Rule of the world

Academy, treaty & human-world rules

  • 6.665 Wintermoon Academy exists specifically to teach “diversity and inclusion among the packs, prides, clans, and covens”; there had never been a supernatural academy before. Redeeming Nia Ch 1; Chasing Nicole Ch 1
  • 6.666 Concentrating young shifters together triggers mating instincts earlier than usual (6.94). Chasing Nicole Ch 1
  • 6.667 Children start around age 3–4, come home twice a month plus seasonal breaks, and PARENTS ARE BANNED FROM SHOWING UP UNANNOUNCED. Redeeming Nia Ch 1, Ch 6; Saving Jacob; Crowning Anora
  • 6.668 Wings are organised by species (Lion Shifter Wing, Wolf Shifter Wing, Witches and Warlocks Wing), “but at this academy, nothing stays in its lane.” Choosing Aaron; Guarding Kendra
  • 6.669 Curriculum: magic, history, self-defense, supernatural law, plus a Montessori programme for the youngest and adaptive technology built by the Medina Shadow Coven; students wear navy cloaks with silver crests. Saving Jacob; Guarding Kendra; Loving Amari
  • 6.670 Faculty rules: no resumes; teaching posts require formal on-campus training (Ebony required a full year’s attendance before consideration); faculty must report student absences to the headmistress; faculty live in suites in the faculty wing, and couples’ suites exist. Choosing Aaron
  • 6.671 Students live in dorms, usually shared, leave campus on weekends for their pride or pack, and counselling can be made a condition of enrollment. Choosing Aaron
  • 6.672 Office staff are “mostly human mates of shifters, working part-time.” Choosing Aaron
  • 6.673 Orphaned shifters keep arriving each year — “The radical issue hasn’t stopped since I was a boy.” Choosing Aaron
  • 6.674 The Academy library is “the largest collection of supernatural texts outside the Witching Glen.” WIP — Claiming Aya, not yet published Claiming Aya
  • 6.675 PRIDEBOUND is the Academy’s pride sport, developed specifically for lion shifters: “capture-the-flag, rugby, and aerial combat,” teams of five competing to capture the Sunstone — a glowing orb whose energy “grows stronger the longer a player holds it, making them an easier target” — and return it to their den; first team to three den captures wins. Positions: striker, wing defender, defenders. Terrain: fine sand for agility, gravel for endurance, a springy grass speed track, raised den zones (the central den worth double), plus jagged cliffs, open plains and dense woods. Named plays: the Solaris Spiral, the Crescent Moon defense, the Riverbed Feint, the Shadow Step, Zohar’s Sunburst. Played in all weather. Freeing Nala Ch 2; Choosing Aaron Treaty and human-world law
  • 6.676 HUMAN/SUPERNATURAL TREATY: supernaturals hold the Upper Peninsula and surrounding islands; Mackinac Island is the only human space; human law does not reach Wintermoon — “You’re trespassing in Wintermoon; your laws don’t apply here” — and bodies are delivered back to the human police. Taming Kane
  • 6.677 A one-day tourist ticket costs $5,000, and a weekly Wintermoon lottery gives two winners an all-expenses-paid trip with tickets at $5 each, numbers announced Sundays; cruise tickets run $7k–$10k per person. Rates are deliberately high: “We keep our rates high to limit the radical activity.” Taming Kane; Snatching Jackie Ch 24; Taking Amaya
  • 6.678 THE NO DISCRIMINATION CLAUSE prevents the sheriff from banning radicals as a class, though individuals may be banned; the treaty also permits radicals onto the tourist island on condition “that they would behave themselves.” Taming Kane; Chasing Nicole Ch 17
  • 6.679 The tourist island is neutral/community territory: “you can’t kill a human on the Tourist Island. It’s technically not trespassing; he has a right to be here and say whatever he wants” — with the argued loophole that “once they assaulted you, they turned the tourist island into a battlefield.” Chasing Ebony Ch 22; Chasing Nicole Ch 17
  • 6.680 UNFATED HUMANS MAY NOT ENTER WINTERMOON AT ALL — only the tourist island. Forgiving Levi Ch 36, Ch 43; Stalking Lauren Ch 9
  • 6.681 FATED HUMANS may enter voluntarily, are verified by security at the border, and are housed on the Community Lands to wait. Forgiving Levi Ch 18; Craving Carla
  • 6.682 Recruitment of fated humans must now be consensual: “You know we can’t be pushy anymore. It has to be a choice.” Snatching Jackie Ch 4; Forgiving Levi Ch 3
  • 6.683 WHEN A SUPERNATURAL FINDS THEIR FATED MATE “you get dragged off to Wintermoon, whether you like it or not, and no law enforcement will intervene” — government officials worldwide signed a treaty never to break the claiming law. Taming Kane Ch 1
  • 6.684 THE REPATRIATION CLAUSE: a fated human “has legal rights to contest living in Wintermoon… a choice to go back to her normal life” — VOID once the claiming process is complete. Chasing Ebony Ch 22
  • 6.685 Once in Wintermoon a fated human effectively cannot leave; leaving means exposure to radicals and pursuit by her mate, and the bond itself resists it. Chasing Ebony Ch 2, Ch 9; Taking Amaya; Snatching Jackie Ch 9
  • 6.686 A fated human is fated to Wintermoon as a whole, not just the man: “You are fated not just to Tristian but to Wintermoon as a whole.” Chasing Ebony Ch 10
  • 6.687 HUMAN MATES BECOME “DAUGHTERS OF WINTERMOON” and are automatically wealthy: “You belong to the richest land in the world. Therefore, you are now rich.” An alpha’s mate has “a limitless tab in Wintermoon”; large purchases go on the royal tab. Snatching Jackie Ch 9; Chasing Ebony Ch 10; Freeing Nala
  • 6.688 Kade schedules supervised visitations on the Tourist Island for mates who retain human family ties. Chasing Ebony Ch 15; Taking Amaya
  • 6.689 Turned or claimed humans can become legal fugitives in the human world and be barred from leaving Wintermoon. Surviving Josiah
  • 6.690 POST-REVELATION HUMAN LAW: “it’s become a federal crime to kill or harm a supernatural,” and the invalidated Supreme Court acts (fair housing, fair credit) were reinstated — but the gains collapse if supernaturals kill humans on human soil. Chasing Ebony Ch 1, Ch 8; Claiming Gabriel Ch 38
  • 6.691 “States are allowed to decide how to handle supernaturals in human spaces.” In Michigan private businesses may refuse to serve supernaturals, and a supernatural entering a barring establishment is a trespasser. Sundown towns persist. Chasing Ebony Ch 2, Ch 5, Ch 8
  • 6.692 Public-health guidance directs suspected fated humans to seek private detection and offers “Safe transport… to Wintermoon if you decide to seek refuge.” Chasing Ebony Ch 2
  • 6.693 Touching a fated human on Wintermoon is literally a crime. Chasing Nicole Ch 10, Ch 12
  • 6.694 In the near-future USA a resurgent patriarchal order has passed the COMMON LAW MARRIAGE ACT OF 2026: after five years of cohabitation a partner is legally recognized as a spouse with full medical and legal decision-making power over the other. Surviving Josiah
  • 6.695 SUPERNATURAL HISTORY HAS BEEN ERASED from human records — “You’re nothing more than a myth, folklore to them” — and humans still believe dragons are extinct; Amir’s policy is “Let’s keep it that way.” Stalking Lauren Ch 3, Ch 11; Claiming Gabriel
  • 6.696 Post-revelation policy is concealment rather than display: “it’s all about staying out of sight and under the radar.” A hidden shifter rotates cities on a fixed cycle and disguises with contacts, false teeth, no shifting and private meals. Finding Claude Ch 2
  • 6.697 SUPERNATURAL REVELATION IMPROVED THE PLANET: “Less pollution, stabilized weather, and thriving crops. We don’t even have to worry about the extinction of bees and other crucial creatures.” Claiming Gabriel Ch 6
  • 6.698 WINTERMOON’S ECONOMY: House of Zorah are “the great architects of Wintermoon”; the Market runs largely on barter with human currency accepted as a comfort measure; clan purchases go on a weekly clan tab; online orders are delivered to the Market; Wintermoon owns the lakes, bought quietly “when the economy fell,” fuels America’s economy and is “the richest place in the world.” Claiming Gabriel; Taming Kane; Snatching Jackie Ch 17; Guarding Kendra Ch 15; Craving Carla
  • 6.699 THE GREAT MIGRATION — ongoing supernatural relocation that revitalized bankrupt Detroit and Michigan; rents “have skyrocketed in Detroit because of Wintermoon.” Snatching Jackie Ch 2; Claiming Gabriel
  • 6.700 Locks are unnecessary in Wintermoon; the Market retail store has none. Resisting Damon Ch 15
  • 6.701 Community Lands rules: no construction noise after set hours; “It’s Community policy—no fucking in public.” Redeeming Nia Ch 14
  • 6.702 Human radicals target Wintermoon’s human employees as supernatural sympathizers, which is why the employee community was built. Saving Jacob; Choosing Aaron
  • 6.703 RADICAL COUNTER-MEASURES beyond scent (6.85–6.88): tracking chips undetectable to supernaturals (“I don’t feel any radiation from this device”), a tranquilizing serum, anti-cackle helmets, magic bullets made from Aya’s residual magic, and technology to mask radical scent. Taming Kane; Claiming Gabriel; Guarding Kendra Ch 28; Chasing Nicole Ch 32; Craving Carla
  • 6.704 Radicals use their own women as decoys, exploiting the taboo: “It’s rare for a human male to be paired with a female or another male shifter.” Claiming Gabriel Ch 25
  • 6.705 THE AGENCY THREAT-LEVEL SCALE (1–20): “Level 20 means impossible to kill—do not attempt, run.” Known ratings: Damon 17; Kade 19; Leah 20; King Amir 20; Angie 20. Taking down a higher-tier target promotes an assassin. Resisting Damon Ch 2, Ch 4, Ch 16, Ch 18, Ch 23; Surviving Josiah
  • 6.706 THE PROPHECY OF THE SECOND GREAT WAR: “We’re supposed to get a land of our own, find our fated mates, and live in harmony. But peace doesn’t come without war. A SECOND GREAT WAR IS COMING, one that humans won’t win. It’s prophesied that HUMANS WILL BECOME THE SERVANTS OF SUPERNATURALS.” Counterweight, in-world: “Yes, it’s a prophecy. But that doesn’t mean everything predicted will come true.” Claiming Gabriel Ch 37; Stalking Lauren Ch 7; Chasing Ebony Ch 3
  • 6.707 THE GREAT WAR — canonical account: Amir summoned the shifter clans against the Bailey witches; the dragon clans’ mountain sanctuary sheltering their women and children was burned by AYA and framed on Amir; the dragons turned on the coalition and nearly wiped out the supernatural community; Amir afterwards eliminated every responsible dragon clan, leaving only the ASH CLAN, spared on grounds of innocence. Stalking Lauren Ch 18; Saving Jacob; Finding Claude
  • 6.708 Amir’s standing position on the Ash Clan: “I do not hold the Ash Clan responsible for the betrayal during the Great War. However, I don’t fault others for their disdain against you, either. That’s something you’ll have to live with.” Stalking Lauren Ch 3
  • 6.709 THE GREAT FLOOD was the earlier cleansing, triggered by Amir’s over-creation of shifters and carried out jointly by Fate and “the human god”; Fate let Amir save only the House of Zorah. Saving Jacob Ch 36; Loving Amir; Healing Hazel
  • 6.710 WINTERMOON WAS BUILT FOR UNITY: “A sacred land we could only dream about before the Great War… We cannot be at war with one another. The humans would love nothing more than to see us tear ourselves apart.” Wintermoon predates the United States and “does not negotiate its right to exist.” Crowning Aaron Ch 7; Crowning Anora
  • 6.711 Brookstone and Blackburn Enterprises is the standing corporate front researching and weaponizing supernatural biology and magic across the whole corpus. Surviving Josiah; Craving Carla; Healing Hazel; Guarding Kendra; Chasing Ebony; Stalking Lauren; Resisting Damon; Loving Amir
  • 6.712 Technology policy, stated: Wintermoon builds adaptive tech (shift-aware interfaces, pack-lineage databases, cross-continental pack comms, territory security, VR hunt simulations, secure comms, 3D-printed prototypes) because “Radicals use technology to organize, to spread propaganda, to track supernatural movements. If you don’t understand these systems, you can’t protect yourself from them.” Loving Amari Ch 1, Ch 6 —
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