Citizenship & Membership¶

Two forms of loyalty define your place in the world: citizenship (which town you call home) and faction membership (which power you serve). They are closely bound — understanding how is essential.

Citizenship¶

Citizenship is your account's declared home town.

Account-wide. When any one of your characters pledges citizenship to a town, every character on your account becomes a citizen of that town.
One town at a time. Your account can be a citizen of only a single town.
Pledged at the Town Stone. Each town has a Town Stone where you can become a citizen, view town information, and (if you hold no other citizenship) declare your allegiance.

You may be a citizen of any town — including the contested cities that belong to no faction. But only citizenship in a faction city (Trinsic, Yew, or Vesper) opens the door to enlistment.

Faction Membership¶

Faction membership is your account's allegiance in the war.

Account-wide. Once you join a faction, all characters on your account are members of it. You may field as many faction characters as you like.
Bound to citizenship. You may only join the faction whose home city you are a citizen of:
Citizen of Trinsic → may join the Holy Order of Trinsic
Citizen of Yew → may join the Yew Militia
Citizen of Vesper → may join the Vesper Trading Company
Citizen of a contested city → cannot join any faction (no faction is based there)

In effect, citizenship and faction form a single axis of loyalty: your account chooses one home, one flag, one cause.

How to Enlist¶

Faction membership is earned, not given. To join, a character must approach the Faction Join Stone at their faction's home base and meet all of the following requirements:

Citizenship — your account must be a citizen of that faction's home city.
Character age — the enlisting character must be at least one week old.
Skill total — the character must have at least 500 total skill points.
Mastery — the character must have at least five skills at 100.0.
Single allegiance — no other account you own may already serve a different faction (see below).

The character standing at the stone must personally meet the age and skill requirements — you cannot enlist an unqualified character on the strength of a veteran elsewhere on your account.

Upon a successful join, the character receives a faction robe in the faction's colors (see Ranks, Titles & Standing and Rewards & Economy).

One Player, One Faction¶

To keep the war honest, the system enforces a single allegiance across all accounts owned by the same player:

If any account you own is already in a faction, your other accounts may join only that same faction — never a rival.
This is enforced automatically at the moment of joining.

This closes the door on a player fielding characters on both sides of the war to feed themselves kills or spy on rivals. Your loyalty is total, across everything you own.

Leaving a Faction¶

Allegiance is not a prison, but leaving is deliberately slow — faction-hopping to chase whichever side is winning is discouraged.

Voluntary departure. At the Faction Join Stone, choose to leave. A three-day timer begins. During those three days you remain a full member — you can still fight, earn, and vote. When the timer expires, you are removed.
Cancel any time. Before the timer expires, you may cancel your departure at the stone and remain a member with no penalty.
Losing citizenship. Because faction membership requires citizenship in the faction's home city, revoking your citizenship removes you from the faction immediately — not on the three-day timer. Lose the home, lose the flag.

What Carries, What Resets¶

Your per-character kill points and silver earned are tracked individually (see Ranks, Titles & Standing). When you leave a faction:

Those per-character totals persist dormant — they are not wiped.
If you later rejoin the same faction, your standing resumes where it left off.
If you join a different faction, that character's kill points and silver-earned reset to zero — you cannot carry the standing you earned under one banner into another.

Given the one-player-one-faction rule, joining a different faction is only possible after fully leaving your current one.