McHaggis

A Game of Throhs - Medieval Pokemon RP (A Revival)

So I fixed up both of my character sheets, but just to make sure, is Ell's little Cubone allowed even though she's a morph (because he doesn't attack)? Oh, and even though in the games Cubone can't have the Insomnia ability, is that okay too?

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Thanks to the lovely Jig, The Ashes now have a new base of operations! I've updated the first post to reflect the new information.

Love that you guys are making connections between your characters already. I know that Siobhan and Kyle are going to have a history too but I also see the beginnings of a Dutch clique :D

On a side note, I'm hoping to start the IC when all the CS's are in, possibly Saturday or Sunday, with a meeting/report/infodump being called. I know that since it's nearly Christmas a lot of people will either have tons of spare time or no spare time at all, so I'm thinking we give all our characters a chance to mingle a bit first. (Oh, and I'm rambling a bit, sorry if I don't make any sense. Haven't slept~)

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Sure! I'll make up a list of stuff for it and PM you!

A Game of Throhs - Medieval Pokemon RP (A Revival)

Done both!

Seth

USERNAME: McHaggis


CHARACTER NAME: Seth
AGE: 29
GENDER: Male
ALLEGIANCE: None – anarchist against both Lugere and Ayero.

WEAPON: A handsome bow personally handcrafted by Seth himself. It has crude, decorative pictures of bird Pokemon etched into the wood.

APPEARANCE:
Seth is short in stature at only 5'5" and appears much younger and more boyish than his true age due to his delicate, almost effeminate facial features. He has narrow, bird-like amber eyes with excellent long-distance eyesight at the detriment to his ability to see things close to him clearly. As a result, they seem to flicker from side to side or cloud over when talking to someone. It is not uncommon to see him covered in dirt or with feathers sticking to him.

PERSONALITY:
Quiet and socially awkward due to a great amount of his time spent in the company of Pokemon, Seth has never really had a chance to befriend other humans. He tends to forget the manners and just general pleasantries he learned early in life in favour of brutal, straight-to-the-point honesty. What even is small talk?

With most of his life having been outside the boundaries of civilisation, he prefers to live an altruistic lifestyle without greed or much wealth, living off the land and befriending the creatures of the wild. Due to this, Seth is often restless and easily bored. Without travel, he has little else to do with his time and so whenever he is struck by a bout of wanderlust he follows it to the ends of the earth.

HISTORY:
Seth was born in a temperate region of Ayero near the sea in an idyllic village, unusual only in that it was built atop seven hills. It was far enough away from the hustle and bustle of civilisation that Pokemon could be found wherever you looked, be it in the slime of the back-alleys behind the tavern or in the tall grass bordering the furthest away farms, leading out onto the endless, empty plains. The most prevalent type in the region, however, were birds of various kinds and their evolutions – pidgeys, skarmorys, wingulls... all of them migrated during the cooler months to the town.

While not lords or ladies, Seth's family owned (and had inherited) Featherheart Tower, a marvel of medieval engineering in that it stood nine stories high, excluding the roof, without toppling over from the wind that gusted freely through the openings. The aviary attracted many Pokemon, but it was specifically built for those that were too weak or sickly to migrate with the other members of their species. It was Seth's parents' job to manage and care for them, and the family in charge was always blessed with the protection of a particular Zapdos.

When Seth was young, he was practically forced into training, learning from the best bird-Pokemon fanatics around and their loyal companions. On his fifth birthday, he was given an egg of his own, taken from a Pidgeot with prestigious heritage that the family kept. Once it hatched, he named his future best friend and caretaker Belle for her lustrous feathers and for being exceptionally pretty, in general. Over many years, he honed his friendship with her to absolute, unconditional loyalty on both sides – almost two decades ago they were a common sight, flying over the plains from city to city to pass messages and goods on – and times were good.

Unfortunately, not everyone took kindly to Featherheart Tower's monopoly over the denizens of the skies. Though the people of the village respected them, meddling noble families thought they were both an eyesore and despised their interfering with the sport of hunting the rarer species – namely Farfetch'd. They were already making waves in the court, well on their way to becoming a noble family themselves through centuries of hard-work by each and every generation; however, all it took was revealing a long-hidden secret for it all to crumble. Seth's mother was a Morph, living on the highest level of the tower, and she had to be taken out for the good of the nation.

And so, Featherheart Tower was burned to the ground and the villagers who defended it scattered. Countless Pokemon were killed in the battle as an army of humans and their rock-types versus the delicate birds was destined to be bloody. Seth was eleven years old at the time, Belle still a Pidgeotto albeit a large one, and had been trapped on the fifth floor. His mother, likely widowed by that time, had told him to leave as she transformed, heading downstairs to hold off the waves of soldiers. Seth did listen to his mother's orders at the last possible second, causing both he and his Pokemon to be injured quite severely, but nevertheless they escaped.

The fall of Featherheart Tower was traumatic to the boy and well-known throughout the kingdom as a tragedy; however, it was a turning point in Seth's life as he began to live off the land, studying and befriending various species in their natural environment. Nothing dulled the thirst for revenge that clouded his better nature and he began to consider Ayero an enemy – and if his own country were, he could only assume its counterpart was just as traitorous towards its people, human or otherwise.

In his mid-teens until his mid-twenties, Seth was the driving force behind his parent's movement – the prevention of the hunting of wild Farfetch'd for flavour – and he did so with guerrilla tactics rather than brute force; theft, sabotage and, on more than a few occasions, murder. His activism later extended to releasing Pokemon in unwilling captivity and hunting for information on exactly who had ordered Featherheart Tower to burn down. While his righteous anger has faded and he now lives the simpler life of a wanderer, he still ponders the latter to this day.

OTHER:
"Watch the skies. Be careful out there."

Belle

SPECIES: Pidgeot
NICKNAME: Belle
GENDER: Female

APPEARANCE
A larger-than-average Pidgeot with vibrant tail-feathers – or what's left of them, since more than a few have been plucked out. While heavily scarred from various battles over the years, her downy feathers cover them. Belle's beak has a large scorch mark on it along with several scratches from the assault on her aviary when she was younger.

Belle tends not to wear armour, save for the slip of dark leather around her neck etched with the same symbols that adorn Seth's bow. A similar strap runs around her midsection with places for a passenger to hold on while in flight. Seth never uses them.

PERSONALITY:
Scarily intuitive, Belle has an intricate grasp on Seth's emotions (though it isn't hard – he's usually an open book) but more importantly she has a real need to mother him, having never had children of her own to raise. The Pidgeot also tends to be more trusting than her master is; however, she is loyal to Seth until the end.

MOVESET:
Fly
Brave Bird
Roost
Aerial Ace

ABILITY:
Keen Eye

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Ell Knotheart

USERNAME: McHaggis


NAME: Ellory Knotheart – "Ell"
AGE: 31
GENDER: Female
ALLEGIANCE: Ayero currently but ultimately to whoever can pay the most for her services.

WEAPON: Serrated knife (rarely), rope and pre-planned traps otherwise.

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POKEMON FORM SPECIES: Marowak
POKEMON FORM ABILITY: Lightning Rod
POKEMON FORM MOVESET: Echoed Voice, Earthquake, Sandstorm, Substitute

POKEMON APPEARANCE:
Ell's Marowak form is like her human one: taller than average, strong, and ultimately rough-looking. Her most distinguishing feature in this form is the skull mask – not that of her own species but instead a Tauros – is split in half, just as the one she wears in her regular human form is. While her fur is only a few shades darker than usual, it is enough to set her apart as 'not normal' and make her easily recognisable as a morph; however, it is marred with scars and bites from various battles and in different stages of healing.

If she is forced into this form as a last-ditch attempt to save her own life, her typically aggressive, cautious fighting style flies out the window and is replaced with a jumpy, defensive one in which she will use all of her available abilities to escape rather than continue her hunt. In general, however, she tries to keep her status as a morph hidden.

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HUMAN APPEARANCE:
Ell herself stands at roughly 6'0", though it is difficult to tell through the tribal decorations she wears that add to her already impressive height. She walks with an impeccable posture, one of a noblewoman, and it is only when she is stalking her prey or purposefully trying to hide that it is broken – she seems proud of it, somehow. With dark, tan skin, she is easily associated with the warmest, sunniest regions of Ayero and is definitely someone who has spent most of her life working outdoors from the callouses on her hands. Her tattoos, drawn in black ink that has faded to brown over time, are of random, swirling runes and one which particularly resembles the sigil of an ancient, noble house.

As a whole, her outfit is designed to blend in with the vibrant colours of the forest with protective leathers stained green and beige and beads of many colours tied up in her hair. Her gold jewellery is the real deal and obviously expensive, but it is often seen with a liberal coating of dirt and mud as is every other part of her body. Adorned to her belt are the bones of various creatures, mostly Morphs but other impressive kills, too, like a feather from each of the legendary birds owned by enemy noble houses. It gives normal Pokemon even more of an excuse to avoid and distrust her

PERSONALITY:
Ell prides her cunning more than anything, born out of her own self-interest in staying alive – she devoutly follows her personal code of do not trust and lie, lie, lie as a result, and has become quite skilled at it. Unsurprisingly, she is prone to bouts of loneliness as letting nobody get near her for long periods of time (though they would have no reason to, given her appearance) does very little to stave off the need for normal human interaction; however, she is tough and rarely, if ever, complains.

Still, surviving in the most treacherous environments is impossible without asking for some help. Ell can be very charismatic and is a good, clear speaker, justifying anything and everything even if she does not believe in it, like her current lifestyle. It has some crossover with her own flaw of deluding herself into thinking that Morphs deserve to be tried under the law despite being one herself.

BIOGRAPHY:
Ellory was born to the noble house Knotheart, once respected but now considered a disgrace with an illegitimate child ruling as heir over his shrinking territory. Ell was the official heir, at one point; however, customs dictated that she - as a female and a morph (a well-kept secret by her common mother) could not take over after her father's death. Rather than sit around as a damsel in distress, Ell left to forge her own path out in the wilds, becoming a jack of all trades when it came to exploring, fighting and, naturally, hunting.

Despite being a Morph herself, she spent quite a few years chasing down the more troublesome ones for the small villages that could do little about them. Staying away from the large cities (where she would almost certainly be caught), she acquired quite a reputation for completing any job she was given.

Only three years ago, a hunt went sour as she came face to face with a ghost Morph, a Haunter in a graveyard, and was confronted by a whole host of fearsome psychic attacks. Ell's life was saved by a young Cubone, only recently orphaned (from what she could tell). While it was her first failed job, she arguably got something more precious out of it; a travelling companion to protect as if it were her own.

She thinks she's going native.

OTHER:
“I don't play around.”

Cubone – ”Little Bit”

SPECIES: Cubone
NICKNAME: Cubone, or “Little Bit” to Ell.
GENDER: Male

APPEARANCE:
A tiny, young creature with the bone mask of a marowak's skull – his mother. Despite being frail and weak (in the process of becoming stronger), he carries a bone with him to attack enemies with, not that it would do much good. His bone mask is painted with the symbol of House Knotheart in blood.

PERSONALITY:
Cubone is gentle, with a kind nature predisposed to helping others and giving gifts dug up from the earth to his replacement 'mother', Ell. He is often sad and melancholic, crying for no apparent reason at the strangest of times. He is also naïve, though he knows not to trust anyone that Ell does not.

MOVESET:
Dig
???
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???

ABILITY: Rock Head

Finite Incantatem [AU Harry Potter RP] – ALWAYS OPEN!

@Jig! I'd be cool with that! Want to come up with your own description of the manor to add to the post, or do you want me to make one up? It'd be nice to have The Ashes settled in Albert's manor (though it's not guaranteed to be safe forever ^^)

Finite Incantatem [AU Harry Potter RP] – ALWAYS OPEN!

I'll be back later today to accept new characters and add links in the first post to everyone' sheets.

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Finite Incantatem [AU Harry Potter RP] – ALWAYS OPEN!

My own characters (Siobhan and Ronan) with sort-of-NPCs to come later.

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Siobhan MacFusty

NAME: Siobhan MacFusty
AGE: 33
GENDER: Female
NATIONALITY: British (Scottish)

BLOOD PURITY: Pureblood; 'Blood Traitor'

MARKED: No.

APPEARANCE:
Siobhan is fairly short and dainty at only 5'3” – unlucky in that respect as she hasn't grown any taller since she was twelve or thirteen. Her curly blonde hair is cut raggedly out of necessity, uneven in places as she chopped it off herself. Blue-grey eyes, a characteristic of her lineage, seem older than her face despite the first worry lines forming due to stress. She is ghostly pale with light brown freckles; however, she is covered in scars from claws and teeth and breaths of fire.

In terms of clothing she dons fashionable witch's robes in her spare time, usually in vibrant, eccentric colours that always match. When out on the field, Siobhan drops the wizarding clothing for easy to wear Muggle gear.

PERSONALITY:
Despite her diminutive size, Siobhan is loud-mouthed and opinionated, an extrovert who seeks to include everyone in her group of friends. Loneliness is something she hates both in herself and others and is often heavy-handed in her attempts to stave it off. She isn't very tactful, preferring brutal honesty to beating around the bush – bedside manner is something she does not have.

Overall, she is quite intelligent; however, it often falls by the wayside in favour of laziness (when faced with the prospect of having to learn something) and foolish bravery (against anything to do with Death Eaters or danger). She also has a damn good memory for faces and names and makes a point of trying to find out what everyone likes and dislikes.

Although Siobhan has a tendency to ignore any wounds she receives – “'Tis but a flesh wound” is something she can see herself saying – she despises it in others and will ruthlessly tease anyone who gets injured (while helping them out, of course).

SKILLS:
Trained Mediwitch – Siobhan's knowledge of all the basic healing spells (and healthy number of texts to look up those she doesn't) can be incredibly important to the cause, even if it's... not exactly designed for humans. At the very least, she completed a course at St Mungos and has been helping out the Order (and at one point, assisting in Hogwarts) ever since.

Speed – Used to diving and dodging around vicious dragons for most of her childhood in order to care for them, she has a healthy appreciation for movement. In addition to this, she is well aware that her position on any away-mission is important enough for her not to get caught.

Keen Eyesight & Observation – It could come from a variety of reasons but her time as Gryffindor's seeker back from 1978 to 1985 definitely increased her ability to spot things others might not. Even without her practice, her vision is above-average at 20/10. In the past it has saved her life and others, having spotted a group of Death Eaters preparing a ranged strike on her group once from a good distance away.

WEAKNESSES:
Spotty Education – Siobhan barely paid attention in her later years at Hogwarts, too preoccupied with worrying for her family and the war effort, and while she knows the basic spells (the ones she was tested on), that's about it. In addition to this, she picked subjects that were considered easy like Divination and Care of Magical Creatures.

Reckless – Siobhan's always been a sucker for a lost cause. If there's danger, she'll follow it – or rather, charge into it without thinking like a bull. She never had a mind for tactics.

Careless Magic – Sometimes, in the thick of it, Siobhan's spellwork gets sloppy. Although she is careful to keep her healing spells correct, in combat her pronunciation can slur producing unwanted effects.

WAND: Sycamore, 14½” with a core of dragon heartstring (Hebridean Black). Extremely flexible.

HISTORY:
Siobhan was born into the prestigious MacFusty Clan in the Hebrides Islands, known for keeping the largest (and only) collection of Hebridean Black dragons in the world. The youngest of five children, she was given the choice of what she wanted to do and yet had impossibly large shoes to fill to live up to her siblings'. Her oldest brother was a translator for various magical species; her two sisters were a diplomat and an auror, and her other brother – the one closest to her in age yet still years away – became a Death Eater for many complex reasons, the first of which being to keep the family safe from attacks.

While she was at Hogwarts, she had the time of her life and graduated having been Quiddich Captain for the Gryffindor team and their star seeker, despite worries for the war in the outside world which distracted her from her studies and had her seek out the few pleasures she could find in life. During the summers, she apprenticed on the dragon reserve, hoping to become the manager of it since none of her generation seemed to be stepping up to take on the role, but after school – while Siobhan was on a course for the basic medical training needed for her chosen career path – her clan's home was attacked by Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Her parents were killed and livelihood stolen, kept for rare potions ingredients as and when the Dark Lord required them. Her former home is one of the main hubs for dark activity, behind Azkaban and Riddle Manor.

Following the attack, she joined the Order and somehow convinced her brother to become a spy, sending her (and whatever orginisation she was in) details on Death Eater activity. With her future destroyed, she went into full-time training at St. Mungos, rarely targeted by the dark forces for her pure and formerly neutral heritage. When the prospect of a more brutal and definitely more effective group arose, she switched to The Ashes, becoming one of its founding members.

Ronan Findley

NAME: Ronan Findley
AGE: 40
GENDER: Male
NATIONALITY: French

BLOOD PURITY: Half-Blood

MARKED: Yes.

APPEARANCE:
Ronan is of a slight, stick-like build and looks as if the lightest of breezes could blow him over. He is pale with long black hair often pulled back into a ponytail, though strands often fall down to block his view. He looks tired, with dark bags under his eyes, but his hazel eyes are always sharp and alert, devoid of any emotion. If there is such a thing as a Slytherin mask, Ronan has perfected it.

He is never seen out of fancy, well-tailored wizarding robes that touch the ground and his jewelled cane shaped in the form of a snake is always present. Ronan walks with what appears to be a painful limp.

PERSONALITY:
Ronan is jumpy, paranoid that everyone and anyone is out to get him. He trusts few people in the world – one of them being Siobhan MacFusty, his personal healer, and the other being Albert Aldenberg, whose house he resides in – and for good reasons. Even so, he is stoic in his refusal to show pain either emotional or physical as he desires more than anything else to never seem weak.

With a mind for tactics and research and, well, everything, Ronan can be considered a jack of all trades. He is a perfectionist who is never happy with the result of whatever it is he has been doing; a workaholic who spends more time worrying about the war than his own ailing health.

Surprisingly, he is never plagued with self-doubt; he is determined and utterly ruthless in his quest to reclaim Britain, even if it is for the wrong reasons: to settle an apparent 'debt' he owes to his dead father. It is why he keeps his good manners and morals even when surrounded in the middle of a war. He cannot be considered even a decent soldier, however, as he fears for his own life too much to be of any use in a situation other than a guaranteed win.

SKILLS:
Dueling – In his youth, Ronan was the winner of the 'Junior European Dueling Championship' from the ages of 11-17, where he advanced to the adult level. Before he could make a name for himself, however, he stopped to join the war at Voldemort's call. He was known for his vast spell repertoire and lack of hesitation in his fights.

Warding – Ronan's perfectionist nature comes in handy for once when it comes to researching spells to protect The Ashes' main base of operations. He is practically self-taught in this area but is fairly good at creating and tearing down the spells.

Occlumency – A necessity, given his family history, Ronan was forced to learn this to keep his thoughts a secret from his father and was later a great boon to isolate and contain the pain from his curse as well as keep the location of The Ashes' base a complete secret.

WEAKNESSES:
Cursed – Only three years ago, Ronan was hit by a painful curse that has been slowly turning his body to stone, having taken most of his left leg and patches on his forearm already. It leaves him unable to walk quickly, or duel (due to the movement required) and as far as he knows, nobody currently living in the Wizarding World knows of a counter-curse. With it, he is practically housebound and waiting for death.

Perfectionist – Ronan's battle-plans are the work of many sleepless nights and days of single-minded effort. In part, it is because it reflects poorly on him if something goes wrong during a mission, but he is obsessive about everyone leaving alive and in good condition. He never gets enough sleep, usually by choice, as he is always working.

WAND: 11½”, Elm, with a phoenix feather core. Stiff.

HISTORY:
Ronan is the illegitimate son of Lord Stephen Findley and a French Muggleborn who was not identified until his seventeenth birthday. Having attended Beauxbatons, he moved to Britain to work in the Ministry of Magic first as an assistant then as the ambassador. It was good that he left home, given his awful reputation for womanizing and Dark Magic – he had a wild youth that he managed to escape after a few decades.

When his mother died unexpectedly, Stephen Findley found his son and offered him a place to stay and made him the heir of the family, given it would go to distant cousins anyway since he was childless. Of course, Ronan was a difficult young adult, already taken in by Voldemort's ideals as a Death Eater. His abilities as a duelist were used extensively by the Dark Lord and he was favoured, for a time, before he was delegated to a spy in the Ministry – a job that quickly became defunct when it was taken over completely.

Half-heartedly, he threw himself back into raids; however, his father made him promise to leave the ranks as his last request on his death-bed. Voldemort, of course, wanted his inherited manor so as to have another base of power in the Isles. Ronan offered it to him, though kept control of the wards. Stephen Findley's last words had shaken his resolve, and he offered his services to the Order as a spy.

It was short-lived but undeniably useful; however, in his haste to stop a raid on Diagon Alley with his information, he failed to check its reliability – it was a 'red herring' of sorts. When he tentatively returned to the Death Eaters, he was tortured, cursed to eventually turn to stone (though it has been slowed considerably with constant healing and check-ups) and barely escaped with his life. Shortly thereafter, Ronan joined The Ashes.

Finite Incantatum [AU Harry Potter RP]

OOC here guys! And I spelled it right this time!

Would you guys prefer to have an character storage thread elsewhere or just copy-paste them into the OOC?

Finite Incantatem [AU Harry Potter RP] – ALWAYS OPEN!

Interest Check!
Chatzy!
OPEN FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE!


The date is the 1st of December, 1999 – exactly a year since the death of the greatest wizard alive, Albus Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix was disbanded, seemingly for good. Nobody has the protective shadow of the headmaster to stand under now. Speaking out against the Dark Lord's dictatorship is a death sentence.

And yet, here we are; The Ashes. Operating under an ambiguous shade of grey on the moral spectrum, our own order has diverged down a different path from its predecessor while upholding the same end goals of 'kill Voldemort,' 'retake Hogwarts' and 'restore Magical Britain to her original, peaceful glory'.

Voldemort's tyranny has only grown more daring over the past twelve months. So-called 'blood traitors' who were previously scorned but left untouched for their pure heritage have been disappearing. In the absence of Muggleborns, Half-Bloods and creatures too have been vanishing, leaving only dust behind them. Something is going on in the Dark Lord's new home, Castle Hogwarts, and we must find out what before it is too late.

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Hello and welcome to the OOC for 'Finite Incantatem' – an action-focused Harry Potter RP based around a peculiar premise: 'what if our precious Boy-Who-Lived didn't survive?' The answer is this, a bleak future for Britain where any dissent at all is punished... and yet some people – our characters – fight on.

It's going to be OC centric with an adult cast of characters going out into the world on various missions ranging from sabotage to rescue to hunting a set of custom Horcruxes which have been changed from the canon six (seven).

Really, everything is down to you – the roleplayers. While there will be 'super-dooper special plot-advancing missions' for the whole team, there's nothing stopping you from inventing an IC tip on a house full of Death Eaters, or inserting a raid on location [X] for everyone to fight in. Just run it by me (and the group) first~

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IMPORTANT IC INFORMATION:
– Taboo on Voldemort's name is IN EFFECT
– Snatchers are NOT IN EFFECT (yet)
– Active Spies: N/A

The altered timeline below can be changed easily if anyone has any problems with it. I'd also like to say that, if anyone wants an event personal to their character to be added and specifically detailed, you only need to ask!

Altered Timeline

1981
– Godric's Hollow is attacked. Lily and James Potter are killed along with their son, Harry, the supposed target of the prophecy.
– The Longbottoms are also personally attacked by Voldemort in the early hours of the morning. None survive.

1982
– Prophecy revealed by the Dark Lord to followers and, as a result, the magical world as a whole.
– Morale begins to dwindle; many more purebloods join the Death Eaters.
– Violent attacks on various Wizarding villages increase tenfold.
– Minister Bagnold resigns due to vote of 'No Confidence'. Replaced by Fudge.

1983
– Hogwarts enrolment drops by 1/4th for the first time since the Second World War.
– Most violent raid on Diagon Alley (thus far). Many shops remain empty even after the battle.
– Auror Department destroyed in explosion, killing 20.
– Azkaban broken into for the first time.

1984
– Trials of captured Death Eaters begins. None prosecuted.
– Book of Names stolen from Hogwarts. Many Muggleborns lost.
– Minister Fudge resigns due to vote of 'No Confidence'. Replaced by Lucius Malfoy.

1985–1989
– Muggleborns stop attending Hogwarts.
– No teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts at all.
– Many students drop out to help the war effort on both sides.
– Continuous attacks on various Muggleborn and occasionally Half-Blood homes.
– Civilians given permission to use Unforgivables in combat.
– Umbridge sent into Hogwarts; several teachers fired including McGonagall.

1990
– Vigilante raid by the Order of the Phoenix on Malfoy Manor. Minister is assassinated. Minister Rodolphus Lestrange takes over.

1991
– Ministry officially comes out in support of the Dark Lord.
– Nicholas Flamel and wife are killed. Philosopher's Stone stolen by the Dark Lord.
– Order of the Phoenix forms several splinter groups due to internal conflict, including the first whispers of 'The Ashes'.
– Slytherin House has double the number of residents of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff combined.

1992 – 1995
– Muggleborn Registration Act signed, the movement spearheaded by Bellatrix Lestrange.
– Azkaban raided. Sirius Black killed. 13 Grimnauld Place inherited by Draco Malfoy.

1996
– Wards on Grimnauld Place broken in a surprise attack with many casualties. The Order moves to the Burrow.
– Hogwarts taken over by Voldemort during the summer. Teaching in Hogwarts stops.
– *ALBERT ALDENBERG inducted into The Ashes. Aldenberg Manor becomes new base of operations.

1997
– Britain's borders close through official channels.
– The Burrow is destroyed and the Order scattered.
– Horcruxes discovered. The Ashes begin to hunt them down.

1998 – Present (1999)
– Albus Dumbledore dies. The Ashes rise up to fight against Voldemort.
– *LUTHER CUNNINGHAM's sister, Lilly, is imprisoned in Azkaban.
– People of varying blood status begin to disappear. Unknown.

Current Base of Operations

Many thanks to the lovely Jig for writing this out!


Aldenberg Manor is a fairly old building in Nottingham (roughly the middle of England). It became Aldenberg property in the mid-eighteenth century through the beautiful system of marriage, and has remained in their hands to this day.

Albert inherited the manor from his parents when he moved to the UK permanently, where it has been his primary residence ever since. It became the base of operations in 1996 upon Albert’s joining the Ashes full-time, back when the organisation was growing in popularity.

While the Death Eaters knows where the base is, it is protected by the Fidelius Charm. The official story is that Albert returned to the Netherlands upon the closing of Hogwarts, and that the Ashes are basically squatting in his manor, sealed even from Albert by the Fidelius Charm. For this reason, Albert is not the Secret Keeper to the manor: should he be in some way quizzed, he is unable to give away the location. The Secret Keeper is actually Ronan Findley.

The manor is comprised of three separate parts. The manor itself comprises communal rooms, including a two-storey entrance hall, two-storey library, two-storey ballroom, parlour, study, dining room and morning room, as well as huge downstairs kitchen. The West wing is the ‘residential’ wing, featuring six rather luxurious bedrooms, including the Master bedroom (ie: Albert’s pad). Obviously, this is not enough to house the entirety of the Ashes, and so the bedrooms in the much-smaller East wing for the long-since redundant servants have become in use again.

Out the back, there are some formal gardens and a small lake, at the centre of which is a duelling strip, as well as an enormous greenhouse attached to the back of the house, which acts as a second parlour.

The manor has a long history of magic and the Aldenbergs, though much of the latter has been recently stripped. For reasons of security, the house-elves were dismissed and the many portraits and artefacts removed; because of this, the house now has a ghostly, empty feeling to it. However, the house is still steeped in magic, and, for this reason, many muggle technologies do not work. Combustion engines are ropey - electricity is a complete non-starter.

It is worth noting that, although Albert has donated the manor to the cause, the Ashes are, in his mind, his guests. For this reason, he does have house-rules that he expects to be obeyed. Mainly this is is to respect the house itself (by keeping it tidy, not blowing things up in it, not slamming doors, etcetera) and also to respect the traditions the house represents: apparently, he expects men to stand when women enter the room, food to be eaten exclusively in the dining room, and that the guest bedrooms are allocated to female members of the Ashes. Bad luck, gents.

Members of The Ashes

RONAN FINDLEY
ALBERT ALDENBERG
JIA SHANG
KYLE MCCARTHY
TANYA PIETERS
LUTHER CUNNINGHAM
SIOBHAN MACFUSTY
DAVID HOWELL
MIA DUBOIS
ERIC FRIEDMAN
DELIGHT DULLAHAN

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CHARACTER CREATION:

Important Stuff
1. No canon characters; HOWEVER, using the family name or being related to one from the books is a-okay.
2. Creatures in the Harry Potter mythos are generally considered okay (vampires and werewolves and the like).
3. Adult characters, no younger than 18+. May be altered later to include NPCs who don't see action you wish to control (family members, etc.)
4. A single Metamorphmagus will be accepted on merit. Seer has already been taken.
5. All nationalities are accepted, but the preferred ones are British or any European/Commonwealth one. While I am accepting Americans, I would like very few of them.

Character Sheet Template

NAME:
AGE: (Preferably 18+ – remember, Hogwarts closed 3 years ago!)
GENDER:
NATIONALITY: (Other than British, members of any European (or Commonwealth) country are also acceptable; however, Americans will be judged warily.)

BLOOD PURITY: (Muggleborn/Half-Blood/Pureblood/Squib)

MARKED?

APPEARANCE: (If using picture, no anime.)

PERSONALITY:

SKILLS AND TALENTS: (Magical or Non-Magical, both included.)

WAND:

BIO: (Optional, can be as long or as short as you want.)

OTHER:

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RULES AND GUIDELINES:
Pretty much the usual, be nice to each other, no speed-posting, no god-emoting and all that. I prefer at least two good paragraphs, but it's flexible depending on what's going on in the scene.

When it comes to fighting with normal, cannon-fodder Death Eaters, a maximum of two killed or otherwise taken down in one post.

The result of two player characters fighting will either be pre-determined by PM or, if it is necessary, in Chatzy by moi.

And if he's ever needed for a scene, I'll be controlling Voldemort and Rodolphus Lestrange as an NPC. Any others are fair game, but tell me if you want any reserved.

Finite Incantatum [AU Harry Potter RP]

@Kirah
– KYLE is accepted! Eeeeeee it's an adult Kyle looking as suave as hell!

As for the OOC... give me fifteen or so minutes. I promise a whole ton of spelling mistakes with it, free of charge.