Sauron's List

Sauron's list is a list of people acknowledged by Sauron as his followers, due to their chosen path of player killing other members of the free races (dwarves, elves, humans, half-elves, hobbits).

You may see the list's members by asking Sauron himself - using "tell sauron list".

A player who is on the list has Real-Death, which means when they die they lose all levels and regress to level 1. Players on the list also get very evil alignment, and find themselves rather unpleasantly hunted by the guards of the Elven towns. They possibly have other towns revoke their citizenship and give them the 'wanted, dead or alive' status. Tharbad is exempt from this.

The point of having the list, is to focus the playerkilling on MUME into the good/evil conflict between the free people and the dark races (orcs, trolls, black numenoreans). The dark races were created for the purpose of letting people with an urge to player-kill do so. Darkies can kill anyone in the game with few restrictions (Sauron's list only applies to "whities" killing other "whities"), and they pay for this by suffering certain penalties.

Sauron's list is administered by the Valar, and is thus subject to certain controversies regarding who gets put on the list and why etc. The most basic criteria used when listing a "suspect", is: "If it's obvious or can be deduced otherwise that the player kills for the sake of playerkilling, list him/her". Therefore, a person who kills someone who just stole his sword, or as vengeance for some wrong (within reason), like when legend groups have their own personal wars or quarrels, won't get listed. On the other hand, someone who is continually involved in killing other people and each time uses the "I'm roleplaying" excuse, will be listed since it's fairly obvious they are into it for the sake of killing.

A player can be listed for as little as one kill, according to the criteria above, if it's obvious it was done just for the sake of killing, or if the victim was an Istar or Istar's apprentice. The thing we want to avoid is of course the "hmm let's see I can kill 5 people with this char without getting listed" logic, that's why we leave the "limits" fairly floating - and if you want to avoid the dreaded "list", the recipe is very simple, stay out of playerkilling except in cases where someone attacks you first for example.

People on Sauron's list are among the worst enemies of the free peoples of Arda - therefore other people should avoid them or fight them. Characters associating with a member of Sauron's list will soon find that helping such criminals or trading with them can corrupt them to the degree that they themselves face the dreaded List.

Attacking or killing a member of Sauron's list does not entail any punishment by the Ainur.

In almost all cases, getting on Sauron's list is a one-way trip to realdeath. It might happen, very rarely, that a member of Sauron's list will redeem himself. In these cases, the character might be given a new chance - after proving himself worthy of the Ainur's pardon. A pardoned pkiller who reverts to his murderous habits will be considered hopeless, and will stay on Sauron's list until death finally takes him.

You can roleplay an evil thief if you want to, but you will face the list if you kill other whities. The reasons for the list are purely game-technical, and aren't based in roleplaying. Simply put, we want MUME to be a suitable mixture between a chaotic PK-mud and a mud where people don't kill each other. Therefore the dark-white race war exists, and therefore normal playerkilling should be discouraged.

See also: Rules PK