This is the practical guide for placing a bounty (Player Writ) on Immortal Realm. For the broader bounty system, Immortal Realm Bounty Hunting. For how hunters claim and pursue, How Hunter Writs Work.
Quick Answer
- Buy a Public Writ Deed from the Time Token reward catalog (40 Time Tokens).
- Have 5,000 gold in your bank for the Crown seal fee.
- Double-click the deed in your backpack.
- Target the player you wish to file against.
- The fee is withdrawn, the deed is consumed, and the writ posts to the Board of Writs for 2 hours.
- Hunters claim the writ from the board with their Hunter's Warrant; outcomes pay realm tokens.
There is no filing NPC and no input gump. The deed is the filing mechanism.
Quick Facts
| Filing tool | Public Writ Deed (40 Time Tokens at the reward catalog) |
| Filing fee | 5,000 gold (PlayerWritFilingFeeGold) |
| Term | 2 hours / 120 minutes (PlayerWritTermMinutes) |
| Reward (hunter, on kill) | 5 PvP Tokens (PlayerKillRewardTokens), realm-paid |
| Reward (placer, on resolution) | 3 PvP Tokens (PlayerPlacerRewardTokens), realm-paid |
| Pair cooldown | 18 hours after resolution before refiling on the same target |
| Cancellation | None — no placer-side withdraw |
| Web view | /bounties — public board |
| Velvet Hand disruption | Player Writs only; Crown and Prestige are immune |
How Filing Actually Works
There is no "writ-filing NPC" with a reward-and-expiry gump. The mechanic is simpler and more embodied.
- Acquire a Public Writ Deed. It's a stock item in the Time Token reward catalog at 40 Time Tokens.
- Make sure you have 5,000g in the bank. The Crown seal fee is withdrawn directly from your bank account at the moment of filing — not from your character or pack.
- Double-click the deed. The system asks you to target a player.
- Target the player. The system runs its filing checks (see What can block a filing below). On success, the 5,000g is withdrawn, the deed is destroyed, and the writ goes live on the Board of Writs.
A confirmation message ("The registrar accepts your filing…") appears, and the target receives a notice that their name is now on a public writ.
What You Pay vs What Hunters Earn
This is the most-misunderstood piece of the system. You don't fund the reward.
| Stage | Who pays | What they pay |
|---|---|---|
| Filing | You (placer) | 5,000g Crown seal fee, drawn from bank |
| Successful claim | Realm | 5 PvP Tokens to hunter |
| Writ resolves in your favor | Realm | 3 PvP Tokens to you (placer) |
| Target surrenders to Warden | Realm | 2 tokens to you, 1 token to hunter |
| Writ expires unclaimed | — | No additional payments; fee not refunded |
| Velvet Hand scrubs the writ | — | Fee not refunded; writ removed |
The placer's only out-of-pocket cost is the 5,000g seal fee. No reward gold is escrowed. Token rewards are realm-paid in PvP Tokens (the bounty-system currency), not from the placer's purse.
The 2-Hour Term
The writ stays on the board for 120 minutes (2 hours). There is no player-set expiry. After 2 hours:
- If unclaimed → the writ falls off the board.
- If claimed but the hunter didn't finish → the writ resolves per claim outcome (escape, expiry, etc.).
- The 18-hour pair cooldown begins (you can't refile on the same target until it lapses).
- The target enters a 45-minute Crown protection window (no one can refile against them for that period).
The fixed term keeps the board moving and prevents stale weeks-long writs from clogging the public list.
What Can Block a Filing
Filing fails (the fee is not charged) if any of these apply:
| Block | Why |
|---|---|
| Same account | The system rejects writs filed against another character on your own account. |
| Close relationship to target | An anti-collusion check rejects filings between accounts that share enough trust signals. |
| Target under Crown protection | A 45-minute protection window applies after a target's previous writ resolves. |
| Recent pair cooldown | If you filed against this same target within the last 18 hours, the registrar refuses. |
| Target already on a writ | Each target carries one writ at a time. |
| Target imprisoned | A target serving a Warden sentence cannot have a new writ filed until they're released. |
There is no offense gate. The system does not require the target to have a murder count, criminal flag, or civic infraction. The collusion guards, protection window, pair cooldown, and one-writ-at-a-time rules are the whole filter.
What You Cannot Do
A few things people expect that don't exist:
- You cannot set your own reward. The hunter receives a fixed 5 PvP Tokens, realm-paid.
- You cannot set your own expiry. It's fixed at 2 hours.
- You cannot cancel a filed writ. Once it's on the board, only the target's surrender, the hunter's claim outcome, the term's expiry, or a Velvet Hand member's intervention can remove it.
- You cannot file via an alt or proxy. Same-account and close-relationship guards reject those filings.
- You cannot refile immediately on the same target. The 18-hour pair cooldown applies after every resolution.
Officialized Writs (via the High Ledger)
A senior High Ledger Arbiter can co-sign a Player Writ at filing time, producing an officialized writ with Crown branding and a rank-tiered token boost on top of the standard reward. The branch is still Player (so Velvet Hand can still disrupt it), but the writ carries the Arbiter's seal and a higher payout. Engaging this path requires interacting with a Ledger Arbiter rather than filing alone.
For the Ledger pathway, High Ledger Guide.
Surrender: The Target's Out
A writed target can yield to the Warden's prison rather than fight a hunter through. Surrender:
- Discharges the writ in the placer's favor (you receive 2 PvP Tokens).
- Pays the hunter 1 PvP Token (a small consolation for the lost claim).
- Sends the target to a 15-minute Warden's prison sentence.
- Triggers the standard pair cooldown.
This is the system's mercy valve — the target who can't or won't fight has a clean exit.
Velvet Hand Disruption
The Velvet Hand can disrupt Player Writs through three contracted services, each with its own rank gate and fee:
- Writ Smoke (Walker+, 200/300/500g by rank) — extends the writ's claim window by +15/+20/+30 minutes.
- Name Scrub (Reach+, 1,000g, 24h cooldown) — removes the writ from the board entirely.
- Target Redirect (Whisper+, 1,500g, 24h cooldown) — swaps the writ to a new target who must be standing within 3 tiles of the Hand member when the redirect fires. There is no in-code consent check; the proximity requirement is the only mechanical constraint.
If a Hand member scrubs your writ, your 5,000g filing fee is not refunded. This is the system's price for filing on a target who can afford counter-services. Crown Writs and Prestige Writs are completely immune — the Hand's gump filters Player Writs only.
How to Read the Public Board
The /bounties page is the live, web-side view of the Board of Writs:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Target name | Who the writ is on |
| Branch | Player / Crown / Prestige |
| Filed by | Placer's character name (Player Writs) or system authority (Crown / Prestige) |
| Status | Active / Claimed / Resolved / Expired |
| Time remaining | Term countdown |
You use this board to monitor your filed writs and watch claim activity. Hunters use it to find writs they want to claim.
Common Mistakes
- Filing without a deed. No deed in pack = no filing. The board doesn't accept deedless entries.
- Filing without 5,000g in the bank. The fee comes from your bank, not your pack. Filing fails if the bank can't cover it.
- Expecting to fund a reward. You can't. The system pays in tokens.
- Filing via an alt. The same-account guard rejects this and logs the attempt.
- Filing on a Crown-protected target. A 45-minute protection window after a previous writ resolves; respect it or watch your filing get refused.
- Refiling within 18 hours. Pair cooldown blocks rapid refiles on the same target.
Where to Read Next
- For the broader bounty system, Immortal Realm Bounty Hunting.
- For the hunter side of writs (Hunter's Warrants, claim windows, kill rewards), How Hunter Writs Work.
- For Crown and officialized writs, High Ledger Guide.
- For the Velvet Hand's writ-disruption services, Velvet Hand Guide.
- The bounty board shows live writs.
- The download page is the on-ramp when you're ready.
