The Forway Law

The core law governing how guards and leaders within all Forway territories must interact, arrest and punish miscreants.

Crime

• Any proven hurt (physical, economic, and mental) that a kingdom citizen receives without their consent.

• All accused are innocent until proven guilty by the respective authority.

• Punishments are segregated into three different types:

  • Minor punishment for acts and items that can be replaced or recovered to their original state within five years of contract servitude.

  • Major punishment for acts and items that are irreparable, irreplaceable, irrecoverable, or more expensive than five years of contract servitude.

  • Grand punishment for conspiracy against Forway and The Prosperity Treaty.

Consent

• Written acknowledgment through the contract or verbal declaration with multiple people acting as witnesses.

Punishment

• It must be of equal or similar value.

  • A theft of an item must account for sentimental value if the original item can’t be returned to the victim.

  • A bodily harm can be repaid with equal bodily harm to the miscreant or a comparable compensation to the victim paid by the miscreant.

• Punishment is determined by the local embassy leaders, village elders, or Forway guard captains.

  • Kingdom rulers are allowed to override this law within their territories.

• Temporary detention of kingdom citizens is allowed at most for six weeks, with one of these requirements being met.

  • Given with preliminary proof.

  • The miscreant is considered a risk of escaping punishment.

• For the gravest crimes, a criminal can be exiled to Hifuna if approved by at least four authorities.

• If consent is not reached in local courts, Forway leaders will decide the outcome of a given punishment at the next Prosperity Treaty Section #7 meetings.

Gandew Common Duel Rights & Law

Created and iterated upon by the vanguard Gandew Kings to formalize trial by combat due to constant spats between two parties evolving into public brawls. Historians believe the first iterations of this law were created as far back as 375 A.G.

Location

• Gandew duels must occur on the Low, Medium, or High Pits with at least ten other witnesses.

Pre-Duel

• The two participating duelers must state the reason for their duel and what they will lose or win.

• For marriage duels, a “win” is establishing a lifelong bond, and “loss” is determining they aren’t meant for each other.

• The witnesses decide who will be the attacker and the defender for the first turn.

  • Suppose one of the duelers intends to defend his honor, wife, etc. Then he shall have priority in starting the first turn in the defensive.

• For marriage duels, the female partner must be the initial attacker.

• The duel can only start once all witnesses agree with the duelers’ statements. 

• The Duelers will stand Ten Adi apart in the center of the chosen pit.

Check

• A chosen witness will perform a check on both the attacker and the defender. They must smell the entire body and taste the junction of the Darfaries veins located at the base between the middle and ring fingers.

• The standard practice is to stand with your feet apart and your arms to the side while the witness does the check. The duelers cannot interfere with the check, or it will result in an immediate loss.

• If any mind or body altering is in effect, they must be revealed, and both the duelers and the witnesses must agree to continue with the duel.

• Fleeing or asking to postpone the duel is considered an automatic loss and punishable by death at the hands of the witnesses.

Duel

• Each dueler will have a turn to take action. The dueler designated as the attacker will begin the duel by moving from his position toward the defendant in any manner they so choose, as long as only physical weapons are used.

• Defenders cannot move from their position and must withstand the brunt of the attack but can counter or attack back if they do not move from their location.

• A turn only encompasses ONE attack, such as a single weapon swing, a stab, or a first punch.

• The duelers switch roles (attacker vs. defender) on every turn.

• No healing shall be done in between rounds.

Loser vs. Winner

• A ‘winner’ is decided by the last dueler alive and breathing. The winner must resuscitate the loser, while the loser must abide by the terms laid out in the Pre-duel.

• If the loser refuses to abide by this law, the witnesses must execute the loser and give the body to the winner to do as they please. This includes being able to purge the loser through the Goodbye Cliff.

King-Fest Addendum

• It must be decided through Gandew Duel, with only natural-born Darfaries being able to participate.

• The current KKing shall be healed between duels, but he is not responsible for healing any Darfaries who decide to stand up to the King during the festival.

• If a given Darfaries is able to kill the King, then he must rip out both tusks from the dead King to finalize the transition of power.