Template:The 101 on Claiming

Hello users of Camp Half-Blood!

With changes being made to the claiming system and it being more complex and less complex over time, I'm sure it will be helpful to any of our users out there to know exactly what we look for! As the spiritual successor to the blog of the same name, we are updating and revamping the 101 on Claims to what we look for in this new year! With many things being asked for in claims, what we don't want anyone to be confused or intimidated! If you have any questions at any time, feel free to message one of the members of our Claiming Department or any one of our admins, or even @mention one of us on our Discord! This page will be updated over time as things change, so do check back ever so often!

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Without further ado, let's begin.

Basics
The basic structure for claims is quite simple! Although I also include optional information that you are welcome to include, they will be noted as such!

Name: We welcome you to choose any name that you'd like as long as it is not absurd or inappropriate!

Age: Please make sure that the current age of your character is included somewhere on the claim, preferably in its own section so it's easier to spot!

Personality: We only ask for a few sentences (two sentences top), but you are welcome to be more detailed or creative to flesh out your character even more! The one thing we do ask is for the personality to be written in full-sentence(s) and isn't just a list of descriptive words! What we mean is: _____ is daring, outgoing, adventurous...

Appearance (Optional): We no longer require that an image or character appearance description be included in claims. Although we'd recommend one, you are welcome to find a model for your character afterwards. If you do decide to include a description, we may point out any issues with it!

History: The history is most important part of claims! If you're intimidated by it, don't worry, we'll go much more into detail about what we look for below!

Weapons/Possessions (Optional): We no longer require a character's weapons to be included on claims! But keep in mind that if a weapon is found to be unbalanced or overpowered later on, we will have to ask for you to remove or change it! It is always helpful to include it in the claim if you're unsure if something is overpowered or not!

History
We find that users are most often intimidated or confused about what needs to be included in the history and we don't want it to be difficult! So we'll be going through and breaking down exactly what we look for in each type of history.

Demigods
The minimum history length here is 2 paragraphs. This is just a minimum, but if you would like to expand or go more into detail about your character's backstory, we welcome that!


 * 1) How the mortal parent and godparent met: There should be a few sentences that briefly goes over how they met, how they fell in love, the conception of the child, and the when the godparent left!
 * 2) *Do keep in mind that gods and goddesses don't ever marry mortals!
 * 3) *Also note that a goddesses' pregnancy don't last nearly as long as a mortal's, it is closer to four or five months give or take!
 * 4) *Goddesses don't give birth in mortal hospitals, they tend to return to their realm (i.e., Olympus or the Underworld) after conception and return to the mortal after giving birth to leave the child with them.
 * 5) The early childhood: All that we need is a brief summary of the ages between after your character was born and their first monster attack.
 * 6) First monster attack: With the first monster attack, there should first and foremost be a mention of what monster they were attacked by and also an explanation of how they managed to kill the monster or escaped from it.
 * 7) *For children of the big-three gods, this should happen between the age of 8 to 11.
 * 8) *For children of other gods, 10 to 13 is the acceptable age range.
 * 9) **14 is also an acceptable age, but only if a good reason for why they were not attacked earlier is provided.
 * 10) *We generally recommend that you pick an easy difficulty monster, but a medium difficulty monster, albeit more difficult, given the reasonable circumstances of how they survived the encounter.
 * 11) Subsequent attacks: Subsequent attacks are by no means required within reason. The keyword here is "within reason". However, regardless, for any subsequent monster attacks, they can be very briefly summarized/mentioned/generalized.
 * 12) *There are many ways in which a demigod's scent can be both amplified (knowing that they are a demigod, being a child of a big-three, etc.) and masked (being around someone with a terrible scent [i.e., Gabe], etc.).
 * 13) *Keep in mind, that the longer a demigod chooses not to go to camp after their first attack, the more at risk they are of subsequent monsters attacks.
 * 14) How your character got to camp: A simple, yet brief explanation of how your character got to camp.
 * 15) *While we won't ask you to explicitly state how long they have been at camp. However, characters can't have already been at camp for more than two weeks. If we can infer that they have been for longer than two weeks, we will have to ask you to change that. This is something we unfortunately have to enforce this to prevent metagaming.

Nymphs
We have both:
 * Nymphs that exist in the Greek mythology.
 * Nymphs that don't exist in the Greek mythology.