Standards of Ambition
The Standards of Ambition replaced the Pillars of Ashtan as constitutional law of Ashtan in 692 AF. They are inscribed upon a seven-sided plinth at the apex of the Parade of Zarathustra.
Ashtan Law 1: Constitutional Provisions
- No new Law shall be enforced upon the Citizens of Ashtan until it receives the assent of a majority Council decision and Archon Ascendant approval.
- No current Law shall be overruled until it receives the assent of a majority Council decision.
- No new Law shall be enforced until the Archon Ascendant has had the opportunity to vote.
Ashtan Law 2: Offences Against the Person
- Any unsolicited harmful act against a Citizen or Ally of Ashtan by a Citizen of Ashtan shall result in the offender losing citizenship.
Ashtan is currently allied to the villages of Thera and Petra, and the Court of Chaos.
- Any unsolicited harmful act against a citizen or Ally of Ashtan by an Outsider within the boundaries of Ashtan Law shall result in the offender being enemied to the City of Ashtan.
- This Law shall not apply where two Citizens have a Right of Glaaki invoked, where a Citizen is in reasonable defence of private property under Ashtan Law 3, or where license has otherwise been granted in advance by the Ruling Council.
- Outsider Shopkeepers and Merchants on announced business shall be considered an Ally of Ashtan for the purposes of this Law whilst they are conducting their business.
- A harmful action shall be more than slight or trivial, and threaten the safety of the person or loss of personal property.
- Each citizen possesses one undeniable challenge that may be called upon once per decade: the Right of Glaaki. This entitles the invoker to a single bout of combat to be approved, scheduled, and witnessed by the leadership. Members of the Court of Chaos can also be in attendance. This is not a matter taken lightly as failure to complete the action once the Right has been invoked will be viewed as a breach of Ashtani and Court law. Once the Right has been fulfilled, the matter will be dropped.
- No city disfavour shall be imposed by a non-Council member or non-Minister without the consent of the Archon Ascendant.
Ashtan Law 3: Offences Against Property
- A Citizen that trespasses upon private property, that does not leave when given reasonable opportunity, shall lose their rights to protection under Ashtan Law 2.
- A Citizen that trespasses upon private property within the boundaries of Ashtan Law, that does not leave when given reasonable opportunity, may lose their citizenship subject to approval of a majority Archon vote.
- An Outsider that trespasses upon private property within the boundaries of Ashtan Law, that does not leave when given reasonable opportunity, shall be enemied to the City of Ashtan.
- Trespassing shall be deemed to occur either after there has been both a demand to leave and opportunity given to leave, or after an unsolicited harmful act has been knowingly committed against a person on private property.
- Private Property includes housing, House estates, Divine Temples, stockrooms, and shops with locked doors.
- Enemying terms and fines shall be set at the discretion of the Security Minister or Ruling Council, and the offender shall be informed of these.
- Offences Against Naval Property are only applicable to those aboard properly identified and registered Ashtan ships.
Ashtan Law 4: Offences Against Ashtan
- Any Citizen found conspiring to commit any act against the laws of Ashtan, with serious intent, shall be subject to a fine and lose citizenship for at least ten years.
- Any Citizen or Outsider found conspiring to commit any act against the laws of Ashtan with a City Enemy, with serious intent, shall be subject to a fine and enemied for at least fifteen years.
- Any Citizen that undermines or harms the sovereignty or integrity of the City of Ashtan shall be branded a traitor, made subject to a fine, and enemied for at least twenty years.
- No punishment for offences against Ashtan shall be applied to a Citizen of Ashtan without the approval of a majority of the Council and The Archon Ascendant.
- Undermining or harming the sovereignty or integrity of the City shall be more than slight or trivial, and include the breach of confidential information obtained by virtue of position within the City, the conspiracy to undermine theposition or interests of Ashtan in favour of an individual or another organisation, or the aiding or abetting of City enemies in their actions against Ashtan or Citizens of Ashtan.
- The practice of Devotion is prohibited within the walls of Ashtan.
- Non-citizens perceived to be a disturbance to Ashtan and her citizens may be enemied at the discretion of the Minister of Security, his/her aides or an Archon.
Ashtan Law 5: Mercantile Provisions
- Shops owing more than two years taxes shall be shut down by the City of Ashtan.
- Shops owing more than three years taxes shall be repossessed by the City of Ashtan.
- City owned shops will only be rented to citizens of Ashtan.
Ashtan Law 6: Shrine Provisions
- Defilement is forbidden within the walls of the city save by Council sanction.
- Any citizen found defiling shrines within the walls of the City shall lose their citizenship.
- Any outsider found defiling shrines within the walls of the City shall be enemied and subject to a fine.
- Any shrines deemed potentially dangerous by the Ruling Council or Security Ministry shall be removed.
- Shrines to the current Patron and Lord Babel will take precedence over all others for security purposes.
- Gods that are neither citizens of Ashtan nor Patrons of Ashtani Houses may have a maximum of one shrine if approved by the Ruling Council. The Applicant must receive the assent of a majority of Archons and the Archon Ascendant is required to vote before any shrine is granted permission.
- All shrines are subject to the Ruling Council's judgement. If they are found to be dangerous or in violation of the previous laws they are forfeit.
Ashtan Law 7: Geographical Provisions
- Ashtan Law shall extend just beyond the boundaries of the City of Ashtan, and to any other area deemed appropriate by the Security Minister or Ruling Council.
- For the citizens of Thera and Petra, Ashtan Law 2 shall apply within the boundaries of their respective villages.
Ministry Provisions
- Unregistered ships may be ejected from Ashtan harbour at any time without notice at the discretion of the Minister of Maritime Affairs.
- Ashtan ship ID number 57 operates under the authority of the Maritime Merchants of Ashtan clan.
- Ashtan ships ID numbers 48 and 82 operate under the authority of the Dread Navy clan.
- Access to and use of these ships is at the sole discretion of the organisations under which they operate.
- Posters and graffiti may only be applied with the approval of the Minister of Development.
- Non-citizens found guilty of a crime against Ashtan or her people may only be unenemied by the Minister of Security.
- Those marked as 'permanent' enemies of Ashtan may only be unenemied by the Archon Ascendant.
- Any individual found to be guilty of violating Ashtan Law may have their ownership of personal land within Golden Apple revoked, by Archon Ascendant decree and/or the discretion of the Minister of Development.
House provisions
- All citizens of Ashtan shall be members of one of our three Houses.
- All members of our three Houses shall be citizens of Ashtan.
- The House Lords of Ashtan shall have the right to appeal to the Ruling Council for the removal or enemying of any Citizen seen acting in a manner harmful to the sovereignty or integrity of their House.
- This right is brought to the Archonate where it must receive a majority vote to pass. Votes will count from the House leader and non-members of the invoking House.
- If the invocation of this right is the result of a personal dispute, or a petty offense, it shall not be upheld.
- The result of an upheld House right will be ejection from the city and an enemy sentence until such a time that the offender has resolved their issues with the invoking House.
- All House rights, completed and in progress, are subject to Council investigation.
- The Archon Ascendant and Overseer shall hold vetoing power over these matters.