Post by Talon Windwaltz on Jan 12, 2006 1:26:16 GMT -5
Part I - Construction of Firefox University
Following his disagreement over whether Muggle-borns should be taught at Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin created a terrible legacy deep beneath the school grounds that would remain until long after his death. However, his youthful hatred and anger ended long before. After fathering a child by a witch wife in mainland Europe, he retreated to his hometown of Drakborough located in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, and there constructed a castle of stone and silver - his Masterpiece. This place was too grand a construction, eight floors and thousands of plentiful rooms, to be used as merely a private residence. He opened its doors to any student, muggle-born or pure-blood, who wished to attend. He seperated the school into four houses - Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin, in respect to his former colleagues...and to his own bitter youth.
But Slytherin did not have long to live even after opening his school. Naught but a decade later he was stricken with a wizarding illness and died. In Drakborough where he was born few remembered the cunning and wickedness of the young Slytherin, and just remembered the good man he was late in life, the understanding, caring, and just fellow who taught whoever he could the secrets of his art. So they buried him with all their love in a white stone crypt nearby his school. However it was not to be that the school would continue - no man stood after Slytherin to take the position of Headmaster. So the school was, for a thousand years, just as dead as its founder.
Part II - Rediscovery and Connection to the Rest of the Wizard World
The roleplay of the Fortress Saga, set now at Firefox University, takes place in an alternate universe where Voldemort and the story of Harry Potter never existed. The last Headmaster of Hogwarts was a proud warrior and master of "Elementalism" named Agiel Firefox, who lost his life defending the ancient school from a Vampire Army.
[to learn more of this, attend History of Magic classes!]
With Hogwarts destroyed many students turned to a new school formed known as 'Magic Horizons' for their learning. However this school bore a curse left over from Fortress [attend History of Magic...] which made it so that it would never know peace. The last enemy of Magic Horizons was a wizard named Azrael, who was a former defender of the school who turned rogue and fought against a [History of Magic!] teacher named Talon Windwaltz. Talon Windwaltz escaped to Spain and there rediscovered the ruins of Slytherin's school in Drakborough.
Talon, using his magic, restored the school and opened its doors once more, making himself the Headmaster. Many dangers occurred, including Azrael returning for more. But these were overshadowed by the arrival of a terrorist organization known as the Society of Shadows, who arrived with a bang in Spain and fought against the school in an all-out war which ended in Talon and Azrael becoming companions. Many lost their lives, and they shall be remembered.
The Chamber of Secrets that Slytherin kept as a reminder of his legacy in Firefox University is now destroyed.
However the history and background does not end there! Arrive at the Arch with suitcase in hand as soon as you register and begin your part in the Fortress Saga!
Following his disagreement over whether Muggle-borns should be taught at Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin created a terrible legacy deep beneath the school grounds that would remain until long after his death. However, his youthful hatred and anger ended long before. After fathering a child by a witch wife in mainland Europe, he retreated to his hometown of Drakborough located in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, and there constructed a castle of stone and silver - his Masterpiece. This place was too grand a construction, eight floors and thousands of plentiful rooms, to be used as merely a private residence. He opened its doors to any student, muggle-born or pure-blood, who wished to attend. He seperated the school into four houses - Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin, in respect to his former colleagues...and to his own bitter youth.
But Slytherin did not have long to live even after opening his school. Naught but a decade later he was stricken with a wizarding illness and died. In Drakborough where he was born few remembered the cunning and wickedness of the young Slytherin, and just remembered the good man he was late in life, the understanding, caring, and just fellow who taught whoever he could the secrets of his art. So they buried him with all their love in a white stone crypt nearby his school. However it was not to be that the school would continue - no man stood after Slytherin to take the position of Headmaster. So the school was, for a thousand years, just as dead as its founder.
Part II - Rediscovery and Connection to the Rest of the Wizard World
The roleplay of the Fortress Saga, set now at Firefox University, takes place in an alternate universe where Voldemort and the story of Harry Potter never existed. The last Headmaster of Hogwarts was a proud warrior and master of "Elementalism" named Agiel Firefox, who lost his life defending the ancient school from a Vampire Army.
[to learn more of this, attend History of Magic classes!]
With Hogwarts destroyed many students turned to a new school formed known as 'Magic Horizons' for their learning. However this school bore a curse left over from Fortress [attend History of Magic...] which made it so that it would never know peace. The last enemy of Magic Horizons was a wizard named Azrael, who was a former defender of the school who turned rogue and fought against a [History of Magic!] teacher named Talon Windwaltz. Talon Windwaltz escaped to Spain and there rediscovered the ruins of Slytherin's school in Drakborough.
Talon, using his magic, restored the school and opened its doors once more, making himself the Headmaster. Many dangers occurred, including Azrael returning for more. But these were overshadowed by the arrival of a terrorist organization known as the Society of Shadows, who arrived with a bang in Spain and fought against the school in an all-out war which ended in Talon and Azrael becoming companions. Many lost their lives, and they shall be remembered.
The Chamber of Secrets that Slytherin kept as a reminder of his legacy in Firefox University is now destroyed.
However the history and background does not end there! Arrive at the Arch with suitcase in hand as soon as you register and begin your part in the Fortress Saga!