Requirements to Gain a Leader Rank

• At least 2 years old.
• High Sovereign:
• Must have 100 posts before challenging/gaining the rank.
• Must be on Orange PvP or higher.
• Outlaw Band Leaders have no post minimum to create the band. See band creation requirements here.

Secondary Leaders: Sovereign and Heir/Heiress

• Must have 50 posts before gaining the rank.
• Sovereign
• At least 2 years old.
• Must be on Orange PvP or higher.
• Heir/Heiress
• Can hold the rank at 1 year old, but must be at least 2 in order to inherit.
• There is no secondary leader in an outlaw band.

Weekly and Biweekly Requirements

• Weekly: 3 posts PER leader.
• These must be complete BEFORE each Friday or you will incur a strike.
• Biweekly: Pride news and history tabs.
• Primary and secondary leaders can work together on completing these, but they must be updated at least once every IC month (2 OOC weeks).

Limitations

• 1 primary and 1 secondary leader (like a High Sovereign and an Heir); or
• 2 secondary leaders (like 2 Heirs).

Leadership Absences

• Any challenges posted during a leader player's absence will be paused until the day of their return.
• Pride leaders who take absences longer than 2 weeks will need to forfeit their pride, either by passing it onto someone else or having it disbanded.
• Upon returning from an absence, pride leaders have 4 days to get caught up on leadership requirements.
• Failing to do so will result in disbandment of the pride, or demotion.
• If returning or your 4 days put you AFTER a rollover, your pride check will happen on the 5th day after you have returned.
• When a leader returns from a posted absence, they will need to remain active (i.e. not go on another absence) for the duration of their absence, plus an additional week.
• So, if a leader takes a 2 week absence, they must be back for 3 weeks before taking another absence.
• Please be aware that pride page requirements still have to be completed during a leader’s absence if there is a secondary leader. Failure to do so will result in the secondary leaders being demoted.

In the case of a peaceful pride transfer, where a pride is passed from the High Sovereign to the Sovereign/Heir without a fight or challenge, the following guidelines apply:

• The Sovereign/Heir must have held their leadership rank for at least 3 OOC months;
• The pride tiers will not be lost/will not drop down to zero; and
• The new High Sovereign will be given a one month cooldown from pride challenges.

The leadership change must happen ICly and can only happen after the High Sovereign has held the same leadership position for at least one IC year. The new leader (the one it is being peacefully passed to) must hold the rank for at least another IC year before it can be peacefully passed on again to a different character.

This will not apply if the leadership change is believed to be done with the sole intention to avoid a disband and/or lengthen cooldowns.

• Have a minimum of 100 posts.
• Be at least 2 years old.
• Be on Orange PvP or higher.
• Has to have made at least 6 posts in the last 14 days (not including the challenge post).
  • This is counted backwards from the start of your thread, and you must continue to meet requirements throughout the duration of the challenge.
  
  
• If your character is coming off being inactive, they must make an additional 25 posts after rejoining prior to the claim thread.
• These 25 posts are in excess of the base requirement of 100. So, if they have not reached 100 posts yet, they will need a total of 125 posts prior.

If your character is already a primary leader and challenges for control of a different pride, they forfeit their current rank and pride upon initiation of the challenge. If they have a Sovereign/Heir that is able to take their place, they will inherit the pride. If not, their old pride will disband.

How to Claim

• The lottery is opened up by Sr Staff and members will have 24 hours to sign their characters up.
• Each member may enter one character per lottery, and must meet leadership requirements prior to signing up.
• At the end of the 24 hours, Sr. Staff conducts a random roll to determine the challengers and reach out to the necessary members.
• Members will have 24 hours to accept or deny the claim; if one denies another character will be randomly rolled.
• The Soul of the Warrior account will then create a claim thread for the challengers to post in.

If You Have a Pride Claim Pass

• Gifted Passes (Advent, Raffle, etc):
• Whoever posts their pass FIRST (even if other members have posted for normal entry) will have one spot in the fight.
• After that, no more passes can be used and the other spot in the fight will be chosen from the other entries through the normal lottery means above.
• Bought Passes (Site Fundraiser):
• The only auto-claim pass. To use this pass as an auto-claim, you must be the VERY FIRST to post in the lottery (even before normal entries) and you must state your intent to use the pass and that it is a bought pass.
• If you are not the first, you have the option of falling into the Gifted Pass option above or you can pull your entry to save it.

• If won by default, the cooldown is reduced to 1 OOC month.

• Have a minimum of 100 posts.
• Be at least 2 years old.
• Be on Orange PvP or higher.
• A PvP request must be made before the challenge request is posted if your character is on Red.
• Has to have made at least 6 posts in the last 14 days (not including the challenge post).
  • This is counted backwards from the start of your thread, and you must continue to meet requirements throughout the duration of the challenge.
• In addition, they must be an active character on-site for at least 30 days.


• If your character is coming off being inactive, they must make an additional 50 posts after rejoining prior to the claim thread.
• These 50 posts are in excess of the base requirement of 100. So, if they have not reached 100 posts yet, they will need a total of 150 posts prior.

If your character is already a primary leader and challenges for control of a different pride, they forfeit their current rank and pride upon initiation of the challenge. If they have a Sovereign/Heir that is able to take their place, they will inherit the pride. If not, their old pride will disband.

Buying the Challenge Pass

• Passes can only be requested after the pride's cooldown has ended.
• Passes must be requested and processed by Sr Staff before the challenge thread can be posted. They will reach out to you to let you know you're good to post it.
• The cost of the challenge can be calculated per the "Costs and Buffers" section below.

Posting the Challenge

• After the challenge pass has been processed, the challenger will have 48 hours to post the thread before it becomes void.
• Pride challenges must take place in the pride territory/forum.
• Pride challenges can be AW or semi-private (i.e. allies to the challenger, pride members, and pride members of allied or friendly prides) if both parties agree. They may not be fully private.
• Both the leader and the challenger must keep up with leadership requirements during the entire duration of the challenge.
• Pride challenges cannot have the default timer waived, even if both agree to it. This is to prevent limbo for members of the pride.

Void Challenges: If a challenger does not meet the leadership or post requirements, for any reason, at the time of posting their challenge, the challenge will be voided.

• Staff must officially void the challenge before it is considered official. Failure to wait will result in the deletion of the post.
• If your challenge is voided, your character will be on a cooldown for 2 OOC weeks, where they will be unable to challenge, claim a pride, or take over a pride.

If the challenger wins the pride:

• They inherit all of its members and can choose whether or not they want to release them, keep them as is, or set them to Prisoners.
• This applies regardless of whether the fight was finished and won via dice, or if the challenge defaulted (i.e. due to the defending pride leader failing leadership reqs, being disqualified, failing pride checks, etc.).

Additionally, the winner of a pride challenge can choose to take the losing party (the other challenger) prisoner if they so choose, regardless of sex.

If a primary leader only meets the minimum posting requirements (6 posts per 14 days), challenging for their pride costs the base price of 200 petals.

Every post made by the primary leader in excess of their posting requirements counts as 10 extra petals towards their challenge cost buffer. If the pride is Tier 5 this is doubled to 20 extra petals per post.

• Only posts made by the High Sovereign in the past 14 days count towards the buffer.
• The first 6 posts do not count (i.e. their minimum posting requirement).
• Anything in surplus of 6 posts will count towards the buffer.
• The buffer is maxed out at 200 petals for prides that have not reached Tier 5 and 400 petals for those that have.
• This means the max Challenge pass is either 400 petals or 600 petals depending on the pride's tier.

Example: Leader X has made 20 posts in the past 14 days. Their pride is tier 3.

• 6 of those posts count towards leadership requirements for those 14 days.
• That leaves Leader X with 14 extra posts.
• 10 x 14 = 140
• Therefore, it costs an additional 140 petals to challenge for Leader X’s pride, bringing the total cost to challenge their pride to 340 petals (200 petals base cost + 140 petal buffer).

Admins can help determine the costs of pride challenges and pride buffers if needed.

Posting Requirements: At least 3 posts between every Friday.

Pride News: At least 1 piece of pride news needs to be added per IC month (every 2 OOC weeks).

Pride History: At least 1 thread needs to be logged in the pride history section per IC month (every 2 OOC weeks).

Strikes for posting requirements, pride news, and pride history are separate from one another. This means that you can have one strike on each without the pride disbanding.

• Fixing the error does NOT remove the strike.


• After incurring your first strike:
• If the strike is for pride news, history, or the High Sovereign's post reqs, leaders will be given 48 hours to fix the error. Failing to do so will result in auto-disbanding of the pride.
• If the strike is for a secondary leader's post reqs, they will be given 48 hours to fix the error or they will be demoted.
• After incurring your second strike:
• If the strike is for pride news, history, or the High Sovereign's post reqs, the pride will disband automatically.
• Since all leaders are able to manage the upkeep of the pride page, the pride cannot be inherited by the Sovereign or Heir after 2 strikes have been given for either news or history.
• If a primary leader is away, the secondary leaders need to keep the page updated. If they fail to do so, they will be demoted from their leadership rank and the primary leader will be given 2 days upon returning to fix any errors and catch up on leadership requirements.
• If the strike is for a secondary leader's post reqs, they will be demoted.

Depending on WHY the pride is disbanding—and if there are any other eligible members—the disbandment can be prevented.

If a pride is at risk of disbanding due to failed posting requirements by the High Sovereign, disbands can be prevented if the secondary leader (Sovereign or Heir/Heiress) is able to inherit the pride.

• They must meet all of their own posting requirements at the time of the switch.
• This does not apply when a disband is happening due to strikes.
• If the pride is inherited by another member of leadership, the primary leader will be demoted to lion/lioness and unable to return to a leadership rank for 1 OOC month.

If a pride is at risk of disbanding due to two strikes against their pride history or news and/or if the secondary leader cannot inherit, disbandment can be prevented, if either a:

• Master/Sub-Master Barbarian or Paladin is willing to take over the pride through use of their Master perk.
• Master Ambassador is willing to hold an election through use of their Master perk.
• If there are multiple lions in a disbanding pride that qualify to prevent a disband, the highest ranking lion will be given the first opportunity to inherit.

All cooldowns for failing leadership requirements and pride disbandings are per member, not per character.

Demotion or Disband Due to Failed Posting Requirements: You are responsible for your own posting requirements. Posting requirements are an individual requirement and do not reflect on other members of the leadership tier. Posting requirements are down to the minute.

• Failing leadership posting requirements will result in a cooldown of 1 OOC month for the member in question. This applies to all primary and secondary leaders.

Disband Due to Pride Strikes: Pride strikes are a shared responsibility between the High Sovereign, Sovereign, and Heir. Because all leadership ranks share the work, incurring 2 strikes equates to an auto-disband of the pride (i.e. the Sovereign or Heir cannot inherit the pride).

• If a pride disbands in this way, all members of the leadership tier will be placed on a cooldown of 1 OOC month.

Repeated Instances of Disbanding: If you are a pride leader and have had a pride disband twice beneath the same character's rule within a 6 OOC month timeframe, you will be placed on cooldown from challenging, claiming a pride, or becoming High Sovereign for 3 OOC months for the first instance, 6 OOC months for the second instance, 9 OOC months for the third instance.

Care of the pride page is the responsibility of all leaders. It is important for all listed leaders to be aware of what needs to be done and help each other in making sure that nothing gets missed. A strike affects all of the leaders when it comes to everything but posting requirements.

Detailed instructions on how to update your pride page are located in the Leadership Space and once you are a leader, you will have access to this area.

Page One: About

• Leaders only need to update the pride tier level listed in this section, nothing else needs to be updated.

• This page needs to be updated properly by leadership before each rollover.

Pride Laws
• Laws are considered common knowledge among membership of the pride but if a change is made, we recommend letting the membership know.
• All laws go into effect in threads started AFTER the laws are in place.

Rank Laws
• These laws are above the basic abilities that are given to ranks and each leader decides what to give.
• Basic abilities do not need to be listed here.
• Given abilities must be listed here in order to be used. If they are not here, they cannot be used.
• These are based on the rank groups and NOT able to be given to a single character within a rank group.

Relations
• Relations are set up via IC action. This mostly happens after a new leader has taken over or another pride has a change in leadership. Please only update these based on IC interactions and not just on a whim.

• This page is to be updated by leadership before each rollover. The coding that is shown needs to be followed for each month. The newest month is at the top.

• Keeping track of all events done in an OOC month to gain or keep a tier is important.
• This needs to be updated by the end of each ooc month. The most recent month needs to be at the top. It needs to be clear if the event is considered a success or not.
• Please list out which tier your pride has moved up or down to, or if it remained at the same tier. In the event that your pride gain tier 6, please use the coding provided in the editing pride page section.
• If an event happens that caused the tiers to be removed fully (change in leadership) the tracker needs to be cleared. Only information from the CURRENT leadership should be listed.
• Members of the pride can only use the tier perks if the tracker is properly up to date.

• This page can be requested to be added at any time by leadership and an Admin will add it for them.
• While the page is freeform, just don't break the site!