1. ⋆★ - Respect your modmins and fellow members.
  • If the staff or a member ask for a topic change, you must change it. Remember that staff word is final. Additionally, do not encourage violence or harm to real people or animals, even as a joke. Don't attempt to minimod and don't answer questions in  #questions under any circumstance, even if you think you absolutely know the right answer, there's a chance you could confuse the person and devalue the work of the staff!
  • You must maintain a mature, multicultural perspective during any conflicts of opinion. We are adults. You should give everyone the benefit of the doubt, there is zero tolerance for mob mentality or attacks on others in this community.
  • Any case of discrimination will lead to an unconditional ban.​

2. ⋆★ - Don't disturb the peace.
  •  This more or less means; do not make people uncomfortable, do not cause drama, start arguments, disobey staff, or vent in our server. There is no trigger list, if something triggers you, walk away or move to a different channel. We expect our roleplayers to be mature and to take care of themselves. If you come into the server while intoxicated, you will be muted. If you have NSFL content in your status, bio, or profile images, you may be banned (this includes anything related to self harm or suicide).

3. ⋆★ - TSL is a 16+ roleplay. If you came from Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram, you must be 18+.
  • This rule came in effect March 1st 2022, people under 16 who joined prior to this rule are not effected!
  • Swearing and graphic content are present. You and your characters may swear. Please add a spoiler for art or roleplays which contains very gory graphic imagery or writing, such as disembowelling, bone breaking, or cannibalism.
  • DO NOT CENSOR SCARS, THIS IS INHERENTLY ABLEIST. You are making people with injuries and scars feel like their appearance is disgusting and unwanted by censoring scarring and injuries.
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4. ⋆★ - Absolutely no art theft or design theft.
  • Your character must be yours. All art you use or post in this server, must either by drawn by you, or drawn for you by form of commission, request, etc. Using Picrews and bases are fine, but you must credit the base/Picrew maker by name or link!

5. ⋆★ - NSFW content is not permitted.
  • Do not make genuinely sexual jokes or comments. Do not do sexual roleplays. Do not draw sexual art.
  • Unsure what you can and can't say? Here's our banned and unbanned topic list: https://tinyurl.com/TSLBannedList This is not a trigger list, we won't be adding to it unless staff deem it absolutely necessary.

6. ⋆★ - Don't spam.
  • This means don't advertise your servers, books, or games. Don't send a bunch of photos of your cats. Don't open threads. Only ping for roleplay replies once a day. That sorta stuff! GIFs are not allowed in the server at all outside spam channel. Please do not use default Discord stickers as they are extremely spammy.

7. ⋆★ - Names must be pingable.
  • If you use fancy font in your username, you are required to have a display name that is in normal text.
1. ⋆★ - No autohitting or metagaming. 
  • There is an exception; TSL has a hierarchy-based fighting system, so chances are, if your Sentry attacks a Seer, they're going to get beat up! 
  • If you are caught metagaming (IE: being told your character could die if they do something so you bail mid-thread/event), you will be stripped of your membership.

2. ⋆★ - 50 words minimum per post. Posts must be logged with word count per character.
  • Length has nothing to do with your literacy! Quality over quantity! Remember that if you cannot meet our requirements, you will not be able to submit a character, and if you meet our requirements, but then join and roleplay in a way that doesn't meet them, your membership status will be stripped. We do not allow wolfspeak (using cranium instead of head, mesomorphic instead of body, audits instead of ears, etc).
  • If you're looking for the verification question, this is where it's located in our public guidelines!
  • TSL has the highest literacy requirements currently required in the entire animal roleplay community. We are not an easy roleplay to get into if you aren't familiar with North American literature formatting!

3. ⋆★ - No drama without consent from the admins.
  • No ridiculously dramatic deaths, no random animal attacks, etc. The Overseer most likely will know if your cat commits murder and tell the Seers! Open a ticket if you want to you want to start your own exciting personal plot for your cat!

4. ⋆★ - Roleplaying in multiple places and thread limits.
  • Fluid time is fine! ust say the roleplays occurred on different days or different times of the same day, that's all.  However, you can only have a maximum of 2 roleplays ongoing per character.
  • You can only have 10 roleplays ongoing in The Sacred Light, and 5 ongoing in Beyond.
  • A roleplay cannot take place more or less than 3 days in the future or 3 days in the past due to the spontaneous nature of events.

5. ⋆★ - THIS IS NOT A WARRIORS ROLEPLAY.
  • Do not use any Warriors terminology in this server, you're joining an original roleplay, not a Warriors one!
  • Prior to 2019 we were a Warriors roleplay, and we actually made the transition in character so that it made sense with the timeline of the roleplay. You may still see some remnants of Warriors' influence throughout the roleplay and of course, you can read about it and the progression of the changes in the history. The only thing we share with Warriors now is the prefix-suffix naming system for Providers.
  • In March 2022, we removed apprentices, kits, and made it mandatory for all new Seers to take -light as a suffix rather than the old -star suffix, to help further move along the process.

6. ⋆★ - Roleplay response times.
  • In The Sacred Light: Extended Roleplay, you have 14 days to respond to a roleplay before your thread is closed. You cannot reopen a thread after this 14 day period! A thread cannot be ongoing for more than two months as it'll get lost in canon time and end up invalid.

7. ⋆★ - This roleplay is based in Canada physically and digitally.
  • You must use Canadian measurements (Metric) on your character applications.
  • You must use Canadian literature standards, this means dialogue must start with a quotation ("), not an apostrophe ('), and not low quotation marks („). Italics are generally banned outside of italicizing thoughts.
1. ⋆★ - Nothing too unrealistic.
  • Every species has a different variation of this guideline specifically for them, however, some things are fundamentally the same. You can't use unrealistic or over-saturated colours, the markings should look like the species of your character, no hair or manes, no excessive scarring, they can't start with any items, etc.

2. ⋆★ - Making young characters (sprouts, saplings, leverets, students, kits, and pups).
  • If you don't use your sprout, sapling, kit, leveret, student, or pup within a month of making them, they are deleted. Young-aged ranks like this are the most sought out ranks in our entire community, and it is extremely unfair to take these ranks and then become inactive when there are people who want those ranks and will be active. Please choose a provider or adult rank if you are not prepared to dedicate a lot of time to a younger rank. Keep in mind that sprouts, leverets, kits, and pups have one activity check a month, and saplings and leverets have an activity check every other month.

3. ⋆★ - Ref sheets must be legible.
  • Ref sheets cannot be shaded or lineless. It should show a side view of the body so that we can see all the markings. Do not STYLISE your reference sheet excessively as this makes it impossible to tell what your character actually looks like (IE drawing them with overgrown fangs, or hair, even though these are not allowed).

4. ⋆★ - There is very little murder and death.
  • You cannot say your character's family died in a fire when there has never been a fire in the Estuary. You cannot say a fox murdered your cat's mother because the foxes would never do that. You cannot say your character murdered someone, because the Prophets would know. This is a unique roleplay with advanced world building, you cannot alter our history when you write your character's history, so pay attention to the history of each species or group when you're writing your character, and if you're unsure, just ask!

5. ⋆★ - UNIQUE SPECIES RULES
Once you've picked what species you want to roleplay, read up on their unique creation guidelines!
6. ⋆★ - Making an NPC
  • We have a lot of rules about making NPCs or moving your characters to NPC status! You can skip over this rule if you don't intend on making NPCs, and if you do later, just come back here and Read This Doc!