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Goals:

• To restructure HP canon so that the horcruxes are found in the Marauders' era instead of trio's.


• Make finding and the destruction of the horcruxes more of a challenge than it was in canon.


• Create wizarding world cultures around the world based on the clues provided by Rowling in canon as well as myths, legends, and folklore from around the world.


• Expand on the characters' choices (enabling them to potentially become very different people and perhaps even switch sides over the course of the game) by giving them choices they never had in the books and making them do things they never did in the books. This includes placing them among characters they usually don't interact with much and in locations they would usually never go.


• Give Death Eaters a vital role in the game instead of making them stand around looking fierce.

Resources plumbed in the course of research:

• A Wikipedia article about a famous natural wonder (among others) whose location is undisclosed for its protection.


• A lost city or three.


• A slightly terrifying account of a Hungarian noblewoman who liked to bathe in young women's blood.


• A video of Gordon Ramsay throwing up.


• Two medieval bestiaries.


• The winners of the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships, which we ultimately decided not to use, but which did lead to us finding the most awesome wallpaper ever.


• The homepage for Bush's Baked Beans. Looking back now, this one got seriously out of hand.


• (Warning: probably NSFW) These slippers. In this case, we have no excuse to offer.

Put it all together and you get an AU Harry Potter RPG set in 1979, with the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters racing each other all over the world to find the Horcruxes. No, honestly. You really do.