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Overall Rules

Raising Requirements:

The only requirements for raising people are that they shouldn't take the tests for 30 days after they're a member, for both tests, and that they must petition the Sitter of their chosen Ajah (if they exist at the time) to enter it. If the Mistress of Novices has been lax in welcoming new novices by more than a week, she does have the date the bios were sent in and uses that date to gauge the 30 day mark for the Accepted. She keeps the Accepted tests handy, with their dates on them, so that she may accurately know when an Accepted is ready for the next raising test.

Inactivity:

Inactive members of the Tower are placed on the Inactive section of the NPC list run by Toram Erin. You may be taken off and placed on frequently as IRL bugs you. Past members of the Tower are placed here as well. All characters people have created as official Tower members (i.e. Novices, Accepted, Aes Sedai, etc., who were submitted to the Mistress of Novices as characters and who are listed on the Tower's Member Lists), when placed into inactive status or upon leaving the Tower, are relegated to "restricted" status. This is to ensure that nobody can actually come in and take their characters, or have them do things that they would never do IC. "Restricted" characters can only be mentioned in RPs unless prior permission has been given to the character using them to do otherwise. "Unrestricted" characters (most NPCs) are free game. The inactivity/NPC list can be found here.

Ajah Specific Rules

In full knowledge that the above applies to the Green Ajah, if not the Tower as a whole, these are the Ajah specific tenets and ideas for full Sisters as well as aspiring Greens.

Green Ajah Sisters

It is NOT--I repeat--NOT required for aspirants or Sisters to take classes to learn battle weaves and/or physical defense (weapons included) to enter the Ajah. It would be nice to RP these things as classes, but due to the number of classes offered, simply logically stating you've taken them (at least in a basic level) for each of them would be helpful. Greens do need to know these things in character, but the learning of it will not be a requirement.

**Note on the Classes**  These weapons and self-defense classes are not to be all inclusive, if and when they are offered by Greens or any other person.  They are to help a Sister, let alone a Green, who will be in battle or constantly in the middle of strife, use both the OP and her own skills to defend herself.  The physical things are basics classes and are designed to help a Novice or Accepted learn which end of a sword is the one to avoid, or to use.  We're not going to make blademasters, here, only Sisters who might can defend themselves should they not have a Gaidin around or choose not to bond one.

Also, please see the subject of Marriage and Children.

Aspiring Accepted and Novices

Petitioning:

Formal petitioning of the Ajah can be done on the Tower's IC board, although in special cases email can be substituted, and the Accepted must stay IC at all times (unless noted with an OOC remark on something) and behave as an Accepted would. Accepted not passing the Sitter's requirements to her taste can and will be denied the petition and entry into the Ajah. It is advisable to petition just before taking the test to be raised to Aes Sedai on the off-chance your Ajah selection changes or you are (*gasp of shock and horror!*) not accepted into the Ajah for whatever reason the Sitter has.

A note from the Sitter:

As for petitioning methods....

I rake Green aspirants over the coals before they come in. I do this so you have to think about your characters and what they want. It's a real shame, if I raise you and you trample on the few things I *do* have.... because then you have no reason to squall if I take your Sisterhood from you and tell you to find another Ajah.

This has never been done, mind. But I've never had to, either, and I'm hoping it remains that way.

The petition process should make you think. You can't give me superficial answers and expect to make it through. If I ask you what you'll be bringing to the Ajah that will make it worth my while to let you in, or what you expect from the Ajah, and you say that you're standing ready for Tarmon Gai'don et al...... that doesn't work. We have an entire Ajah standing ready for the Last Battle, dear hearts. That's a given, and I wouldn't let you through the door if I didn't think you were giving all of yourself to the Ajah and that you were ready to fight Tarmon Gai'don. I want you reaching into your chars and digging out the good stuff. If I see that you're more suited to another Ajah, I'll tell you so. I force you to seriously think about your character, especially if you've not RPed with her at all during your time at the Tower. That petitioning process alone cuts out a lot of folk who don't do RPs, and saves on activity. The process itself is meant to weed out those who aren't suited to the Ajah or who basically haven't thought their characters through enough--and therefore might actually have a talent for the Blues, or Greys, or something that they've not considered due to the fact they've not explored their options.

I don't do this to be mean, folks. I really don't, no matter how bad it sounds.

Bonding:

Sisters may bond as many Gaidin as they wish upon raising, freely and without care, although it is preferred that a few weeks be waited and the deed RPed on the IC board. There is certain point, however, when bonding becomes ludicrous. Once a Sister reaches the stage of bonding/promising 5 or 6 Gaidin and wanting more, it gets ridiculous. A Sister, let alone a Green one, has no need of more than 4 Gaidin, at MOST, and that's if she is truly active in battles against Shadowspawn or in wars. Any more than that is superfluous and denotes a desire to bond as many men as possible. This is not acceptable for any Ajah and will not be tolerated, as it shows there is no common sense being implemented. Therefore there are a few little things for all of the Sisters and aspirants to take note of about bonding: namely, one Sister cannot have more than 4 Warders or promised at any one time. If Black Tower men who are not Warders are bonded, they will either not be counted as Warders (unless they're also members of the White Tower and registered as Gaidin there) or they will not be bonded. This is an issue that needs to be decided between the M'hael and the White Tower Officials, and until it is, please consider them to be part of the 4 Warder/promised rule.

There is no feasible need for more than 4 Warders in a role-playing setting. RPs start becoming one Aes Sedai and all her Gaidin, and very few others, especially if a set number of people are meant to join. This isn't a desirable outcome. Having more than 4 also begins to grate on the nerves of other people searching for a Warder and finding just about all of them already taken. Limiting the Warders to 4 gives everyone a high number while allowing that number to remain tame. We have no need of promising/bonding wars to determine who has the most Warders, and frankly having roleplays dedicated to hunting out men and women to bond is not what this Tower is for.

There is an understanding that a Sister bonds her Warders for her own reasons, but there is also a duty of the Sitter to uphold certain standards within the Ajah and make sure that all the Sisters in the Ajah do so as well. A Sister who has ten Warders and does nothing but hang out at the Tower day in and day out is not only a waste of a shawl, but also has wasted Warders that could have been better used elsewhere for what they were intended. A Gaidin's purpose is to protect his Aes Sedai to the death and to sometimes be a conspirator or helper in her duties or decisions if there are no others she feels she may speak with. An Aes Sedai who is Tower-based needs only one Warder, not ten, and may decide not to have any at all. A character who is constantly going out into battles and strife and places where there is danger and killing may need more than one Warder. No Ajah is based solely on lust and man-chasing, and anyone with that purpose in mind is really not thinking things through, nor are they interested in the true and good RPs that we have to offer. It is almost disrespectful in some ways as well.

Marriage and Children: 

Children are not looked favorably upon in this Ajah. As such, if an aspirant to the Green Ajah is pregnant or has had a child, they aren't in this Ajah. This goes for full Sisters as well. Marriage is fine (because it will more than likely be with a woman's Warder, as the trend goes), but no children.

Why?

We're violence-oriented, for starters. We FIGHT. There's a reason there aren't children in the Tower in RJ's world, and from here on out there won't be children in this Ajah, shawl or not. A child may be adopted and trained to be a Warder or Aes Sedai here-the Tower and Warders will help raise it as a community project. But no pregnancies unless the child is sent away in secret or birthed in secret. Other Ajahs may not be so strict as this, but the Greens are.