• Illumanati Charter:
We, as members of Illumanati, are dedicated to the spread of honor and our good name throughout the land of Norrath.
We are committed foremost to the well-being and support of our guild family.
We will give of ourselves when needed, for the repayment lies in the strengthening of the Illumanati as a whole.

• Illumanati Guild Laws:
Illumanati is always striving to better itself in the eyes of the people of Norrath and its own guild members.
Laws are to be obeyed by all guild members, including both ranked and standard play members.
Below are laws and processes to be followed by Illumanati.

All members of Illumanati, regular and officer, shall agree to adhere to these Laws. Failure to agree and abide by these laws will result in removal from the guild. The Illumanati takes a hard stance against breaking guild rules. We believe that our members should be able to govern themselves, and therefore do not need to be warned time and time again concerning their actions.

• Warnings will be issued once and each member has the right to the full warning process:
Members not following these Laws after agreeing to them will be warned 1 time privately (via tells). The officer who has issued this warning will make a post in the members forum on the day of the warning, notifying the guild of the incident. If the member continues to abuse the Laws, they will be removed from the guild indefinitely.
  
• Warning 1 “/tell offendingmember WARNING - I am warning you to let you know that you are breaking the rule of [insert broken law here] by doing [insert offending behaviors here]. Please stop this immediately. This has been your first and only warning.”
• Warning 2 “/tell offendingmember WARNING Please target yourself and /guildremove otherwise an officer will remove you from the guild. You may reapply to the guild via the website when you fully understand the Laws of this guild and respect them. I’m sorry it had to come to this.
A member (or former member) can be allowed back into the guild after being removed if they have proven themselves rehabilitated. If they break a law after being re-invited into the guild, they will be banished permanently.

• Every official warning are archived in officers boards, with details (who got the warning, date, why, etc). If you prove that the warning happened because of a unusual situation, then that first warning can be removed from your name. In other words, after you have a first official waning, if you dont get a second one during the next 6 months, that first warning will be removed from your name. Because everyone can make mistakes during specific situations.

Guild Speak is a great tool that we can use to communicate with each other across the lands of Norrath. It is great for when we have in guild raids also. But, it is also a tool that can be easily abused. The following things will NOT be allowed:

- Begging is not allowed at all for items, money, power leveling, assistance or any other items/spells via any communications method (/ooc /shout /auction /tell /guild ...). You are allowed to ask if anyone would like to assist you in something via /guild or via /tell, but asking numerous times or continuing to ask after someone has told you no, will classify the request as begging.
- Vulgarities or spamming. We all feel your pain when you die and you can notify us in guild speak that it has happened, but things such as "F#@K" or "F#R@Y$THU$#" or "DAMNIT!,” especially repeatedly, is very unnecessary and will be considered spamming.
- Arguments. Although we are friends and family, arguments will still occur. Please take these arguments to personal 'tells' or take the argument to an officer online at the time. The Illumanati guild as a whole does not need to know the personal problems between two of its members because most likely, it doesn't effect the guild as a whole.
- Spamming. Any phrase or 'idea' posted to guild speak, numerous times over a generally short period of time is considered spamming.
- Raid rules. Habbitually breaking raid rules will result in the offender being TLed out of the raid and will also result in warning/guildremoval of the offending member. == Please see the detailed Raid and ILS rules here ==
- Anonymous and Roleplay status. Anonymous is a forbidden status in Illumanati due to the fact that we are a family guild, we are all proud to wear our tag and we dont want any kind of difference or privileges among us, we are all at the same status. Besides, turning /gu off is really not recommended, because if it makes member miss an official mandatory event or CoI, it will result with an official warning. Roleplay status is allowed.

Participation on the Guild Forum on the internet is essential to the survival of the guild. Most of our raids and events are planned here. The day to day issues with the guild are posted here. Members need to be very active on these boards. We all have a real life outside of EQ, and accessing these boards is something that most of us can do while we are in that life. We ask all our members to read the board at least one time each day.

Assessment of Prospective Members on the forums is essential to the growth of the guild. Members are to actively read the applications to the guild, search these people out, and group with them if possible. Whether a simple conversation or a grouping situation, members are required to come back to the forums and post their experiences with this applicant under that person’s name in the appropriate division of Members’ section of the forum. If a member continually neglects to post his or her experiences with a new recruit, that member’s commitment to the guild and its policies will need to be assessed.

== Please see the detailed Raid and ILS rules here, including guild loot property ==

Membership Level Requirements will be as follows :
• Applicants to the guild must meet the requirements for his/her class as stated in the Joining Illumanati-section.
• Full memberbe can have up to two alternate characters in the guild, must be at least level 20. When an alt reaches lvl 60, he/she will be considered a main character. To be allowed in on raids the 'new mains' will have to meet the standing requirements to join the raid. The player may loot only for his primary main character acording to ILS rules.

Roster update :
Every member has to update his profile on illu site ONCE A MONTH (at least) and has to keep his flags and keys updated AS SOON AS they are obtained. On the Illumanati roster, if the "Edited" field is RED for your character, it means you didnt updated it for a whole month. Red "Edited" means you cant bid on any loot until you updated your profile.
Please be sure to have entered a valid emai lon your profile too, in order to receive the last informations about guild and rules updates.

Kill Stealing is a bannable offense from Verant Interactive. We do not support Kill Stealing of any kind. If you kill steal from someone, in our guild or not, and you are found to have done it purposefully, you will be reprimanded, and possibly guildremoved.

Ebaying or Account/Item purchasing with RL money is discouraged. These accounts are your own personal property. You cannot be told how to use your own account. Illumanati looks down upon Ebay.

If you cannot play and we do not hear from you in a period of one month, your membership status will be changed to "inactive". Once you return from an "inacive" status, you will be required to attend 3 raids or guild functions on which you cannot earn any loot before your status is returned to "active". You will however earn points on these raids. If your "inactive" status has lasted longer than 2 months, you will be asked to reapply to the guild upon your return. Please remember that we do recognize the fact that people have exams, hectic RL periods, extended vacations, army duty etc, and that if the guild is informed of your absense before you go away, this will be avoided.

Leaving Illumanati :
It is always a sad day when a member chooses to leave the ranks of our guild. If a current member is considering applying for another guild, it is a matter of respect to notify the Illumanati about this decision. It is totally understandable that our members may feel the need to move on, and there are no hard feelings in this decision, but as a matter of loyalty to our guild, please let us know of your plans. Applying for another guild while still carrying the <Illumanati> guild tag WITHOUT notifying your fellow members on the forums is frowned upon. If you choose to apply for another guild without letting the Illumanati know, please /guildremove yourself first. Also, when a member disbands their main, please also disband all alternate characters in the guild.

Dropable items guild property :
The items you won are the guild property, it means, when you get an upgrade you are expected to give back the previous item (if you dont need it anymore) to guild, in an ILS lotto or so (see an officer for that). Beeing caught selling an item you won in a raid will end up with an official Warning. A few exceptions can occur, and we ask members to talk to an officer first before doing anything.
It means if you have to leave the guild, for any reason, for a break or for good, please contact an officer in order to give him the dropable items you won during raids. These item will then be lottoed in guild again among full members.

Re Application :
If, after leaving the guild on honorable terms to move on to other challenges, a former member should wish to return to Illumanati, normal recruitment rules apply with the exception that the officers can cut the trial month short should they all agree on this. However, an ex-member will be allowed to return in guild only if the council agrees totaly on his/her re-application.
(That means that the ex members is not under the "ok to return once" rule, that means he can be refused on first time he asks to come back, or accepted, depending on the way and reasons he left Illumanati).

Last revised 2004-Nov-11