Introduction to our Game and Setting
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Welcome
Welcome to our unusual world. Riddled in Darkness began its life originally as a anime based Harry Potter game on host board under the direction of Stephanie ‘Celeste’ Chateau. Our talented founder wanted a way to creatively enter the world of the characters she was inspired to draw and discovered to find new inspiration in the realization that she could interact with the characters of J.K. Rowlings world and devise cunning scheme’s for her comics through role-play. Our games life began as ‘The Slytherin Dorms’.
So began the life of our world, crazy ghosts, romantic vampires, gravediggers and wizards populated a free form dramatic environment, where Eudoxia’s spade dug into the earth, so did chaos and calamity followed. Over time things started to change, just as teen role-players grow, so do their interests and ideas of what the world really is. We began our game as children, we continue to play as adults.
2003 and outgrowing the teenage sheltered environment and wanting a place that was more challenging for the more adult thinking players who had grown up in Harry’s World. Interested in White Wolf’s World of Darkness there came a chance to meld the two worlds together and form something unique, something dangerous, something more challenging.
Not to say our world has not had its share of ups and downs. Since 2003 Changing administration, guardians who stop Seeing Eye to eye and internal drama started to shape what was now ‘Hogwarts by Night’ into more of what it is today. Despite criticism ‘HBN’ opened its doors to the WOD cautiously, players only known for basic Harry Potter Role-Play were suddenly introduced to creatures mentioned in J.K. Rowling’s Series but ruled by White Wolf’s limitations and powers, a new form of game emerged.
In 2007, on the domain’s Official 3rd year, Hogwarts by Night shifted venues to add an even more unique sense to the game, we moved it from London to New York. This did not affect the game well, members splitting off of the site in protest, but we pursued our goals to be unique. This is the same year that our game started to push Vampire: The Requiem and the other new games in the ‘New World of Darkness’ into preferred play. Shocking the game once again.
The Setting
Riddled in Darkness starts in New York of our current year. Following the downfall of Voldemort many years ago dark wizards and witches retaliated and even through death and trial refused to stepped down and end their war. The panic in London and Paris were so severe that residents packed up their belongings and families and headed across the ocean to America to start over.
The new residents of New York did not have time to settle in before the darkness that plagued Europe followed the fleeing wizards, vampires and werewolves that desperately tried to evade the fires and threats in their old world. Many perished at the Dark Wizard Grindewalds wand, but that was only merely the public diversion to the real problems.
The underworld of New York is seedy. It is dark, dangerous, cruel and uncaring of its inhabitants. The Sabbat continue to pursue violence with the emerging covenants of vampires and despite the evolution of blood to bloodlines and newer versions of clans, it was still not enough to end the corruption. Riddled in Darkness is just that, it is a twisted world of despair, trial’s, triumphs and pure darkness. How long before you suffocate in your own fear. From outside of your safe warm homes, to your very Soul.
