#admin.sassy

Hello everyone!

After talking about it, the admins have decided that we’re going to do rolling applications instead of set review and acceptance dates. The metric we’re going to be using for this is approximately 48 hours (with some leeway that acknowledges that we’re humans with lives). This means that applications can expect to be reviewed and processed for acceptance or not usually 48 hours after they are accepted. This is to give us time to review the application and give other people a chance to apply for the same role, while also keeping us moving along at a good pace.

       (In other words, we’re all a bit impatient to play with new amazing people!)

In the case of the Ingenue, for whom we already have one application, this means we will be evaluating all applications for the role this Saturday, March 27th, in the evening. Anyone interested in the role should get their application in before then to be considered!

Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words! We hope you join us!

There are a few ways a title could legally fall to be held by a woman as opposed to needing to be held by a man. The title being created to be inherited by ‘heirs general’ is one of them, as you said. This is pretty much the standard for really, really old English Baronies and Scottish peerages, where sons were still considered before daughters for inheritance of a title, but the daughters could inherit the title before it would go to more distant relatives.

Another way is by special writ, or essentially the crown saying ‘Due to special circumstances, this title will pass to this female’, essentially a ‘one time exception’ for something that might otherwise leave the immediate family and cause problems. This could take a royal decree and an act of Parliament to actually change things. (The biggest, most famous case of this is the Duke of Marlborough, which I won’t go into here.)

If her father had been someone Very Important but who died before he could be properly recognized, it’s possible that her mother was made a Peeress in honor of him instead, but the title would stay the mother’s until she died, and would only pass to the daughter is specifically allowed in the creation of the title—plausible if it was a circumstance where he obviously only had a daughter when the title was created. (If the daughter had a brother, even a younger one, the title would go to them first.)

Again, it’s most common among really old English baronies and Scottish titles. I would suggest for our case the Peeress not being above a Countess, whether Scottish or English. The title being inheritable by ‘heir general’ is the sort of simplest option with the fewest headaches involved, but you could also always just hand wave and say “Titles are complicated, buried back in history is this weird quirk that collided with specific family circumstances so that this woman is now a Peeress.” I will say it would be unusual for her becoming a peeress in her own right to be unexpected for her, as families would usually well keep track of where the titles were going.

The following players have not met the activity requirements and have 48 hours to make at least one in-character post or speak to the admins about requiring a hiatus before their role is reopened: