has not informedthe crown that it has disbanded) has decided to oppose the crown and is now officially "outlaw".  A warrent is issuedto the Purple dragons for the group's arrest and detention.*A member of an adventuring group can be stricken from its membership by the crown for criminal actions, and a charter can be revoked at any time for any reason by the issuing authority.*Some public buildings (Taverns, Inns, council chambers) reserve the right to to not accept armored and armed individuals on thier premisis.PEACEBONDING WEAPONS: Armed adventurers who travel about in peace must have "peacestrings" tied around their sword and dagger hilts to thier scabbards.  The Purple Dragons enforce this law, though they term it a "custom."  Soldiers at the Purple Dragon guard posts are willing to tie peacestrings of thier own make on visitors' weapons.  Using a peacestring is a symbolic gesture meant to put commoners at ease.  Large weapons like battleaxes are expected to be capped with leather and stuck in belts, or strapped to backs.  weapons that double as tools (hammers, hand axes, eating knives, and so on) escape peacestrings if used by farmers and workers known to local Purple Dragons. Bows must be unstrung.An adventuring group can produce a copy of its charter and be allowed to proceed without further hindrance, so long as this occurs in an area where weapons would be reasonably be kept at the ready. (in the Stonelands, for instance, but not downtown Suzail).The penalty for failing to put peacestrings on bladed weapons in areas where fighting would not be expected is seizure of all carried goods by the crown, with possible imprisonment and expulsion from the realm.  Self-defence in the presence of witnesses is permitted as an alibi for having an umbound weapon.WIZARD REGISTRATION:Every wizard and sorcerer of 5th level or higher is required to register with the crown.  Each wizard must travel to Suzail and meet personally with Caladnei, the current Royal Magician of Cormyr and Chairman Emeritus of the College of War Wizards, and report his or her name, sigil, place or residence, and travel plans for the next six months.  Each wizard is personally responsible for ensuring this information is updated and current; there is no registration fee.  The penalty for failing to send in updated information is a fine of 500gp, doubled with each passing tenday, with a guaranteed visit from the War Wizards after two tendays.  Refusal to register is grounds for banishment from the kingdom, and refusal to leave is grounds for being arrested and imprisoned.MINOR WRITS: If adventurers are hired on a mission for the crown, they are often given a paper that is legally reffered to as a minor writ.  This paper states that the named bearer is on royal buisness and is not to be delayed.  Assistance in the form of food, water, and shelter must be provided within reason.</blockquote>

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