Lex Gentium

Lex Gentium or 'The Civilized Laws' are a set of rules governing the interaction between different nations of the inner sea. Although no formal enforcement exists, an understanding that if one breaches the laws they will lose its protection is acknowledged.

Messengers
The laws state that any messenger bearing the official seal of diplomacy and of their master should be allowed free travel to their destination (and may be escorted in or out of one's territory) and that they should leave unharmed no matter the message they bear.

Any messenger not bearing the official seal, however, are free to be treated as spies and infiltrators.

Slavery
Although legal in the inner sea, where taking slaves is seen as a rightful spoil of war, the Lex Gentium establishes a standard ransom price of fifty pieces of gold for a child, seventy for a healthy adult, and a hundred for warriors or nobles. That if paid, the master or captor should immediately release their captive to the one paying random.

Ravage
Although victors are free to take whatever they wish as their spoils of war, it is a grave offense to destroy orchards, burn down forests, to salt fields or otherwise make a region uninhabitable for future generations. Equally, one should slaughter civilians (although they may be enslaved or ransomed)