Walpurgisnacht

**Walpurgisnacht** is one of the many Clans within the Obelisk and unlike a majority of the clans within the Tower, it was shown that Walpurgisnacht is almost exclusively compromised of female members who are part of the Witch Race.

## Structure

### Members

Similar to the One-Horned Tribe, the members of Walpurgisnacht is implied to compromised completely of female members from the **Witch** Race that exclusively specialize in magic.

Its been stated that despite not being ranked as one of the Top Clan within the Tower, Walpurgisnacht is stated to be just as old as perhaps Red Dragon. With at least three of their members having been stated to be present during the tower's first emergence over a thousand years ago and Walpurgisnacht possessing a distinctive and unique culture similar to Red Dragon.

The Ranks of the clan itself is seemingly divided between the "First Witches" and the "Young Witches", with the first witches being set apart due to them being much older and thus much more experienced and powerful than the young witches, who were still considered novices. Another meaning to the term, "First Witches" is the fact that some of the members are over a thousand years old due to them being one of the first generation of witches birthed by the clan's founder and progenitor, "The Great Mother".

* **First Witches:** Margaret (deceased), D'arc (deceased), Pataya (deceased),Multiple Unnamed Witches (deceased)
* **Young Witches:** Unnamed Young Witch (deceased), Multiple Unnamed Witches (deceased)

### Command Structure

The exact power structure is unknown but its been confirmed that Viera Dune was the main leader of the Clan with her "Godmothers", Margaret and D'arc two of the oldest and founding members of the Clan acted as her helpers and second in commands in running the clan and its operation.

Pataya another one of the original founding members and one of the first witches, also possess a high position within the Clan. With her main specialty being long ranged clairvoyance, putting her in charge of handling the Brocken Castle's Defenses and supporting the clan's front line attackers from the rear.

D'arc & MargaretPataya
### Test Subjects

As seen during the assault of Elohim, Red Dragon, Devil Army,One-Horned Tribe, Sea of Time and the other Rankers during the downfall of Walpurgisnacht. The clan also employed a variety of their test subjects, such as Chimeras, Monster Hybrids and Doppelgangers, as foot soldiers or canon fodder to use as additional forces to help them defend the Endless World Of Night and fight off invaders within the "World Formation" Barriers they had set up around the Brocken Castle.

### Reputation/Relationships

Its been confirmed and implied that the Witches of Walpurgisnacht would frequently give their bodies to Demons in order to acquire more power for themselves. Resulting many of the Tower's Clans to refer them as "easy" as an insult when confronting its members, as seen where members of Red Dragon called them "easy bitches" during their massive raid on their sub-space. Some of the more prideful and arrogant Clans, such as Elohim, even considers and call them as nothing more than prostitutes.

Its also been implied that the witches of the clan would frequently use their natural seduction skills to entice and manipulate other ranker to get what they want or even use magical based seduction skills to augment their appeal to further their goals, increasing their infamy.

In the past they were shown to possess a friendly enough relationship with the other clan's of the Tower to a respectable degree to enter into temporary partnerships with them. As seen where they worked together with Cheonghwado to excavate the old laboratory of Faust and decipher the found Emerald Tablet and share its finding with them, albeit only leaving the non essential parts for Cheonghwado. However currently, due to the mechanization of Cha Yeon-woo, Walpurgisnacht has now become an enemy to the entire Tower due to them being believed responsible for releasing the "Emerald Tablet" that has completely destroyed the balance of power in the Tower due to its causing Red Dragon to attack the Mysterious Merchant Union, Declare War on all the Top Ranked Clans and Mid-Tier Clans and even attack the Bureau of Floor Guardians to acquire all the pieces of the Emerald Tablet.

Now they are currently in open war with Red Dragon due to them being believed to be responsible for releasing the false Emerald Tablet that has now infected the Summer Queen with Demon Poison and killing her. They are now also also facing multiple attacks from many other fronts due to the other clan's blaming them for enraging Red Dragon to betray and destroy the balance of power between the Top Eight Clans. Another motivation for this was due to the confirmation that Walpurgisnacht did indeed possess the original Emerald Tablet and thus was also targeted to acquire the Philosophers Stone for themselves as well.

Currently Red Dragon has even worsened the situation by setting up a quest where if one slaughters, kills and destroy's the Clan members, bases, facilities and everything related to Walpurgisnacht, the top three who accomplishes the most would be rewarded personally by the Summer Queen and be given the Trait "Dragon Blood" as a reward. Effectively getting even Ranker's who don't personally have a grudge against Walpurgisnacht involved in destroying them.

Walpugisnacht was also noted to be one of the forefront clans when it came to magical research and had a monopoly when it came to research, knowledge and influence of the magic focused clans of the Tower. This is seen where the huge gap left after Walpurgisnacht’s destruction left behind a huge opening that the Magic Towes attempted to fill by creating their own clan, Necropolis.

### Operations

Walpurgisnacht is also known to be a clan that focuses on magical research. With them being noted to frequently study and develop new magic techniques in general and its members being known to specialize in numerous fields of magic. Its also been stated that the Clan possess numerous magic research laboratories, with one of their main focuses being the experimentation with various monster's and creatures they capture.

As seen where their leader, Viera Dune took special interest in Doppelganger's and experimented with them and later used her test subjects as part of her defensive forces. Later it was stated by Pataya that they also possessed an army of experimental test subjects and chimera's during the siege against the Brocken Castle by Elohim, Red Dragon, Sea of Time and the Devil Army. Walpurgisnacht was noted to treat their test subjects inhumanly and degraded them to the point that they do not see them as other living beings but objects to be experimented on. This is exemplified of how they treat Sesha, who despite being the daughter to their leader, many of the members have degraded her and deem her as nothing but anther guinea pig, as seen where D'arc simply refers to her as "BX\_71".

Its members were also implied to make frequent deals with Demons to consolidate power. The female member's of the clan where also implied to specialize in seduction and are somewhat infamous for manipulating men into getting what they want.

Also since gaining access to the Emerald Tablet, Walpurgisnacht has also now begun producing and creating their own Philosopher's Stones in mass to increase their power and mastery over Magic. This is seen where several of its "First Witch" members are shown to possess access to their own Stones that has drastically magnified their power.

### Goal

It was later revealed that the overall goal obsessively pursued by the Witches of Walpurgisnacht is the creation of a suitable vessel for the "Great Mother" to inhabit and reside it. With the Witches having created and birthed numerous such vessels for the expressed purpose of creating the most ideal vessel to allow their Great Mother to inhabit in for over a thousand years.

Because of this goal, Witches such as Viera Dune were noted to bear children for the sole purpose of experimenting with them to see if their adequate candidates for a vessel. With Sesha due to her Dragon Blood, being known as the subject with the highest compatibility of being able to successfully contain the Great Mother within her body and her adoptive mother, Ananta being the second most compatible vessel found by Walpurgisnacht.

## Base

### Endless World of Night

Like all of the well known and experienced clans within the Tower, Walpurgisnacht also possess its own sub space world that acts as the main base and headquarters for the members of the Clan.

Due to it residing in its own dimension, the Sub-Space itself is akin to that of a small country due to age of the clan and its members families and descendants having begun living within it for such a long time. As seen where it was shown that numerous residential homes and non combatant witches were seen living outside their main base of the Brocken Castle that was destroyed by Red Dragon and the other clans as they made their way to the castle during the clan's downfall.

### Brocken Castle

Located within the Sub-space is the **Brocken Castle** the main headquarters, research facility, vault and residential home of the Witches of Walpurgisnacht. The Castle itself is where the clan's leader Viera Dune lives and leads the clan and where all of the clan's most important research subjects, facilities, documents, tomes, books, resources and treasures are kept and as such is the most well guarded location in the Sub Space.

Its been stated that due to Walpurgisnacht's age, the Castle has existed for thousands of years.

Ever since excavating the **Faust Laboratory** and acquiring his research and work, the Brocken Castle's overall defenses was greatly increased due to acquiring several magical world barriers to further protect the castle.

Defensive Layers;

* **Ghost World Formation:** A Ghostish Fog that is artificially spread to give intruders illusions and cause them to become more susceptible to fear as it slowly drains away the intruders lifespans. The first defensive layer of the Castle.
* **Monster World Formation:**
* **Disaster World Formation:**
* **Underworld Formation:**
* **Calamity World Formation:**

## History

Although unknown when their clan began, it's been stated that they are one of the most ancient clan's within the Tower. Having been stated to have been founded over a thousand years ago during the Tower's early history by the Goddess simply known and revered as the "Great Mother", who created and founded the Witch Race.

Some of its oldest members known as the "First Witches" such as Margaret, D'arc and Pataya, were stated to be one of the oldest being's within the Tower and was stated to be one of the very first rankers within the tower and founders of Walpurgisnacht.

Sometime in its recent history, Viera Dune had come out of nowhere and joined the clan and soon rose up into becoming one of its main candidates to becoming its clan leader due to her immense power, skill and talent that she developed in her previous clan of Arthia. During the race to become its leader, Viera had apparently developed a ruthless and vicious reputation within the clan due to each and everyone of her competitors to become leader had suffered some sort of random "accident" or "misfortune" that either killed them or took them out of the race. And although no solid information could be found linking her to them, it was obvious to many of the members that Viera was the one responsible. Eventually after all the other candidates "dropped out", Viera became Walpurgisnacht's leader and eventually even gained the attention and favor of the Clan's patron goddess, The "Great Mother", who soon made her her Apostle as well, solidifying Viera place as leader of the clan.

Although unknown why or when, Walpurgisnacht had also apparently been attacked and invaded by "Heaven Wing" Cha Jeong-woo, and resulted in their clan base, The Brocken Castle, facing severe damage. Although the details are unknown, its been stated that the damage was extensive enough that it was memorable.

Sometime after this Walpurgisnacht had entered into a business relationship with Cheonghwado where Viera and Leonte oversaw the excavation of "Dispiser of Light" Black Alchemist Faust's old laboratory. Through this partnership, the two clans successfully unearthed several powerful abilities, items and knowledge from the Alchemist's research. Walpurgisnacht in particular gained all sorts of magical knowledge from the alchemists and obtain the "world formation" barriers that they then used to enhance the Brocken Castle's defenses and various other materials used to further their own research.

However out of all the things they obtained, the most important and valuable by far was the "Emerald Tablet" that contained knowledge on how to create the "Philosophers Stone" that granted its users unlimited mana to use their skills and magic with. Viera Dune in particular took personal interest in this project and personally translated the tablet, successfully gaining the entirety of its knowledge before erasing several key points from the tablet and then turning it over to Cheonghwado as agreed.

Thanks to this, Walpurgisnacht had a head start in the Philosopher Stone research and production and successfully created several pseudo stones for the personal usage of the First Witches that greatly magnified their powers and granted them near unlimited use for their most destructive spells.

### Destruction

After Cha Yeon-woo successfully poisoned the Summer Queen and framed Walpurgisnacht for it using his fake Emerald Tablet and the violent incident in the Kelart Auction for the Tablet, Walpurgisnacht was not only facing the attacks and hatred of Red Dragon, but also facing the wrath of the other Top Ten Clans who desired the Emerald Tablet and the Philosophers Stone for themselves.

Causing Walpurgisnacht to face a tidal-wave of attacks from Elohim,The Sea of Time, The One-Horned Tribe,Red Dragon and The Devil Army of the Top Ten Clans. This along with the Summer Queen's quest to rewarding whoever inflicts the most damage to Walpurgisnacht with her treasures and Dragon Blood, effectively enticed even Clans and Players with no grudges against Walpurgisnacht to come and destroy them alongside other clans who also desired the Emerald Tablet for themselves.

This inevitably resulted in Walpurgisnacht's complete destruction due to the severe losses to their Clan and the complete anhelation of their base.

### Aftermath

After the deaths of Viera Dune and the other First Witches higher ups of Walpurgisnacht and the mass slaughter due to the mass destruction brought about of Cha Yeon-woo's usage of [Meteor], combined with the siege of the Top Clans, Mercenary Clans, Mid Tier Clans and Solo Rankers, all of Walpurgisnacht's members and forces where thoroughly annihilated and slaughtered, effectively rendering the clan extinct.

After the destruction and annihilation of their clan, Their Outer Sub-Space World was given to the "Hoarder" Cain, due to his major contributions in annihilating the clan.

## Trivia

* Walpurgisnacht in German can be translated as "Witches Night" or "Witches Sabbatical" in English and is a German Holiday and superstition from olden times. In German folklore it was said that every April 30 to May 1, the Witches of old would gather at the Brocken Mountain in order to celebrate and revel with their Gods and during the age of Christianity, Devils.
	+ This in turn is the basis for the Clan, with many of their traits, locations and names seemingly alluding to the old stories.