Talents & Wealth

Surrender Dawn has a Wealth System in place that allows for people to better identify your character's standing within society in regards to finances. The reason for this system is because we want people to be able to enjoy a character who has wealth and riches, however we didn't want a scenario where one creates a character and is immediately the child of some rich monarch and will never have to worry about earning a dime, throwing money left and right - you get the idea. To have wealth, you have to work for it, which goes hand in hand with the setting. As it stands, currently, the site has wealth numbered in Stages - the Stage your character finds itself in corresponds to his/hers Wealth Rank.

The Stages are as follows:

• Stage 0: You're the poorest of the poor. Your only possession are the dirty set of clothes and you struggle to survive each day.
  
  
• Stage 1: You're still at the lowest of the spectrum. However, you have a few coins to use everyday, which means you can cover very basic things such as bread and water. The idea of a real home or of many material possessions is only a dream.
  
  
• Stage 2: You are still considered poor, but things could be a lot worse. You are able to afford food and all the basic necessities. You probably have a few pieces of clothing and accessories. Despite this, the streets are your home - or, perhaps, you have found some abandoned place to live where payment isn't needed.
  
  
• Stage 3: Maybe this is where average citizen of Ordus would be ranked. Low class, with a home that they can call their own, but all the money they gain every week most likely goes straight to regular expenses that keeps food on the table, a roof above their heads and more basic things.
  
  
• Stage 4: The middle class. At this stage you live comfortably and, despite not being able to make major buys, money isn't exactly something you have to worry about during your day-to-day life.
  
  
• Stage 5: Upper middle class - same thing as above, but you're even more comfortable. Whether by going out more or being able to spend more or having a bigger home, the fact is that, at this stage, you are beginning to enter the top percentage of the world's population... but, be careful: you're not rich yet.
  
  
• Stage 6: Congratulations, you're rich! It's from this point on that you can probably start a company or fund some personal project and stuff. It's also at this stage that you can move into the fancy district of Vantalux.
  
  
• Stage 7: Mega rich. Here you'd probably get notorious for your wealth since you'd be at the top 0.001%.
  

Characters can only start out between Stage 0 and Stage 3, the specific stage being up for the player to choose. Moving up stages during the roleplay is dependent on Staff Approval and taken on a case to case basis. It does not cost EXP to level up your Wealth Rank, but rather we weigh the accomplishments of your character and if they merit consideration towards a higher stage. If you believe that your character deserves an 'up' in the stage of wealth they find themselves in, you would be required to contact a member of Staff who would then weight the accomplishments of your character and determine whether or not they are worthy of being bumped up a rank.

This is where a character's Talents might come into play. It probably seems obvious that the more talented someone is, the more they are likely to earn in their given field. This would, as a result, prove to be of great help in 'wealth up' considerations.

It goes without saying that the higher stage of wealth you achieve, the more your milestones will sparkle. Gotta get that bling, y'know?