Template:LawDef

One row per faction law (~198 production laws + 34 test laws across the 2026-05-05 corpus). Each law is a passive faction-wide effect that the player can enact during the Astrology phase by spending law points; effects scale through 1-3 mastery levels, each level costing a separate budget of points.

A law carries identity (name, desc, icon), faction membership, balance-relevant tier placement, a count of how many levels it has, and the source file it came from. Per-level data (cost, description, bonuses) lives on the LawLevel side table. Display-tree placement (which column / slot it sits in on the in-game law screen) lives on LawTreePosition.

Page layout

Data:Law/<id> carries:

1. {{LawDef | id=… | faction=… | tier=… | name_sid=… | desc_sid=… | icon=… | …}}
2. N × {{TranslationDef | type=law | target_id=<id> | language=… | name=… }} — name only, one row per language (one shared name across all levels)
3. N × {{LawLevelDef | law_id=<id> | level=N | cost=… }}
4. For each level, N × {{TranslationDef | type=law_level | target_id=<id> | variant=<level> | language=… | description=… }}
5. M × {{BonusDef | parent_type=law_level | parent_id=<id>_L<level> | ordinal=… | type=… | …}} — one per bonuses[] entry, summed across all levels

Schema

This template defines the table "Law". View table.

{{LawDef
| id = String
| faction = String              <!-- human, demon, dungeon, nature, undead, unfrozen; null for test laws -->
| ordinal = Integer             <!-- the trailing N parsed from id -->
| tier = Integer                <!-- 1-5; the balance-relevant tree row; null for test laws -->
<!-- Localization references — display text lives in the Translation table:
     type='law' carries the name, type='law_level' (variant=<level>) carries per-level descriptions -->
| name_sid = String
| desc_sid = String             <!-- shared SID; placeholders substitute per level -->
| icon = String
| max_level = Integer           <!-- 1-3, == count(LawLevel rows) -->
| test = Boolean                <!-- true for fractions_laws_test*.json entries -->
| source_path = String
}}

Field notes

• id is the source JSON id (e.g. fraction_law_human_1, test_fraction_law_1, test_new_fraction_law_1).
• faction is the in-game faction the law belongs to. NULL for test/dev laws that have no faction tree placement.
• tier (1-5) is the row of the law tree where this law lives in its faction. Stored on LawDef because moving a law from tier 2 → tier 3 is a balance change, not a layout change. NULL for test laws.
• name_sid / desc_sid point at the L10n entries (e.g. fraction_law_human_1_name, fraction_law_human_1_desc), surfaced for traceability.
• Display name for every language (English included) lives in the Translation table, type='law'. Names are shared across all levels of a law.
• desc_sid is shared across all levels — the same template ("Produces {0} Gold daily.") gets substituted with different per-level numbers. The per-level resolved descriptions live in the Translation table as type='law_level' rows, keyed by target_id=<law_id> + variant=<level>.
• max_level equals the length of the source parametersPerLevel array.
• test is true for laws sourced from fractions_laws_test.json or fractions_laws_test_new.json. Most queries should WHERE test = false.

Related tables

• LawLevel — joined on id = law_id (1:N where N=1..3).
• LawTreePosition — joined on id = law_id (1:1 for production laws, 0:1 for test laws).
• FactionLawTier — sibling table; one row per (faction, tier) carrying count_to_unlock law-points threshold.
• BonusDef — joined on parent_type='law_level' AND parent_id LIKE id || '_L%'.
• Translation — the law name (type='law') and per-level descriptions (type='law_level', variant=<level>) in every language (English included), keyed on target_id=id.
• Faction — joined on faction = Faction.id.