After one too many times of co-workers pronouncing his name wrong, Xavier started to go by his middle name instead. Roy was a talented student, and he took to his work easily. Despite his skill, there was always someone better, someone with more connections, more money that prevented him from securing his family a better life in Terra Nova. His father went missing one day early in his life, and his sister died due to a faulty rebreather and the untimely dumping of illegal vaporized chemicals. Thus his family shrunk to himself and his mother, who was often out working in South America, Africa, or Central Asia discovering the rare undiscovered species still surviving in viciously protected rain forests. It was through her that his family was secured the prestige needed to win a trip through the portal.

Theo grew up in the heart of LA, living it up as a rich kid. His parents were smart and compassionate people, and they funded many expeditions and studies into ways of saving Earth. They often met with a woman who frequently explored what was left of Earth's life, befriending her and babysitting her children. During a particularly violent protest in the city, Theo and sister Victoria were pulled into the fight by their friends. They managed to escape, but the police cameras captured their faces and their names were marked down. Three days later the city experienced a number of 'radical protester' bombings, coincidentally the only casualties were the vocal protesters causing the police problems. Theo barely escaped the fire that consumed his home, his parents and sister were not so lucky. While accusations were thrown at the government about assassinations, his parents' friend won a ticket for her family to Terra Nova. Theo could never thank her enough for filing for adoption and allowing him to come with her and her older son.

Jordan grew up in Los Angeles. His mother, Maria, moved there from Tarragona, Spain and his father, Richard, moved there from Brightwood at a young age. Jordan experienced the world with an open mind, an odd ability to make friends out of anyone, and a heart born for adventure. After fifteen years in the city of his birth, Richard Radcliff was in a car accident. With a history of alcohol abuse and domestic violence, the man was far from missed. Maria Radcliff and her son then moved north to Brightwood, Washington to be with Jordan's grandparents. They were kind people, but they were old fashioned and their views clashed often with Jordan's.

Having finished middle school in LA, Jordan started high school as a freshman and quickly tried to befriend everyone. Coming from a big city to a small town was a difficult experience, where before no one had seemed to know anyone, now everyone knew everyone. Befriending the entire student body proved to be an impossible and frustrating endeavor. Everyone seemed to have a rival, and all too often the teens had values that clashed with Jordan's ideals much like the problem with his grandparents.

Ben has always hovered somewhere between the classifications of nerdy and cool. He was smart and made excellent grades, but he was attractive enough that a few of the cool crowd acknowledged him. He always struggled to downplay his intellect and play up anything that made him seem cool in an effort to fully become a part of the popular crowd, but no matter what he did he never quite made the impression he wanted to. However, this year he started on the Lacrosse team and seemed to finally be making more progress. Now getting invites to parties and sitting with the right people at lunch, Ben has got wish and has begun settling into the popular crowd.

Tristan is the only son of Corin Desidera, Teyrn of Seglow, and Addica Zade, former Captain of Glim Watch. His early life was spent swamped in education, an endless stream of tutors and instructors. Everything from weaponry to painting, horseback riding to languages, instruments to mathematics. It was immediately noticed he was smart, when fighting he used tricks and traps, and when faced with complications he demonstrated excellent problem solving. His father was still disappointed to learn his son disliked fighting, and all weapons in general. Now Tristan is plunged into court politics, leaving his father's lands to study in the king's castle. He is one of many bracing for the worst as tensions begin rising. Even as all eyes turn outwards, Tristan is wary of the many whispers drifting about the castle.

Cade was born to a large family in the village of Dimwood, but it was not just a family, more of a cult. Even in the womb, Cade and his brothers and sisters were steeped in magic. They learned their first spell before they'd even finished learning to read and write. Their magic was not always nice, but neither was it always evil. The Witches of Dimwood are well known for their uncertain nature, they are just as likely to break your bones as they are to mend them. Cade is no different, serving only himself and his family and not hesitating to wield magic as his tool.

When one night Dimwood is suddenly set alight, the Witches' reclusive nature saves their lives. By building their home in the woods away from the village they escape the fate of the town. Afraid and without a source to buy supplies from, many of Cade's family leave. Cade himself heads north, leaving the ashes of Dimwood at the southern mountains and trekking into the heart of the kingdom.

Ro was created as a designer baby successor. The Kellan family was having some trouble producing a born child, so they requested an artificial one. Two months after his arrival to the family, his mother finds herself with child. They were good people and didn't throw him out, but he still felt… replaced, unwanted even. He didn't become angry, at least not outwardly, but he did withdraw from those he felt did not want him. He found his great grandfather's comic book stash and quickly became lost in the world of geekdom. He made friends across Deep Blu though many he would never meet face to face, and altogether minimized his life with his family and maximized the time he spent with the few who he felt truly liked him. Then he started inventing. First a small watch and a radio, but then he gradually worked his way up to things like small VI robots and holographic communicators. His love of technology pointed out exactly where he was meant to go, and so he became a Site Technician.

Scott was adopted by Travis Lowell and his wife Samantha Linley. The two are doctors at the local hospital and are quite wealthy. Scott has an older sister, also adopted, named Savannah who is currently at Harvard University to study medicine like her parents. While his parents are proud of him for his achievements on the lacrosse team and his activities in after school clubs, they are keen to get him interested in medicine as well. However Scott isn't interested in the idea, and instead he wants to follow his best friend out of the small town and into the big city. The question is; to do what? While his best friend has plans, Scott hasn't been spending much time considering what he wants to do in life and he's struggling to make up his mind before the end of the school year.

Drew's parents were Camilla and James Ferguson, but when they got a divorce and his father moved away to New York, he and his mother took her maiden name. As a deputy with the local police, Camilla didn't have a lot of free time, so she would often call on her neighbors to babysit when Drew was young. This gave him a wide variety of friends, not the least of which was Sterling Lowell, whom quickly was nicknamed to Scott once it was discovered his name was Scottish in origin. Scott and Drew joined the lacrosse team together, and then later joined several clubs after school. Drew was interested in a lot of things, from the arts to the sciences. He joined the robotics club, followed by international club, and then he started with the theater group and pre-med studies. Now he's been sending applications across the country and even beyond. He's interested in science, he wants to discover things, to know things, and to experiment with the latest technologies, but he's concerned he won't be able to get it. His mother isn't rich, they can't afford to pay for his schooling, so he's been working extra hard to win a scholarship.

Hallam was born in Strahnbrad and well on his way to following in his father's footsteps to become a hunter to provide food for his home, but in an act of teenage rebellion he ran away from home to study in Dalaran. He'd long envied his neighbor, Enchanter Millius, and his ability to use magic. He knew his father would never allow him to learn, so he took matters into his own hands. He did not often regret his decision, not until the Scourge marched on Dalaran. He escaped with a handful of other residents, but they fought hard to reach safety. They found it in Tarren Mills for a time, but the influx of refugees to the town made it too good of a target to pass up and the town was destroyed by the Scourge. Hallam spent nearly a year on the run before finally the Scourge-Forsaken conflict allowed him to break through and find Southshore. From there he was evacuated to Kalimdor.

Relieved as he was to return to studying magic, Hallam never forgot his experiences in Lordaeron. He eventually left to learn in the world instead of in a library. He tested his talents and skills by helping the Alliance in Dustwallow Marsh and the Barrens, but soon he found himself considering the Argent Dawn. A cause worth his service and coin worth his time; what's not to like?

Both of Aksel's parents were Wizards, but his grandparents on his mother's side were Muggles. The Nylund Family was Pureblooded by accident, focused primarily on marrying for love at it's start, but eventually it became wrapped up in the blood supremacy propaganda like many others. It fractured a majority of the Family into three groups; the Supremacists, the Muggle-Lovers, and the Independents. The Family was quite large at the time, stretching across northern Europe and into the East, but the war with Grindelwald put blood against blood and nearly ended with the Muggle-Lovers' demise. At the very end of the war a majority of the Supremacists side of the Family were captured and put behind bars. The surviving Muggle-Lovers' pushed for the death sentence, but were overruled by the Independents who'd decided to not interfere in the war at all. When the war was over, the Independents had a change in leadership, and turned on the rest of the family, now significantly smaller, and tried to have them all assassinated. Unfortunately, the powerful and old Lord Petros of the Muggle-Lovers faction escaped and had vengeance. By the time the man died of old age only a single line remained of the Nylund Family, two Independents who raised their sons to be just as neutral. Their oldest, Oliver, fell in line without fuss, until he met a Muggleborn girl in Stockholm, her name was Mary, and he fell in love with her. Their youngest, Liam, rebelled from the start, going off to Hogwarts rather than Durmstrang as his parents wanted. Later, after having his first son, Oliver fell ill with dragon-pox, leaving Mary to raise their son with his brother.

This left Aksel to be raised by his mother and the occasional support of his flighty uncle. Aksel grew up with an appreciation for the fun things in life, as well as a healthy respect for the persecuted, repressed, victimized, bullied, and underprivileged. His uncle was considered a Blood-Traitor by Purebloods, a trouble maker and scoundrel by society. His mother was called a line-thief, marrying into a powerful Pureblood family and claiming the treasures for her own when her husband died, to the Wizarding World she was jobless, doing nothing but staying at home while House-Elves raised her stolen child. In reality she owned a bakery in Odense, a short ways from the Nylund Family Estate in Nyburg, and raised her son on her own, only using House-Elves for menial things or maintaining other properties.

Aksel attended a specialized Muggle private school, learning basic maths, Danish, physical education and a number of other things- such as the violin. When he first heard the instrument, he enjoyed the sounds it made, but did not particularly care enough to learn to play himself. However, when he had to select a study in music, he chose the violin. He was a natural, taking to string instruments quickly but the violin was his favourite. For his art selection he chose to paint, and while he was no Michelangelo, what child would be?, he learned quickly and loved how his mother and the Elves would ooh and ahh over his works. He made few friends, mostly because he was shy, but a particularly tomish girl would always share her drawings with him. Her name was Anise, and her mother was insistent on enrolling her into health and sex education classes, mostly because she thought her daughter would turn out to be transgender and wanted her to be aware of what that was before she hit puberty. Anise convinced Aksel to join her for his classes, and while at first scandalized, his mother eventually agreed to allow it. Before he could get properly entrenched in the more advanced classes, such as metal working and English, he received his letter of acceptance to Durmstrang.

Bidding his Muggle friends good bye, Aksel took his education with him into the dark and oppressive halls of Durmstrang. He was shy still, keeping his opinions to himself, but his talent and excellent scores drew attention to him. when he joined the Quidditch teams as a chaser, he became even more popular. He particularly excelled in Transfiguration and Charms. Durmstrang encouraged talent where they saw it, so it was a no brainer to pair the to best students with each other in work. The Transfiguration teacher was a kindly woman, and she quite happily paired the unobtrusive and polite Aksel with Tyra Edsen, an overly harassed metamorphmagus. In Charms, the less kind Professor originally paired him with whomever, but when Aksel defended a dubbed "Muggle-Lover" from the Professor, he started pairing Aksel with Rhyan Oslend, the student who did the worst in Charms. However, Rhyan was excellent at Potions, and managed to explain and simplify it in a way that Aksel could understand and even get excited about. Meeting Lora Jorks and Juno Riggo as his fellow chasers, Aksel found himself comfortably surrounded by friends. He was even well-liked by most of the students who weren't in his immediate circle.

In their last year, Tyra confessed she was interested in women, which the group already knew. Stemming from this conversation came a decision to eliminate discrimination in Durmstrang. None of them actually believed it would work, but they tried nontheless, forming a group called the Coalition Against Durmstrang Discrimination. The group was not aimed directly at protecting sexualities, or other commonly debated things of the Muggle World, but at the tolerance and acceptance of Muggleborns. Of course, if the article they insisted be ratified, written by themselves, happened to have hidden clauses protecting everything from lesbians to muslims to vampires to goblins, then that was just a coincidence. Not many people took the group seriously, not even when Aksel convinced three separate Quidditch teams to join, or when Lady Nylund through her support behind it, but when a fight broke out on the school grounds over a debate on Muggle blood vs Pureblood blood, people began to take sides. Unfortunately, while remnants of the movement are remembered and scattered throughout the school and former students' homes, it was largely swept under the rug when Aksel and his friends graduated.

The end of their last term dominated their attention as they tested for their final final exams, and then afterwards they began working towards Masteries and their own careers. Aksel was still working on his own research after receiving Masteries in both Transfiguration and Charms when Tyra came to him, seeking to get away from the constant nagging that came with being a metamorphmagus. After intense discussion and theorizing, Tyra and Aksel began looking for answers in the magic of her blood. It was slow work, but the things Aksel found and talked about in his notebook would cause Transfiguration enthusiasts the world over to sell their souls for a glimpse.

It was during his studies that his old friend, Rhyan who moved to England, became infected with vampirism. Smuggling him free, Aksel and Tyra hid him away and erased all trace of him ever touching English soil and fabricated records of him having lived in Denmark with them. Thus, unless they looked closely, no one would be able to tell he was a vampire. They told him what they were working on, and soon he was helping them, putting his Mastery in Potions to work. They discovered a lot about how Potions effected the blood, but they soon turned their attention to Rhyan's problem, starting a study on what vampirism did to the blood too. By this point, Aksel had neither a cure for a metamorphmagus, or a way to become one, but he was reasonably sure he could make a charm or potion that would mimic the effects for a time. Using this they smuggled Rhyan into a country that wasn't quite so strict; Russia.

Using his blood they began researching a cure for vampirism on the side.

Then he was visited by a Witch from TOE, and he was skeptical at first, more interested in continuing his work and helping his friends than joining some weird organization, but he did not tell her no. The Sevens figured he would say yes, given his past in the group called the Coalition Against Durmstrang Discrimination, and with his Masteries, connections, and rumored research, he was too valuable to leave alone, taking him and imprisoning him illegally. Luckily, Tyra escaped with the research and went into hiding, denying the Sevens that boon.

[Patronus Memory]:

Aksel was getting frustrated now, and people were starting to notice. He'd never been so great at Defense Against the Dark Arts, but this was ridiculous! Two weeks after the first lesson and he still hadn't gotten the spell right! A good memory, they said! Only your happiest would do, they said! Some of his friends kept giving him looks, sad and curious like they were wondering if he'd ever been happy at all. Aksel never left any spell unlearned, sometimes it'd take him a day or so, but this! Two weeks at it and he still couldn't make it into any kind of shape! Why didn't any of his happy memories work?!

First he'd tried his first glimpse of Durmstrang, which prompted a bit of a mist, but nothing else. He was actually the first to get anything at all, but after that there was no improvement. Muggle friend Anise? Mist. Quidditch? Mist. Friends? Mist. Mother? Mist. Uncle, House-Elf, First Spell, First Class, First Pet, Father, Grandparents, Gold, Goblins, Owls, Mail, Quils, Ink! All mist! You could see the point where he stopped trying and just started thinking of things in the room with him.

But suddenly, while practicing the spell over the lake close to his room, he knew the memory to use. He was having lunch, halfway between words when a letter landed in his lap. He absently directed the owl to take whatever it wanted from his plate and opened the envelope. It was from a Muggle university teacher, he wasn't sure how they'd gotten the letter to him, but he recognized the name. It was his old violin instructor. She wanted to meet again so she could see how he'd progressed. Aksel had been playing the violin less and less recently, too focused on school and magic, but he still enjoyed it. Rhyan snatched the letter after he'd finished reading it. Once he knew, everyone knew, thus led to the night Aksel and his violin were dragged from their room and thrust out to perform for a large group of interested students. Once he'd started, the smile wouldn't come off his face. Aksel loved his violin and the merry little party that broke out into song at his tune was the single happiest moment of his life.

Aksel dredged this memory up now, lips curling into a small just at remembering. "Expecto patronum!" He commanded happily, he imagined he heard birdsong then, but he knew the light apparitions didn't make their own sound. It was a bird though, and the sight of the little ball of fluff zipping around was enough to bring laughter from him.

The word Dracht comes from the Irish draíocht, the word for magic. They were an ancient family of supposed seers in Ireland, but they were non-magical. Ethan theorized they were descended from a squib who's magical family had the seer gene, and losing their magic had not breed out the gene, but because his family had a watered-down version of the gene, they could still use it at times. Now that magic had returned to their blood- well, his blood at least, he suspected it would be more powerful. He found himself to be wrong though, or perhaps vampirism had just interfered and struck the gene mute, either way, he did not have visions, though occasionally he'd have odd, half-remembered dreams.

Most of Ethan's life has been spent aiding his sire in the building up of a vampire coven-town by the name of Rue de Trefle near Nantes, France. The only magical population are that of friendly Wizards- namely family or lovers, and the vampires themselves. Other residents include a wide variety of Muggle donors- though they don't know it. While Ethan has entertained thoughts of going back to his Grandparent's motherland of Ireland, he has decided to wait until the mass unrest in the Wizarding World has calmed.

It was through his sire that an alliance with, and eventual commitment to, the Seven started. A recent law passed in France that made their community illegal- not that it was common knowledge in the first place - along with a few well-placed words won over the Rue de Trefles coven and saw Ethan put forth as an officially active member of the Seven as a sign of loyalty. The other coven members remained in the Rue to work from there, or wait until called upon for actual battle.

Elle is the daughter of Elijah Iskandar, a noted Potioneer and suspected Dark Wizard from Australia whom moved to England to work with the Seven. His greatest weakness is his family, which led to his embrace of the Dark Arts when his Muggle wife became ill and later died as he searched for a cure among the spell books and potion recipes of long-dead Dark Wizards. Elijah has gone a bit mad, something which has rubbed off on his only daughter who still smiles like the epitome of purity and innocence. Because of this, her way of thinking sometimes confuses and dissuades her fellow students, but luckily her excellent mind has scored her a couple friends, even if it's only so she can help them with homework.

When she was eight, Elle found an old man on a bench outside her home. Curious and fearless she went to speak with him. She walked away with a new friend and a source of informational income. The man was a professor at a local university, he gave her books on Muggle subjects when she asked about them. He suspects theirs something odd and different about her, but hasn't said anything. Her father hasn't quite picked up on it yet, though he's noticed more and more books lying around with odd names, he assumes them to be English words for advanced magics, but really they are science texts.

What he does know is that she loves to dance, and as such took it upon himself to enroll her in a few dance classes. She also begged to learn French, and later Malay when she discovered that was the source of her darker skin. She hasn't made much progress in either, but she's interested and learning, even if they'd had to take a back seat to her magical education.