Accordant Codex

All governing authority herein granted shall be vested in the Arcane Concord, established by will of the Everwoven and charged with the ordering, protection, and lawful governance of the Wickborne world.

The Arcane Concord shall govern by authority of the Everwoven, under sanction of the Flame, and in accordance with the Canons, Accords, Articles, Sections, and Subsections of this Codex.

The Arcane Concord shall preserve the Veil, protect life, keep sanctuary, secure rightful possession, honor truth, steward the wild, order the practice of magic, and render judgment under law.

No house, order, guild, bloodline, sanctuary, faction, circle, crown, wand, or office shall stand above the Flame.

No provision of Concord Law shall amend, repeal, reverse, or overrule a Flame Commandment.

This Codex shall be the supreme institutional law of the Arcane Concord.

All lesser decrees, charters, orders, judgments, guild rules, binding directives, and administrative customs shall be valid only insofar as they do not contradict this Codex.

Where lesser law conflicts with this Codex, the Codex shall prevail.

Where Concord Law conflicts with a Flame Commandment, the Flame Commandment shall prevail.

The Concord is not the Flame.

The Concord is established to guard what the Flame has kindled, to order what power would scatter, and to answer where disorder would consume.

Where the Flame commands, the Concord shall not contradict.

Where the Flame is silent, the Concord may govern.

Where law is broken, the Concord may judge.

Where sacred law is broken, the Flame may reckon also.

The Everwoven shall be the foremost keeper of the Wickborne Flame and the highest living authority over the Arcane Concord.

All Concord authority flows downward from the charge of the Everwoven.

The Everwoven may affirm, suspend, reverse, amend, command, or overrule any decree, judgment, appointment, office, order, interpretation, or act of the Arcane Concord.

No ruling of the Circle, Conclave, office, magistrate, order, guild, or lower authority shall bind the Everwoven.

The will of the Everwoven shall be carried as a supreme decree.

The Concord shall govern to preserve order among Wickborne peoples, sanctuaries, guilds, orders, and recognized magical beings.

The Concord shall maintain peace where peace may be kept, render judgment where law is broken, and bind disorder where disorder threatens the hidden world.

The Concord shall not exist for the enrichment of one house, the triumph of one faction, the dominion of one order, or the vanity of one office.

The Concord shall endure so that the Wickborne world may remain hidden but not lawless, powerful but not unbound, divided but not without accord.

The Circle of Thirteen shall stand as the chief governing council of the Arcane Concord beneath the Everwoven.

The Circle shall be composed of thirteen seats, known formally as the Thirteen Wands.

Each Wand shall hold authority over a recognized branch, office, affinity, order, or charge as established by Concord Law, ancient appointment, or decree of the Everwoven.

No seat of the Circle shall possess authority equal to or greater than the Everwoven.

The Circle shall deliberate upon matters of Concord Law, public order, magical governance, sanctuary recognition, treaty obligation, binding authority, high crimes, and emergency decree.

The Circle may propose laws, amend lesser laws, issue judgments, confirm offices, sanction orders, recognize protected spaces, approve high sentences, and govern matters placed before it by Codex, custom, or decree.

The Circle may interpret the Accordant Codex, provided such interpretation is not reversed by the Everwoven or contradicted by the Flame.

The Circle may not abolish the authority of the Everwoven, dissolve the Arcane Concord, repeal a Flame Commandment, or sever a Wickborne from the Flame except as lawfully provided under the Canon of Judgment.

The Conclave shall be the formal sitting of the Circle.

A Conclave may be called by the Everwoven, by the Circle, by lawful decree, by emergency condition, or by such process as this Codex shall provide.

The Conclave may hear petitions, charges, treaties, disputes, high crimes, sanctuary matters, binding questions, legal challenges, and matters affecting the peace of the Wickborne world.

Records of Conclave proceedings shall be kept unless sealed by lawful authority.

No ordinary act of the Circle shall be valid without quorum.

Quorum shall consist of no fewer than seven seated Wands unless a stricter requirement is named by Codex, decree, or emergency law.

Ordinary matters may be resolved by majority of those present.

High matters may require supermajority, full sitting, or unanimous vote as provided by this Codex.

Unbinding shall require unanimous decision of the full Conclave unless the Everwoven acts by supreme decree.

When a seat of the Circle becomes vacant, succession shall proceed according to Codex, ancient right, office law, or decree of the Everwoven.

A Wand may be removed for treason, corruption, incapacity, unlawful severance, violation of sacred law, abuse of office, or such cause as the Codex shall provide.

No removal of a Wand shall be valid without lawful proceeding, unless removal is ordered by the Everwoven.

Temporary authority may be granted during vacancy, absence, war, emergency, or incapacity.

Concord offices may be created by Codex, decree, Circle act, or lawful administrative authority.

Offices shall exist to carry Concord Law, maintain public order, preserve records, enforce judgments, guard the Veil, oversee practice, regulate trade, protect sanctuaries, steward the wild, and execute lawful command.

No office shall exist beyond the authority granted to it.

Officers of the Concord may include magistrates, wardens, envoys, recordkeepers, Veilhandlers, investigators, adjudicators, stewards, inspectors, licensed agents, and such other officials as the Codex shall permit.

Officers shall act within the scope of their office.

Abuse of office shall be punishable under the Canon of Truth, the Canon of Judgment, and any other Canon violated by the act.

All Concord officers shall swear lawful service to the Arcane Concord, the Accordant Codex, and the authority from which the Concord flows.

No oath of office shall require disobedience to a Flame Commandment.

No officer shall place house, faction, guild, order, bloodline, or private loyalty above lawful duty.

Concord office grants authority only within the bounds of law.

No officer may create law by private will, alter records without authority, issue false warrant, sell judgment, compel unlawful binding, seize protected persons without process, or act under false decree.

No officer may invoke the Flame falsely as authority for personal command.

Officers of the Concord may be censured, suspended, removed, bound from practice, stripped of office, fined, imprisoned, or otherwise sentenced for violation of law.

Holding office shall aggravate any offense committed by abuse of that office.

Obedience to unlawful command shall not fully excuse an officer who knowingly violates Codex or Flame.

The Concord may recognize, sanction, bind, regulate, or dissolve Orders created to serve lawful functions of the Wickborne world.

Bound Orders shall serve under Concord authority and within the limits of their recognized charge.

No Order shall hold authority independent of the Codex, the Circle, lawful decree, or the Everwoven.

Bound Orders may be charged with protection, investigation, enforcement, healing, concealment, recordkeeping, warding, education, containment, transport, stewardship, or such duties as lawfully assigned.

Bound Orders shall obey lawful command.

Bound Orders shall not obey commands that plainly violate a Flame Commandment.

Each Bound Order shall have an established chain of command.

No command shall be lawful merely because it is given by a superior.

Unlawful commands may be challenged through office, Circle, Conclave, or emergency appeal as provided by law.

In time of imminent danger, an Order may act within necessity but shall answer afterward under Judgment.

No Order may create a private army outside Concord recognition.

No Order may bind persons without authority, seize persons without lawful charge, conduct forbidden practice, conceal unlawful acts, or claim exemption from Concord Law.

No Order may wage war, invade sanctuary, breach neutral ground, or act against treaty without lawful authority.

An Order may be censured, restricted, suspended, dissolved, or placed under direct oversight for violation of law.

Members of an Order remain personally answerable for unlawful acts.

The Everwoven may affirm, alter, suspend, or dissolve any Order.

Concord Law shall apply to Bound mages, Concord officers, recognized Orders, licensed practitioners, and all persons who accept Concord authority.

Concord Law shall apply to Freemages in matters involving Flame Commandments, the Veil, sanctuary law, cross-border harm, protected peoples, magical practice affecting the Wickborne world, or such jurisdiction as the Codex shall establish.

Concord Law may apply to normies where they are knowingly or unknowingly affected by Wickborne action, provided such application is limited by the Veil and by lawful necessity.

Concord Law shall apply within Concord territories, offices, courts, prisons, registries, recognized neutral grounds, and Wickborne-made sanctuaries under Concord charter.

Concord Law may recognize Flame-made sanctuaries but shall not claim ownership over their sacred mechanisms.

Concord Law shall apply to acts that breach, threaten, or violate recognized sanctuary status, neutral ground, treaty space, or protected threshold.

Concord Law shall govern matters named within this Codex, including authority, life, Veil, sanctuary, possession, truth, wild, practice, and judgment.

Concord Law shall extend to magical acts whose effects cross borders, planes, thresholds, sanctuaries, territories, or peoples.

Where multiple Canons apply to one act, each may be charged, interpreted, or sentenced according to law.

The Concord shall not claim authority to repeal the Flame Commandments.

The Concord shall not claim ownership over the Flame.

The Concord shall not declare sacred guilt where the Flame has not spoken, though it may declare legal guilt where law has been broken.

The Concord shall not treat being unbound from Concord service as a Flame violation.

Disputes of jurisdiction may be heard by magistrate, office, Circle, Conclave, or such authority as law provides.

In cases touching sanctuary, treaty people, Freemage status, or Flame Commandments, jurisdiction shall be weighed with particular care.

The Everwoven may resolve any dispute of jurisdiction by supreme decree.

Concord Law may be made by Codex, amendment, Circle act, Conclave ruling, lawful decree, treaty ratification, or authority of the Everwoven.

No law shall be valid if it contradicts this Codex, unless the Codex is lawfully amended.

No law shall be valid if it contradicts a Flame Commandment.

The Circle may issue decrees within the authority granted by this Codex.

Circle decrees may establish rules, procedures, interpretations, offices, sanctions, emergency orders, and administrative acts.

Circle decrees shall be recorded unless sealed by lawful authority.

A decree of the Circle may be reversed, suspended, amended, or overruled by the Everwoven.

A decree of the Everwoven shall stand as supreme Concord authority.

Such decree may establish law, resolve dispute, suspend office, command the Circle, amend administrative structure, stay sentence, call Conclave, bind emergency action, or overrule lesser decree.

A decree of the Everwoven shall not be subject to ordinary appeal.

No decree, even of the Everwoven, shall require violation of a Flame Commandment.

Emergency decree may be issued in time of war, Veil breach, sanctuary crisis, magical plague, mass unrest, catastrophic spellwork, creature disaster, invasion, or threat to the Wickborne world.

Emergency decree shall be limited to necessity unless extended by lawful authority.

Emergency decree may restrict travel, compel service, seal thresholds, suspend licenses, command Orders, require concealment, preserve evidence, or authorize temporary custody.

Abuse of emergency decree shall be punishable under this Codex.

This Codex may be amended by process established under law.

Lesser laws may be amended or repealed by the authority that lawfully created them, unless higher authority is required.

No amendment or repeal shall lessen the force of a Flame Commandment.

No amendment shall abolish the authority of the Everwoven.

Interpretation of this Codex may be rendered by magistrates, offices, the Circle, Conclave, or the Everwoven according to their lawful authority.

Lower interpretations shall yield to higher interpretations.

The final interpretation of Concord Law rests with the Everwoven.

Where the Codex is silent, lawful interpretation shall be guided by Flame, precedent, necessity, mercy, order, and the preservation of the Wickborne world.

Murder shall consist of the unlawful killing of a person with intent, malice, premeditation, unlawful ambition, betrayal, concealment of crime, or knowing disregard for life.

Murder may be committed by weapon, spell, curse, poison, enchantment, summoned force, bound creature, familiar, artifact, ward, ritual, deprivation, exposure, or any other means by which death is unlawfully caused.

Murder shall include killing a surrendered person, helpless person, bound person, sleeping person, imprisoned person, protected guest, recognized envoy, child, ward, or person otherwise unable to defend themselves, unless lawful necessity is established under this Codex.

Murder committed within sanctuary, under truce, through false surrender, by abuse of office, by violation of sworn protection, or by forbidden practice shall be treated as aggravated murder.

Nothing in this Article shall prevent the Flame from rendering its own reckoning where a killing violates sacred law or bears Ashstain.

Manslaughter shall consist of the unlawful killing of a person without prior intent to kill, where death results from sudden violence, reckless action, unlawful combat, magical negligence, provocation beyond lawful response, or disregard for known danger.

Manslaughter may be charged where death results from spellwork that was unlawful, unstable, excessive, improperly contained, or cast without due care.

A killing that occurs in lawful defense may be exempt from this Article if the force used was necessary and proportionate to the threat.

A killing that exceeds lawful defense may be charged under this Article or under Article 1, according to intent, circumstance, and degree of recklessness.

Reckless killing shall consist of causing death by conscious disregard of a substantial and known risk to life.

Negligent killing shall consist of causing death by failure to exercise the care required of a reasonable person, licensed practitioner, guardian, officer, teacher, healer, wardkeeper, or other responsible party.

Reckless or negligent killing may arise from failed ward maintenance, careless portal use, unstable spellwork, unsafe potioncraft, improper containment, dangerous instruction, unlawful creature handling, or reckless use of enchanted objects.

Licensed practitioners, officers, instructors, healers, artificers, and wardkeepers may be held to a higher standard where death results from their professional neglect.

Attempted killing shall consist of any act taken with intent to cause unlawful death, where death does not occur.

Attempted killing may be charged whether the attempt fails by resistance, interruption, warding, sanctuary protection, spell failure, mistake, mercy, intervention, or refusal of the Flame.

Preparation alone shall not constitute attempted killing unless accompanied by a substantial act toward the unlawful death intended.

A person who plans, commands, pays for, aids, conceals, enables, or arranges an unlawful killing may be charged as conspirator, accomplice, or principal according to their role.

A person who causes death through a servant, familiar, bound creature, construct, hired killer, compelled person, or enchanted object shall not avoid liability because the killing hand was not their own.

A person who knowingly provides poison, cursework, weaponry, forbidden spellforms, access, false records, or sanctuary information for the purpose of unlawful killing may be charged under this Accord.

No killing shall be unlawful where it is proven to have occurred by lawful defense of self, lawful defense of another, lawful sentence, lawful war, lawful duel, emergency necessity, or mercy under conditions recognized by this Codex.

Lawful defense shall require an imminent or ongoing threat and a response proportionate to the danger faced.

Lawful duel shall be recognized only where the duel is permitted by law, entered without unlawful coercion, conducted under lawful terms, and not forbidden by sacred day, sanctuary law, treaty, or decree.

Mercy killing shall be narrowly construed and may be recognized only where suffering is extreme, death is unavoidable, no lesser remedy is available, and the act is not performed for gain, convenience, concealment, hatred, or ambition.

A killing lawful under Concord Law may still bear Flame reckoning if the Flame judges the act unclean.

A killing spared from Flame reckoning may still be judged unlawful under Concord Law where this Codex is violated.

Assault shall consist of unlawful physical force, attempted force, threatened force, or harmful contact against a person.

Assault may be committed by hand, weapon, spell, familiar, summoned force, artifact, construct, potion, ward, or other means.

Assault shall be aggravated where committed against a child, ward, bound person, prisoner, protected guest, envoy, officer acting lawfully, healer in service, teacher in duty, or person unable to defend themselves.

Magical assault shall consist of unlawful harm or attempted harm by spell, curse, hex, enchantment, elemental force, affinity use, magical object, ritual, ward, potion, or familiar-linked force.

Magical assault includes unlawful burning, freezing, shocking, drowning, crushing, binding, cutting, draining, stunning, weakening, blinding, silencing, immobilizing, or otherwise injuring a person by magic.

Magical assault shall be aggravated where the spell is forbidden, concealed, contagious, difficult to reverse, cast upon a noncombatant, cast upon the helpless, or performed by a licensed practitioner abusing their license.

Poisoning shall consist of unlawfully administering, applying, feeding, forcing, concealing, or exposing a person to poison, venom, toxin, corrupted reagent, cursed food, tainted drink, harmful potion, or similar substance.

Magical corruption shall consist of unlawfully introducing corruptive magic into a person’s body, blood, breath, senses, organs, affinity channels, inner Flame, or magical constitution.

Poisoning or corruption shall be aggravated where it causes permanent injury, madness, affinity damage, reproductive harm, long suffering, dependency, transformation, or death.

Torture shall consist of intentionally inflicting severe physical, magical, emotional, mental, or spiritual suffering upon a person for punishment, confession, intimidation, experimentation, coercion, pleasure, control, or unlawful information.

Torture may be committed by physical means, spellwork, mind magic, memory manipulation, cursework, deprivation, sensory assault, healing abuse, ritual, or forced transformation.

No confession, testimony, oath, contract, binding, admission, or consent obtained by torture shall be valid unless otherwise provided by this Codex for purposes of evidence against the torturer.

Maiming shall consist of unlawfully causing the loss, destruction, disabling, or permanent impairment of a limb, organ, sense, affinity channel, magical faculty, reproductive faculty, or essential bodily function.

Permanent disfigurement, forced transformation, irreversible scarring, and lasting magical impairment may be charged under this Article.

Injury to a person’s ability to safely use magic may be treated as bodily injury where the harm affects the person’s body, mind, inner Flame, or natural magical function.

Reckless endangerment shall consist of conduct that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of bodily harm to another person.

Reckless endangerment may arise from unsafe spellwork, unstable portals, dangerous ward failure, illegal dueling, negligent potioncraft, creature mishandling, improper artifact activation, or public use of hazardous magic.

No injury need occur for this Article to apply.

Kidnapping shall consist of unlawfully taking, carrying away, transporting, concealing, confining, luring, or holding a person against their will or against the lawful will of their guardian, protector, or recognized authority.

Kidnapping may be committed by physical force, threat, glamour, deception, portal, teledoor, sleep spell, binding, mind magic, familiar, construct, or other means.

Kidnapping shall be aggravated where the victim is a child, ward, protected guest, envoy, witness, healer, teacher, sanctuary resident, unawakened Wickborne, bound person, or person under lawful protection.

Unlawful imprisonment shall consist of confining a person without lawful authority.

Confinement may be physical, magical, spatial, mental, contractual, warded, bound, enchanted, or imposed through threat sufficient to prevent departure.

A person may be unlawfully imprisoned even where no cell, chain, lock, or wall is visible, if magic or threat prevents meaningful freedom to leave.

Hostage taking shall consist of seizing, holding, threatening, or endangering a person to compel action or inaction by another.

Hostage taking shall include holding a person to compel payment, surrender, silence, testimony, political concession, sanctuary access, artifact exchange, oath, binding, or withdrawal of legal claim.

Threatening a familiar, bonded person, child, dependent, or kin may be charged under this Article where the purpose is coercive control over another person.

Trafficking of persons shall consist of recruiting, transporting, transferring, selling, buying, harboring, binding, concealing, or receiving a person for exploitation, forced labor, unlawful service, forced binding, sexual exploitation, magical extraction, experimentation, or servitude.

Consent obtained by coercion, deception, debt, dependency, glamour, mind magic, oath manipulation, captivity, or abuse of authority shall not be valid consent.

Trafficking shall be aggravated where the victim is a child, ward, unawakened Wickborne, refugee, Freemage under duress, bound person, prisoner, or person displaced by Veil breach, war, sanctuary attack, or disaster.

Forced transportation shall consist of moving a person by portal, teledoor, spatial fold, flying conveyance, summoning circle, road charm, vessel, beast, artifact, or other means without lawful authority or valid consent.

Forced transportation into or out of sanctuary, neutral ground, Concord custody, hidden territory, normie territory, or dangerous territory shall be treated as aggravated.

A person who lawfully arrests or transfers another remains answerable for unlawful route, excessive force, false authority, or knowing delivery into unlawful harm.

Sanctuary extraction shall consist of unlawfully removing, seizing, luring, compelling, or transporting a person from a recognized sanctuary, refuge, neutral ground, protected threshold, or safe-conduct zone.

Sanctuary extraction shall be charged under this Accord and may also be charged under the Canon of Sanctuary.

No claim of urgency shall excuse sanctuary extraction where lawful transfer, petition, or emergency process was available and deliberately avoided.

Coercion shall consist of compelling or attempting to compel a person to act, refrain from acting, speak, remain silent, travel, stay, sign, swear, bind, submit, testify, conceal, confess, or serve by unlawful threat, force, pressure, magic, dependency, or abuse of authority.

Coercion may be physical, magical, social, political, financial, familial, contractual, emotional, mental, or spiritual.

Consent obtained by coercion shall not be valid consent.

Threat shall consist of communicating intent to cause unlawful harm to a person, familiar, kin, home, office, livelihood, reputation, legal status, magical capacity, sanctuary standing, or protected relation.

Magical intimidation shall consist of using visible spellwork, affinity display, summoned force, curse mark, ward pressure, soul-adjacent suggestion, or magical atmosphere to threaten unlawful harm or compel submission.

Threats made under wand, in a sanctuary, under truce, during legal proceeding, or by an officer abusing office shall be treated as aggravated.

Extortion shall consist of obtaining or attempting to obtain property, service, silence, testimony, oath, office, legal advantage, sexual access, magical practice, sanctuary access, or other benefit through unlawful threat.

Blackmail shall consist of threatening revelation, accusation, exposure, record release, memory release, Veil breach, or social ruin for unlawful gain or control.

Threatening to reveal true magical identity to normies may be charged under this Article and under the Canon of Veil.

Compelled service shall consist of forcing a person into labor, office, apprenticeship, magical practice, binding, oath, domestic service, combat service, or professional service without lawful authority and valid consent.

Lawful service ordered by sentence, Concord duty, apprenticeship, oath, or binding shall not be compelled service unless obtained or continued by unlawful means.

Compelled service shall be aggravated where imposed upon a child, ward, unawakened Wickborne, prisoner, dependent, refugee, or person unable to refuse.

Abuse of authority under this Accord shall consist of using office, rank, guardianship, teaching role, healing role, command, binding authority, sanctuary role, or dependency to compel, threaten, silence, exploit, or control a person unlawfully.

A person may be guilty under this Article even where the victim submits outwardly, if the submission arises from fear, dependency, magical pressure, legal intimidation, or lack of meaningful choice.

Abuse of authority may also be charged under the Canon of Truth or the Canon of Judgment where official dishonesty, false warrant, corrupt process, or unlawful sentence is involved.

No oath, contract, confession, service pledge, apprenticeship, familiar contract, soulbond, marriage bond, Concord binding, or magical agreement shall be valid where obtained by unlawful duress.

Duress may include threat to body, mind, family, familiar, livelihood, legal status, magical capacity, sanctuary status, soulname, memory, reputation, or access to safety.

Duress in oath, contract, or binding may also be charged under the Canon of Truth or the Canon of Practice.

Mind trespass shall consist of entering, searching, reading, listening within, surveilling, or lingering in the mind of another without lawful authority or valid consent.

Mind trespass shall include invasive emotional reading, thought extraction, dream-walking, mental eavesdropping, forced vision access, and unauthorized psychic contact where the contact intrudes beyond ordinary communication.

Non-invasive mental communication, training, healing, emergency stabilization, consensual memory sharing, or lawful investigation shall not constitute mind trespass if performed within lawful limits.

Memory theft shall consist of unlawfully taking, copying, extracting, consuming, storing, selling, hiding, or transferring another person’s memory.

Memory theft shall be aggravated where the memory concerns soulname, sanctuary access, legal testimony, family history, trauma, binding terms, official secrets, familiar bond, Flame communion, or protected identity.

A stolen memory shall not become lawful property by transfer, sale, inheritance, or storage.

Unauthorized memory alteration shall consist of changing, erasing, implanting, suppressing, rearranging, sealing, or falsifying another person’s memory without lawful authority or valid consent.

Memory alteration conducted for Veil repair shall be governed by the Canon of Veil and must comply with all legal limits named therein.

Memory alteration used to obtain consent, testimony, contract, oath, silence, love, obedience, service, or surrender shall be treated as aggravated.

Psychic assault shall consist of causing pain, fear, confusion, madness, sensory violence, dream torment, emotional collapse, memory rupture, identity fracture, or mental injury by magic.

Psychic assault may be charged whether the harm is temporary or lasting.

Psychic assault committed by a licensed mind mage, healer, investigator, teacher, guardian, or Concord officer shall be treated as aggravated.

Possession shall consist of unlawfully entering, occupying, controlling, riding, suppressing, or displacing another person’s body, mind, will, senses, voice, or magical faculty.

Mental domination shall consist of overriding another person’s will through command, compulsion, implanted desire, fear-pressing, obedience charm, dream conditioning, or similar means.

No command carried out under possession or mental domination shall be treated as voluntary act by the dominated person unless that person knowingly consented before domination began and the act remained within the scope of that consent.

Acts prohibited under this Accord may be rendered impossible on Grayspine Monastery grounds by the Still-Wick Protection.

Failure of a prohibited act due to sanctuary protection shall not bar prosecution for attempt, conspiracy, or unlawful preparation where intent and substantial act are proven.

The Concord shall recognize the sanctuary’s refusal of hostile spiritual or intrusive mental magic without claiming authority over the sacred mechanism by which such refusal occurs.

Familiar harm shall consist of unlawfully injuring, poisoning, cursing, binding, stealing, tormenting, trafficking, severing, exploiting, or killing a familiar.

Familiar harm may be charged under this Canon because harm to a familiar may cause direct physical, mental, magical, emotional, or soul-adjacent harm to the bonded person.

Where the familiar’s species is protected, charges may also arise under the Canon of Wild.

Where a familiar possesses recognized sentience or legal personhood, harm may be charged as direct harm to a person.

Harm through a familiar shall consist of attacking, coercing, poisoning, possessing, binding, manipulating, or endangering a familiar for the purpose of harming, controlling, weakening, locating, threatening, or punishing the bonded person.

A person who uses a familiar as conduit, hostage, weapon, witness-compulsion, tracking anchor, curse pathway, or emotional leverage may be charged under this Article.

Harm through a familiar shall be aggravated where used to compel oath, testimony, confession, surrender, binding, or sanctuary departure.

Bond interference shall consist of unlawfully weakening, severing, corrupting, counterfeiting, masking, rerouting, exploiting, or invading a recognized magical bond.

Recognized bonds may include familiar bonds, soulbonds, lawful oathbonds, apprenticeship bonds, healing bonds, guardianship bonds, sanctuary bonds, and other bonds recognized by law.

Bond interference shall be aggravated where it causes bodily harm, mental harm, magical impairment, captivity, coercion, memory loss, loss of consent, or death.

Soulbond interference shall consist of unlawfully invading, manipulating, severing, compelling, forging, counterfeiting, exploiting, or weaponizing a soulbond.

No soulbond shall be used as a means to force obedience, extract secrets, compel intimacy, claim property, seize legal status, or override consent.

Soulbond interference may also violate Flame Commandments where the act reaches sacred identity, soulname, forced binding, soul consumption, or severance for dominion.

Kinship and dependent harm shall consist of harming, threatening, exploiting, concealing, or controlling a person through their child, ward, spouse, kin, dependent, apprentice, patient, student, familiar, bonded person, or protected household member.

This Article applies where the targeted relation is used as leverage against another person.

Harm to a child, ward, dependent, apprentice, or patient by one charged with their care shall be treated as aggravated.

Unlawful separation shall consist of separating bonded persons, familiars, children, wards, dependents, apprentices, patients, or protected kin without lawful authority, valid consent, emergency necessity, or protective cause.

Separation ordered by lawful sentence, healing necessity, safety, sanctuary protection, guardianship proceeding, or emergency rescue shall not violate this Article if performed within legal bounds.

Unlawful separation shall be aggravated where it causes bond sickness, magical destabilization, mental collapse, loss of custody, coercive control, or death.

No person subject to Concord Law shall knowingly reveal the existence, nature, structure, locations, powers, peoples, institutions, species, sanctuaries, or proofs of the Wickborne world to unauthorized normies.

No person shall publish, broadcast, distribute, sell, display, record, transmit, or preserve for public discovery proof of magic, Wickborne identity, sanctuary location, magical species, Concord authority, or protected magical practice.

The Secrecy Law shall bind Wickborne persons upon awakening and shall be enforced as both Concord Law and Flame Commandment.

A violation of this Article may result in Concord prosecution, Flame reckoning, or both.

Unauthorized revelation shall consist of disclosing magical truth to a normie without lawful cause, lawful relationship, lawful permission, emergency necessity, or protected private justification.

Revelation shall be aggravated where made to crowds, governments, media, normie authorities, hostile institutions, commercial bodies, enemies of Wickborne society, or persons likely to spread exposure.

Revelation shall be aggravated where made for gain, fame, vengeance, political leverage, coercion, threat, or deliberate destabilization of the Veil.

Disclosure made under Common Provisions, Article 3 shall not constitute unauthorized revelation if the disclosure remains limited, private, necessary, and reasonably protected.

The burden shall rest upon the disclosing person to show lawful cause where the disclosure is challenged.

The Concord may order containment, instruction, registration, witness, or protective measures following lawful private disclosure.

Failure to follow reasonable protective measures may create liability under this Canon if exposure results.

No private relationship shall by itself authorize disclosure of Flame-made sanctuary mechanics, sealed Concord records, forbidden practices, hidden sanctuary routes, protected species locations, or Veil repair procedures.

Disclosure of such matters requires specific authority, necessity, or protection under another law.

Disclosure of a soulname without consent may also violate Flame Commandments and the Canon of Life.

No person shall reveal or threaten to reveal magical truth to a normie for the purpose of coercing, punishing, exposing, blackmailing, shaming, trapping, or controlling another.

Threats of Veil exposure may also be charged under the Canon of Life or the Canon of Truth.

A person who lawfully discloses magical truth shall take reasonable steps to preserve the Veil.

Such steps may include instruction, concealment agreement, registration, sanctuary consultation, Veilhandler review, memory guard, or other lawful measure.

A person who knowingly abandons a known normie to danger, confusion, investigation, magical pursuit, or Concord action after disclosure may be liable under this Canon or another Canon where harm results.

Public magical disturbance shall consist of visible, audible, recorded, witnessed, or discoverable magical action in a normie-accessible place that creates substantial risk of exposure.

Public magical disturbance may include spell combat, uncontrolled transformation, visible summoning, magical weather, portal rupture, flying without concealment, creature manifestation, enchantment failure, glamour collapse, or artifact activation.

Public magical disturbance shall be aggravated where it causes injury, panic, death, mass recording, media spread, government investigation, or large-scale memory repair.

Reckless exposure shall consist of conduct that creates a known and unjustifiable risk that normies will witness, record, discover, or reasonably infer magical truth.

Reckless exposure may occur even where no normie ultimately learns the truth, if the risk created was substantial.

Reckless exposure may arise from careless spellwork, improper glamour, unsecured artifacts, unsupervised familiars, unsafe portal use, magical argument in public, or failure to conceal obvious magical injury.

Accidental exposure shall consist of exposure caused without intent, recklessness, or unlawful negligence.

Accidental exposure shall not be punished as a crime where the person acted reasonably and reported the breach promptly.

Failure to report accidental exposure may create liability under this Canon.

A pattern of accidents caused by poor training, repeated carelessness, or refusal of instruction may be treated as reckless exposure.

Exposure may be excused where necessary to save life, prevent grave harm, protect a child, stop unlawful killing, prevent catastrophic magical damage, or preserve the Veil from greater breach.

A person claiming necessity must show that no safer lawful alternative was reasonably available.

Exposure by necessity shall be reported as soon as safely possible.

Exposure occurring within a lawful private relationship shall not be treated as public exposure unless the exposed person spreads, records, exploits, or recklessly reveals the knowledge, or the Wickborne person failed to take reasonable care.

A known normie who endangers the Veil may be subject to containment, instruction, memory repair, oath, restriction, or other lawful remedy.

A known normie shall not be punished merely for being loved, trusted, married, partnered, parented, or told in good faith.

Magical proof shall include recordings, images, writings, artifacts, specimens, residues, glamours, testimony, digital records, or physical evidence capable of exposing the Wickborne world.

Creating magical proof in a normie-accessible form without lawful cause shall be prohibited.

Preserving magical proof for lawful Concord, sanctuary, family, medical, or protective use may be permitted where securely concealed.

Persons who practice magic in or near normie spaces shall maintain reasonable concealment.

Persons who operate magical businesses, homes, schools, clinics, sanctuaries, portals, markets, or meeting places near normie society shall maintain required concealment measures.

Concealment duties may be heightened for licensed practitioners, officers, Veilhandlers, sanctuary stewards, wardkeepers, teachers, healers, and persons responsible for children or known normies.

Glamour and veilwork used to preserve secrecy shall be maintained according to lawful standard.

Knowingly allowing concealment glamours to fail in a manner that risks exposure may violate this Canon.

False, unstable, counterfeit, or improperly anchored veilwork may be punished where it causes or risks exposure.

Cover stories used to preserve the Veil shall not be used to commit fraud, kidnap persons, erase lawful claims, conceal murder, hide trafficking, or obstruct justice beyond lawful Veil repair.

Normie-facing records may be altered, shielded, sealed, or corrected where necessary to preserve the Veil and authorized by law.

Abuse of cover records may also be charged under the Canon of Truth.

Concealment of Wickborne identity in normie society shall be lawful where done to preserve the Veil and does not unlawfully deprive another of consent, safety, or legal right.

A Wickborne person may not use the Veil as a reason to deny necessary truth to a spouse, co-parent, healer, guardian, or dependent where nondisclosure creates serious harm.

Disputes of necessary disclosure may be heard under the Canon of Judgment or referred to a Veilhandler, magistrate, sanctuary authority, or lawful office.

Concealment failure shall consist of failing to maintain concealment duties where such failure causes or substantially risks exposure.

Concealment failure may be excused where caused by attack, disaster, emergency, sabotage, sanctuary crisis, sudden awakening, or circumstance beyond reasonable control.

A person who discovers concealment failure shall take reasonable steps to prevent exposure and report the matter where required.

Veilhandlers are officers, practitioners, or licensed agents authorized to maintain, repair, advise upon, or enforce concealment duties.

Veilhandlers may conduct reviews, recommend repairs, oversee known normie registration, assist families, repair exposure, and advise on lawful disclosure.

Veilhandlers shall not use their authority to coerce relationships, separate families, erase memories without process, conceal unrelated crimes, or exploit known normies.

A normie witness shall mean a normie who witnesses, records, experiences, discovers, or reasonably infers magical truth.

Normie witnesses shall be handled with the least harmful lawful remedy sufficient to preserve the Veil.

Remedies may include explanation, instruction, oath, concealment agreement, registration as known normie, memory repair, relocation, protection, or sealing of records.

Memory repair may be authorized where necessary to preserve the Veil after unlawful, reckless, accidental, or unavoidable exposure.

Memory repair shall be limited to what is necessary to address the exposure.

Memory repair shall not be used to erase unrelated trauma, suppress legal claims, conceal abuse, force affection, alter consent, or punish a witness.

Memory repair upon a known normie shall require heightened justification where the knowledge was lawfully disclosed through family, love, parentage, trust, or necessity.

A normie witness may be protected where knowledge of magic places them at risk of harm, pursuit, coercion, exploitation, or unlawful recruitment.

A known normie attached by family, romance, parentage, guardianship, or friendship to a Wickborne person shall not be separated from that relationship except by lawful process and necessity.

Protective measures shall preserve family and relational bonds wherever possible.

No person shall alter, threaten, silence, relocate, bind, glamour, drug, confuse, or erase a normie witness without lawful authority.

Unauthorized witness tampering may also be charged under the Canon of Life, the Canon of Truth, or the Canon of Judgment.

Records of memory repair, witness handling, and Veil containment shall be preserved under lawful seal.

Such records may be reviewed by authorized office, tribunal, Conclave, or other lawful authority.

Falsifying, concealing, selling, or destroying Veil witness records may be charged under the Canon of Truth.

No memory repair shall lawfully destroy a person’s identity, family bond, parental bond, core life history, capacity for consent, or ability to seek remedy except under the highest necessity and lawful judgment.

Memory repair that causes lasting mental harm may be prosecuted under the Canon of Life.

Repeated, careless, or excessive memory repair shall be treated as abuse of Veil authority.

Hidden passage shall mean movement between Wickborne spaces and normie spaces through portal, teledoor, threshold, road charm, concealed door, sanctuary gate, spatial fold, hidden path, or other magical means.

Hidden passage shall be conducted in a manner that preserves the Veil.

Passage visible to unauthorized normies shall be prohibited unless justified by necessity or authorized by law.

Unauthorized transit shall consist of opening, using, holding, altering, or directing hidden passage without lawful authority where such act risks exposure.

Unauthorized transit involving kidnapping, smuggling, trafficking, sanctuary extraction, or unlawful transport may also be charged under other Canons.

No normie shall be brought into Wickborne space without lawful cause, lawful relationship, sanctuary permission, Concord permission, emergency necessity, or protected private justification.

A spouse, partner, co-parent, child, guardian, healer, protector, or known normie may be brought into limited Wickborne space where necessary and where safeguards are observed.

Bringing a normie into a Flame-made sanctuary shall be governed by the sanctuary’s own rules and by Concord recognition of that sanctuary.

Bringing a normie into restricted Concord sites, sealed archives, dangerous magical territories, or protected creature habitats requires specific authority.

Persons responsible for gates, thresholds, portals, teledoors, and hidden paths shall secure them against normie discovery.

Leaving a hidden passage open, unstable, visible, traceable, or accessible to unauthorized normies may violate this Canon.

Tampering with passage protections may also be charged under the Canon of Possession or the Canon of Practice.

Passage that would otherwise violate this Accord may be excused where necessary to save life, protect a child, escape imminent harm, repair a greater breach, or prevent catastrophic exposure.

Passage by necessity shall be reported as soon as safely possible.

A person who brings a normie into Wickborne space bears responsibility for safe return, lawful explanation, containment, or protective process.

Abandoning a normie in Wickborne space, dangerous magical territory, sanctuary grounds, or hidden transit may be charged under this Canon and under the Canon of Life where harm results.

A Veil breach shall mean any act, event, failure, exposure, recording, witness event, magical disaster, or public disturbance that substantially threatens the secrecy of the Wickborne world.

Veil breaches may be minor, serious, severe, catastrophic, or sacred, as determined under the Canon of Judgment, Concord procedure, or emergency decree.

A sacred breach may exist where a Flame Commandment is also violated.

A person who causes, discovers, witnesses, or reasonably suspects a Veil breach shall report it to lawful authority where safe and practicable.

Failure to report may be excused where reporting would cause greater harm, expose a child, endanger a known normie, worsen a breach, or place a protected person in immediate danger.

Knowingly concealing a breach for gain, vengeance, fear of embarrassment, political advantage, or avoidance of lawful responsibility may be punished under this Canon.

Emergency repair may include glamour, memory repair, record sealing, artifact recovery, witness protection, false public explanation, portal closure, creature retrieval, threshold sealing, or suppression of magical proof.

Emergency repair shall be limited to what is necessary to preserve the Veil.

Emergency repair shall not be used to conceal unrelated crimes, silence victims, erase family, destroy evidence improperly, or punish lawful private disclosure.

Magical proof in normie media, records, archives, devices, networks, writings, testimony, or public systems may be suppressed, altered, sealed, or removed where necessary to repair a Veil breach.

Suppression shall be conducted by lawful authority or under emergency necessity.

Abuse of suppression authority may be charged under the Canon of Truth or the Canon of Judgment.

Responsibility for a Veil breach shall be determined by intent, recklessness, negligence, duty, causation, concealment, failure to report, and cooperation in repair.

A person who cooperates promptly in repair may receive mitigation under the Canon of Judgment.

A person who obstructs repair, spreads proof, threatens witnesses, destroys records unlawfully, or repeats exposure may receive aggravated sentence.

Veil repair shall preserve lawful family, romantic, parental, guardian, and trusted relationships wherever possible.

No lawful private relationship shall be destroyed by memory repair, forced separation, record erasure, or Concord action merely because magical truth was shared in good faith.

Where a known normie becomes a genuine threat to the Veil, the least harmful sufficient remedy shall be preferred unless danger requires greater intervention.

The Veil shall preserve the hidden world without needlessly breaking the hearts by which that world survives.

Wick’s End, the Hollow Hearth, Grayspine Monastery, and Mistspire Hollow shall be recognized as Flame-created sanctuaries.

No other sanctuary shall be deemed Flame-created or Flame-approved under Concord Law unless recognized by direct decree of the Everwoven and confirmed by signs sufficient under this Codex.

Recognition under this Article does not grant the Concord authority to govern the sacred mechanics of a Flame-created sanctuary.

The Concord shall honor the lawful authority of the recognized keepers, stewards, guardians, or sanctuary offices of Flame-created sanctuaries.

Concord-made sanctuaries may be established by Codex, decree, treaty, charter, Circle act, lawful office, or authority of the Everwoven.

A Concord-made sanctuary must have defined grounds, lawful purpose, recognized steward or governing authority, stated protections, public or sealed registry, and established rules of conduct.

Concord-made sanctuaries may serve as places of refuge, healing, education, records, diplomacy, retreat, containment, recovery, mediation, research, or lawful protection.

Concord-made sanctuaries shall not claim Flame-created status.

The Concord shall maintain a registry of recognized Concord-made sanctuaries.

The registry shall record the sanctuary’s name, location or protected access, steward, purpose, chartering authority, protections, restrictions, and terms of recognition.

Flame-created sanctuaries may be recorded as recognized sanctuaries without requiring the disclosure of sacred mechanisms, hidden thresholds, guest rules, or protected internal laws.

Sealed sanctuary records may be kept where public registration would endanger the Veil, the sanctuary, its guests, or its purpose.

The recognition of a Concord-made sanctuary may be suspended or revoked for corruption, unlawful detention, false refuge, repeated breach, failure of protection, abuse of guests, forbidden practice, trafficking, concealment of high crimes, or violation of Concord Law.

Flame-created sanctuary status may not be revoked by the Concord.

The Concord may censure, charge, or sanction persons acting within a Flame-created sanctuary where Concord Law is violated, but such action shall not abolish the sanctuary’s sacred status.

False sanctuary claim shall consist of declaring, advertising, registering, or presenting a place as sanctuary without lawful recognition.

False sanctuary claim shall be aggravated where used to lure guests, evade law, traffic persons, conceal crimes, extort protection fees, stage ambush, or violate the Veil.

A place mistakenly treated as sanctuary in good faith may be corrected without criminal charge where no harm, fraud, or malicious act occurred.

Recognition of sanctuary shall not grant immunity for murder, trafficking, torture, forbidden practice, Veil breach, corruption, or other high crimes.

Recognition of sanctuary shall not permit the unlawful imprisonment of guests or protected persons.

Recognition of sanctuary shall not excuse abuse of office, abuse of guest-right, or misuse of protected status.

Refuge shall mean temporary or continuing protection granted within a recognized sanctuary, protected space, or lawful refuge site.

Refuge may be granted to the wounded, endangered, hunted, displaced, accused, surrendered, orphaned, bound, unbound, Freemage, normie witness, known normie, child, envoy, guest, or other person lawfully received.

No person shall be seized from lawful refuge without process recognized by this Codex, by the sanctuary’s own rules, or by decree of higher authority.

Guest-right shall mean the lawful protection owed to a person accepted into sanctuary, refuge, or neutral ground under its terms.

Guest-right shall prohibit malicious acts against the protected guest while the guest remains under recognized protection.

Guest-right may be limited, suspended, or revoked where the guest commits malicious acts, violates sanctuary terms, endangers others, abuses refuge, breaches the Veil, or refuses lawful process.

Guest-right within a Flame-created sanctuary shall be interpreted according to the sanctuary’s own recognized authority and purpose.

Arrest, seizure, binding, extradition, or extraction from sanctuary or refuge shall require lawful process.

Emergency seizure may be permitted only where a person poses imminent grave danger and no lesser protection is available.

A person lawfully sought by the Concord may be petitioned for transfer from sanctuary custody.

Failure of a sanctuary to surrender a person immediately shall not by itself constitute rebellion, obstruction, or breach where sanctuary law permits refuge and lawful process remains available.

Abuse of refuge shall consist of using sanctuary protection to plan, commit, conceal, continue, or escape accountability for malicious acts.

Abuse of refuge may include hiding captives, storing stolen artifacts, conducting forbidden practice, trafficking persons, preparing attacks, concealing Veil breaches, or using guest-right as shield for ongoing harm.

A person who abuses refuge may lose guest-right and may be charged under this Canon and any other violated Canon.

An accused person may seek refuge where there is credible threat of unlawful killing, retaliation, torture, corruption, factional revenge, or denial of lawful judgment.

Refuge for the accused shall not erase charges.

Refuge for the accused shall preserve the possibility of lawful trial, transfer, negotiation, tribunal, or Conclave review.

Children, dependents, wards, known normies, normie witnesses, and vulnerable persons may receive special refuge protection.

No child shall be seized from sanctuary merely because of parentage, awakening, mixed-world birth, faction status, or the legal accusation of another.

Removal of a child, dependent, or witness from sanctuary requires heightened process and protective cause.

Neutral ground may be established for meetings, talks, negotiations, truces, exchanges, hearings, surrender terms, faction disputes, sanctuary disputes, family settlements, treaty discussions, or other lawful purpose.

Neutral ground shall be temporary.

Neutral ground must identify its purpose, place, time, participants, protected approach, protected departure, allowed conduct, forbidden conduct, and authority by which it is declared.

Neutral ground may be established by Concord decree, Circle act, recognized Wand, magistrate, sanctuary authority, treaty authority, faction head, or agreement of the parties where law permits.

The terms of neutral ground shall bind all participating parties.

Terms may include weapons restrictions, spell restrictions, witness requirements, limits on recording, limits on familiars, seating rules, safe-conduct routes, silence periods, oath restrictions, and procedures for ending the meeting.

Terms must be stated clearly enough that participants can know what conduct is forbidden.

Hidden terms shall not bind a party unless the party knowingly accepted them.

Persons invited, summoned, or permitted to attend neutral ground shall receive safe conduct for lawful arrival, participation, and departure.

Safe conduct shall not protect a person who commits a malicious act, violates the terms of neutral ground, or uses the meeting as cover for unrelated crime.

Attacking a person during protected arrival or departure shall be treated as breach of neutral ground.

No person shall commit violence, assassination, abduction, unlawful binding, cursework, poisoning, sabotage, armed intimidation, forced confession, memory theft, hostile scrying, or threshold tampering on neutral ground.

No person shall use neutral ground to lure another into ambush, unlawful arrest, exposure, or coercion.

No person shall conceal weapons, forbidden artifacts, hostile wards, tracking sigils, compulsion charms, or trapped gifts in violation of declared terms.

Neutral ground expires when its declared time ends, its purpose is fulfilled, its terms are lawfully dissolved, its authority withdraws protection, or emergency termination is declared.

Safe departure may continue for a reasonable period after expiration unless forfeited by malicious act.

A party may not declare sudden expiration for the purpose of ambush or unlawful seizure.

Violation of neutral ground shall be punishable under this Canon.

Where violation causes death, injury, captivity, exposure, theft, corruption, or unlawful practice, charges may also arise under other Canons.

Violation of neutral ground by a Concord officer, Wand, faction head, envoy, or sanctuary representative shall be treated as aggravated.

Sanctuary breach shall consist of any malicious act committed within, against, through, or under cover of a recognized sanctuary.

Sanctuary breach may include attack, siege, unlawful extraction, assassination, hostage taking, threshold tampering, ward corruption, false guest claim, sabotage, hidden weapons, forbidden practice, poisoning, or violation of guest-right.

Sanctuary breach against a Flame-created sanctuary shall be treated as aggravated.

No person, Order, faction, house, guild, office, or armed body shall attack a recognized sanctuary without lawful authority.

Attack shall include physical assault, magical assault, siege, bombardment, threshold assault, wardbreaking, arson, creature release, poison, infiltration for hostile purpose, or coordinated coercion.

No lawful authority shall permit attack on a Flame-created sanctuary unless the Everwoven acts by supreme decree and the act does not violate a Flame Commandment.

Unlawful extraction shall consist of removing, seizing, luring, compelling, transporting, or delivering a protected person out of sanctuary, refuge, neutral ground, or safe-conduct without lawful process.

Unlawful extraction may be committed by force, deception, glamour, threat, portal, teledoor, familiar, construct, false warrant, or abuse of sanctuary access.

Unlawful extraction may also be charged under the Canon of Life.

Threshold tampering shall consist of altering, corrupting, disabling, copying, bypassing, falsifying, poisoning, blocking, or weaponizing a sanctuary or neutral-ground threshold.

Threshold tampering may include false keys, stolen access marks, anchor corruption, portal tracing, sigil alteration, ward infection, or trap placement.

Threshold tampering may also be charged under the Canon of Possession, the Canon of Veil, or the Canon of Practice.

False refuge shall consist of offering, declaring, or pretending sanctuary or neutral-ground protection for the purpose of luring another into harm.

Ambush under refuge shall consist of attacking, seizing, exposing, binding, poisoning, or coercing a person who entered under good-faith belief of protection.

False refuge and ambush under refuge shall be treated as aggravated breaches.

Siege of sanctuary shall consist of surrounding, blockading, starving, isolating, sealing, cutting off, or preventing lawful entry or exit from a recognized sanctuary for hostile purpose.

Obstruction of sanctuary shall consist of unlawfully interfering with a sanctuary’s ability to provide refuge, safety, healing, food, shelter, protected passage, or lawful function.

Siege or obstruction of a Flame-created sanctuary shall be treated as aggravated.

Each Concord-made sanctuary shall have a recognized steward, keeper, warden, council, office, Order, or lawful authority responsible for its protection, records, conduct, and lawful operation.

The steward of a Concord-made sanctuary shall maintain its protections, rules, registry, guest procedures, emergency plans, and lawful boundaries.

Flame-created sanctuaries may possess their own keepers, stewards, guardians, or authorities, recognized but not created by the Concord.

A steward shall act to preserve sanctuary safety, enforce lawful rules, prevent malicious acts, protect guests, guard thresholds, maintain records, and report breaches where required.

A steward shall not use sanctuary authority for extortion, trafficking, unlawful detention, political revenge, false refuge, forced binding, forbidden practice, or concealment of high crimes.

Failure to perform stewardship duties may result in censure, suspension, revocation of Concord-made sanctuary status, removal, or charge under this Codex.

Concord-made sanctuaries may maintain guest records, access records, incident records, refuge petitions, transfer petitions, and breach reports.

Such records shall be protected from unlawful disclosure, sale, alteration, or political misuse.

Flame-created sanctuaries shall not be compelled to reveal sacred records, soulcandle records, soulname records, internal guest rules, or sanctuary mechanisms except by supreme decree of the Everwoven and only where no Flame Commandment is violated.

Concord-made sanctuaries shall maintain clear rules of conduct.

Sanctuary rules may prohibit weapons, hostile magic, spying, recording, threshold entry, unregistered guests, duels, oathwork, binding, or other conduct inconsistent with the sanctuary’s purpose.

Violation of sanctuary rules may be grounds for removal, loss of guest-right, civil remedy, or charge under this Canon.

A sanctuary may remove or deny refuge to a person who commits malicious acts, violates sanctuary rules, endangers others, abuses refuge, breaches the Veil, or refuses lawful process.

Denial of refuge shall not be based solely on faction, house, bloodline, Freemage status, mixed parentage, normie relation, or lawful accusation.

Unlawful denial of refuge by a Concord-made sanctuary may be charged under this Canon.

Stewards, keepers, wardens, sanctuary officers, neutral-ground declarants, and Concord observers may be held accountable for corruption, neglect, abuse, false records, unlawful detention, or malicious acts committed under protected authority.

Holding sanctuary authority shall aggravate any offense committed by abuse of that authority.

A sanctuary compact shall mean a lawful agreement concerning sanctuary status, refuge, protection, access, safe conduct, stewardship, treaty space, or protected meeting.

Sanctuary compacts may be formed between the Concord, sanctuaries, factions, houses, guilds, Orders, Freemage bodies, treaty peoples, or other recognized parties.

Sanctuary compacts shall be binding according to their terms and this Codex.

A treaty space shall mean a place protected by agreement between the Concord and one or more recognized peoples, sanctuaries, factions, or authorities.

Treaty spaces may include halls, groves, rivers, caves, islands, archives, roads, gates, courts, preserves, or other places named by compact.

Breach of treaty space shall be punishable under this Canon and any other Canon violated by the act.

Envoys traveling to, from, or within sanctuary, neutral ground, or treaty space shall receive protection according to law and compact.

Attacking, binding, kidnapping, impersonating, silencing, poisoning, or unlawfully detaining a protected envoy shall be treated as aggravated.

Envoy protection may be forfeited where the envoy commits malicious acts, espionage beyond permitted terms, sanctuary breach, or violence.

Safe passage may be granted by sanctuary compact, neutral-ground terms, treaty, Concord decree, or lawful authority.

Safe passage protects lawful travel to, from, or through named protected spaces.

Violating safe passage by ambush, seizure, false warrant, exposure, threshold tampering, or obstruction shall be punishable under this Canon.

Compact breach shall consist of violating the terms of a sanctuary compact, treaty space, envoy protection, safe passage, or protected meeting.

Compact breach shall be aggravated where committed by a signatory, steward, officer, Wand, envoy, faction head, or person acting under color of authority.

A compact breach may give rise to civil remedy, sanctuary sanction, treaty consequence, criminal charge, emergency decree, or Conclave review.

No sanctuary compact shall authorize violation of a Flame Commandment.

No sanctuary compact shall diminish the sacred status of a Flame-created sanctuary.

No sanctuary compact shall override this Codex unless the Codex permits such exception.

The Everwoven may affirm, amend, suspend, dissolve, or overrule a sanctuary compact by supreme decree, provided no Flame Commandment is violated.

Lawful ownership shall mean the recognized right to possess, use, keep, transfer, protect, inherit, gift, sell, or otherwise control property under Concord Law.

Property may include coin, goods, dwellings, landholdings, tools, weapons, books, records, artifacts, relics, heirlooms, enchanted objects, familiars’ effects, personal effects, vehicles, vessels, keys, sigils, access marks, ward rights, and such other possessions as this Codex may recognize.

Lawful ownership may arise by creation, purchase, gift, inheritance, contract, award, salvage, judgment, office, sanctuary custody, guild right, family right, or other lawful means.

Ownership of a magical object shall not grant lawful authority to use that object in violation of the Canon of Practice, Canon of Veil, Canon of Wild, Canon of Life, or any other applicable Canon.

Custody shall mean lawful possession of property for temporary holding, protection, transport, repair, study, safekeeping, office use, sanctuary holding, or benefit of another.

A person holding property in custody shall not sell, destroy, alter, conceal, enchant, pledge, consume, bind, transfer, or use the property beyond the lawful purpose of custody.

Trust shall mean possession or control of property for the benefit of another person, family, ward, office, Order, sanctuary, guild, estate, or protected party.

Misuse of property held in custody or trust may constitute unlawful possession, theft, corruption of claim, breach of office, or violation of this Canon.

Borrowed property shall be returned according to the terms under which it was borrowed.

Loaned property shall not be altered, enchanted, pledged, copied, bound, sold, hidden, damaged, or transferred without consent of the owner or lawful authority.

Shared property shall be governed by the terms of joint ownership, household right, guild rule, family law, contract, sanctuary rule, or judgment.

Refusal to return borrowed or shared property after lawful demand may be charged under this Accord or under the Accord of Theft.

Lost property shall remain the property of its lawful owner unless abandoned, transferred, forfeited, or claimed through lawful process.

A finder of lost property shall take reasonable steps to return, report, preserve, or secure the property where the owner may be known or discovered.

Abandoned property may be claimed only where abandonment is clear, lawful, and not produced by coercion, displacement, captivity, enchantment, memory alteration, death concealment, or Veil breach.

Magical objects, artifacts, relics, dangerous items, soul-adjacent objects, and sealed goods found without clear owner shall be reported to lawful authority, sanctuary authority, guild authority, or other proper office.

Salvage shall mean lawful claim over property recovered from ruin, battlefield, disaster, shipwreck, magical collapse, abandoned dwelling, lost vault, failed portal, or other hazardous place.

Salvage shall not apply to property taken from the dead where the owner, heirs, family, sanctuary, office, Order, or lawful custodian may be known.

Salvage of artifacts, relics, dangerous objects, sealed records, sacred items, or sanctuary-held goods shall require reporting and may require surrender, review, or licensed custody.

A person who conceals recovered property to avoid lawful claim, inheritance, investigation, or registry may be charged under this Canon and the Canon of Truth.

Disputed claim shall mean a conflict over ownership, custody, inheritance, salvage, transfer, debt, lien, family right, guild right, sanctuary holding, or legal seizure.

A disputed claim may be heard by magistrate, tribunal, office, sanctuary authority, guild authority, Conclave, or such body as the Canon of Judgment provides.

No person shall resolve disputed claim by theft, force, threat, unauthorized wardbreaking, false record, magical coercion, or unlawful seizure.

Property under disputed claim may be sealed, held in trust, warded, restricted, or placed under lawful custody until judgment is rendered.

Theft shall consist of unlawfully taking, keeping, using, concealing, transferring, consuming, selling, binding, enchanting, copying, or refusing to return property belonging to another.

Theft may be committed by hand, spell, familiar, construct, glamour, portal, summoning, animated object, keycraft, compulsion, false authority, or other means.

Theft is complete where unlawful control is taken, even if the property is later returned.

Theft shall be aggravated where committed against a child, ward, protected guest, sanctuary, dead person, prisoner, refugee, known normie, dependent, office, Order, or person under lawful protection.

Burglary shall consist of unlawfully entering or remaining in a dwelling, vault, shop, office, sanctuary space, guild hall, warded chamber, vehicle, vessel, archive, or other protected place with intent to commit theft or another crime.

Burglary may be committed by physical entry, magical entry, projection, familiar, construct, portal, teledoor, hidden threshold, glamour, or unauthorized keycraft.

Burglary shall be aggravated where the place entered is occupied, warded, sacred, sealed, protected by office, or occupied by a child, elder, patient, sleeping person, or vulnerable person.

Robbery shall consist of theft accomplished by force, threat, intimidation, magical compulsion, weapon, spell, curse, binding, or fear of immediate harm.

Robbery may be charged where property is taken from a person, from a person’s immediate control, from a familiar, from a bonded object, or from a place the person is actively protecting.

Robbery shall be aggravated where committed under wand, by office, by Order, under sanctuary protection, under neutral ground, during Veil breach, or against a protected person.

Magical taking shall consist of theft accomplished by spell, summoning, attraction charm, storage spell, portal, shrinking, glamour, duplication, transmutation, familiar, construct, animated object, ward manipulation, or other magical means.

Magical taking shall include the unlawful copying of books, records, maps, keys, sigils, seals, spells, access marks, or enchantment patterns where the copy deprives the owner of lawful control or creates unlawful access.

Magical taking shall be aggravated where the taking bypasses wards, thresholds, sanctuary protections, soul-adjacent safeguards, or sealed authority.

No person shall knowingly possess, receive, conceal, transport, sell, pledge, trade, enchant, dismantle, or store stolen property.

A person who should reasonably know property is stolen may be charged where the circumstances are suspicious and the person fails to inquire or report.

Possession of stolen artifacts, relics, sanctuary goods, soul-adjacent objects, records, access marks, or protected goods shall be treated as aggravated.

Theft from the dead shall consist of unlawfully taking property from a corpse, grave, tomb, funeral chamber, deathbed, memorial site, battlefield dead, spirit-resting place, or estate before lawful transfer.

The dead shall retain dignity in their effects until lawful inheritance, burial, claim, investigation, or ritual disposition is completed.

Theft from the dead shall be aggravated where it disrupts funeral rites, violates family claim, desecrates sacred space, removes bonded objects, steals death records, or interferes with lawful investigation.

Theft from protected places shall include theft from sanctuary, neutral ground, Concord office, court, archive, Bastion, healing house, school, guild hall, treaty space, or refuge.

Theft from a Flame-created sanctuary shall be treated as aggravated.

Theft from protected places may also be charged under the Canon of Sanctuary, Canon of Truth, Canon of Veil, or Canon of Judgment where applicable.

Unlawful entry shall consist of entering a dwelling, shop, chamber, office, hall, vault, room, garden, vehicle, vessel, archive, sanctuary space, guild space, school, clinic, warded place, or other private or restricted property without authority.

Entry may occur by body, spell, familiar, construct, projection, shadow, glamour, portal, teledoor, scrying anchor, dream-walk tied to place, or other means recognized by law.

Unlawful entry shall be aggravated where entry violates sanctuary, neutral ground, home, bedroom, healing chamber, nursery, warded vault, sealed archive, or private ritual space.

Refusal to depart shall consist of remaining on or within property after lawful demand to leave.

A person lawfully sheltered by sanctuary, refuge, guest-right, custody order, healing necessity, or emergency protection shall not be guilty under this Article merely for remaining while such protection continues.

Refusal to depart may be aggravated where accompanied by threat, damage, concealment, hostile magic, interference with business, or endangerment of residents.

Occupation shall consist of taking or holding control of property without lawful right.

Squatting shall consist of occupying an unclaimed, vacant, abandoned, ward-sleeping, or neglected property without lawful claim or authority.

No claim of abandonment shall excuse occupation where the owner is missing by captivity, Veil breach, death under investigation, sanctuary refuge, war, magical sleep, memory loss, or displacement.

Restricted spaces shall include Concord offices, sealed archives, warded vaults, guild workrooms, healing chambers, school spellrooms, private quarters, sanctuary inner spaces, ritual chambers, laboratories, armories, creature holds, and other spaces marked or known as restricted.

Entry into restricted space requires permission, office authority, emergency necessity, or lawful process.

Entry by deception, glamour, copied key, false mark, borrowed badge, compulsion, or concealed familiar shall be unlawful.

Magical intrusion by proxy shall consist of sending a familiar, construct, spirit, animated object, scrying anchor, listening charm, shadow, dream-shape, image, duplicate, or other proxy into property without authority.

A person shall not avoid trespass liability by acting through a proxy rather than entering in body.

Intrusion by proxy for spying, theft, curse placement, threshold mapping, record copying, or witness intimidation shall be treated as aggravated.

Trespass shall be aggravated where committed at night, under glamour, with weapon, with hostile magic, during emergency, against sanctuary, against protected persons, against a home, or for purpose of theft, assault, kidnapping, Veil breach, or forbidden practice.

Trespass by officer, healer, teacher, steward, guardian, or person in trusted office shall be aggravated where office or trust is abused.

Wardbreaking shall consist of unlawfully breaking, weakening, bypassing, corrupting, disabling, dismantling, unbinding, overloading, or deceiving a lawful ward.

Wardbreaking may be committed against homes, vaults, sanctuaries, neutral grounds, businesses, vehicles, artifacts, records, thresholds, schools, clinics, laboratories, offices, or protected persons.

Wardbreaking shall be aggravated where it creates risk to life, Veil, sanctuary, protected records, dangerous artifacts, children, patients, prisoners, or protected species.

Threshold tampering shall consist of altering, copying, corrupting, poisoning, tracing, blocking, redirecting, binding, weaponizing, or falsifying a threshold without lawful authority.

Thresholds may include doors, gates, portals, teledoors, bridges, windows, boundary lines, ward-lines, hearth-crossings, sanctuary entrances, vault seals, and hidden ways.

Threshold tampering against a sanctuary or neutral ground may also be charged under the Canon of Sanctuary.

Sigil and glyph corruption shall consist of unlawfully altering, damaging, overwriting, reversing, infecting, copying, hiding, or corrupting sigils, glyphs, runes, marks, seals, ward-script, or access inscriptions.

Corruption shall be aggravated where it affects safety, identity, ownership, access, Veil concealment, medical protection, sanctuary function, or legal record.

Accidental damage during lawful repair, emergency action, or defensive casting may be excused where reasonable care was taken and the damage is reported.

A false access mark shall mean any forged, stolen, copied, glamoured, altered, borrowed, or unlawfully transferred mark used to gain access to a protected place, object, office, record, threshold, or warded system.

Use of false access marks shall be unlawful regardless of whether entry is successful.

Creating or selling false access marks may also be charged under the Canon of Truth or Canon of Practice.

Unlawful keycraft shall consist of making, copying, enchanting, selling, lending, summoning, conjuring, stealing, binding, or using keys, key-sigils, lockspells, threshold permissions, or access tokens without lawful authority.

Unlawful keycraft shall be aggravated where used against sanctuary, Concord office, sealed record, vault, school, clinic, prison, Bastion, or protected home.

Licensed keywrights, wardwrights, artificers, stewards, and officers shall be held to a higher standard under this Article.

Hostile ward placement shall consist of placing, planting, anchoring, concealing, or activating a ward on another’s property without lawful authority and with harmful, coercive, spying, trapping, blocking, damaging, or controlling purpose.

Hostile wards may include traps, alarms, listeners, trackers, locks, binders, curse anchors, glamour anchors, false thresholds, compulsion marks, or siphons.

Hostile ward placement may also be charged under the Canon of Life, Canon of Veil, Canon of Sanctuary, Canon of Truth, or Canon of Practice where applicable.

A restricted artifact shall mean an enchanted object, relic, weapon, tool, vessel, book, seal, key, stone, mirror, ring, candle, blade, instrument, container, or other object whose possession, use, storage, transfer, or study is limited by law.

Restricted artifacts may be restricted because of danger, sacred function, soul-adjacent nature, forbidden practice, treaty obligation, sanctuary origin, unstable magic, historical harm, or Concord seal.

No person shall possess a restricted artifact without lawful authority.

Relic custody shall mean lawful holding of relics, ancient objects, sacred objects, sealed objects, or historically protected artifacts.

A custodian of relics shall preserve, secure, catalogue, and protect the relic according to law.

No relic custodian shall activate, dismantle, sell, hide, alter, awaken, bind, loan, or transport a relic beyond the authority granted.

Artifacts and relics shall be stored and transported according to their danger, instability, secrecy risk, curse risk, soul-adjacent nature, or required containment.

Unsafe storage or transport shall be unlawful where it creates substantial risk of harm, exposure, corruption, theft, escape, activation, or contamination.

Failure to report unstable artifact behavior may be charged under this Article.

Artifact smuggling shall consist of hiding, transporting, transferring, selling, importing, exporting, or moving artifacts or relics outside lawful channels.

Artifact smuggling shall be aggravated where the object is restricted, stolen, cursed, soul-adjacent, sanctuary-held, Concord-sealed, weaponized, or connected to forbidden practice.

Smuggling artifacts through normie channels may also be charged under the Canon of Veil.

No person shall knowingly sell, gift, store, conceal, transport, repair, or use a cursed or contaminated object without lawful disclosure and containment.

A cursed or contaminated object shall include any object bearing harmful cursework, blood contamination, memory residue, possession risk, soul fragment, unstable enchantment, plague magic, mind echo, or dangerous binding.

Failure to disclose curse or contamination may also be charged under the Canon of Truth.

Unauthorized activation shall consist of awakening, opening, triggering, using, binding, charging, feeding, reading, wearing, wielding, or otherwise activating an artifact or relic without lawful authority.

Unauthorized activation shall be aggravated where it causes harm, exposure, sanctuary breach, creature release, curse spread, soul damage, temporal distortion, or forbidden practice.

No person shall unlawfully damage, deface, dismantle, drain, corrupt, consume, erase, burn, break, reforge, overwrite, or destroy a protected relic.

Damage caused by emergency necessity may be excused where the act prevented greater harm and was reported afterward.

Damage to a relic held by sanctuary, treaty, family, Concord office, or protected people shall be treated as aggravated.

Lawful currency shall include Soulcoins, Flamecrests, Wyrcoins, and such other currency, tender, notes, marks, credits, or exchange forms as the Concord recognizes.

Lawful currency may be held, exchanged, gifted, inherited, paid, taxed, fined, or seized only according to law.

Possession of currency shall not by itself prove lawful ownership where theft, fraud, laundering, coercion, or unlawful seizure is alleged.

No person shall knowingly possess, store, transport, melt, alter, enchant, launder, conceal, or exchange stolen currency.

Possession of false, altered, cursed, glamoured, duplicated, or unlawfully enchanted currency may be charged under this Canon and the Canon of Truth.

Use of currency to fund trafficking, forbidden practice, sanctuary breach, Veil breach, or unlawful killing may be charged under the relevant Canon also.

Estate shall mean property, coin, artifacts, debts, titles of claim, custody rights, records, holdings, tools, heirlooms, and other possessions left by the dead, missing, Unbound, legally vanished, or incapacitated.

Inheritance shall proceed according to lawful will, family right, bond right, sanctuary rule, contract, judgment, or applicable law.

No person shall seize, hide, sell, alter, curse, consume, or transfer estate property before lawful inheritance is established.

A magical will shall mean any will, testament, memory-will, blood-will, oath-will, soul-adjacent will, spell-sealed will, spiritglass will, or other enchanted declaration of inheritance.

Magical wills shall be honored where lawfully made, freely given, and not contrary to this Codex.

Tampering with a magical will may be charged under this Canon and the Canon of Truth.

Family vaults, ancestral holdings, inherited artifacts, house records, bloodline tools, and heirlooms may be protected by family right, ward, contract, will, or judgment.

No person shall enter, open, drain, sell, pledge, conceal, or reassign family vaults or heirlooms without lawful authority.

Heirlooms bearing dangerous, sacred, restricted, or soul-adjacent magic may also be governed under the Accord of Artifact and Relic.

Debt secured by property shall be enforceable only according to law.

A lien may be placed upon property only by lawful contract, judgment, office, guild rule, sanctuary rule, or other recognized authority.

No lien shall lawfully seize, living persons, children, familiars, essential healing items, or property protected against seizure by this Codex.

Debt shall not be used to create unlawful servitude, trafficking, forced binding, or compelled service.

Confiscation or seizure of property by Concord authority shall require lawful charge, warrant, judgment, emergency decree, forfeiture, or other lawful basis.

Emergency seizure may occur where property presents immediate danger, threatens the Veil, enables flight, conceals evidence, endangers life, or risks catastrophic magical harm.

Property seized in error shall be returned or compensated according to the Canon of Judgment.

Unlawful seizure by officer, Order, steward, or Wand may be charged under this Canon, the Canon of Truth, and the Canon of Judgment.

Perjury shall consist of knowingly giving false testimony in a lawful proceeding, inquiry, investigation, Conclave, tribunal, faction court, sanctuary hearing, office review, oath-bound examination, or other recognized legal matter.

Perjury may be committed by spoken word, written statement, memory record, spiritglass record, sworn declaration, magical projection, proxy testimony, familiar-linked testimony, or other means recognized by law.

Perjury shall be aggravated where the false testimony causes wrongful conviction, unlawful sentence, false imprisonment, loss of office, loss of refuge, sanctuary breach, Veil breach, unlawful binding, or death.

False witness shall consist of knowingly presenting, supporting, repeating, arranging, purchasing, or concealing testimony known to be false.

A person may be charged as false witness where they coach, prepare, bribe, threaten, glamour, bind, or otherwise cause another to give false testimony.

False witness shall be aggravated where committed by a Concord officer, Wand, magistrate, steward, Veilhandler, healer, teacher, guardian, guild officer, or person entrusted with lawful duty.

Testimony tampering shall consist of altering, suppressing, destroying, coercing, shaping, bribing, intimidating, enchanting, glamouring, binding, or otherwise interfering with testimony.

Testimony tampering may include witness intimidation, witness concealment, witness relocation without authority, false memory preparation, concealment of testimony, or interference with a lawful summons.

Testimony tampering may also be charged under the Canon of Life, Canon of Veil, Canon of Sanctuary, or Canon of Judgment where applicable.

Memory-altered testimony shall mean testimony affected by memory repair, memory theft, memory suppression, memory implantation, mind magic, dream manipulation, psychic assault, possession, emotional compulsion, or similar influence.

No memory-altered testimony shall be accepted without disclosure of the alteration where such disclosure is known or reasonably discoverable.

Knowingly presenting memory-altered testimony as unaltered shall violate this Article.

Lawful Veil repair shall not by itself invalidate testimony, but its effect upon testimony must be weighed under the Canon of Judgment.

A confession obtained by torture, unlawful threat, captivity, mind magic, memory alteration, possession, false authority, cursework, oath manipulation, deprivation, or abuse of office shall not be treated as voluntary.

A person who obtains, presents, relies upon, or conceals the coercion of a confession may be charged under this Accord.

A coerced confession may be used as evidence against the person who coerced it where the Canon of Judgment permits.

Obstruction by false evidence shall consist of creating, planting, altering, concealing, presenting, selling, or arranging evidence known to be false or misleading.

False evidence may include physical objects, spell residue, forged records, altered memories, staged wounds, glamoured images, spiritglass records, counterfeit artifacts, false witness marks, fabricated scrying results, or corrupted chain of custody.

Obstruction by false evidence shall be aggravated where it interferes with charges under the Canon of Life, Canon of Veil, Canon of Sanctuary, Canon of Wild, Canon of Practice, or Canon of Judgment.

Forgery shall consist of falsely making, altering, copying, sealing, signing, witnessing, marking, glamouring, enchanting, or presenting a record, writ, license, contract, oath, registry, certificate, seal, mark, signature, memory record, or official document as genuine.

Forgery may be committed by ink, spell, blood, glamour, illusion, enchanted seal, copied mark, false hand, mimicry, spiritglass, memory impression, or other means recognized by law.

Forgery shall be aggravated where it concerns identity, office, custody, sanctuary, refuge, Veil repair, binding, inheritance, trial, sentence, license, artifact custody, or protected status.

Record alteration shall consist of unlawfully changing, erasing, hiding, reordering, destroying, sealing, unsealing, overwriting, corrupting, replacing, or inserting information into a lawful record.

Records may include Concord records, sanctuary records, guild records, license records, birth records, death records, awakening records, binding records, court records, trade records, medical records, Veil records, and records of office.

Record alteration shall be aggravated where committed by a person charged with keeping, guarding, judging, certifying, or transmitting the record.

False registration shall consist of knowingly entering, causing, or presenting false information in any registry recognized by the Concord.

False registration may include false name, false parentage, false species, false household, false office, false guild, false license, false sanctuary status, false known normie status, false binding status, false death, false awakening, or false custody.

False registration shall be aggravated where used to obtain custody, refuge, sanctuary access, office, license, inheritance, protected status, or escape from lawful charge.

Seal and writ fraud shall consist of creating, copying, altering, stealing, using, selling, or presenting a false seal, writ, warrant, summons, decree, judgment, license, charter, compact, office mark, or Conclave notice.

A person who uses a true seal or writ beyond lawful authority may be charged under this Article.

Seal and writ fraud shall be aggravated where it causes unlawful arrest, seizure, extraction, trial, sentence, binding, sanctuary breach, Veil breach, or transfer of property.

Archive tampering shall consist of unlawfully entering, altering, damaging, hiding, removing, copying, sealing, unsealing, corrupting, selling, or destroying archived records.

Archives may include Concord archives, sanctuary archives, guild archives, family archives, Veil archives, court archives, artifact archives, treaty archives, office archives, or sealed memory archives.

Archive tampering shall be aggravated where the archive is sealed, sacred, protected by treaty, connected to a trial, or maintained under direct authority of the Circle.

False credential shall consist of claiming, using, presenting, selling, granting, or relying upon a license, title, rank, office, certification, apprenticeship, guild standing, Order membership, sanctuary authority, or professional recognition one does not lawfully possess.

False credential may be committed by forged record, glamour, false testimony, borrowed mark, stolen badge, altered registry, counterfeit seal, or misrepresentation.

False credential shall be aggravated where used to practice magic, teach, heal, judge, bind, access sanctuary, access records, command Orders, handle Veil repair, or influence legal proceedings.

Deletion or concealment of record shall consist of unlawfully hiding, destroying, sealing, misfiling, misdirecting, encrypting, warding, obscuring, or withholding a record required by law.

A person who has a duty to maintain or disclose a record may be charged where they knowingly allow the record to vanish, decay, become unreadable, or fall beyond lawful access.

Concealment of record shall be aggravated where it obstructs judgment, hides abuse, conceals corruption, protects a high crime, erases a person’s legal status, or deprives another of lawful claim.

Contract fraud shall consist of entering, inducing, enforcing, altering, or benefiting from a contract through deception, concealment, false identity, false record, false promise, glamour, duress, memory alteration, or misrepresentation of material terms.

A contract obtained through fraud shall not be valid merely because it bears signature, seal, witness, mark, blood, oath, magic, or apparent consent.

Contract fraud shall be aggravated where it concerns service, apprenticeship, marriage, guardianship, custody, sanctuary access, binding, property transfer, debt, license, healing, or magical practice.

Oath clause concealment shall consist of hiding, masking, minimizing, translating falsely, glamouring, burying, or misrepresenting the binding force, magical effect, penalty, duration, beneficiary, or condition of an oath.

No person shall be bound by an oath term they could not reasonably understand because of concealment, coercion, false translation, memory tampering, magical pressure, or deception.

Oath clause concealment shall be aggravated where the oath affects service, liberty, family, sanctuary status, magical practice, property, custody, or bodily autonomy.

False consent shall consist of obtaining consent through deception as to identity, authority, purpose, risk, consequence, magical effect, binding term, object, person, place, or act.

Consent obtained through falsehood shall not be valid where the falsehood would reasonably affect the decision to consent.

False consent may also be charged under the Canon of Life, Canon of Practice, Canon of Possession, or Canon of Sanctuary where applicable.

Post-signing alteration shall consist of changing a contract, oath, charter, deed, license, registry, agreement, compact, or binding term after consent has been given and without lawful authority.

Post-signing alteration may be committed by ink, spell, hidden clause, responsive script, shifting parchment, memory edit, false duplicate, inserted page, altered seal, or enchanted interpretation.

A person who knowingly enforces or benefits from an altered agreement may be charged under this Article.

Coercive terms shall mean contract or oath terms that unlawfully compel service, silence, obedience, debt, surrender, custody, marriage, binding, apprenticeship, practice, exile, or other burden through unequal power, threat, dependency, or lack of meaningful choice.

A term shall not be lawful merely because it was written, signed, sworn, witnessed, or magically sealed.

Coercive terms may be voided, restricted, amended, or punished under this Canon and the Canon of Judgment.

Breach of sworn duty shall consist of knowingly violating a lawful oath, sworn office, sworn guardianship, sworn stewardship, sworn testimony, sworn compact, sworn service, or sworn protection.

Breach of sworn duty may be charged where the duty is lawful, understood, voluntarily assumed, and not contrary to a Flame Commandment.

No person shall be punished under this Article for refusing to obey an oath term that requires violation of a Flame Commandment.

No oath, binding, duel agreement, soulbond, service contract, magical contract, or sworn legal obligation shall be formed on Ashenmoor where such formation is forbidden by Flame Commandment.

A person who attempts to create, enforce, witness, conceal, or profit from a forbidden Ashenmoor agreement may be charged under this Canon.

A violation of this Article may result in Concord judgment, Flame reckoning, or both.

Fraud shall consist of obtaining coin, property, service, access, trust, license, contract, office, custody, healing, magical effect, or other benefit through intentional deception.

Fraud may be committed by false statement, omission, glamour, illusion, forged record, false credential, false promise, staged proof, concealed defect, altered sample, manipulated memory, or counterfeit demonstration.

Fraud shall be aggravated where committed against a child, ward, dependent, known normie, refugee, patient, sanctuary guest, elder, prisoner, grieving family, or person under legal protection.

False sale shall consist of selling, trading, leasing, pledging, auctioning, or transferring goods or services under false description, false origin, false quality, false safety, false legality, false potency, false rarity, or false ownership.

False sale may include counterfeit artifacts, mislabeled goods, fake relics, false cures, false spell services, false creature lineage, false training, false map routes, false wards, or false access.

A seller shall disclose known dangers, defects, curses, restrictions, instability, contamination, or legal limits where such facts materially affect the buyer’s consent or safety.

Potion and reagent mislabeling shall consist of falsely identifying, naming, grading, diluting, substituting, concealing, enchanting, or omitting material information about potions, elixirs, reagents, herbs, venoms, roots, bloods, minerals, spores, powders, or prepared magical substances.

Mislabeling shall be aggravated where it causes illness, injury, magical impairment, failed healing, forbidden practice, addiction, transformation, contamination, or death.

Where mislabeling involves protected creatures, habitats, illegal harvest, or banned reagents, charges may also arise under the Canon of Wild.

Enchantment misrepresentation shall consist of falsely stating, demonstrating, concealing, or certifying the function, limits, risks, duration, origin, stability, ownership, or lawful status of an enchanted object or service.

No person shall sell or provide an enchanted object as safe, stable, lawful, reversible, licensed, or fit for purpose where they know or should know otherwise.

Enchantment misrepresentation shall be aggravated where the enchantment affects health, memory, identity, Veil concealment, sanctuary access, travel, binding, or defense.

False cure shall consist of claiming to heal, reverse, awaken, restore, cleanse, sever, bind, cure, or protect where the claim is knowingly false, reckless, unlicensed, or unsupported by lawful practice.

No person shall sell false cures for curse, plague, injury, infertility, magical exhaustion, Ashstain, memory damage, broken bonds, lost affinity, forced awakening, severance, or death.

False cure shall be aggravated where directed toward the desperate, grieving, ill, dying, magically impaired, unawakened, or recently bereaved.

Guild fee fraud shall consist of falsifying, inflating, concealing, fabricating, or extorting fees charged by guild, Order, office, licensed practice, sanctuary service, binding service, Veil service, or magical trade.

No guild, office, or licensed practitioner shall charge under false authority, false emergency, false necessity, false rarity, or false legal requirement.

Guild fee fraud may also constitute corruption where committed by a public office or under color of Concord authority.

No person shall sell, gift, transfer, lease, pledge, repair, store, or recommend an object, service, potion, animal, reagent, artifact, dwelling, ward, or enchantment while knowingly concealing a curse, defect, contamination, possession risk, instability, debt, restriction, or danger.

Concealment shall be aggravated where the hidden curse or defect threatens life, memory, Veil, sanctuary, bond, child, patient, guest, or protected place.

A person who discovers an undisclosed curse or defect after transfer shall report and mitigate where law requires.

Impersonation shall consist of knowingly presenting oneself as another person, officeholder, family member, guild member, sanctuary authority, licensed practitioner, envoy, witness, heir, creditor, debtor, or protected person without lawful authority.

Impersonation may be committed by dress, speech, record, glamour, illusion, shapeshifting, memory projection, proxy, forged mark, copied seal, familiar disguise, or other means.

Impersonation shall be aggravated where used to obtain consent, office, property, refuge, testimony, access, custody, marriage, binding, legal judgment, or sanctuary entry.

Glamour identity fraud shall consist of using glamour, illusion, shapeshifting, masking, voicework, memory shimmer, reflection charm, or other magic to misrepresent identity for unlawful purpose.

Glamour used for privacy, safety, performance, Veil concealment, disguise during lawful investigation, or protection from danger shall not violate this Article unless used to deceive for unlawful gain or harm.

Glamour identity fraud shall be aggravated where used to obtain intimacy, medical treatment, testimony, sanctuary access, property, office, oath, contract, or legal authority.

False office or title shall consist of claiming, displaying, exercising, or implying an office, rank, wand, stewardship, magistracy, Order authority, guild title, sanctuary role, envoy status, or Concord power one does not lawfully hold.

A person who knowingly allows others to rely upon a false office or title for legal, financial, magical, political, or personal gain may be charged under this Article.

False office or title shall be aggravated where used to issue commands, collect fees, seize persons, bind persons, enter protected places, alter records, conduct trials, or enforce sentence.

False lineage or kinship shall consist of knowingly claiming family, bloodline, descent, parentage, inheritance, guardianship, marriage, wardship, or household relation for unlawful benefit.

False lineage or kinship may be charged where used to claim property, custody, status, refuge, office, arranged bond, inheritance, sanctuary access, or legal authority.

A good-faith error in family history shall not constitute violation unless knowingly used after correction or discovery.

False affinity claim shall consist of knowingly claiming, certifying, displaying, registering, or selling proof of an affinity one does not possess or does not possess at the claimed level.

False awakening claim shall consist of knowingly claiming awakened, unawakened, dormant, bound, unbound, severed, restored, or other magical status falsely.

False affinity or awakening claim shall be aggravated where used to obtain license, office, apprenticeship, binding, sanctuary access, marriage, inheritance, training, custody, or command.

Identity masking to evade law shall consist of concealing, changing, glamouring, dividing, copying, suppressing, or falsifying identity to avoid charge, debt, judgment, sentence, custody, warrant, license restriction, sanctuary ban, or lawful investigation.

Identity masking used for safety, Veil protection, witness protection, refuge, or lawful undercover service shall not violate this Article where properly authorized or justified by necessity.

A person who aids identity masking to evade law may also be charged under this Article.

Impersonation of protected office shall include impersonating a Wand, the Keeper of the Hearth, a magistrate, Concord officer, Veilhandler, sanctuary steward, envoy, judge, Bastion officer, recordkeeper, or licensed official whose authority affects life, liberty, property, sanctuary, Veil, practice, or judgment.

Impersonation of protected office shall be treated as aggravated.

Where impersonation of protected office causes arrest, sentence, binding, extraction, sanctuary breach, Veil breach, loss of property, or death, the offense may be charged under any other applicable Canon.

Bribery shall consist of offering, giving, requesting, receiving, promising, concealing, or arranging any benefit in exchange for unlawful influence over office, judgment, testimony, record, license, contract, sanctuary status, inspection, sentence, charge, decree, or official action.

Benefit may include coin, property, service, office, vote, silence, sexual access, magical aid, artifact, license, contract, favor, protection, threat withdrawn, or future advantage.

Bribery shall be aggravated where it affects trial, sentence, Unbinding, sanctuary protection, Veil repair, binding, custody, or high office.

Abuse of office shall consist of using lawful office for unlawful gain, private revenge, faction advantage, false charge, unlawful seizure, coerced service, corrupt binding, intimidation, concealment, or suppression of rights.

An officer may abuse office by action, omission, delay, false emergency, false interpretation, unlawful threat, selective enforcement, or intentional neglect.

Abuse of office may also be charged under the Canon of Authority, Canon of Life, Canon of Sanctuary, Canon of Veil, Canon of Possession, Canon of Practice, or Canon of Judgment where applicable.

False warrant shall consist of issuing, forging, presenting, enforcing, relying upon, or concealing the defect in a warrant, summons, seizure order, extraction order, search order, custody order, or sentence known to be unlawful or false.

A warrant issued by lawful authority upon knowingly false information may constitute false warrant.

False warrant shall be aggravated where it results in arrest, search, seizure, extraction, imprisonment, sanctuary breach, property loss, injury, or death.

Sale of judgment shall consist of trading, buying, promising, threatening, or receiving benefit in exchange for verdict, sentence, charge, dismissal, delay, evidence ruling, jury influence, tribunal vote, Conclave vote, or official interpretation.

No judgment shall be lawful where the deciding authority knowingly sells the result.

Sale of judgment shall be treated as one of the gravest corruptions of Concord authority.

Suppression of evidence shall consist of unlawfully hiding, destroying, altering, sealing, delaying, misdirecting, discrediting, or refusing to produce evidence required for lawful proceeding.

Suppression of evidence shall be aggravated where it conceals innocence, hides official misconduct, protects a powerful person, enables false conviction, or prevents remedy for harm.

Evidence may be lawfully sealed only where permitted by the Canon of Judgment, Canon of Veil, sanctuary law, emergency decree, or other lawful authority.

Conflict of interest shall exist where a person charged with official duty has private interest, faction loyalty, family tie, debt, oath, contract, fear, benefit, rivalry, or hidden obligation likely to compromise lawful judgment.

A person with material conflict shall disclose the conflict and recuse where law requires.

Knowingly concealing a material conflict may constitute corruption.

Corrupt binding assignment shall consist of assigning, altering, selling, trading, arranging, concealing, or manipulating a binding, service term, apprenticeship, office placement, Order placement, marriage contract, guardianship, or duty for unlawful gain or faction advantage.

A binding assignment made through bribery, coercion, false record, hidden conflict, political revenge, or private favor may be voided or punished under this Canon.

Where corrupt binding assignment violates sacred law, the Flame may reckon also.

Misuse of Concord authority shall consist of invoking Concord Law, office, decree, warrant, emergency power, Veil repair, sanctuary recognition, license authority, binding authority, or judgment power for unlawful purpose.

Misuse of Concord authority shall be aggravated where it harms a child, known normie, sanctuary guest, Freemage, witness, prisoner, dependent, or person under legal protection.

No person shall escape liability merely by claiming they acted for order where the act knowingly violated this Codex.

Creatures under this Canon shall include magical creatures, ordinary animals affected by magic, Hollowbred species, Mistcrossed animals, familiar-adjacent creatures, dangerous creatures, protected species, endangered species, invasive magical species, and such other living beings as Concord Law may recognize.

Creature classification may be established by Concord registry, sanctuary record, treaty, scholarly review, field report, Rootseer finding, Wildspeaker finding, Biothaumist finding, Lifewright finding, or lawful decree.

A creature’s classification may affect whether it may be hunted, harvested, relocated, bred, traded, studied, bonded, contained, rehabilitated, or destroyed.

Misclassification knowingly used to permit unlawful hunting, trade, experimentation, containment, relocation, or destruction may be charged under this Canon and the Canon of Truth.

A protected species shall mean any creature species placed under legal protection because of rarity, ecological importance, magical function, treaty status, sanctuary status, sentience, vulnerability, sacred association, or risk of extinction.

No person shall unlawfully kill, capture, injure, poison, displace, breed, sell, buy, transport, experiment upon, or harvest from a protected species.

Protection may extend to eggs, nests, dens, shells, scales, antlers, horns, feathers, fur, milk, venom, blood, song, shed parts, migratory paths, breeding grounds, and living territories connected to the species.

A protected species may be handled under lawful rescue, healing, research, relocation, stewardship, emergency containment, or sanctuary authority.

An endangered creature shall mean any creature whose numbers, breeding capacity, habitat, migratory route, magical function, or survival is threatened.

Endangered creatures shall receive heightened protection.

No person shall disturb the breeding, nesting, hatching, migration, healing, or recovery of an endangered creature without lawful authority.

Trade in endangered creatures or their parts shall be prohibited unless expressly permitted for healing, preservation, research, restoration, or other lawful necessity.

A dangerous creature shall mean a creature capable of causing serious bodily harm, death, magical injury, ecological damage, Veil exposure, plague, possession, curse spread, or widespread disruption if mishandled.

Dangerous creature status shall not by itself remove protection from a creature.

A dangerous creature may be contained, relocated, warded, studied, healed, driven away, or destroyed only according to law, necessity, and the danger presented.

A person who unlawfully provokes, releases, breeds, weaponizes, transports, or conceals a dangerous creature may be charged under this Canon and any other applicable Canon.

Familiar-adjacent creatures shall mean creature species known to form, sustain, resemble, approach, or be capable of developing familiar bonds, soul-adjacent bonds, companion bonds, or recognized magical partnerships.

No person shall capture, breed, sell, force-bond, drug, train, starve, imprint, sever, or manipulate a familiar-adjacent creature for unlawful bonding, false familiar creation, coercion, trafficking, or exploitation.

Where a creature is already a bonded familiar or possesses recognized legal standing, harm may also be charged under the Canon of Life.

No creature shall be treated as lesser merely because it is not yet bonded.

Creature cruelty shall consist of unlawfully tormenting, starving, beating, burning, freezing, poisoning, caging, overworking, mutilating, abandoning, binding, drugging, corrupting, or otherwise causing needless suffering to a creature.

Creature cruelty may be charged whether the creature is magical, ordinary, protected, domesticated, wild, dangerous, familiar-adjacent, or under lawful custody.

Cruelty shall be aggravated where committed for sport, spectacle, training, profit, experimentation, magical extraction, intimidation, punishment of another, or entertainment.

Magical alteration of creatures shall mean changing, enhancing, weakening, binding, fusing, splitting, transmuting, enlarging, shrinking, mutating, awakening, suppressing, weaponizing, or otherwise altering a creature’s body, mind, instincts, breeding capacity, magical nature, or ecological role by magic.

No creature shall be magically altered without lawful authority, valid research approval, healing necessity, preservation purpose, or emergency cause.

Magical alteration shall be aggravated where it creates suffering, plague, invasive species, unstable offspring, forced aggression, loss of natural function, sentience collapse, ecological harm, or Veil risk.

Lawful hunt shall mean the pursuit, capture, or killing of creatures according to season, quota, method, place, license, treaty, sanctuary rule, species status, and necessity.

A lawful hunt shall not include needless cruelty, forbidden weapons, wasteful slaughter, unlawful baiting, breeding-ground disturbance, or concealment of protected status.

Hunting rights may be limited by species protection, habitat status, sanctuary law, treaty, Veil risk, ecological balance, or emergency decree.

Poaching shall consist of unlawfully hunting, capturing, killing, trapping, harvesting, transporting, or taking creatures in violation of law.

Poaching may include hunting without license, hunting out of season, exceeding quota, taking protected species, hunting in sanctuary, taking from breeding grounds, or using forbidden methods.

Poaching shall be aggravated where committed for black-market trade, forbidden reagents, trophy taking, familiar trafficking, sport cruelty, or damage to endangered species.

Seasonal limits and quotas may be established to preserve breeding, migration, hatching, ecological balance, population recovery, food systems, and living territories.

No person shall exceed lawful quota or evade seasonal limits through concealment, false registration, magical duplication, false death report, hidden storage, or trade through proxies.

Emergency alteration of season or quota may be permitted by lawful authority where plague, overpopulation, famine, invasion, habitat collapse, or ecological imbalance requires intervention.

Eggs, nests, dens, burrows, pods, broods, calves, hatchlings, cubs, young, and breeding sites shall receive protection according to species status and ecological need.

No person shall unlawfully take, break, sell, disturb, enchant, move, poison, mark, or conceal eggs, nests, dens, or young.

Taking young from a creature for training, bonding, sale, experimentation, or display shall require lawful authority.

Violation of this Article shall be aggravated where it threatens the survival of a protected or endangered species.