Death Eaters

The Death Eaters were formed in the mid-1940’s as the natural evolution of Tom Riddle’s Knights of Walpurgis, a group of loyal and trusted friends and classmates from his time at Hogwarts. These individuals will all either be purebloods from the Sacred Twenty-Eight families, or from families that have long-since rejected any muggle heritage, and are in support of pure, wizarding bloodlines. No women will be allowed in until the 1970’s, when he Marks Bellatrix Lestrange.

Their Headquarters is housed in a small, three-story brick building, nestled behind some greenery in the outskirts of York. The building and the land it sits on were purchased through collected funds from the Death Eaters, using a dummy name, so that it cannot be traced back to Tom or any of his followers. This building is heavily secured with complex magical enchantments to prevent it from being detected, and Tom Riddle is the Secret Keeper for the space.

Formal meetings with Tom Riddle are held at a large oak table in a spartan basement space. The rest of the building is set up to accommodate the Death Eaters in their individual meetings and discussions related to their missions. This space will be open to accepted Death Eater-aligned members of the following subplots: Infiltration, Dr. Mengle, and Haunted Heirlooms.

knights of walpurigs
During Tom Riddle's Hogwarts years, he had assembled a group of Slytherin pureblood boys that were known as the Knights of Walpurgis only to their own and their most trusted allies. As Albus Dumbledore has mentioned, this group consisted those who gravitated to glory and power, those that were weak and sought out protection, and the thugs who only wished to blindly follow a strong leader. However, those forerunners would soon become the first later known as Death Eaters.

The members of the gang all like to think themselves close friends with Tom Riddle, though their leader only sees them as minions for something much larger. The group is secret, and they attend secret meetings that Tom Riddle organizes. Their meetings consist of serious business to help fuel the oppression of muggle borns, and encourage the wary of muggles who have their war stirring loudly just outside their doors. During these years with Gellert Grindelwald in his height of power, Tom Riddle and the Knights of Walpurgis are all too willing to take advantage of this divide in the Wizarding Community, by thus plotting and scheming how to manipulate the young minds of Hogwarts students to sway them into believing that muggles and mudbloods are the cause of the strife.

The Death Eaters
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