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📑 OFFICIAL DOCUMENT: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE DAWN
If you decide to write this story, the universe is governed by the following fundamental laws, promulgated by the Conquered and enforced by the generations that follow:
I. ON THE SECULAR STATE AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
- Secularization of the State: The Iron Throne is officially secular, detached from any primary or official religion. The Crown does not bow its head to gods or high priests.
- Freedom of Worship: Every citizen of Westeros has the right to choose, practice, and live under their own religion freely. Respect is guaranteed for the Valyrian rituals of the 14 Flames, the worship of the Old Gods in the North, and the Faith of the Seven in the South.
- Anti-Persecution Laws: Any form of religious persecution is strictly forbidden. The vandalism of temples (such as the burning of septs or the cutting/desecration of heart trees and weirwoods) and hate speech delivered from holy pulpits are classified as crimes of lese-majesty.
- Shared Security Force (The Grey Coats): The Grey Guard is instituted as a militarized and neutral police force answerable solely to the Crown. Its members are specifically trained to contain religious riots, defuse sectarian tensions, protect places of worship, and guarantee social peace in the streets.
- Universal Taxation and Revocation of Exemptions: Any tax exemption of a religious or intellectual nature is revoked. All locations, leaders, and institutions — including the Faith of the Seven, the High Septon, and the Citadel of the Maesters in Oldtown —, as well as all smallfolk, nobles, and believers, must pay taxes on a strictly equal basis to the Iron Throne.
II. ON THE PENAL CODE AND LEGAL EQUALITY
- The Book of Punishments: All infractions and sentences are pre-codified in an official compendium of the Crown. The arbitrary "justice of the lord" in regional seats is completely eliminated. Prison sentences, fines, and physical punishments are exact, predictable, and unalterable.
- Absolute Equality under the Law: The law applies identically to all individuals, regardless of gender, birth, or social standing. The code encompasses everyone from the humblest smallfolk and small peasants to lords, ladies, and heirs of the Great Houses.
- On the Barbaric Crime of Abuse:
# Protection and Reporting: Upon a report (by the victim or witnesses), the victim is immediately taken in and placed under the full physical protection of the Crown to prevent any retaliation or familial coercion.
# Humanized Preventive Detention: The accused is placed in strict preventive detention, yet without suffering physical aggression or prior torture, while a rigorous investigation is conducted.
# Technical Probatory Instruction: The investigation relies on the testimony of both parties, the hearing of witnesses, and the production of physical evidence through a rustic forensic examination, conducted exclusively by maesters or medical experts of the Crown.
#Punishment for Consummated Abuse: The standard penalty involves the mutilation of the offending member, a heavy fine (fully reverted to the victim's livelihood), and imprisonment for a determined time. If the victim is under 16, the prison sentence suffers a drastic and relentless percentage increase.
#Attempted Abuse: If the crime is not consummated, fines, imprisonment, and a minor aesthetic mutilation are applied. The exact nature of this mutilation is left entirely to the victim's choice; if the victim is under 16, the choice of the mutilation falls to their parents or legal guardians.
#False Accusations: If the forensic investigation proves that the report was demonstrably false, the alleged "victim" (or the political mastermind behind them) will receive the exact same severe punishment (including mutilation and prison) they attempted to inflict upon the innocent. The exonerated accused will be immediately released, will receive a public apology from the Crown, and a financial compensation equivalent to 3 months of total tax exemption.
- On Theft by Necessity vs. Greed: Theft is rigorously evaluated by context. Those who steal out of hunger (such as a loaf of bread or a small animal for survival) receive a lenient punishment and are directed to the Crown's social assistance programs for poverty verification and economic aid. Conversely, theft out of greed (such as embezzlement of public taxes, corruption, or commercial fraud) is severely punished with punitive fines, permanent tax hikes on the criminal's lands, and years of forced confinement.
- Restriction of the Death Penalty: Capital punishment ceases to be a common spectacle and is strictly reserved for cases of extreme gravity that threaten the sovereignty of the realm, such as military high treason.
III. ON THE PRODUCTIVE PRISON SYSTEM AND REHABILITATION
- Closed Prison Complexes: Inmates serve their sentences fully locked inside complexes managed by the Crown, without the right to early release for good behavior or noble pardons. They perform forced labor for the benefit of the realm in the construction of infrastructure (roads, ports, canals) and the industrial production of goods.
- Internal Division by Severity:
#Maximum Security Wing: Destined for abusers, murderers, and traitors. The regimen consists of continuous forced labor and the minimum rest necessary for biological health, conducted with absolute firmness and without the use of gratuitous cruelty or torture.
#Rehabilitation Wing: Destined for crimes of lesser offensive potential (such as theft by greed, minor fraud, or common assault). In addition to the mandatory work to reimburse the realm, inmates receive formal education and are required to learn a new technical trade (blacksmithing, carpentry, advanced masonry) so they possess a useful profession upon serving their time.
IV. ON SOCIAL DIRECTION, LABOR, AND UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
- Gender Equality in Public Service: The realm guarantees identical opportunities and rights for men and women in any job, post, or enterprise managed directly by the Crown (within the ranks of the Grey Guard, the Royal Army, prison administration, or palace bureaucratic services). Hiring and promotions are based strictly on technical skill, competence, and merit, completely ignoring gender or noble birth.
- Private Sector Autonomy: In shops, guilds, taverns, and strictly private enterprises, owners retain the freedom to choose their team's profile, being allowed to hire only men, only women, or both, as suits their mercantile convenience.
- Regulation of Youth Labor:
#Minimum Age: The minimum age for real, full-time labor is rigidly fixed at 16.
#Apprenticeship Window (Ages 14 and 15): Youths in this age bracket may only perform simple tasks for reduced periods, focusing exclusively on the safe, practical learning of a technical trade.
- Mandatory Basic Education: All youth in Westeros must attend formal schooling to learn to read, write, and calculate, as well as deeply study the Laws of the Realm and the History of the continent (with a strong emphasis on the post-Conquest unification period).
#Crown Schools: Public, secular, and entirely free institutions maintained by the Iron Throne to guarantee mass schooling for smallfolk, peasants, and serfs.
# Private Schools: Institutions tailored to the wealthy classes, elite merchants, and nobles, which are legally required to follow the core curriculum mandated and severely inspected by the Crown's inspectors.
V. ON THE REVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT
- Nonexistence of the Master of Whisperers: The public, political, and official post of Master of Whisperers in the Small Council is not even created, in order to prevent the centralization and individual manipulation of secrets by ambitious councilors.
- Secret Network of the Royal Triad: A hidden state intelligence agency is instituted, answering strictly and exclusively to the King, the Queen, and the Crown Prince or Princess of the direct lineage.
- Layered Espionage Cells: The network operates in a decentralized manner through "primary servants" loyal to the Crown, who in turn bribe and recruit sub-networks of servants, cooks, stableboys, and local maids across the continent. Base informants pass along collected data without ever knowing who they truly work for and without ever suspecting the direct involvement of the royal family.
- The Mechanism of the Anonymous Report: This hidden network primarily serves to ensure that crimes buried by powerful lords in the provinces (such as hidden abuse in castles, masked slavery in mines, or clandestine child marriages) reach the ears of the Throne. Upon detecting an infraction, the Crown orchestrates a perfectly crafted "anonymous report" and directs it to the regional Grey Guard, which initiates an official, strictly legal forensic investigation, preserving the secret of royal omniscience.
VI. ON MARRIAGE LAWS AND CHILD PROTECTION
- Minimum Marriage Age of 16: The performance or consummation of marriages where either party is under the age of 16 is strictly forbidden, regardless of gender or nobility status.
- Validity of Betrothals and Pacts: Infant betrothals and political cradle pacts between great noble houses remain permitted as diplomatic tools, provided that formal marriage and carnal union do not occur before both betrothed reach the legal age of 16.
- Punishment for Violators: If a clandestine marriage or coitus is carried out before the legal age:
#Parents/Guardians: The parents or legal guardians who orchestrated, permitted, or tolerated the illegal union will suffer the empire's harshest punishments, including confiscatory fines, total loss of political power, or permanent exile to the Free Cities or the Wall.
#The Of-Age Spouse (18+): If the spouse who married the minor is 18 or older, they will be severely punished under the terms of the barbaric crime of abuse and coercion, immediately losing all their titles, lands, and inheritance rights.
#The Young Spouse (16 or 17): If the spouse is 16 or 17, the law recognizes the proximity of maturity and likely family pressure, refraining from applying severe punishments to them and concentrating guilt exclusively on the parents who forced the situation.
#The Minor Victim: The victim under 16 suffers no punishment or stigma; they are immediately taken in by the Crown and kept under the strict legal and psychological custody and protection of the State until reaching adulthood.
VII. ON THE GENERAL LAW OF SUCCESSION, AFFECTIVE ORIENTATION, AND THE CROWN CLINICS
- Universality of the Law of the Seven Kingdoms: All directives regarding absolute primogeniture, legal protection for same-sex relationships, and the use of advanced reproductive methods from the Crown Clinics are part of the General Law of the Seven Kingdoms. These rules and rights are extended and permitted to all other Houses of Lords and Ladies, as well as to all smallfolk of the continent who wish to adopt them, though their application follows specific criteria of mandatory compliance and private autonomy.
- Absolute and Linear Primogeniture: The succession of any title, land, or the Iron Throne itself is strictly linear and based solely on birth order. The firstborn son or daughter of the ruler (or citizen) is the rightful heir by their own right, regardless of gender. The firstborn child of the firstborn child continues the line of succession uninterruptedly.
- Succession of Secondary Branches: If the primary heir dies without leaving direct descendants, the inheritance automatically passes to the immediate younger sibling and follows the exact same absolute linear model.
- Targaryen Internal Tradition Marriages: House Targaryen maintains internal incestuous marriage as its dynastic rule and lineage preference for the preservation of its mystical Valyrian heritage. However, marriages outside the family are not made lightly: they occur via rigorous medical and expert verification only when genetically proven that, if they fail to do so, the royal lineage will begin to suffer the typical physical and mental ailments of severe consanguinity accumulation.
- Statute of Freedom of Affective Orientation:
#Inviolable Mandate for House Targaryen: Within the Targaryen royal family, relationships between people of the same sex are fully accepted, legalized, and welcomed with honors. It is strictly forbidden to compel or force any individual of House Targaryen to marry someone of the opposite sex for political, dynastic, or hereditary reasons if their inclination is exclusively homosexual. The royal heir or member of the dynasty has the absolute right to choose and formally marry a same-sex consort, maintaining their position in the line of succession.
#Autonomy for the Rest of Westeros: For the remaining Houses of Lords, Ladies, and for the smallfolk, the active acceptance of same-sex unions in their own lineages is a prerogative of choice. The rest of the realm is required only to respect national laws against violence, but retains its internal autonomy regarding private customs and traditional dynastic arrangements if they prefer the old heteronormative model.
- The Crown Clinics: The Crown Clinics are hereby instituted—highly advanced state medical centers operating with the aid of refined Valyrian blood magic and exclusive biological knowledge. These institutions are the sole entities authorized and responsible for processing, inspecting, and performing the entire procedure of Magically Assisted Rudimentary Fertilization, completely eliminating the need for unwanted carnal coitus for noble or smallfolk couples.
- Reproductive Method Assisted by Magic:
#For couples of two women (Targaryen, Lords/Ladies, or volunteer Smallfolk): The heir or female citizen will bear the descendant of her own blood through rudimentary magical fertilization utilizing the biological material of a cousin from her lineage, giving strict preference to the blood brother of her own wife, ensuring a double familial bond. Subsequent children may be borne by either woman using members of their respective families to maintain a balanced consanguineous purity.
#For couples of two men (Targaryen, Lords/Ladies, or volunteer Smallfolk): The heir or citizen will perpetuate his lineage by fertilizing his biological material, via the clinics' magical methods, into the blood sister of his own husband, or into another woman with equivalent genetic kinship, ensuring the birth of a legitimate descendant carrying the blood of both connected lineages.
#Costs and Accessibility by Income Bracket: Access to the Crown Clinics is guaranteed by the State to all citizens of Westeros who wish or need to utilize the system:
*Members of noble families (Houses of Lords and Ladies) and high-income smallfolk (wealthy merchants) will pay full and robust fees that entirely finance the system's maintenance.
*For common smallfolk and peasants, the use of the assisted method is fully permitted, paying for the process through a progressive scale: the amount charged will be calculated strictly in accordance with the couple's verified income, ensuring that even the most humble have access to reproductive rights without facing financial ruin.
- Surname Rules and Alternation of Feudal Inheritance: To prevent the Iron Throne from annexing regional identities and tyrannically concentrating lands through exogamous royal dynastic marriages (or alliances between great houses), the following mandatory alternation applies among the couple's children:
#1st Child: Surname Targaryen — Exclusive heir to the Iron Throne.
#2nd Child: Surname of the Noble House of the other parent — Exclusive heir to this regional house (e.g., Stark, Lannister, Arryn), being entirely and legally removed from the line of succession for the Iron Throne.
#3rd Child: Surname Targaryen — Second in the royal line of succession for King's Landing. Should the second child (the regional one) die without leaving descendants, this third child assumes the province, mandatorily abdicating the royal throne, the Targaryen name, and assuming the surname of the respective regional house.
#4th Child: Surname of the Noble House of the other parent — Second in the regional line of succession for that province.
#Subsequent Children: Continue following this exact logic of name and inheritance alternation. If the Targaryen's marriage was with a common citizen without titles, all children of the union will receive the Targaryen surname, serving the Crown in the high technical administration of the realm.
Unified Upbringing of Children: All siblings, regardless of their future surnames, titles, or separate inheritances, must be raised and educated together by their parents under the same roof, deeply learning the laws, history, customs, and culture of both family lineages.
VIII. ON THE RIGHT OF RIDING AND THE CONTROL OF DRAGONS
- The Unconditional Right of the Direct Lineage: All individuals who possess the Targaryen surname, maintaining the name, official blood, and loyalty to the central dynasty, possess the biological, mystical, and perpetual right to hatch eggs, tame, and ride dragons.
- Cyclic Biological Monopoly for External Branches: For family branches that exit the direct royal lineage and assume the name of regional houses by right of inheritance (as in the case of the 2nd child mentioned in Article VII), a rigid genetic restriction cycle based on three generations is instituted:
# 1st Generation (The Targaryen by Birth): The child who changes their name to inherit a regional house (e.g., becoming a Stark) retains their lifelong right to their dragon by birthright.
# 2nd Generation (The Lord's Children): Being direct children of a Targaryen by birth, they still retain sufficient Valyrian blood concentration in their bodies and maintain the right to hatch eggs and have their own dragons in that geographical region.
# 3rd Generation (The Grandchildren): Due to the inevitable dilution of Valyrian blood with the local regional lineage over the years, the grandchildren of this original lord completely lose the mystical capacity to hatch or tame new dragons, absolutely ceasing the birth or maintenance of new winged beasts in that province.
# The Optional Renewal of Blood: The new diplomatic matrimonial pact, marrying a regional heir of this third generation back to a legitimate member bearing the Targaryen surname directly from King's Landing, is not mandatory. It functions as a purely voluntary act: regional houses perform this return marriage only if they wish. If they do so, the Valyrian blood is mystically renewed in the regional lineage, and they regain full rights to dragons, restarting the three-generation cycle exactly from the beginning.
- Prohibition of Military Use of Dragons in Private Disputes: All lords, heirs, or members of regional houses who possess dragons are strictly forbidden from utilizing them in any armed conflicts, territorial quarrels, debt collections, or private disputes without the express, stamped, and written authorization of the reigning King or Queen on the Iron Throne.
- Punishments for Misuse: The dragon is defined by law as a sovereign and strategic property of the State.
# If the dragon is used illegally for purposes of political or territorial intimidation (without the occurrence of deaths), the beast is immediately confiscated by the Crown through royal riders and transferred back to the Dragonpit in King's Landing, permanently revoking the riding rights of that offending family branch.
# If the dragon is used in private combat causing property damage, fires, or the deaths of citizens, the act is automatically classified as the barbaric crime of high treason. The rider (provided they are over 18) will be summarily sentenced to death by execution or decapitation, and their Regional House will suffer direct legal intervention from the Crown and massive financial sanctions that can ruin their estate.
IX. ON THE BICAMERAL STRUCTURE OF THE ROYAL COUNCILS
For the perfect balance of decisions and decrees of the Iron Throne, the monarch shall obligatorily rule with the aid and oversight of two distinct, independent chambers with well-defined attributions:
- 1st Council: The Technical and Social Executive Council: Focused strictly on competence, merit, science, and the direct management of the realm's public services. Its seats are lifelong or based on technical performance, composed of:The Superior Commander of the Grey Guard (Grey Coats).The Marshal of the Royal Army.The Director-General of the Productive Prison Complex.The Minister of Universal Education.The Grand Maester of Public Health and Sanitation.A Representative of the People: A fixed and highly relevant seat intended exclusively for smallfolk, artisans, and small merchants elected by their guilds, serving as a direct channel without intermediaries for the social demands of the poorer population before the Crown
- 2nd Council: The Council of the Seven Kingdoms: Focused on high diplomacy, macroeconomic balance, global tax collection, and the political stability of the feudal system. This council is composed strictly of the Lords Paramount and leaders of the wealthiest and most powerful houses of the continent (the regional rulers). It serves as the official space to debate major commercial treaties with Essos, stipulate export taxes, and plan large infrastructure works that connect multiple provinces.