Post by OMG Abi! on Oct 19, 2011 14:28:13 GMT
THE RULES
We know that, in the past and elsewhere, it was first come, first served, but we've developed a better system to make things more fair and realistic to the magical world. Please take the time to read these rules, because things are fairly drastically different.
SPECIAL ABILITIES
1. Special abilities, such as leglillimency and occlumency, can only be claimed for people that are LEGAL in the wizard world. That means 17 and above.
2. New members, unless we are previously aware of your skills, will not be given special abilities right away. You may request an ability for your first character, if you wish, but only after we have assessed their character properly.
3. Please be fair--don't ask for each of your characters to have an ability. There are only so many slots and if there were more, the abilities wouldn't be special.
4. Only ONE ability per character. No one can be both a legillimens and an occlumens, or a seer and a wandless magic user. No one here is Dumbledore. Because he's dead. D:
RACE CLAIMS
1. New members, unless we are previously aware of your activity/skills, should not request to be a new race. You are welcome to make a vampire/werewolf/veela/etc eventually, but since there are a limited number of spots, we would like to make sure that each member is active and not just wasting a spot.
2. You may have more than one uniquely raced character, but again, be fair to everyone else.
3. If we see something that glaringly goes against something said in the books, we WILL point it out. i.e. Vampires don't sparkle, JKR never says that they have any sort of brute strength, etc etc. This isn't Twilight or Dungeons and Dragons.
ANIMAGUS
1. Again, new members should not request an animagus, for a combination of both reasons above.
2. Animagi forms will only be allowed to those who are OF LEGAL AGE. The Marauders are the only people that JKR demonstrates did this at school when they were young. Some people, however, like Rita Skeeter, are unregistered animagi and that is fine. Please indicate so in your request.
3. You may only have one animagus character, unless an admin gives you explicit permission.
REQUESTS AND REGISTRATION
1. You'll notice that all of the special claims threads are locked. This means you must PM your request to an admin.
2. Do so with the form that will be provided in each list.
3. Remember, there are countless reasons that a request could be accepted or denied. Please do not take the decisions personally--we are only trying to be fair and logical. We will be much more severe on students. Even Hermione Granger had no "special abilities," so just because your student is a bookish Ravenclaw, it doesn't mean it will be accepted.