Ratified by the High Concord in 3395 AC, as part of the Adventurer Addendum to the Second Concord
Preamble
By decree of the High Concord, and in continued observance of the Nine Sanctioned Processes, this Charter recognizes the necessity of sanctioned irregularity in the preservation of Processual stability.
Where the reach of the Concord is hindered by corruption, chaos, or Unbound interference, the authority to act in deviation from Processual law shall be temporarily extended to designated operatives under this Charter.
These operatives, known as Concordant Adventurers, are entrusted to confront disorder by means unavailable to Process-bound citizens, under the strict supervision of the Concordant Guild of Expedient Service.
Article I — Mandate and Purpose
The Adventurer Addendum establishes the sanctioned class of Concordant Adventurers, authorized to engage in expedition, investigation, defense, and reclamation of Process integrity in regions affected by Unbound phenomena, chaotic emergence, or Process decay.
Their function is not conquest, but correction: to preserve the balance of the lawful world through measured deviation.
Article II — Conditions of Authority
- Adventurers operate under temporary exemption from Processual restriction, limited to the scope and duration of sanctioned missions.
- All actions are subject to retroactive review by a Process Liaison, whose authority supersedes any field rank.
- Adventurers are prohibited from establishing independent dominion, enforcing Process in their own name, or claiming sovereign territory.
- Deviation without Concord sanction constitutes Process Betrayal and is punishable by dissolution or exile to the Wounds of the World.
Article III — Alignment and Oath
Each registered adventuring company must align itself with one of the Nine Processes, to serve as philosophical anchor and jurisdictional oversight. Alignment ceremonies are mandatory before each sanctioned expedition.
“No one may walk beyond the world without a tether to it.”
Article IV — Civic Status
Concordant Adventurers are recognized as Auxiliary Servants of the Concord, afforded temporary immunity from civic law within active missions. Upon completion, they revert to standard citizen status unless re-contracted. Repeated service constitutes a distinct legal classification: Processual Exception.
Those designated Processual Exceptions are subject to annual assessment by a Processkeeper tribunal to ensure continued mental, moral, and harmonic alignment.
Article V — Doctrine of Reclamation
In the event that an Adventurer or Company succumbs to corruption or Process failure, their persons and remains are to be recovered by the Guild where possible, and interred within sanctioned containment rites.
Failure to retrieve the corrupted individual constitutes an open reclamation order—permitting any Process-bound citizen to act in preservation of stability, by any means necessary.
Ratification Statement
Let this Charter stand as the lawful recognition that not all service is pure, and not all purity serves. Through the Adventurer Addendum, the Concord acknowledges that the world must be both guarded and mended—and that sometimes, to mend the world, one must touch what is broken.
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