Welcome to Minoans!
You come across a small tent, surrounded by various
knick-knacks and trinkets.
What could it be?
A shop of some kind?
Your curiosity gets the best of you make your way inside, only to be greeted by an exile named N'liit.
He tells you he will be your guide to the world beyond.
Species Info + Rules
What is a minoan?
Minoans are a plotline-based species with lore that expands over a mythological pantheon and the inhabitants of the islands they live upon.They are a cow-like humanoid species, and cover all walks of life, from mages and kings to ship captains and nomads.We look forward to sharing our species with you, and hope you find your home with us, friend!
Terms of service
Please keep in mind the following rules, alongside remembering that we are all here to have fun!
Minoans are a closed species owned by Hearteater & Co and are not allowed to be created freely without the owners' expressed permission. Members are required to be 16+ to acquire a minoan and to join and partake in the specific events and discord. Nothing involving the species may be used in any blockchain related technology, to include NFT’s, cryptocurrency or future inventions in the space.
Failure to adhere to this rule will result in an immediate blacklisting from the species. Please read the rules of the species thoroughly before acquiring one of your own, as you will be agreeing to these rules when you accept ownership of a design whether it be via purchase, trade or gift, etc.
We ask that you keep things such as personal drama between the people involved and not drag it into our community. Regardless of how mature some subject in this species and its lore can be, we ask that you keep real life subjects such as politics, war etc out of the community as it can be upsetting to many. Situations of art theft, rip-offs and other such situations are taken seriously and should be brought to the team with the necessary proof and information. Adding to this, it is discouraged to approach users inciting them to sell their minoans to you.
WAYS TO ACQUIRE A MINOANOfficial adopts through;
flatsales, auctions, community events and raffles.Custom designs made by official designers.Trading/selling in the community.
ADOPTING A MINOANWhen adopting a minoan you will get a reference sheet and access to the world, some thing are expected of you when this happens:- Whilst partaking in the main lore it is okay to have AU versions of these characters in different stories of yours. Reading the lore and staying respectful to it is encouraged.-You may create AU versions of your Minoan. However they are restricted to non-closed-species only to make sure to not step on anyone's toes. (Unless said species is owned by you).
-When transferring ownership of your Minoan, any AUs, Items and other aspects attached to them must either be nullified or forfeited to the new owner.
-When creating connections you must have full consent of the owner of said minoan for it. If trading a minoan with pre existing connections it's encouraged to revise these.
-You are not allowed to completely overhaul a minoan and shift its traits, rarities and the like.
- You are not allowed, in any sense of the word, to block, mute or wall all of admin’s access to the minoan.
-You are not allowed to hide away the characters (ex: authorized mode on toyhouse) this disrupts masterlist listing and risks your minoan getting voided.
-Hidden characters cannot participate in breeding or other events.
-People who mass block the community cannot participate in breeding or other events
The addition of traits through items is allowed but to fully finalize them it is required for the owner to draw them by themselves (or a third party,) or, having an OA finalize the design through an upgraded reference. If drawn by a non-OA, the art must be submitted via ticket for approval.
VOIDING, BANS, LEAVING AND UNVOIDINGUsers who become blacklisted due to repeated rule breaking of community guidelines and TOS will have their minoan voided. Voiding means that the minoan will no longer be considered part of the species until un-voided. If you purchased a voided minoan and want it to re-listed on the masterlist you can contact server mods and they’ll get you sorted.Voided minoans do NOT take part in official lore nor events.
If you are blocked, banned, blacklisted, etc from the minoans community for any reason, you may either keep your minoan as its own entity and remove any distinct minoan features, or communicate with admins to discuss rehoming.
We want to be able to give people options, but do not want to jeopardize the safety of our community.Another case to note; members that leave the discord server are allowed to keep their minoans or rehome them. Leaving the community hub is not a voidable offense and it simply stops users from accessing specific events and content. Any user is allowed to come back to the community and pick up from where they left off.
CLARIFYING STATEMENTSIf you want your character to know another character, you must have agreement from the owner of the other character----------------------------------------------Creating minor characters in LORE for your character to be related to/have relations with is allowed, however you cannot make them fully fledged designs. They must remain anonymous shapes/silhouettes in any illustrative work or writing. They can't be related to other characters without the consent of the owner of another character.----------------------------------------------Directly related NPCs (ie, parents) can only exist in concept and not in design. These conceptual NPCs are considered an accessory to your minoan. To get a solid design for these other character ideas you have, you need to adopt another minoan.----------------------------------------------Upgrades are add-ons to your minoan. In canon, they mutate or fit over your minoan's existing body, not replace it. You cannot redo a design and make it lose its initial identity.
TRADING AND SELLING TOSWhen trading or selling your minoans you therefore agree to the following conditions of conduct.
----------------------------------------------It is encouraged to consult mods through tickets about pricing and selling of a minoan. If the pricing of said minoan is not known, mods will assign a worth to said minoan.
----------------------------------------------You must sell at the price you purchased the Minoan for. Inflating the price of a minoan when reselling is prohibited. Additional art can add to the price within reason, not drastically increase.----------------------------------------------You must update ownership transfers in the appropriate channel within the discord server. The listing is required to mark as sold. In Th, you must specify what value it was sold/traded for in the ownership log.---------------------------------------------Once sold/traded a minoan will enter a cooldown period. The cooldown starts the moment the trade was done on TH
----------------------------------------------A minoan cannot be sold or traded until this cooldown has ended.It can be gifted.
----------------------------------------------When advertising to sell or trade your minoan, you must provide the original value you purchased them at and all images/art of them so the buyer can oversee the value.----------------------------------------------Gifted/free minoans will have a set value of 0 USD. The only way to gain monetary value is by adding worth through extra commissioned artwork. Members seen abusing the artwork value will have their post taken down. If a minoan already has USD worth, this will be set back to 0 and can only be gained back through additional art, starting from the day it was gifted.----------------------------------------------
Gifted/free minoans cannot be sold for USD until value is added. They can be traded, exchanged for art or gifted.----------------------------------------------
Admins do not take responsibility for not being mindful when buying a minoan. If a user gets scammed it is by their own accord. Members are encouraged to use the ticket system for inquiry if confused about pricing or trade of an existing minoan.
----------------------------------------------If a minoan has extra artwork, value must be added only for commissioned art pieces. Personal artwork does not add onto the price of said minoan. EXCEPTIONS of this rule will happen when a minoan has over 6+ polished personal pieces, in this case the value added is 25% the total work of these pieces. This rule is set to avoid price inflation by sellers.----------------------------------------------It is the seller’s duty to keep track of the USD equivalent of any commission purchased with fantasy currency. These equivalents should match the same as the artist commissioned. We encourage you to note down these moments of acquiring a commission with fantasy currency.----------------------------------------------In regards to artwork, gifts DO NOT add to the value of a minoan.----------------------------------------------When trading, the value of art or other characters as payment is determined by the seller, but we encourage to exchange for characters of similar value and not exploit the buyer.
BREEDING TOSWhen breeding a minoan through NPC or other methods, a user agrees to follow the terms of conduct regarding this. These terms of conduct include.----------------------------------------------Having full consent from all minoan owners involved to make the breeding happen.----------------------------------------------When studding, not accepting prepayments or reservations until admins approve of said studding.----------------------------------------------Only advertising studding in the events and conditions that are announced by staff. may it be events or openings. Studding offers outside of these can result in breeding restrictions for said minoan.----------------------------------------------If traded away mid studding, the reservations for said minoans become null, all parties consent to these terms.----------------------------------------------Members will respect the limited slots given per user for each studding opening. This includes purchasing and selling. Mass hoarding of these slots can result in restriction from the system.----------------------------------------------Minoans will enter breeding cooldowns that are specified by staff after a design is made. These cooldowns must be respected regardless if the character is transferred or sold.----------------------------------------------Instances of canonical inbreeding in the form of incest is prohibited. Do not be weird about this.----------------------------------------------Breedings can be canon only if all parties consent to this. This consent can be taken away by new owners.
BUDDY SYSTEM TOSTo avoid hoarding within members the minoans community encourages the rehoming of inactive minoans to NEW members of the community without any minoan. By taking part of the buddy system you will be rewarded with an item of use for your preexisting minoans. The guidelines of such are as follows.----------------------------------------------A member is not allowed to take payment for this exchange, if so, the reward will not be given to them.
A member cannot demand to get the given minoan back. Item “farming” through this system is a bannable offense and will affect both parties.----------------------------------------------The gifted minoan value will be set to 0, as it was a gift. This value can be added on through artwork and extra items.----------------------------------------------If members do not consent to this 0 value rule, they should trade or sell the minoan instead, getting no reward but keeping value.
harassing a person to take part of this buddy system is prohibited.----------------------------------------------The user receiving the minoan must
have a current minoan count of 0
THESE RULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITH OR WITHOUT COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT.
Naming Conventions
These are a few breakdowns of some of the minoan language and some name meanings.While these naming conventions are intended to help you with naming your new minoans, they are by NO MEANS necessary.
We implore you to have fun with every name you grant.Feel free to use this information as needed.