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Tucked into a corner of the Darkan palace (or for that matter, duplicated in a sumptuous estate in the province of Xutltec) is a complex of small rooms. A few offices, two of them serving as impromptu legal stores, the rest populated by clerks. A larger room, stuffed with comfortable chairs and the odd writing table. A large room, something more than an office, something less than a throne room.

Currently on the docket:

International Prisoner Treaty

This treaty governs the treatment of prisoners captured in times of war between the undersigned nations.

Article 1:

Concerning the treatment of captured nobles who lead men-at-arms into war, and strive gloriously on the field of battle:

On the basis that a noble leading men into battle is but doing their duty to their nation and to honour, it is wrong to punish such a person for their honourable act.

Therefore no noble warrior will be held for longer than two (2) days, and will be released at the end of the second day at the very latest.

Being that noble blood is a rare and sacred fluid, the spilling of such in an action but duty and honour is a base and horrid thing.

Therefore no noble warrior will be tortured.

A noble's arms and chattel are theirs by right, and anyone who would take these by force would be a thief and brigand. However, as a captured noble would need to be maintained in custom by the capturing realm and said expense is onerous, it is fair for a rich noble to be ransomed back to his family.

Therefore a noble warrior will not have their gold stolen during their time held captive. Should a noble ride into capture with in excess of 150 gold worth of value, the noble may, at the discretion of the holding realm, be deprived of the excess gold. As this is a ransom, the noble must be released immediately.

A noble may in their lifetime be oathed to more than one lord, and due to the vagaries of life, have been banned from a realm. A noble may be required by their hosting realm to commit war upon a realm that they are barred from entering. Being that this noble would be acting upon the tenets of duty and honour to enter this realm, it would be wrong to punish this noble beyond what their fellow nobleborn can expect because of a previous ban.

Therefore noble warriors with previous bans are to be treated as any other noble warrior captured upon the field of battle.

(OOC: If you're a judge on Atamara, feel free to comment on or change this prisoner document.)