Kinship

Kinships (or Tribes) are groups of players that come together for a common, longterm purpose. (In other online roleplaying games, such organizations are often called Guilds or Clans). The purpose could be purely social, to pool resources, to take care of new players, to share a common philosophy, or many other reasons.

Creating a Kinship

To create a kinship, you must purchase a charter from a Clerk of Kinships. These NPCs are found in larger settlements throughout Middle-earth. The person who created the kinship is its first leader, but the leader can be changed later. You cannot create a kinship if you are already a member of another kinship.

Requirements:

You must be level 5 or higher.
A kinship charter costs 5 12

Monster Players can create Tribes (the equivalent of kinships). See the Tribe Scrivener in Gramsfoot to buy your Charter.

Kinship Titles

Rank	Dwarf	Elf	Hobbit	Man	Mixed
Founder	Father / Matron	Einior / Rîn	Founder	Founder	Founder
Leader	Lord / Lady	Tûr / Hiril	Chief	Master / Mistress	Leader
Officer	Seneschal	Caun / Aranel	Voluntary Assistant Chief	Provost	Officer
Kinsman / Kinswoman	Kinsman / Kinswoman
Recruit	No title

Kinship Ranks

A kinship increases in rank over time, giving it access to more kinship features and increasing its maximum membership.

Rank	Elapsed Time	Max Members	Benefits
1	On creation	1000	Kinship Chat
2	24 hours	1000	Message of the Day
3	3 days	1000	Kinship Titles
4	10 days	1000	Officer Chat
5	30 days	1000	Kinship Mail
6	2 months	1000	Kinship Auctions - Messages to Kinship reduced to 10 copper
7	3 months	1200	Kinship House - Mailing items to Kinship members becomes 50% cheaper
8	6 months	1300	n/a
9	9 months	1400	n/a
10	1 year	1500	n/a

Kinship Decay

Just as a kinship can grow over time, so too can it wither. Should the leaders of a kinship leave the game or otherwise go inactive, the option to usurp their position will be made available.

The leader of a kinship can at any time assign one officer of the kinship as his successor. To do so, the leader must use the option in the kinship panel.
If the leader does not log in for more than 35 days or cancels their account, the successor receives a mail indicating the availability of the Usurp option. Then the successor can click the Usurp button in the Kinship Panel to become leader.
If the successor does not usurp leadership within 10 days (45 days of the leader being absent), all officers of the kinship receive a mail informing them that any officer can usurp leadership.
If no officer usurps leadership within 20 days (55 days of the leader being absent), the option to usurp is available to all members of the kinship, but no mail is sent.
If a kinship goes 65 days without a new leader, the kinship will automatically disband. ^{[confirmation needed]}
SSG, will not resolve issues regarding the transfer of ownership for a kinship or the automatic disbanding of a leaderless kinship. It is the responsibility of the kinship members to ensure that a successor has been chosen.

UI Reference

The kinship tab on the social panel looks like this:

The leftmost column shows a icon if they are in a fellowship, otherwise it is blank. A crown indicates they are the leader of the fellowship. Blue means the fellowship is not full. Red means the fellowship is full.

The rank column shows a crown for the leader, a circlet for the successor, a red banner for officers, a blue banner for kinpersons, and nothing for recruits.

The leader and officers also have access to the "Set MotD", "Add", "Remove", "Promote", and "Demote" buttons.

Kinship Keyboard Commands

(disband) - Disband your kinship.

(recruit <name>) - Recruit the target into your kinship.

(accept) - Accept your current kinship recruitment request.

(decline) - Decline your current kinship recruitment request.

(quit) - Voluntarily leave your kinship.

(expel <name>) - Expel the kinship member from your kinship.

(promote <name>) - Promote the kinship member to the next higher rank.

(demote <name>) - Demote the kinship member to the next lower rank.

(motd <motd>) - Set the message of the day for your kinship.

(successor <name>) - Make the kinship member the member who will succeed you as leader when you resign.

(resign) - Step down as leader. (This will automatically promote your successor to leader.)

Creating a Page for your Kinship on the Wiki

Create new kinship should be used to create a Kinship (or Tribe) article (page) in this wiki, then fill in the appropriate parameters.

Note: In the event your kinship disbands or has disbanded please edit your kinship page and add the {{Kinship Disbanded}} template to the top of your kinship page.

Notes

It appears the system no longer sends mail informing members of the option to usurp the leader, I cannot find any official confirmation of this though.

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