Death Note Rules

Death Note rules

Rules for humans:

1. The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
2. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
3. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.
4. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.
5. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
6. This note shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of (arrives in) the human world.
7. The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
8. The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, i.e. a god of death.
9. The human who touches the Death Note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, a god of death, even if the human is not the owner of the note.
10. The person in possession of the Death Note is possessed by a god of death, its original owner, until they die.
11. If the time of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.
12. The cause of death must still be in realm of possibility for the victim.
13. You may also write the cause and/or details of death prior to filling in the name of the individual. Be sure to insert the name in front of the written cause of death. You have about 19 days (according to the human calendar) in order to fill in a name.
14. If a human uses the note, a god of death usually appears in front of him/her within 39 days after he/she uses the note.
15. A person can shorten his or her onw life by using the note.
16. One page taken from the Death Note or even  a fragment of the page contains the full effects of the note.
17. The instrument to write with can be anything, (e.g cosmetics, blood, etc.) as long as it can write directly onto the note and remains as legible letters.
18. Even if you do not actually possess the Death Note, the effect will be the same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in  the blank.
19. The owner of a Death Note with Shinigami eyes can't see the remaining life time of another Shinigami owner
20. The Death Note will not affect those under 780 days old.
21. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times
22. Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident, if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not influenced.
23. Even after the individual's name, the time of death, and death condition on the Death Note were filled out, the time and condition of death can be altered as many times as you want as lon as it is changed within 6 minutes and 40 second from the time it was filled in. But of course, this is only possible before the victim dies.
24. Whenever you want to change anything written on the Death Note within 6 minutes and 40 seconds after you wrote, you must first rule out the characters you want to erase with two straight lines.
25. The time and condition of death can be changed but once the victim's name has been written the individual's death can never be avoided.
26. If you lose the Death Note or have it stolen you will lose its ownership unless you retrieve it within 490 days.
27. If you have traded the eye power of a god of death, you will lose the eye power as well as the memory of the Death Note, once you lose its ownership. At the same time, the remaining half of your life will not be restored.
28. You may lend the Death Note to another person while maintaining its ownership. Subletting it to yet another person is possible, too.
29. The borrower of the Death Note will not be followed by a god of death. The god of death always remains with the owner of the Death Note. Also the borrower can not trade the eyesight of th god of death.
30. When the owner of the Death Note dies while the Note is being lent, its ownership will be transferred to the person who is holding it at that time.
31. If the Death Note is stolen and the owner is killed by the thief, its ownership will automatically be transferred to the thief
32. When the same name is written on more than two Death Notes, the Note which was filled in will take effect, regardless of the time of death
33. If written the same name on more than two Death Notes is completed within a 0.06-second difference, it is regarded as simultaneous; the Death note will not take effect and the individual written will not die
34. The god of death must at least own one Death Note that Death Note must never be lent to or written on by a human.
35. Only by touching each other's Death Note can human individuals who own the Death Note in the human world recognize the appearance or voice of each other's god of death.
36. If you write "die of accident" for the cause of death the victim will die from a natural accident after 6 minutes and 40 seconds from the time of writing it.
37. Even though only one name is written in the Death Note if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die the victim's cause of death will be a heart attack.
38. If you have traded the eye power of a god of death you will see a person's primary life span in the human world.
39. The names you see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if that person isn't registered in the family registartion.
40. If a person loses possesson of a Death Note the will not recognize the gods of death by sight or voice any more, if however, the owner let's someone else touch his Death Note, from that time on, that person will recognize the god of death.
41. In accordance with the above, the human who  touched the Death Note and began to recognize it until that human actually owns the Death Note and subsequently looses possession of it.
42. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times that Person will be free from being killed by the Death Note, however, if they intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Nite owner will die.
43. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note.
44. When regaining ownership of the Death Note the memories associated with the Death Note will also return. In cases where you were involved with other Death Notes as well, memories of all the Death Notes involved will return.
45. Even without obtaining ownership, memories will return just by touching the Death Note.
46. In the event that there are more than 6 Death Notes in the human world, only the first 6 Death Notes that have been delivered to humans will have effect.
47. The seventh Death Note will not become active until one of the other 6 Death Notes is burned up or a god of death takes on of them back to the world of gods of death
48. The Death Note will not take effect if you write a specific victims name using several different pages.
49. But the front and back of a page is considered as one page. For example the Death Note will still take effect even if you wirte the victims surname on the front page and given name on the back.




Rules and abilities of Shinigamis:

1. The Death Note can increase the lifespan of the writer if they are a Shinigami, making them immortal until they reach the end of their lifespan.
2. Shinigamis have the natural ability to know a person's name and lifespan by looking at them. But the human that has a Death Note can gain the eyes of a Shinigami from the one they are possessed by, only if they give half of their remaining lifespan to that god of death.
3. Gods of Death, the original owners of the Death Note, do not do, in principle, anything which will help or prevent the deaths in the note.
4. A god of death cannot be killed even if stabbed in his heart with a knife or shot in the head with a gun. However, there are ways to kill a god of death which are not generally known to the gods of death
5. The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the gods of death, either so, you must examine and find out.
6. Exchanging and writing on the Death Note between the gods of death is no problem.
7. If the god of death decides to use the Death Note to kill the assassin of an individual he favors, the idividual's life will be extended but the god of death will die.
8. The Dead god of death will disappear, but the Death Note will remain. The ownership of this Death Note is usually carried over to the next god of death that touches it but it is common sense that it is returned to the great god of death.
9. The god of death must not tell humans the names or life spans of individuals he sees. This is to avoid confusion in the human world.
10. It is very difficult to consider that a god of death who has possessed a human could die, but if he should die the Death Note that he brought into the human world will not lose its power.
11. If a Death Note is owned in the human world against the god of death's will, that god of death is permitted to stay in the human world in order to retrieve it.
12. In that case if there are other Death Notes in the human world, the gods of deaths are not allowed to reveal to humans that Death Note's owner or its location
13. In the world of gods of death there are a few copies of what humans may call user guidebook for using the Death Note in the human world. However, the guidebook is not allowed to be delivered to humans.
14. It is perfectly okay for gods of death to read the guidebook for him/herself and teach humans about its contents, no matter what the content may be.