Atherian Canon Intake

Magic cannot be created from nothing. A weave made with low amounts of thread, costs an insignificant amount. It only takes from the selfmade resonance. Weaves requiring more than one thread, those that ask Atheria to tune with them, require payment. Atheria is only lending the energy not gifting it. It requires that resonance back.

Payment can be given via tithing. Tithes must be paid. In full, within nine days of weaving. If you're a high level or higher usage mage, you may consider keeping a list of tithes owed. Tithing can be paid by anything that replenishes Atheria.

Examples:

Planting trees, flowers, or resonant crops.

Picking up litter and publicly shouting sneers/demeaning things to the litterers.

Raising and adequately caring for animals.

Raising, say, a nice mallard. Yes, that's just delightful.

First Offense: Magical arrest (a binding of all personal magic where any attempt to cast causes weaves to backfire obnoxiously or violently. That depends on your intentions).

Second Offense: The offender will be rendered luck-neutral for a period of 4 years, 5 months, and 3 days. (You will experience no luck at all, everything has a 50% chance of happening. Things will never go arbitrarily in your favor. Nor will you receive bad luck for doing activities, including but not limited to, breaking a mirror, walking under a ladder or saying a wish aloud. Stepping on cracks will not, in fact, break your mothers back. Etc…

Third Offense: Permanent luck-neutrality and the offender's name is permanently and legally changed to Phlegm Soupy Sam immediately. It's gross and gender neutral.

The Birth Anniversary Clause:

If it is the culprit's birthday, renaming shall proceed as normal. Atheria doesn't forgive you and neither do we.

Note 66a: due to a surprising amount of complaints, the courts have agreed to add Phlegm Soupy Thalnor, Mucous Melvin, Phlegm Soupy Vaelar, Phlegm Soupy Stephanie, or Moisty Moria. Phlegm Soupy Sam will remain default. Changes are final and only made upon request. You must fill out a request form, 402-B and submit within a fortnight.

Note 66b: Due to many attempts to hide, minimize, mumble or pretend it never happened or otherwise keep their new name a secret, offenders must recite their new name with enough “viscosity" and “harumph.” If deemed insufficient, the Resonance Council will make you stand in a bucket of warm oatmeal while you repeat it until sufficient viscosity and harumph' is achieved.

Using magic to manipulate another person’s mind, memories, or soul is a high crime against the harmony of the song.

Punishment: Severance (the permanent removal of your innate magic). Severance scars the subject's Resonance, causing a persistent, eye-watering physical odor that alerts the Gendarme of Echoes and makes them cranky.

It's smell has been described as:

- Day-old fish sandwiches

- Sauerkraut and sweat

- Socks that had a baby with a dirty diaper filled with Mycelian compost

All weaves, incantations, and minor hexes shall be inscribed exclusively upon Papyrus or Birch Bark. Sheepskin is strictly forbidden as when burnt, smells of burnt hair and wet dog. Extremely undignified for any weave to be subjected to.

Any high-risk Arcane Magic must be registered with the Illuminorium of Creation within one full moon cycle. Violators will be prosecuted. If found guilty, punishment is either time served on one of the husbandry farms or time served in the public pit (See pit information in subpage).

The choice is up to the discretion of the Justice Gendarme on duty the day of sentencing. It's entirely arbitrary.

(Husbandry farm workers are granted time off on weekends and every other holiday)

The offender must provide their own wooden stake.

A stake will not be provided. If you do not bring one, the offender and scroll are tossed into the Pit. Remember, it is exactly like a stake, but deeper and with significantly less upward visibility.

Complaints regarding the depth of the Public Pit are non-actionable. No decorations are permitted. Dreadfulness or anything general bleakness is acceptable.

By committing said crimes knowing the consequences, you hereby waive your right to a pity party after sentencing ends. Upon reading this you also consent to public sneering and possibly being pelted with shoes. Probably, but not guaranteed to be of the non matching variety. The courts are not responsible for the actions of public onlookers.

First Offense: Time served is six months on the farm or two weeks in the public pit.

Second Offense: To be served consecutively, offenders will first serve one month in the public pit. After that, the offender must attend thrice weekly lectures on proper horse care and extended warranties on your carriage.

Third offense: Permanent residency on Husbandry Farms, splitting time between the two working farms. (Weekends included. Every other holiday is still granted off.)

Note 42-978c: Those that choose to add dreadfulness, bleakness, or anything causing general despair to the pit, could be voted “Best Artwork Found In The Wild" at the next Arbitrary Awards Recognition Night! Be sure to put names, initials, or identifying marks next to the art. Please leave your voting slips with Tessa at the ticket booth. If you have been sentenced to any amount of time in the pit you cannot both enter the contest and vote. It's strictly one or the other.

Any weave intended to move objects or persons for a duration exceeding three solar cycles is strictly monitored.

Punishment (The Public Pit):

Owners of offending scrolls must provide their own wooden stake. If not provided, they are directed to The Public Pit, which is exactly like a stake, but deeper and with significantly less "upward" visibility.

Punishment (Amputation):

For heinous forgery and or excessively poor penmanship, amputation of the dominant hand may be required. Unfortunately, due to the amputation, lack of skill or tools, privileges cannot be reinstated at this time.

The Birth Anniversary Clause:

If it's the culprit's birthday, they may choose another body part of greater or equal value for amputation if they wish to keep their dominant hand. (Value is determined by whoever is on duty for the day. It's entirely arbitrary).

Due to being the discoverers of Resonant crops, The Verdant Exchange holds the legal monopoly on “Resonant Cultivation." Growing magical crops without a guild license is considered “Theft of the Soil's Breath".

The Verdant Exchange has registration Chambers in Giltway City and all Guild buildings. Applications and registration forms are free. If approved, a fee may be required.

Punishment: The offender is legally classified as “Fertilizer-in-Waiting” and subjected to the Boots of Rooted Shame. These boots grow wooden roots into the ground whenever the wearer stands still. First offense is a fortnight; second is one full month; third is feet amputation.

The Birth Anniversary Clause:

If it is the perpetrator's birthday, sentencing shall be postponed until the following day.

These rules apply to those who exist outside the standard Accord:

The Silent Weavers: Exempt from all court appearances due to their aversion to people and the sun. A designated appointee meets them at 3:00 AM at the Quiet Spoke Inn.

The Non-Citizen Clause:

Beings made of sound or light, like the Irisireph, are classified as "Environmental Phenomena." They cannot be sued or tried in court because they lack a biological signature, and you cannot jail a sound.

Addendum 57b:

No citizen or legal representative may file a Metaphysical Nuisance Claim against the state or the environment for unsolicited, ambient, or non-consensual healing caused by the Irisireph or any other classified weather event.

It is strictly forbidden to experience "Excessive Melancholy" or "Unlicensed Joy" during the Silver Moon's waxing phase to avoid collapsing the dream-magic.

Punishment: Wearing The Anchor-Hat, which weighs exactly as much as your "Emotional Debt," for a full moon cycle.

Upon reaching Magical Majority (age 18), all newly learned or original magic must be filed with the Illuminorium of Creation.

Punishment: A "Mundane Ward" for six months, compelling the offender to use only tedious, non-magical methods for everyday tasks (e.g., using a ladder instead of levitation, or explaining route choices to passersby instead of teleporting).

Littering of any kind is strictly forbidden, as the gods worked hard on this planet and we have nowhere else to go. Littering is defined as intentionally leaving non-biodegradable or otherwise harmful trash items on the ground. It is your civic duty to help keep Atheria clean. Do not throw your trash out, there are trash cans available in every public space. Discarded food items that are no harm to the earth, while not against the law, are unsightly to look at. Please put all trash in the receptacle bins, please? It's not difficult.

Punishment: 5 years at the animal husbandry farm and a mandatory 2-hour daily seminar going over carriage warranties and horse care.

Healthcare is Law. All Atherians regardless of races, status, or guild membership deserve Healthcare, and none shall be turned away.