Supplementary to the Legal Code of Neverwinter

Preamble

Magic is both a powerful resource and a potential threat to public safety. These regulations are designed to protect citizens, promote responsible magical practice, and maintain the delicate balance between magical freedom and civic order.

Title I: Magical Registration and Licensing

Chapter 1: Magical Practitioner Classification

1. All magic users must register with the Neverwinter Arcane Registry upon:
2. Manifesting magical abilities
3. Entering the city with magical capabilities
4. Turning 14 years of age
5. Magical Practitioner Tiers:
6. Tier 1 (Apprentice): Minimal magical training
7. Tier 2 (Practiced): Intermediate magical abilities
8. Tier 3 (Master): Advanced magical proficiency
9. Tier 4 (Archmage): Exceptional magical expertise
10. Registration Requirements:
11. Mandatory magical aptitude assessment
12. Background check
13. Proof of formal or apprentice-based magical education
14. Annual renewal of magical license

Title II: Magical Conduct and Restrictions

Chapter 1: Public Safety Regulations

1. Spell Casting in Public Spaces:
2. Prohibited without appropriate permits
3. Mandatory safety zone maintenance
4. Immediate cessation if causing public disturbance
5. Fines for unauthorized or reckless spell casting
6. Magical Weapon and Artifact Regulations:
7. All magical weapons must be registered
8. Prohibited magical artifacts listed in official registry
9. Strict controls on possession of dangerous magical items

Chapter 2: Prohibited Magical Practices

1. Absolutely Forbidden Magical Acts:
2. Necromancy
3. Mind control
4. Summoning of extra-planar entities
5. Permanent transfiguration without consent
6. Blood magic
7. Ritual magic involving unwilling participants
8. Restricted Magical Practices:
9. Divination with potential for privacy violations
10. Transmutation of sentient beings
11. Memory manipulation
12. Dimensional manipulation

Title III: Magical Education and Training

Chapter 1: Magical Education Standards

1. Mandatory Magical Education:
2. Compulsory magical ethics courses
3. Public safety training
4. Responsible spell casting curriculum
5. Magical Institution Oversight:
6. All magical schools must be licensed
7. Curriculum approved by Arcane Regulatory Commission
8. Regular inspections and performance reviews

Chapter 2: Apprenticeship and Training

1. Apprenticeship Regulations:
2. Mandatory mentor registration
3. Age restrictions for magical apprenticeships
4. Comprehensive training documentation
5. Periodic skill assessments

Title IV: Magical Commerce and Economic Regulations

Chapter 1: Magical Business Practices

1. Magical Service Providers:
2. Required business licensing
3. Transparent pricing
4. Mandatory risk disclosure
5. Performance bonds for complex magical services
6. Magical Component Trading:
7. Regulated marketplace
8. Tracking of rare and potentially dangerous magical components
9. Restrictions on sale to unlicensed practitioners

Title V: Magical Crime and Enforcement

Chapter 1: Magical Criminal Offenses

1. Classification of Magical Crimes:
2. Tier 1: Minor magical infractions
3. Tier 2: Significant magical violations
4. Tier 3: Severe magical crimes
5. Tier 4: Catastrophic magical offenses
6. Magical Crime Enforcement:
7. Specialized Magical Intervention Teams
8. Arcane Forensics Division
9. Magical Suppression Protocols

Chapter 2: Penalties and Rehabilitation

1. Sentencing Guidelines:
2. Magical ability restriction
3. Mandatory rehabilitation
4. Magical skill redirection programs
5. Potential permanent magical suppression for severe offenses
6. Rehabilitation Programs:
7. Counseling
8. Skill redirection
9. Ethical magical practice training

Title VI: Magical Research and Innovation

Chapter 1: Research Protocols

1. Research Licensing:
2. Mandatory institutional review
3. Ethical research guidelines
4. Public safety considerations
5. Experimental Magic Regulations:
6. Designated magical research zones
7. Strict containment protocols
8. External oversight committees

Title VII: Magical Defense and City Protection

Chapter 1: Magical Defense Strategies

1. City Magical Wards:
2. Permanent protective enchantments
3. Regular maintenance and reinforcement
4. Emergency magical defense protocols
5. Magical Threat Response:
6. Rapid intervention teams
7. Collaborative defense mechanisms
8. Interdepartmental magical threat assessment

Title VIII: Capital Magical Offenses

Chapter 1: Definitions of Capital Magical Crimes

Capital punishment shall be reserved for the most egregious magical violations that fundamentally threaten the existence of Neverwinter, its citizens, or the fabric of reality itself.

Chapter 2: Specific Capital Offenses

Section 1: Existential Magical Threats

1. Dimensional Breach Attempts
2. Intentional opening of permanent portals to hostile extra-planar realms
3. Summoning of entities capable of city-wide or reality-wide destruction
4. Deliberate attempts to merge dimensional planes
5. Apocalyptic Magical Warfare
6. Deployment of world-ending magical weapons
7. Intentional magical rituals designed to cause mass extinction
8. Magical experiments that risk complete magical or physical annihilation

Section 2: Malevolent Magical Violations

1. Mass Magical Possession
2. Deliberate, large-scale mind control of city populations
3. Magical manipulation intended to overthrow city governance
4. Systematic magical enslavement of sentient beings
5. Necromantic Atrocities
6. Creation of city-wide undead armies
7. Massive necromantic rituals involving unwilling sacrifices
8. Deliberate corruption of life force on a systemic scale

Section 3: Magical Genocide

1. Targeted Magical Extinction
2. Magical attacks designed to eliminate entire races or species
3. Magical curses intended to cause complete genetic destruction
4. Deliberate magical sterilization of populations

Chapter 3: Capital Punishment Procedures

Section 1: Judicial Review

1. Capital magical offense trials require:
2. Full panel of nine magistrates
3. Mandatory presence of at least three Magical Arbiters
4. Unanimous decision for execution
5. Comprehensive magical and forensic evidence

Section 2: Execution Methods

1. Magical Capital Punishment Options:
2. Complete magical suppression
3. Dimensional banishment
4. Magical soul-binding
5. Arcane disintegration
6. Permanent magical stasis

Chapter 4: Mitigating Circumstances

Section 1: Potential Reprieve Conditions

1. Mitigating Factors:
2. Proven mental manipulation
3. Demonstrable lack of full magical control
4. Evidence of external magical compulsion
5. Immediate voluntary cessation of destructive magical act
6. Alternative Sentencing:
7. Magical lobotomy
8. Permanent magical imprisonment
9. Total magical ability suppression
10. Forced magical rehabilitation in maximum security magical facilities

Chapter 5: Preventative Measures

Section 1: Magical Threat Identification

1. Mandatory Magical Threat Assessment:
2. Annual magical potential screening
3. Psychological evaluation of high-tier magic users
4. Comprehensive magical background checks

Section 2: Preventative Intervention

1. Magical Intervention Protocols:
2. Mandatory reporting of potentially catastrophic magical capabilities
3. Proactive magical counseling for high-risk individuals
4. Systematic monitoring of individuals with apocalyptic magical potential

Title IX: Individual Magical Harm Offenses

Chapter 1: Magical Personal Violation Categories

Section 1: Invasive Magical Violations

1. Involuntary Magical Transformation
2. Permanent physical transformation without consent
3. Partial or complete bodily transmutation
4. Racial or species-forced transformation Punishments:
5. First Offense: 20-30 years imprisonment
6. Repeat Offense: Life imprisonment with magical suppression
7. Severe Cases: Potential capital punishment
8. Magical Mind Manipulation
9. Forced memory alteration
10. Psychological magical manipulation
11. Consciousness invasion Punishments:
12. Minor Manipulation: 15-25 years imprisonment
13. Severe Psychological Damage: Life imprisonment
14. Permanent Psychological Destruction: Capital punishment

Section 2: Magical Bodily Violation

1. Magical Possession Crimes
2. Forcible magical body possession
3. Extended consciousness hijacking
4. Removal or replacement of personal agency Punishments:
5. Temporary Possession: 10-20 years imprisonment
6. Extended or Repeated Possession: Life imprisonment
7. Permanent Personality Destruction: Capital punishment
8. Magical Biological Manipulation
9. Forced magical genetic modification
10. Reproductive magical interference
11. Magical sterilization or forced reproduction Punishments:
12. Genetic Tampering: 25-35 years imprisonment
13. Reproductive Violation: Life imprisonment
14. Complete Biological Destruction: Capital punishment

Chapter 2: Magical Consent and Personal Autonomy

Section 1: Consent Violations

1. Magical Consent Definitions
2. Explicit magical consent required for all personal magical interactions
3. Magical coercion considered a severe violation
4. Consent must be informed, voluntary, and revocable
5. Consent Violation Penalties
6. Minor Magical Consent Violation: 5-10 years imprisonment
7. Significant Magical Consent Violation: 15-25 years imprisonment
8. Repeated Consent Violations: Life imprisonment

Chapter 3: Magical Sexual Violations

Section 1: Magical Sexual Crimes

1. Magical Sexual Assault
2. Magical manipulation of sexual consent
3. Magical enhancement or alteration of sexual experience
4. Forced magical arousal or sexual transformation Punishments:
5. First Degree Magical Sexual Assault: 30-40 years imprisonment
6. Aggravated Magical Sexual Assault: Life imprisonment
7. Severe Psychological Trauma: Potential capital punishment
8. Magical Reproductive Violations
9. Forced magical pregnancy
10. Magical fertility manipulation
11. Unauthorized magical reproductive interference Punishments:
12. Reproductive Magical Violation: 25-35 years imprisonment
13. Repeated Violations: Life imprisonment

Chapter 4: Rehabilitation and Magical Suppression

Section 1: Magical Rehabilitation Protocols

1. Mandatory Treatment
2. Psychological magical rehabilitation
3. Ethical magical practice training
4. Comprehensive consent and autonomy education
5. Magical Ability Restrictions
6. Temporary magical ability limitation
7. Permanent magical ability suppression
8. Mandatory magical monitoring

Chapter 5: Victim Protection and Support

Section 1: Victim Support Systems

1. Magical Trauma Recovery
2. Specialized magical trauma counseling
3. Magical healing and restoration services
4. Comprehensive psychological support
5. Legal and Magical Restitution
6. Magical damage reversal
7. Comprehensive healing protocols
8. Financial and magical compensation