Topics: fantasy worldbuilding, characters, factions, relics, creatures, locations, canon.

Tags: law, treaty, realm-network.

Inter-realm law is based on three older layers: First Light covenant, Luminous imperial charters, and post-collapse survival treaties. No layer fully cancels the others, which is why Aurelion's legal conflicts are rarely simple jurisdiction disputes.

Legal languages differ by realm. Valemere prefers written royal law, seal chains, temple witness, and public procedure. Moonmere prefers living memory, seasonal consent, witness trees, and restoration of harm. Khundravan prefers material proof, ancestor precedent, repair liability, and stress-tested objects. Sapphire prefers contract, maritime custom, debt instruments, and port quarantine. Ashen Marches prefer emergency witness, boundary songs, scar testimony, and survival proof.

Dragon law is older than all current states. A dragon clause may be stored in weather, territory, tribute, memory, or insult. A human court may call this myth; a dragon may call the human summary fraud.

Conflicts happen when one legal language tries to dominate another. A royal seal may be invalid in Moonmere if the road itself remembers harm. A dwarven bridge plate may outweigh a noble charter. A temple relic may prove mercy while failing to settle ownership. A guild writ may be legal in Brackenford and trespass in a forest.