Corquaye's Rules

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Corquaye's Rules

If any of the following rules are broken then you may either be given a warning, banned for a certain amount of days or (if it isn't serious) a member of staff will PM you and you must correct the mistake you made.

General

• You must be a Corquaye member to start roleplaying or creating characters.
  
• Keep swearing to a minimum.
  
• Any serious fighting and your account will be banned for a few days.
  
• Be nice too all other players and treat them how you would like to be treated.
  
• One account per person
  
• At least 100 words in each post. Please use the word counter on the left-hand side if you are not sure how many words you have used.
  
• God-modding, power playing and autoing is forbidden.
  
• The season changes every three weeks exactly.
  
• There is no limit on how many characters you may have.

Character Creation

• Each player can have as many characters as they wish as long as they keep them active.
  
• To create your character go to character creation and read the help post first. After creating, wait for your character to be accepted by a member of staff before playing.
  
• Check your name hasn't already been taken by checking the Taken Names post.

Stallions

• A male horse is classed as a stallion from the age of 3, below that he is a colt.
  
• Stallions can claim lands and become the King at the age of 4.
  
• Stallions can breed at the age of 3.
  
• Stallion can fight for mares and territories.
  
• Stallion may steal mares by posting in the stealing forum. (Read the rules first).
  
• Stallion can force breed and force claim only at Slave's Meadow.
  
• If a stallion is challenged and defeated then the winner may take their territory and/or any member(s) of their herd with them if they wish.
  

Mares

• A female horse is classed as a mare at the age of 3, below that she is a filly.
  
• Mares cannot claim lands.
  
• Mares can breed at the age of 4.
  
• Mares cannot fight stallions unless attacked first.
  
• Mares may fight other mares.
  
• Mares must be force bred or force claimed if a stallion wishes to do so at Slave's Meadow.
  
• Mares are not bound to a herd by any rules and may leave if they wish. A stallion may tried to convince them to stay but cannot force them.
  
• Mares do not have to stick with one mate for life.

Foals

• Horses are classed as foals up to the age of 1.
  
• Any horse over the age of 1 and under the age of 3 is classed as a yearling.
  
• You may create an orphan foal under character creation.
  
• Foals are fully weaned after 6 real-life weeks.
  
• Foals can fight other foals but not grown-ups.

Claiming Land

• To claim a land, post your character in the land you wish to claim.
  
  Eg. Moon trotted down the slope to Kingfisher Lake and neighed "I, Moon, wish to claim this land as my own."
  
  
• You must wait for a member of staff to accept your claim before carrying on.
  
• Please write down all members of your herd in your territory by using this form.
  
• Each horse may only claim one land each.

Breeding

• No graphic breeding
  
• Post your stallions stats under the breeding board.
  
• Please read the breeding rules.
  
• The gestation period for each mare is 9 weeks.
  
• A member of staff will choose the gender and colour of your foal but you can pick the personality and markings.
  
• Please post with your foal under character creation just after your mare gives birth.
  
• Mares can only breed during Winter or Spring to succesfully produce a foal.
  
• Inbreeding is discouraged.

Kings

• Only stallions can claim the title of King.
  
• The King is considered to be the most important horse of their origin
  
• To claim the title of King you must first defeat the King.
  
• If the King dies a natural death (eg. Fall off a cliff or something) then one stallion must come to Royal's Meadow and claim it as his own. He then gets the title of King.
  
• Royal's Meadow and Royal's Clearing can only be claimed by the King and cannot be claimed unless you take the title of King as well.

Queens

• Only the King can decide who becomes the Queen.