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What is a Kinship?
A kinship is a connected group of individuals. While it is common for kinships to start around mated pairs or family relations that support each other, there are many reasons to gather together in this dangerous world.
Kinships come in many flavors, so to speak. Each having it's own history, founders, ideals, and rules.
While each of these elements can change the basic structure and roles in a kinship are as follows:
Kinship Perks
A kinship is a connected group of individuals. While it is common for kinships to start around mated pairs or family relations that support each other, there are many reasons to gather together in this dangerous world.
Kinships come in many flavors, so to speak. Each having it's own history, founders, ideals, and rules.
While each of these elements can change the basic structure and roles in a kinship are as follows:
- First/Head - The head leader of the Kinship. They will often seek input from their seconds and the kinship as a whole, but their word is final say on decisions.
- Second - The second in command. Both advisor the the leader and the main delegator to the rest of the kinship to make sure things get done.
- Menders - The ones who mend, the healers of the group. There is typically at least one active and one in training mender in a Kinship. A skillful mender can mean the life or death of a kinship. So great care is taken in the teaching of mending. They are held in high regard and hold a strong position in the hierarchy.
- Defender/Protector - Title for those that protect. While combat is avoided when possible, there are times when one must be able to fight back. Be it against those that would try to take your territory or the hungry fangs of predators, one must know how to defend themselves and others.
- Hunter/Stalker - Providers of prey. For those that seek, hunt, trap, and kill other things to survive and thrive, they have those that specialize in this task.
- Cultivator/Farmer - Growers of crops. For those that enjoy the diversity or necessity of plant based food, they have those that specialize in it's production.
- Childminder - Care of the young is important to a Kinship. While most parents desire to and do rear their own offspring. They are often given this title while they are doing so and/or have a shared responsibility among the parents to help with the task. Though some kinships all offspring are watched, cared, and taught by those skilled at doing such to their standards.
- Maker - Those who craft. From the simple to complex, many items and tools are useful and/or pretty. Those skilled in things such as carving, weaving, ect fill this role.
Kinship Perks
- Roleplay & Plotting - You can have fun creating fun plots, stories, and other such IC lore for your characters.
- Kinship Icon - Have the Kinship's icon added to your pet's cert.
- Events & Games - Be a part of the occasional games, mini events, or metas that involve the Kinship.
- More Activity - Provides connections to characters and people thus promoting chances to earn activity points. Thus earning other bonuses.
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Kinship Creation Requirements
While we prefer kinship owners to get involved at least a bit when it comes to events, games, metas, ect that involve their kinship it is not a requirement. Staff can do so at their discretion.
A lack of participation for extended periods of time(4-6 months) w/o contact or explanation can result in you loosing ownership of a Kinship. We will always attempt reach you first, but if after that we are still unable to contact/resolve things the shop may swap ownership of the Kinship to another. Be this the Second or to someone that is interesting in continuing the Kinship. Or the Kinship may just be retired.
- One First(leader)
- One Second
- Five or more other members. (Pets, not unique users)
- Completed & Approved Creation Form.
- At least an idea if not a sketch/idea of the Kinship's Symbol.
While we prefer kinship owners to get involved at least a bit when it comes to events, games, metas, ect that involve their kinship it is not a requirement. Staff can do so at their discretion.
A lack of participation for extended periods of time(4-6 months) w/o contact or explanation can result in you loosing ownership of a Kinship. We will always attempt reach you first, but if after that we are still unable to contact/resolve things the shop may swap ownership of the Kinship to another. Be this the Second or to someone that is interesting in continuing the Kinship. Or the Kinship may just be retired.