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Rules and Information

OOC (Out Of Character) Rules
IC (In Character) Rules
InK Timeline
InK Lexicon
Plot Information

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Shinigami Information
Quincy Information
Soul Seer Information
Hollow Information

OOC (Out Of Character) Rules

Please show the other members of the board the same level of respect and common courtesy that you'd expect them to show you. Any flaming or abuse will be dealt with, and constant harrassment to the userbase could lead to a permanent ban.
Please label discussion threads appropriately. If they are likely to include adult or not-safe-for-work content, label it as such. The same goes for threads that include spoilers for movies, manga chapters, and so on.
For ease of understanding, please use only one of your Character Accounts to post OOC. You can include which other characters you control as a note in your sig if you wish.
Please respect the staff and their descisions, they don't get paid for this. They dedicate a significant amount of their spare time to maintaining the board for YOUR enjoyment.
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IC (In Character) Rules

Powergaming is strictly forbidden. This includes situations such as controlling the actions of other characters that are not your own, avoiding taking damage to such a degree that it becomes implausible, playing your character at a level of power above what they should be capable of, and landing attacks made on other characters.
Your character does not know everything, we like to call a character that does this a KIA (Know It All). Knowledge that can easily be obtained OOC is not so easily known IC. If you are RPing in two threads at once, please make sure your character knows what they should know in each thread, do not swap information about.
The skill system is in operation for a reason, so that clearly defined levels of power between characters are established. Do not allow your character to overstep these limits, or participate in battles that they surely cannot win, as to keep fighting when they should be dead would count as a breakage of the first rule.
Death and other irreversible injuries that are inflicted upon a character needs that character's owner's permission for it to happen. Any breakage of this rule depends on a case-by-case basis.
When posting, please try to keep some kind of posting order in mind, allow the other character(s) in the thread to post before you make another post. It is also important that, when in combat with another player, you allow the opponent to post before making another post.
The strength of your Shikai, Bankai, soul state, crezca or bow is only at the same level that you are, as such it cannot be maintained and used for hours on end (unless, of course, it's like Ichigo's Shikai, which is always active). Please try not to act as if your Shikai is as powerful as Senbonzakura or Tensa Zangetsu.
Please try to keep RPing to 3 threads at a time. There are only two situations where you can post in more than three threads at a time. The first being if the threads you're involved in, due to player inactivity or simply lack of inspiration, grinds to a halt. In this situation you can join or make another, more active thread. The other situation is if the other threads you are in are plot threads, these do not count towards your thread total.
Though there is a limit to the number of threads one can RP in, any of these can be training threads, either open or closed. A training thread is a thread where the focus of posting is to gain enough skill points to acquire a skill, as opposed to the character or plot development focus that is usually the purpose of threads. Training threads can either be focused towards the skill in mind, or further character development, just with the ulterior motive of gaining skill points. When posting in a training thread, please make only one post a day in that thread, the usual rules against god-moding (and killing faceless tides of NPCs) still apply to these threads

It should also be noted that anyone gaining a large amount of skill points in a very short time may have points deducted from their score, so as to keep things fair and even amongst players.

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The Inga no Kusari Timeline
Definitions: c. - Circa, these dates are approximate.
BCE - Before Common Era, analogous to the Christian BC
CE - Common Era, analogous to the Christian AD

c. 60,000 BCE
Soul Society (at this point without name) gets it's first residents, at this time they are scattered, living lives similar to the nomadic existances they had on Earth.

c. 10,000 BCE
The first intelligent Human Souls arrive at Soul Society, and begin to make static communities about the land.

c. 8000 BCE
The villages and towns in Soul Society begin to grow to such a degree that it becomes rather like the Rukongai today, with a greater interaction between the people, and an understanding of their new existence. The first Society war breaks out due to disagreement over forms of government, many die. In the aftermath of the war, the Central 46 are formed from the elders of the 46 regions within the Rukongai, they select souls of particular skill and name them Shinigami.

c. 6000 BCE
Hollow numbers begin to grow terrifyingly, the Shinigami start travelling to Earth in order to purify these souls and also to help unsent souls of the dead to make their way to Soul Society. The first Arrancar begin to take shape, colonising the land of Hueco Mundo, and subsequently draining it of all natural resources within the millenium.

5320 BCE
The Arrancar, now organised into La Imperio del Hueco, declare war on Soul Society. Thousands of Shinigami, Arrancar and Hollows die. The first great era of Soul Society ends with the deaths of the first Captains of the Gotei 7.

c. 5000 BCE
The last of the Arrancar are wiped out, the Masked War ends and the once great La Imperio del Hueco falls into ruin as the mindless Hollow soldiers and slaves fight amongst themselves and eventually scatter.

2001 BCE
The Gotei 7 expands to the Gotei 13 under pressure from the growing number of Shinigami, they occupy the centre of the vast city that makes up most of Soul Society. A wall is built to separate the the normal citizens of the Rukongai from those 'pure souls' that occupy the city within the walls. The Shinigami Academy is formed to better train the members of the Gotei 13 and to keep the number of Shinigami down.

c. 1500 BCE
The founding fathers of Soul Society, the Central 46, begin to die of old age, only to be reborn on Earth in new bodies. A greater understanding of existance is gained from this and the eldest and most experienced Shinigami, who once served under the great 7 Captains, take the unoccupied seats of the central 46. This results in the Seretei being governed in a much more beuraucratic way, and the needs of the Rukongai citizens not being adequately met by the 46. Unrest begins to form amongst the 320 districts.

c. 100 CE
Citizens of the Rukongai gather together and bear arms against the Seretei, the first civil war of modern Soul Society takes place, it quickly ends as the Shinigami come to enforce an iron-hard rule on the more mutinous districts, resulting in the tiered states of social quality within each region's 80 districts today.

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