Laws of the Kingdom of Tarsus

👑 Crimes Against the Realm

• Treason or Rebellion:

  • Raising arms against the Crown, conspiring with foreign powers, or leading peasant uprisings.

  • Punishment: Death, forfeiture of lands/titles, families dishonored.

• Assault or Murder of Nobles:

  • Any violence against a noble carries weight equal to treason.

  • Punishment: Death or lifelong servitude to the Crown.

• Assault or Murder of Crownguard / City Watch / Justicars:

  • Treated as an attack on the Crown itself, though of lesser gravity than striking a noble.

  • Punishment: Death or branding, enslavement in Crown labor camps.

🩸 Crimes Against Persons

• Murder:

  • Punishment: Death or blood-compensation (payment to the victim’s family, decided by Tribunal).

  • Nobles may demand harsher punishment if a commoner kills one of their peers or household.

• Assault:

  • Punishment: Public flogging, fines, imprisonment.

  • Assault against a noble or Crown officer carries doubled punishment.

• Theft and Robbery:

  • Punishment: Repayment of goods twice their value, mutilation (hand removal), or imprisonment.

  • Theft from nobles or Crown stores carries harsher penalties, often death if repeated.

• Arson:

  • Punishment: Death if lives are lost; maiming, branding, and fines otherwise.

  • Arson against noble estates or Crown property is treated as treason.

🌾 Crimes Against Order

• Peasant Uprisings / Riot:

  • Punishment: Public execution of ringleaders, fines and forced labor for followers.

• Banditry / Raiding:

  • Punishment: Hanging or burning.

• Harboring Outlaws:

  • Punishment: Confiscation of property, flogging, imprisonment.

💰 Debt & Obligation

• Default on Debt:

  • Failure to repay coin, crops, or goods owed.

  • Punishment: Seizure of lands, livestock, or property equal to the debt’s value.

• Flagrant Debt / Repeated Default:

  • Chronic debtors or those who defraud lenders.

  • Punishment: Imprisonment in debtor’s gaol until repayment by family or patron.

• Debt to Nobles or Crown:

  • Considered dishonor against the realm.

  • Punishment: Loss of all titles and hereditary lands, banishment of family, or sale into servitude.

• Debt to Crownguard, Justicars, or Tribunal:

  • Treated as an attack on the authority of the law itself.

  • Punishment: Public branding as an oath-breaker, imprisonment, or forced service.

🔮 Laws of Magic

Overseen by the Magisters Tribunal and the Inquisitors of the Chain

• Forbidden Arts (Automatic Death Sentence):

  • Necromancy: Raising or binding the dead.

  • Shadowmancy: Manipulation of shadows, void, or the unseen.

  • Blood Magic: Any spell powered by sacrifice of blood or life force.

  • Infernal / Planar Pacts: Traffic with devils, demons, aberrations, or extra-planar entities.

  • Summoning Beyond Sanction: Conjuring dangerous creatures without Tribunal oversight.

• Permitted Arts (Regulated):

  • Evocation, Illusion, Enchantment, Transmutation, Abjuration, Divination, Alchemy, Botany, etc.

  • Restrictions: Must be studied under sanctioned masters or the Argent Spire; forbidden to use against nobles, Crownguard, or Crown property without leave.

• Unlawful Use of Magic:

  • Harm against Nobles / Crownguard: Treated as treason.

  • Harm against Commoners: Treated as murder/assault with doubled penalties.

  • Magical Theft (Enchanting oneself to steal): Flogged, fined, banned from Collegium study.

📜 Notes on Enforcement

• Magisters Tribunal, The Aetheric Vaults and Inquisitors of the Chain: Enforce magical law; trials held at Argent's Tribunal Chamber, sometimes the Halls of Justice themselves, or if the inquisitors are given jurisdiction, the Halls of the Inquisitors in the Basilica of Chains

• Justicars, Preators & Crownguard: Enforce mundane law; may call upon Magisters or Inquisitors in magical cases.

• Nobles: May preside over law in their domains, but cannot overturn Tribunal rulings on magical crimes.