By command of Her Radiance, the Empress
 

I. Law of Conduct
 

🔹 Citizens shall show proper respect to elders and appointed officials.

🔹  Brawling within the city is forbidden, and disputes must be brought before a magistrate or resolved by formal challenge beyond the outer boundary.

🔹 Public disorder, whoring, or drunkenness shall be punished by fine or confinement.
 

II. Law of Trade
 

🔹 Merchants must bear a seal of registry and display their goods openly.

🔹 Bartering is permitted, but false weights, spoiled goods, or hidden enchantments shall be seized.

🔹 Trade after dusk requires a lantern and a posted guard or hired guild member.

🔱Guild Members may operate past dusk if tending to the sick or performing sanctioned activities.
 

III. Law of Arms
 

🔹 No blade longer than a handspan may be worn unsheathed within the city bounds.

🔹 Archers must keep bows unstrung unless traveling or posted for duty.

🔱 Iron March and registered Adventurers may bear arms openly while on duty or under contract.
 

IV. Law of Property
 

🔹 Theft shall be punished by restitution and public shame.

🔹 Trespass upon another’s dwelling or stall without leave is forbidden.

🔹 Damage to public structures must be repaired by the offender or their kin.

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V. Law of Flame and Arcana

🔹 Open flame must be used with care and never in shared sleeping spaces or merchant halls.

🔹 Arcane tools may be carried by Guild Mages and Healers.

🔹 Illusion-based deceit and destructive conjuring within city bounds are punishable by confinement or exile.
 

VI. Law of Summoning
 

🔹 Summoning of heroes is strictly forbidden without imperial sanction. 
        Only court-appointed mages may perform heroic summoning, and only under direct order of Her Radiance, the Empress. 

🔹 Unauthorized summoning shall be treated as a high crime.

VII. Law of Water and Waste

🔹 Wells and fountains are for drinking and drawing only.   Washing must be done at the outer troughs. 

🔹 Waste shall be carried to the pits beyond the south road.

This law applies to all without exception.
 

VIII. Law of Judgment

❗ Minor offenses may be settled by coin, labor, or apology. 

❗Grave offenses shall be judged by the Empress’s Circle, with punishments including confinement, exile, or binding to service.

🔱 Guild Members may request arbitration through their charter. 
🔱  Iron March members are judged by internal tribunal unless accused of high crime.