| HARRY POTTER AND THE WORLD OF DARKNESS a World of Darkness Alternet setting by Ge'azhal Zocrith Part One |
| ATTN: Anyone who is playing in the 6th year RPG based on these rules, STOP READING. IF you're sixth year or older, Start reading again. Harry Potter and the World of Darkness To Part Two First off, let us begin at the divergence point. To the 6th Year Harry Potter RPG Group Tremere. In The beginning, all was right with the world. Then Tremere tried to take control. His First action was the ousting of the Diedne. Wiser heads prevailed, though, and prevented this from ever happening. Instead, The tremere lost face, and were set back in terms of politics. The loss of cetain key Tremere to other factions, some to Tytalus, others to Flambeau, left the future massassa low on personel and researchers. This dearth of recruits left them to find other possibilities for recruiting, aside from the standard influx from Tytalus' routine recruitment or the other usual methods... which we'll get back to later. Tremere himself set back to brood on his failure, and replan. When his frew remaining scholars brought him word that magic was supposedly Dying, he still sought out other means of preserving his power.... but more quietly, more subtly... Mistridge Without the great Massassa war, The Order of Hermes responded quickly and with a force the likes of which would not be seen again for years to come. astride great Dragons, weilding powerful magics and summoning allies from the deep forests, they stormed the taken tower and crushed the fledgeling Order of reason with the Fist of Hermes. Those few allowed to surrender were offered a place in the Order, as were the traitors. All were closely watched, though, and many of these were taken into the welcoming arms of House Tremere. The Massassa Purge It was not a hundred years after the Second Fall of Mistridge that the Tremere first "discovered" a vampire in their midst. It was decided to defuse growing rumors and suspicions that the renewed House Tremere harbored massassa by sacrificing some of the less essential vampires, noteable among them, one of the first massassa, Goratrix. This appeased most mages, but the council still required Tremere to appear before them or step down. He did appear before them, in the small hours of the morning. He Stood before them as the sun rose, confident. His face was flush with color, his eyes afire with indignation. The mages tested him every way they could, and found him living. When he returned to Creoris, he was in torpor, as were the six attendants he'd taken with him, for the spell they worked was very draining. He stepped down, publicly, from the post of Primus of House Tremere, in order to recede from the public view for his "Grand Experiment." He has not been seen since. Rumors are rare, now, but they still exist. Who knows if the vampiric threat was truly expunged.... The Veil of Reason In Time it was discerned that, even without the help of the Awakened, there was a growing movement of Reason. In this coming environ, the Wizards decided that they must vanish, for a time. And so, the enchantments were forged that hid the Wizard's worlds, his pets and fellow creatures. Diplomatic contact was made with the Vampires and the hunts for werewolves were increased in number. The vampires (what few remained... visible... themselves) sent the Hermetic reps back to the Council in oddly distorted shapes. This caused a second, greater purging of the massassa. What few vampires remain are well hidden and in fear of the wizards. The inquesitions In an effort to remove the vampires and werewolves, the mages decided to let mortals sort out their own problems. Acting through the church, they sent out word of devilspawn in the land, and thus the inquesitions began. Unfortunately, this backfired. The inquisitions didn't stop at Vampires or werewolves. Once incensed, the christians and the mages among them went out amongst the world and tried to wipe everyone out. They came very close to succeeding... among the lesser, scattered folk. The shamans were wiped out, the diedne scattered to the winds. The Order itself survived, but renewed its' attempts at hiding and laid plans to weaken the church. Through politics and Ars Cupiditae, they had split the church quickly enough, sown discord and corruption. The age of Reason In Time, the humans forgot about mages, and witches became old wives' tales... The Wizards set themselves up in thier own institutions, founded schools and created their own ways. They rarely interacted with the common-born, over time no longer even recruiting from the universities or other learning centers. Over time, the Awakened populace began to show signs of weakening... too much inbreeding, some said. The tremere brought up a weak cry of the death of Magic. Another claimed that the Order was feeling the Wrath of the Gods for their hubris. Some foolhardy and unscrupulus warlocks, in order to spread the gene pool a small bit, went out into the wide world, screwing anything that looked remotely of childbearing age. This did create an influx of With new blood, though, with the whoring about came sickness. In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, plagues hit the wizards. IT only took weeks for the epidemics to spread. First Pox, then the Black Death finally came to the Towers of Witch and Wizard alike. Without fresh blood, The wizards would die off. Many younger wizards, not the first born heirs but the sons of sons, traveled to the Americas, and found others already entrenched there. Still others went into mortal society, and, despite bewilderment at the startling advances the mundane had made without the aid of magic, found new wives and husbands. Still others, however, were too high and mighty to taint the lines of wizards that go back centuries with the blood of a mere mortal. The modern day The Magi still exist, albeit in fewer numbers than they once had. The magic is still potent, but the destructive magicks are only really practiced by demolitions specialists... and the Tac-nukes of House Flambeau, those still battling for control of the central American plains (including the Flambeau) or the wild jungles of the southern hemisphere. There is a growing movement in the European Society for Hermetic Order to implement modern muggle (what a vulgar term that is) machinery into the workings...who knows what enchantments might be made? If it weren't for infernalists like that Voldemort fellow, the idea of magic and machine working together might get the attention it so rightfully deserves. |