Sidereals/YushanLaw

g_c_grabowski - 09/25/2003 23:06:48 - raindog@white-wolf.com

It would be an easy out to post the rules for dissipating paradox, but I'm gonna keep you all in suspense on that for just a little while.

Instead, here's a little snippet of life in Yu-Shan.

<3>Rights in Heaven <n>All deities and Celestial Exalts visiting or living in Yu-Shan have specific rights guaranteed to them by the Bureau of Heaven and the Unconquered Sun. Violating these rights is at least a Severity 2 offense and so the celestial lions and other diving beings who enforce the celestial law avoid violating them. These beings cannot be fined or imprisoned without a trial. Murder or injury are serious crimes but can be excused if the murderer acted in self-defense. Also, residents and divine or Celestial Exalted visitors to heaven are immune from having either their persons or their residences searched without their permission, unless the searchers has evidence that the subject committed an offense and the search is being used to prove this supposition. Anyone who believes that their rights were violated may register a complaint. If the judge finds the complaint valid, then the god who violated the subject's rights is guilty of an offense (see pp. XX-XX to determine the Severity). If the subject was charged with any offense based upon these violations of rights, then the Severity of the breach of rights is subtracted from the Severity of subject's crime.

For Example: If a random search (A Severity 2 (see pp. XX) crime if done on any divine being with an Essence less than 6) turns up someone smuggling out one of the Peaches of Immortality (a Severity 5 crime) then the smuggler is only guilty of a Severity 3 offense. <n>Mortals, Dragon-Blooded and other lesser beings have no such rights in Yu-Shan and must rely upon their allies or patrons for protection. The only exception is during the Carnival of Meeting (Games of Divinity pp. 19-20) all visitors to Yu-Shan who remain within the boundaries of the carnival are accorded full rights. Abyssal Exalted and Fair Folk nobles who visit Yu-Shan are also accorded full rights because the Bureau of Heaven does not want to precipitate a serious diplomatic incident.

Geoffrey C. Grabowski Exalted Developer, WWGS raindog@white-wolf.com