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======Crime and Punishment======

  * In the Golden Age, there was a standardised system of criminal justice which operated with incredible fairness throughout the Empire.
  * Now things are different.
  * Each District is responsible for maintaining its own law and order. As such systems of crime and punishment vary depending on the District a crime is committed in.
  * As a rule of thumb, a crime occurs when someone important enough takes issue with a questionable act you have undertaken.
  * The more important the person, or the greater the issue taken, the worse things are likely to become for you. 

====Systems of Justice, by District====

===Imperial Boulevard===

  * The Orders are strict, and take a dim view of anything which disturbs the peace.
  * However, there are some variations depending on which Order of Paladins makes the arrest.
  * Paladins of the Torch are notoriously incorruptible.

===Esteban===

  * Generally harsher to crimes involving damage to property or assets.
  * Generally softer on members of their own House - and others, depending on the political climate. 
  * Often levy heavy fines in lieu of custodial sentences.

===Telemere===

  * Have an exceptionally elaborate and impenetrable system of courts and justices. 
  * Possibly the fairest of all the Great Houses.
  * Often commute sentences to military service. 

===Rom===

  * Employ a variety of planar magics in their trials.
  * Generally softer on members of their own House - and others, depending on the political climate.
  * Are willing to commute sentences for Remnants or valuable insight into the planes. 

===Barrens===

  * Officially, there is no law in the Barrens - no law but street law. 
  * Those who know better whisper of the court of the Thief Lairds; the Court of Keelen.

===Wastes===

  * There is no law in the Wastes. Merely anarchy.

===Outside the Embrace===

  * Outside the Embrace of Empire, the Foresters Guild are responsible for maintaining law and order.
  * Their justice is a pragmatic justice, and usually revolves around whether or not the crime involved the Wood of Loss and threatened the city.
  * The Order of the Wheel are officially responsible for enforcing law in their estates, but this has lapsed with the dwindling of their numbers.

===Imperial Palace===

  * Home of the Imperial Court.
  * One can - technically - always appeal to the Imperial Court if one does not like the judgement that has been given. 
  * This may not be strictly advisable. 
  * The Imperial Court is reputedly the strictest and most terrifying court of justice in Rastaban. Even petty infractions are punished to the letter of Imperial law. 
  * Traitors are always tried in the Imperial Court.

====Treason====

  * There are certain classes of crime that are Treason.
  * Examples of these are: taking a Census, leaving one's home during an Intercalary Event, Bodily or Temporal Threat to the Silent Regent or the Council of Seven, Unlawful possession of Black Ichor, publicly purporting to disclose a list of crimes that are Treason. 
  * Suspects are dragged through the Traitor's Gate into the Imperial District by hooded figures which appear from the shadows. 
  * Those guilty of Treason are executed. 

====I've been arrested. So now what?====

  * You can accept the punishment offered to you by the authority which has arrested you.
  * Depending on your [[[:general_skills#Wealth Skills|Wealth]], you can try and bribe your way out of the situation.
  * You can also pay your way out with Favour. 
  * You can resist arrest and try to escape. If you succeed, you are then Wanted in that District, and by the faction that arrested you. 
  * If you have contacts with the authority which has arrested you, you may be able to negotiate a softer sentence, or get them to overlook certain actions.
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