The covenant binding all who walk the Shadowrealm. Read it well, ignorance is no shield against the keepers’ judgement.
The Code of the Realm
These rules are the bones of our covenant. By passing through the gates of Shadowrealm you swear to abide by them. To break this covenant is to invite banishment, temporary, when the offence is small and the heart can be mended, or eternal, when the harm done leaves no other path. The keepers are patient, but their patience has an edge.
Prohibited Conduct
The following deeds are forbidden within every hall, road, forum thread, mail parchment, guild chamber, and private message of the realm. They will be met with the keepers’ intervention without warning when severe.
Harassment, slurs, hate speech directed at any person or group, and the doxxing or threatened doxxing of any player.
Threats of real-world violence against any person, anywhere, for any reason.
Sexual content involving minors. There is no nuance here, no context that excuses it, no warning given. Such material is met with immediate permanent banishment and, where the law requires, referral to the proper authorities.
Sharing the personal information of other players, legal names, addresses, employers, photographs, contact details, without their clear and explicit consent.
Spam, scams, phishing, and the advertising of external services, products, websites, or rival games. The realm is not a marketplace for strangers.
Account sharing, operating more than one account to gain advantage, exploitation of bugs or unintended mechanics, and the trading of in-game assets for real-world currency outside of channels we have sanctioned.
The use of bots, scripts, macros, automation tools, or any third-party program that interacts with the game on your behalf. Your hand on the controls, or none at all.
Impersonation of staff, moderators, or other players, whether by name, sigil, profile detail, or claim of authority you do not possess.
Deliberate disruption of forum threads, vote brigading, coordinated downvoting, mass-reporting in bad faith, and other attempts to bend community tools into weapons.
Expected Conduct
How to speak with the others who share these lands:
Be civil. Disagreement is welcome; cruelty is not.
Assume good faith first. A clumsy phrase is more often clumsiness than malice.
Take heated arguments to private messages, or set them down entirely. Public threads are not arenas.
Use the report tools when you witness wrongdoing, then trust the keepers to act. Do not appoint yourself executioner.
Welcome newcomers. Every veteran was once a stranger with a wooden sword.
Enforcement
The keepers weigh each offence against its severity and the offender’s history. Consequences are chosen, not rolled. They may take the form of:
A formal warning, recorded against the account.
A temporary banishment of stated duration, hours, days, or weeks, during which the account may not enter the realm.
Permanent banishment, reserved for the gravest offences or for those who will not be taught by lesser measures.
Appeals are heard. If you believe an action against your account was taken in error, send your case through the Support contact form with your username, the date of the action, and what you wish the keepers to reconsider. A reply will come; brigading, threats, or duplicate appeals will not hasten it.
Changes to These Rules
The realm grows, and its covenant grows with it. These rules may be revised when new harms arise or old wording proves too narrow. The latest version shall always live at this page. Continued play after a change is taken as acceptance of the rules as they then stand, so it is wise to glance here from time to time.