Deathly Regiment

The Deathly Regiment is an incredibly secretive statute in wizarding America.
== The Seven-Year Sacrifice ==
The most well-known part of the Deathly Regiment is carried out by the families of the Elect, who struck a deal with the Generous Ones in order to usurp control of the Lands Below from the native magical practitioners of North America. Every seven years, the Regiment chooses one pureblooded child, "one too young to have a wand," by secret lottery from among its member-families to be sacrificed to the Generous Ones and sent to the Lands Beyond. These children are given a Confederation medallion that may be converted into a kind of Deathly token upon the child's death.
Absalom Thorn died fighting against the Deathly Regiment.
During the Fall of 2009, in her research into ghosts, Alexandra Quick found announcements that deceased wizards had "joined the Deathly Regiment" in two of the oldest wizarding obituaries she found.
In November of 2009, Alex learned that her half-sister Valeria White was researching the Thorn Family's history and relation to the Regiment with Absalom's reluctant help and the use of a Time-Turner.
In 2010, Mary Dearborn was chosen to be sacrificed, but her sister learned of her fate (possibly through a Mayan Brazier of Visions), and attempted to sacrifice Innocence Pritchard instead; Dearborn was stopped by Alexandra Quick, who rescued Pritchard, and Darla sacrificed herself to save her sister.
In May of 2010, Alex was told the true nature of the Regiment by Tiow. In June of 2010, Alex spoke with Geming Chu about the Regiment, and learned that the Elect chooses a pureblooded child by secret lottery, and that Geming had married a Muggle specifically to protect his children, who, by being half-blooded, would be ineligible for the Regiment's lottery. Alex later spoke with her ancestor Absalom about the Regiment.
== The Daily Sacrifice ==
In June 2012, Alex discovers the complete true nature of the Deathly Regiment. She steals the book containing the Confederation's actuarial tables from the Accounting Office at Storm King Mountain, in which they record the names and dates of each sacrifice: one child, every day, dating back to 1660. Most of the people killed are Muggles, though some are Muggle-borns.
The magic from the Deathly Regiment is used to keep the Confederation running, secret, and safe. The Cultures who do not participate in the Deathly Regiment may have limitations on their magic, such as how the Ozarkers undo and then redo all of their magic every seven years.
== Exposure ==
Numerous attempts were made to uncover the truth of the Deathly Regiment, most notably by Abraham Thorn, though various methods such as the Roanoke Underhill crash, though none of them were successful.
In 2009, the Academie de Magic sent a Historicist, Valeria White, a daughter of Abraham Thorn, undercover to the Confederation to converse with the ghosts of her ancestors who had knowledge of the Deathly Regiment. However, the mission was ultimately a failure, and the mission was exposed when White's sister Alexandra Quick stole White's Time-Turner and was caught after a failed attempt to save her brother Maximillian King, causing a humiliating international incident. 
In June 2012, while Abraham Thorn and the Dark Confederation laid siege to New Amsterdam, Alexandra Quick used the attack as a distraction and broke into the Accounting Office at Storm King Mountain and stole the book containing the Confederation's actuarial tables, where the names and dates of each sacrifice were recorded. Using the hacked Eye-Spy and News Snitch of CNN Reporter Archibald Mudd, Alex broadcast the subsequent conversation between her and her father revealing the exact details of the Deathly Regiment to the entire Confederation, setting into motion the Confederation Civil War. 
==Victims==
Seven year sacrifice:
* 1835: Six-year-old Hesperia Zill was sacrificed.
* 1856: Ten-year-old Wendell Rusch was sacrificed.
* 1982: Jezebel Hucksteen was sacrificed.
* 2010: Fourteen-year-old Darla Dearborn sacrificed herself in order to save her sister, Mary Dearborn.
Other notable victims of the Deathly Regiment include Bonnie Seabury and Cassandra Thorn. The full list of known victims can be found here.
Roger Darby was presumably intended to be sacrificed as part of the Deathly Regiment, but was not listed in the book.
==Etymology==
The term "regiment" is here used in the sense of a government or regime, as John Knox used it in his 1558 work, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
==Theories==
Theories as to the nature of the Regiment may be posited here.
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