Post by AE Admin on Jul 3, 2008 21:56:48 GMT -5
Over two decades ago, Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort destroyed each other in a climatic struggle now known as the Final Battle. In a society overrun by chaos and fear, the world was left to pick up the pieces, struggling to start again- to rebuild. For a time, things returned to a sense of normality. For a time, people were safe.
That time has long since ended. Out of the ashes, three siblings chosen by Voldemort to be His Heirs have risen to command the scattered Death Eater populous, forming an army to rival even that of their forefather. At first the Heirs were only spoken of in rumors, but over time things have begun to go downhill. Wizarding schools all over Europe began to decline, shutting down mysteriously and leaving people with fewer and fewer places to go. Though out of sight, the dark forces were at work again.
One woman, a young auror by the name of Elisa Monelli, chose to make a stand in the face of the new wave of darkness. She discovered the ruins of the ancient Eterna and in the year 2017 she converted them into a school- built to protect and to teach the youth of the world to fight the power of His Heirs.
Anima Eterna's was not a peaceful existence. From day one, the school's boldness in the face of the new dark lords resulted in it becoming a prime target, and the fortress became filled with plants and spies. The end of its first year was greeted with an attack from His Heirs. Many were injured.
In its short time running, deaths, injuries and disappearances have become common occurrences, leaving AE as both a safe haven and a well known disaster area. The truth is that nowhere was safe anymore and, encouraged by the school's ability to persevere, more and more students began turning to it as a place to go.
But the wizarding world is falling apart once more. His Heirs became more aggressive with their attacks, and in November of 2018 Beauxbatons was brought to the ground by a large scale Death Eater assault, as well as Isla de la Paz, a major school in Brazil. The Ministry was helpless, and people were afraid. People died every day as a result of the oncoming war.
Before the Eterna were wiped out so many years previous, they left something behind. Somewhere in the school is the key to the ancient magic they once possessed, locked away and abandoned. Along with this is a warning, a prophecy, founded back in the days that the Eterna lived. It is believed that it speaks of the modern Anima Eterna, and its role in the new war.
This prophecy was delivered to the school by a host of spirits- the ghosts of the Eterna that died. It names Anima Eterna as a saviour, as well as the holder of their powerful magics. The Heirs now know of this power's existence, and in an attempt to claim it the school was almost destroyed, but yet again AE survived to see the next day against all odds.
The Death Eaters blazed forward, taking down their opposition piece by piece. But even as they began to dismantle the wizarding world in their own manner, other forces were hardly content to allow this. Hidden from the wizarding world, a group of underground revolutionists calling themselves the Order were also on a quest for power; a melting pot of reformed Death Eaters truly searching for a better world and a pack of radicals searching for personal glory joined together to form the organization that shook the wizarding world more violently than their Death Eater predecessors ever had. In May of 2020, in a series of simultaneous, surprise speeches, the Order revealed its successful takeover of the Ministry of Magic itself, thereby destroying all that Anima Eterna’s inhabitants have ever known.
The wizarding world has never been more fragmented. The Order is holding the reigns for now, but the Death Eaters surely will not go down without a fight. Well meaning vigilantes have come together to make the Initiative, a group intent on defeating the dark forces the aggressive way, prepared to defy the law in order to save wizarding society. Muggles, too, have begun to notice the turbulence in the magical world, and despite their ignorance to its nature some are prepared to take action; even the Mafia has rolled up its sleeves and is gearing up for battle.
Then there are the inhabitants of Anima Eterna at the center of it all, the weight of the world thrown upon their shoulders. In this time of trial they will look back to their original purpose- to be an army against the new wave of darkness. Will the power left behind by the Eterna bring their salvation, or will they be overwhelmed?
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