Welcome to Until The End. We are a moderate Harry Potter role-playing site set in the Marauder's Era. Our plot is generally derived from details in the book, but as an AU site we do take liberties most anywhere we like. Those who died in the books can have a second chance at living, and those who lived are always at risk.
Tom Marvolo Riddle has long since disappeared and in his stead Lord Voldemort has risen, bringing a small army with him. The Ministry of Magic has thus far ignored the growing menace that is the Death Eaters and Albus Dumbledore has taken it upon himself to defend the wizarding community from an evil he knows is building. War is coming. Pick a side!
School's Out For Summer
The Hogwart's Express has pulled up to the station in King's Cross station and the summer holidays have officially begun. What mischeif will you get into in the warm summer sun?
*Coming Soon* - Summer Solstice Carnival
Travel by portkey to the biggest summer celebration in wizard society - The Summer Solstice Carnival! There will be food, games, prizes, fun and more!
Please comply with all rules and admin instruction.
Rules are subject to change at any time, but we will send a PM to all members if and when a rule has been added or updated.
Members are responsible for knowing and complying with the rules at all times. Ignorance is not an excuse.
General
1. RESPECT This is one of the most important rules. Be respectful, enjoy your time here, and there won't be any issues. The only drama that should be happening on Until The End should be between the characters, not our members. if there are any issues that cannot be resolved among the involved members, please PM Slither or Rose and we will do our best to mediate a happy solution.
2. CBOX & PMs There is no advertising allowed in the cbox or via PMs. That is not what it is there for. The cbox is designed to be a place to chit chat and get to know one another. If there are any guests questions and the admins cannot get to it, please help them with whatever they need! All Until The End rules apply in the cbox and PMs, most importantly, be respectful!
3. ADVERTISING As stated above, the cbox is not a place to advertise, nor is anywhere except the advertisement board. When advertising another site, please be sure to comply with our posted advertising rules and post your ad only in the appropriate board.
4. ABSENCES Any absences will need to be posted in the absence board. If your account has been inactive too long without an absence notice, you may be at risk of being deleted. You should not feel compelled to divulge any personal information in your absence notice, simply let us know when you plan to return and which characters the absence will affect.
5. ACTIVITY Activity is very important to us. We ask that you post when you can - we do not want anyone burning themselves out. We realize real life is important and everyone has their own lives. We would like to see applications finished within a week of joining and posting in threads within three weeks. However, if you post in the absences board or let Slither or Rose know you need more time, we will be happy to grant the occasional extension. We do a monthly activity check, so you will have fair warning about threads or characters who need a bit of attention.
Characters
6. FACE CLAIMS When choosing a face claim, please look at the face claim list to see who is already being used on the site. All actresses, actors, and models are allowed, however, anyone under the age of 13 is not. Please keep this in mind when making your character. We do not allow any type of anime, youtubers, etc. and we highly encourage you use a face claim with lots of pictures and gifs for fun in the games. For this reason, should you choose to use a model as a face claim, they must be well-known with enough pictures to sustain our graphic requirements.
7. GRAPHICS Avatars should be square 200x200 gifs or still image of your character's face claim. Mini-profile backgrounds should be 250x250 still images, also of your face claim. We also will need you to submit a 100x100 still image for the face claim list, and a 100x100 image for the member list. Please host your own images (don't link from a google image search) so that your images work reliably and keep our site looking pretty.
8. CHARACTER COUNT There is no limit to the number of characters you can create, but please only take on as many characters as you can handle! We don't want anyone stressing out over this - it is supposed to be fun – but it’s also impolite to leave other members waiting for replies because you’ve taken on more than you can handle. Main canon characters are limited to two per member; main canons include the Marauders, Lily, Severus, the Black sisters, and the Malfoys. There is no limit to the number of minor canons or original characters you can make.
9. REGISTERING Please register a new account for each character. For tagging purposes, please try to make your account name match your character’s name (e.g., Character Name: James Potter, Account Name: james). When setting up your account profile, please make sure it is set up as 'First Middle Last' name – capitalizing the first letter of each name. Please DO NOT post your claims until your application is accepted.
10. CANON LIST Our canon list includes the main canons as well as some, but not all, of the lesser canon families. If there is anyone not listed that you would like to play, feel free to let us know. The canon list will also be updated to include original characters and families, so that all of our Until The End characters are represented.
11. PUREBLOODS With the exception of non-British families, original purebloods are not allowed at Until The End. We apologize for this inconvenience, but there are several pureblood families on the canon list for members to choose from. If you absolutely have to have your own original family, then they need to be from another part of the world (e.g., Egypt, Spain, Thailand) and the face claim must look to be from that part of the world.
12. MAGICAL CREATURES AND SPECIAL POWERS We understand that everyone wants their character to be special. However, when everyone is special, then no one is special. As such, we do unfortunately have to limit the number of special powers and magical creature half-breeds allowed. Special powers are rare in the magical community (that’s why they’re called special) so they will be strictly monitored. No character can have more than one special power or be whole or part magical creature, without admin approval. We also need to limit how many specialty characters a single member has so that everyone has the opportunity to play a specialty character if they want to.
Magical creature characters must also be played realistically to their standing in society. Werewolves and vampires are generally feared and disliked by society, and struggle to maintain jobs in the traditional magical community. These circumstances must be considered when developing and plotting you werewolf or vampire character. There are also no werewolf students at Hogwarts, except for our favorite wolfboy, Remus Lupin.
RPing
13. POSTING We do not technically have a word count, but all posts should be at least one paragraph in length (4-5 sentences). We want to emphasize story telling and plot progression over excessive word counts. Please keep your character posts logical and realistic for the wizarding world and avoid running multiple parallel conversations in one thread – it’s confusing and not how people actually interact with each other.
Please date your threads in the Description box when starting a new thread. The year is 1975, so all dates should correspond with this calendar. Also, as Until The End is set in Britain, please write your dates in the English format of date – month – year. Time of day is optional but never scoffed at.
Until The End is subject to ProBoard’s rules and regulations, and as such this is a PG-13 site. Overtly sexual or graphic violence is not permitted, and members are encouraged to use the “fade to black” method to skirt around R-rated situations.
14. GOD-MODING God-moding is absolutely not allowed! You cannot control other members’ characters without their express permission. This includes sneaking something into another character’s drink, stating that a spell hit the other character, or use of the Imperius Curse. Please be mindful of this while posting with other members.
15. MARY SUES & GARY STUS Perfect and flawless characters are not realistic, and no one wants to roleplay with a Mary Sue. Your character must have realistic reactions to drama, physical attacks, mental abuse, etc. In that same vain, characters with overly complicated histories are 1) not all that common and therefore should be used sparingly, and 2) boring for role play – save the drama for the threads! Any borderline Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters will NOT be permitted to have any special powers or be a magical creature (whole or part). This will be at the discretion of the admins.