Hello! Welcome to Hanze, if you have any questions please feel free to ask them in the questions forum. Here are some guidelines I would appreciate everyone to follow by to make this a better, and quality community to rp in.

If you do choose to rp, then please try and keep these rules in mind when designing and playing your character. Keep in mind, we expect larger posts here at Hanze. If you can't spellcheck your posts or write full words (u is not a word, its a letter, ok? ok.) then please, do not rp here. Theres more on what we expect in the RULES forum, because those are solid rules. These are just guidelines to help you rp better based on the community I have made.

If I do see you rping out of the guidelines, usually I'll let it slide, DEPENDING on what it is.

I understand that alot of you want to give your characters odd little quirks and things to make them stand out from the other Hanze.

Its just that, when -every- Hanze has some funky tattoo, amnesia, two colored eyes, multi colored hair, a speech impediment or accent, phobias and the like. Well, it gets boring, old, and rather stupid.

Try and make your character like an actual individual instead of relying on their physical oddities to make them 'unique'. In RP, your characters personality is far more important anyway!

So, just so we dont have to fall back on the cliche's that I've noticed that are completely overused in RP, please try to avoid these things

-multicolored anything (eyes, hair, whatever)
-accents
-speech impediments (okay, this one might be ok for a few, but I dont want alot of people using it. This should be RARE!)
-abusive familial or otherwise relationships/encounters
-rape and general overtrauma (Again, this should be very rare, I dont want everone having been abused, it really isn't likely to happen at all, like, ever.)
-accents are a NO NO, entirely. Even if they learned another language, their native language is still their native language.
-tattoos
-phobias or other fears that are overwhelming
-Mary Sueing. No one is perfect, and your character isn't either. Haka's loose their temper. Gehakas are even prone to being angry every once in a while, or falling into depression. Everyone has emotions, and they should never have all the 'right solutions'. Even if you think of it, consider if your Hanze is clever enough to have thought of your idea. Try to keep in mind that while Haka are very clever, they are not persay 'book smart', and they're only clever when it comes to manipulations for the most part, and Gehaka for the most part are not all that smart in the first place.

So, follow the rules, please try to follow these guidelines, they would make me ever so happy if you did, and have fun rping!