Character Ownership Policy

Character License

1. While your characters that you create and develop during your participation in Epic Chronicles: Dark Genesis are legally owned and controlled by you, we require that you agree to the below policy in order to maintain a sense of realism and danger to your career as a Hero/Villain in the Game. Participation in Epic Chronicles constitutes acceptance of this policy in its entirety.

2. You hereby grant a non-revocable, transferrable license to the Guardian Angel (GA, Archangel) and corresponding Regional Manager (RM) of the team your character(s) is/are assigned to. This license constitutes a legal right to severely injure and/or kill your character(s) without prior consent, should the need arise during the course of a mission storyline. Such reasons for unconsented action include but are not limited to severe battle damage, explosions, overloading powers, disease, etc. Furthermore, this license constitutes a written agreement between you and Epic Chronicles, authorizing members of said organization's staff to utilize your character's name, history, and/or profile in Game-related materials. Such Game-related materials include, but are not limited to, mission summaries, transcripts, extended story "novelettes", and the likeness.

3. Under normal circumstances, the GA and/or RM will correspond to notify you that a possible course of action during a mission may bring about severe harm or death to your character. Furthermore, if you wish to severely injure/kill your character, you are expected to give your GA fair warning so such an act can be plausibly written into the current mission.

4. This license agreement is intended to legally cover realistic reactions to unthinkable actions on your character's part (e.g. attacking a more powerful mutant and expecting to survive). It is intended to protect against the development of "supercharacters" with uncontrolled/unsupervised abilities. At the same time, your assigned team's GA is implicitly bound to an agreement of realism themselves. The GAs are only given the right to severely injure and/or kill without consultation within the context of story continuity.

5. You are hereby authorized to utilize your character(s) and the background development of such in your own non-Game-managed missions, collectively OOMs, extended personal stories/websites, etc. However, if you wish for such events and material to be included in your characters' official history, said material must be reviewed by your GA. In short, you own the character, but we own the universe the character is in. This is to further ensure continuity, and to make sure that you don't suddenly try to magically transport your character off into a side-story in some remote location when the log or OOM is written in the middle of a battle, or other such unthinkable scenarios.

6. Should you disagree with this policy, you are requested to discuss your conflict with the Game Manager. If the response garnered from such person is unsatisfactory, you may revoke your membership in Epic Chronicles, and remove your characters from gameplay.

7. Epic Chronicles reserves the right to modify this license agreement at any time. Should modifications take place, you will be duly notified that such modifications exist. It is your responsibility to review the modifications and abide by them.