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.[Rules].
As a general note, please try to read up on the pride info! Most sections will have a "TL;DR" for the sake of summarizing, but we do urge you to read up on the pride if you're newly joining us. The following rules must be upheld, however. The pride operates on a bit of assumption OOC'ly. It is assumed that there are always nannies present when lessons are not going on or when parents are busy working. It is also assumed that all new members are brought to either Muroki, Johari, Takasika, Matifu, or the current crown prince/ss. Cubs will attend their lessons and therefor are at least somewhat familiar with their peers, scribes, nannies, and whoever of the royal family chooses to help out here and there (Princess Soa and Queen Johari for example.). The same goes for adults (Existing members or newly joining.).
Also, not so much a rule as a plea -- please please let us know if members are going to leave, pick a rank as an adol, marry/divorce, or breed and let us know the cubs names/owners.
.[Overall Rules].
- There are three places within the Temple itself where most ranks cannot go – these are the marked shrines on the Temple map (here) that are dedicated to Hathor/Aker, Sekhmet and the island dedicated to Ra. They will be severely punished ICly if they go in. It is a high offence to the gods for just anyone to go in, and all pride members would know this. Only the Pharaoh and the High Priest (as the Pharaoh’s substitute) are supposed to go in, and Priests are only allowed in under their supervision to help on festival days (heavy stuff is heavy). Actual SoA Gods may also go in because they are divine themselves. The Eyre is also off limits, as this is where the patrons of the pride reside. Be ready to face IC consequences if you SoA enters these places.
Cubs and juveniles are not allowed alone outside of the Temple – they can be taken out (to the pride lake, around the outside of the temple, or possibly to the ruins) by adults for either educational or recreational visits but between family members, pride members, lesson time and Nannies they just wouldn’t be able to run off. They live in a desert, which is not the safest place for young to go alone, and they have enemies out there who have been known to kill cubs to spite the pride before. They are not allowed to go out and play amongst the ruins and the sand dunes on their own. By adolescence they are be allowed to roam freely however.
For similar reasons to the above, no “cubnapping” plots please. Their children are well watched over. The Guardians and the Hunters would be called upon to track down a kidnapper and retrieve the child anyway. If you have a well thought out plot we will at least consider it if you PM the mule but it’d be very rare we okayed it and you must agree to the IC consequences of having half the pride’s strength after the cub-stealers.
All cubs are educated in the basics of the pride’s culture and survival skills like desert-craft and hunting. All newcomers to the pride must attend some lessons on the pride’s culture if they wish to stay. Please think of this as a good thing – it means cubs will grow up knowing their fellow youngsters and that newcomers will be settled in better. In the Temple where everyone has dens neighbouring each other and the population isn’t so huge, it only makes sense for the members to know each other at least by name anyway.
This can also be found in the breeding and marriage thread but posting here too - breeding in their culture is supposed to happen after marriage, marriage being a big deal to them, and marriage comes after adolescence has ended. So there will be NO adol breeding unless known perma adol.
Howver, sometimes a lion with looser morals can break the the rules and breed outside marriage (ie. rogue breed) if you accept the IC consequences (demotion or being kicked out or if a breeding between two unmarried members they'd be expected to GET married) it would bring to the offenders but you MUST still post for OOC permission and let us know first or there will be OOC consequences.
Again this can be found in the breeding thread but will repeat here. Neither males nor females should have more than one mate, it's a right reserved for the Pharaoh, the only way to mate with a different partner after a marriage is to divorce the first husband/wife. Again, please post in the breeding/marriage thread!
You may have “evil” characters (if everyone was happy go-lucky it’d be dull!) but be ready to face IC consequences if they are caught or accused of things like rape, murder, cubnapping, tomb-robbing,, theft etc. There is a judicial system in the pride, they will be put on trial and punished if caught. Likewise if a character clashes badly with the pride culture (they go around insulting the gods or arguing about rank systems or marriage or whatever) they would be asked to leave or even in some cases chased out. In extreme cases the pride might even seek to kill.
For the sake of respecting the gods no cub or pride member may have, plainly, any of these listed names: Ra, Re, Nut, Geb, Shu, Tefnut, Wesir, Set, Seth, Aset, Nebt-het, Horakhty, Harmakhet, Uinepe, Anupu, Yinepu, Hethert, Hetheru, Hetheret, Iah, Ah, Khnum, Djehuty, Nekhbet, Wadjet, Aker, Akeru, Sopdet, Iabet, Amentet, Apep, Amun, Amunet, Khepri, Auf, Atem, Atum.
These may be PART of one's name but no one is allowed to have any of the above by itself. It is considered blasphemous and disrespectful. If a joining member has one of these names they'd fully be expected to modify it. So for example: Say a lion joins named Iah. He could change it from Iah to Iahny.
For the detailed reasoning behind this rule, see
A GOD or GODDESS may contact the pride mule about claiming to be one of the mythical gods ie. Teuli, the goddess of sacrifice was already considered an aspect of Hethert, however, she recently has been identified as being Amentet, a form of Hethert.
