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— After the explosion during the Halloween feast

## Summary

Rigel is late to the Halloween feast, leading her friends to talk about her oddities. Draco suggests that Rigel is so committed to presenting a false personality and false preferences that, for practical purposes, they become real. When she arrives, she mentions that she's late because the belladonna she needed for a potion was missing; her friends are concerned about where it might have gone, but she assures them that it's not dangerous to humans except in much larger doses.

Dumbledore's Halloween speech comes to an end but, just as he's asking students to keep an eye out for the missing Mrs. Norris, he is interrupted by a distant explosion. He asks for calm and sends the students to their common rooms under the guidance of the prefect, explaining to everyone that a part of the third floor's east side collapsed. Draco notices that Rigel is missing, so he and Pansy, thinking he went to the third floor, go there unnoticed to get him.

Rigel follows her housemates when she notices the Weasley twins and Ron, and goes to listen to their conversation. They are worried about Ginny who wasn't there for the feast. Rigel investigates the Marauder's Map, and finds Ginny heading for the Gryffindor's common room. She catches up with the Weasley and tell them that Ginny is safe and to not go to the third floor. When they don't want to listen to her, she offers to go herself with good arguments. The twins give her a journal that is linked to another and tell her to inform them through it. They part and Rigel checks the Map a last time before planning to inform them that Ginny is safe later, but then, notices Pansy and Draco heading for the third floor. She writes in the journal that Ginny is safe before going to find them. Rigel finds out that Neville Longbottom is petrified and surrounded by rubble. Not wanting to get caught, they go back to the common room. Rigel explains with reluctance that she saw Neville to the other second years. Snape comes to check the master list and explains that Slytherin House will practise additional security, and advises them to be prudent such as not travelling alone.

A flashback shows how Archie and Hermione met; he's now moody about the holiday, informing Hermione that something bad always happens to his cousin on Halloween.

## Characters (by order of appearance)

* Draco Malfoy
* Pansy Parkinson
* Rigel Black
* Albus Dumbledore
* Blaise Zabini
* Millicent Bulstrode
* Theodore Nott
* Fred Weasley
* George Weasley
* Ron Weasley
* Neville Longbottom
* Alesana Selwyn
* Severus Snape
* Hermione Granger
* Archie as Harry Potter

## Setting

### Hogwarts

* Great Hall
* Third Floor (via East stairs)
* Slytherin Common Room

### AIM

* Mess Hall
* Plane to AIM

## Other POV (by order of appearance)

* Draco Malfoy
* Hermione Granger
Spellbook

Spellbooks are semi-rare loot items found in Duat. When right clicked, they give the player a potion effect. they exist in three forms:

* **Undecipherable spellbook**, which give the player a random positive potion effect of a random power and duration. Although the effect is unknown, it can only be positive.
* **Dodgy spellbook**, which give an effect which is either negative or positive. It has 70% chances of being positive, and offer a much longer lasting effect that normal spellbooks
* **Partially decipherable spellbook**, rarer then the previous, they offer a more narrowed down selection of possible effects, they come in three forms:
	1. **Offense**, which can give either speed, haste or strength
	2. **Defense**, which can give either regeneration, resistance, health boost, fire resistance or absorption
	3. **Ability**, which can give either jump boost, invisibility, night vision, luck, or water breathing
Chalcioecus

**Chalcioecus** is an all-female school located in an unplottable acropolis in Laconia, Greece. They have a brother school also located in Laconia, which is all-male.

## Academic structure

Chalcioecus teaches Charms, Transfiguration, and Dueling. However, the school doesn't focus on the subjects of Arithmancy, Runes or Alchemy, which are seen as male subjects and taught at the brother school. At Chalcioecus, every student gets a warrior title once they pass their fifth-year trials.

According to Antiope, their graduates are more talented because of the lack of boys to distract them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Futile Facade: Chapter 8
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Futile Facade: Chapter 7
Man in the blue vest

## Appearances

  — The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3

**Man in the blue vest** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

During the summer, he is one of the fighter at Kyprioth Court while the Dancing Dragon burns. He approaches Harry when she sees the scene, and gets killed in front of her by the Man with the knife, thus becoming one of her recurring nightmares.

## Appearances

**Appearances**
 * The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4 (*mentioned*)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
Books

There are a number of **books** within the universe containing knowledge on various magical (and non-magical) subjects. The following is a list of them.

## List of books

### Spells

* **Charms of Equal Exchange:** A book Harry used for one of Flint's essays.
* **A Treatise on the Wielding of Wandless Power:** An old book on wandless casting. Found in the Room of Requirement and recommended to Caelum by Harry.
* **Deter, Delay, Deny: Nonlethal Spells for Every Enemy** by Armando Dippet[*citation needed*]
* **Most Riveting Revenge Spells**[*citation needed*]
* **1000 Hexes and Jinxes**[*citation needed*]

### Potions

* **Self Transfiguration:** An unassuming brown leather book that covers a number of topics on the subject, including Animagi and permanent beautification spells. Sirius recommends this book for Archie to learn about the Animagus transformation.
* **Moste Potente Potion:** Master Hurst wrote the introduction. It has mostly poisons with incredibly unlikely ingredients and one decent recipe for Polyjuice Potion. Harry got it on her 8th birthday.

### Herbology

* **1000 Magical Herbs and Fungi:** Neville read this on the train to Hogwarts.
* **A Healer's Guide to Magical Plants and Fungi:** A well-illustrated book given to Archie from Harry.
* **Caring For Your Crops:** An advanced book on Herbology that Harry checked out for one of Flint's essays.

### Other magic

* **Magical Inheritances**
* **Occlumency: Fortresses of the Mind:** Found in the Black Library and given to Harry from Archie.

### Miscellaneous

* **Mermaid Hunting for Fun and Profit**, purchased by Harry
* **Etiquette for all Occasions**, a chapter supposedly explains how one properly advises another about an attempt on their life. Pansy promises to send an updated copy to Rigel for her birthday.

## References

1. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 9
2. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 4
3. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 6
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
5. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 1
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 16
7. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 21
Weapons

Other than mythic items, various weapons exist in this mod, based on the various weapons that were used by the four cultures featured in this mod. Each have their own strategies, advantages and disadvantages.

### **Macuahuitl**

Macuahuitl are an Aztec weapon, made using wooden planks, sticks and obsidian shards. Macuahuitl have low durability but relatively high damage. However, their damage output is inversely exponentially proportionate to the amount of armour points the adversary has, being close to useless against an adversary garbed in full diamond armour, yet lethal against a nude player or mob.

### **Spear**

Spears come in two material, bronze or iron. Unlike all other tools, spears do not have durability, and instead break randomly at a probability equivalent to standard bronze and iron durability. Spears do bonus damage against mounted mobs and player, as much against the mob that is mounted than the mob or player mounting it. Spears also have the advantage of taking half the required metal than swords.

### **Khopesh**

Khopesh is an Egyptian weapon. In terms of attack damage and speed, the khopesh can be paced halfway between a sword and an axe. Khopesh have an advantage against shields, as they remove 15% percent of a shield's deflection probability, which is half for a standard shield.

### **Viking axe**

the viking axe has the same attack speed as an iron axe, and has a slightly higher attack damage. Viking axes are purely weapons, and cannot be used to cut down trees. However, like vanilla axes, they can be used to strip logs, and will even carve a decorative pattern in the log as well. Dwarven battleaxes have the same attack damage and speed.

#### Double axes

The viking double axe has more damage than the regular axe, but lower speed.
Ancestry Potion

## Ancesty Potion

The **Ancestry Potion** is a potion which shows one's family tree.

## Use

Pour the potion into a bowl. Soak an entire parchment in the brew. A drop of blood onto the parchment will reveal the ancestry.

## Trivia

* The inclusion of this potion is "mandated by Ministerial standards, despite the relatively high cost of ingredients in relation to the arguably low academic benefit"  (Department of Education)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Futile Facade: Chapter 6
Goldflame

"Harry is pretty common for humans, too," Harry said with a smile.
The goblin scoffed. "There's nothing common about you, girlie. You're as tricky as a sphinx."

**Goldflame** is a goblin in the *Rigel Black Chronicles* and appears only as an opponent to free dueling in the lower alleys

## Profile

### Appearance

Looks similar to her brother. Met Harry in the lower alleys and they commpeted against each other for their second match during the free-duelling tournament. Harry defeats her.
Alchemy

Alchemy is similar to Transmutation in that they both focus on changing an object's properties. The difference lies in the fact that an alchemical transmutation's outcome is determined before channeling magic and cannot be changed afterwards. An alchemical transmutation is described by runes.

As the runes are carefully picked out to transform the raw channeled magic into a transfiguration less magic is required to perform an alchemical transfiguration. The efficiency advantages of Alchemy are exponential.[*citation needed*]

### Magical Output

As Alchemy requires exact calculations behind its transmutations, it is necessary to calculate the rate of one's magical output before attempting any reactions.

### List of Known Alchemists

* Nicholas Flamel
* Albus Dumbledore
PP1

## Summary

Harriett "Harry" Potter is a girl who wants to study Potions under Professor Snape (a genius Potioneer according to her), despite being a halfblood, prohibiting her from going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which is only opened to purebloods.

Arcturus "Archie" Black is a boy who wants to study Healing at the American Institute of Magic (AIM), despite his father, Sirius Black, who wants him to go to Hogwarts, due to a fear of losing his son, as he did his mother, Diana.

The story starts with Harry, who informs Archie, her cousin, that she convinced her parents she wanted to attend the AIM. They had decided to, in order to achieve their dreams, switch place with each other, as they are quite similar physically. Harry would go as Archie, a pureblooded boy, and Archie would go as Harry, telling AIM that there was a mistake in the inscription and that he is Harry, a boy, not Harriett, a girl. To be the most similar, they cut their hair to a very short length, and use coloured contact lenses (green for Archie, and grey for Harry).

After a dinner with Remus, the Potters, and the Blacks, during which the Marauders tell Archie to do a lot of pranks at Hogwarts and Harry tells everyone she wants to go to the Healer tract, Harry and Archie exchange their trunks. Harry stole enough Polyjuice Potion to last them until the next morning, from James' Auror kit, having replaced it with a neutral concoction that smells and tastes as bad, but doesn’t do anything, and gives some to Archie. They switch places.

Harry goes in the bathroom of the Hogwarts Express and waits for the Polyjuice to wear off. She is now Arcturus Rigel Black. Feeling strange about taking Archie's name, she decides to use Rigel instead. She goes in a compartment and meets Neville Longbottom. Something is familiar about him. They talk lightly, then, when Neville wants to change robes, Rigel goes outside and is slammed into the ground by Flint for being "in his way". Weasley, a prefect, saves her. She then goes back to the compartment with Neville.

## Characters (by order of appearance)

* Arcturus Black
* Harriett Potter & Rigel Black
* Remus Lupin
* James Potter
* Lily Potter
* Sirius Black
* Neville Longbottom
* Marcus Flint
* Percy Weasley

## Potions

* Wolfsbane Potion
* Polyjuice Potion

## Differences

There following major differences were found between the version posted on fanfiction.net and the version posted on archiveofourown.org (found using text-compare):

* All instances of **Harriett** were changed to **Harriet** or **Harry**
* Minor grammar adjustments
Magical Core

A **magical core** is the source of magical strength for witches and wizards. While it has a physical location within the body, it can generally be sensed only through magical means.

## Development

At schooling age, it is essential to develop the magical core by consciously using magic rather than using it unconsciously.

## Types of Cores

Cores are elemental (fire, water, earth, air) or some correspond elements. It is hard to know the depth of magical level with fire-types, as a lot of their magical energy is hidden in potential, waiting to combust and create energy at a moment's notice. Endurance is the only way to judge a fire-core.

### Stability

Some magical cores are stable, while some magical cores emit magic more erratically. This is a reason that some witches and wizards are naturally good at Potions, while some are less successful: unstable cores can interfere with the imbuing of the potion.

In Harry's case, unlike both of these, once she obtains a well-matched wand, her core does not emit magic at all, meaning she must consciously imbue magic into potions where the magic of the ingredients does not suffice.

### Format

Magical cores can have multiple layers, just one layer, or something less centralized. Most cores are spherical, since it is the most natural way to consolidate power.

### Alignment

Every magical core has an affinity for a magical alignment, Light, Dark, and Neutral. People are born with a predisposure for one of them, either passed down in their blood or from the way their soul is made up naturally. The environment also influences a child in feeling either the Light or Dark magic. A child power thus take on the properties of Dark or Light, depending on both its natural inclinations and its environment.

Neutral magic users are usually muggleborn, leading credence to the idea that Dark and Light leanings derive more from the environment than from natural inclination, but there are Dark muggleborns and Light muggleborns, too, so the idea of an inherent tendency toward one or the other can't be discounted.

Magical alignment plays a big role in politics, with Light politics (Dumbledore's party) and Dark politics (Riddle's party), but they must be differentiated from true magical alignment.

## Links between Cores

Two witches or wizards can create a link between their cores, generally with permission from both. This link can show information about a core, such as the depth and state of a magical core, how often a user exercises their magic, and if there is anything blocking it. It requires some control over one's own core in order to view the other person's. Unlike Legilimency, a link between cores won't tell anything specific about the person whose core it is.

## References

1. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 13
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
3. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 17
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 19
5. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
The Malignant Masquerade

**The Malignant Masquerade** is the fifth book in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

## Chapters

Word count was calculated using https://wordcounter.net/ and may differ from Fanfiction.net's native word counter. Except for author's notes (A/N), it includes content like the chapter introductions and endings and perspective changes.

Release date, where unclear, was determined using the date of the first review of the chapter. It may not be wholly accurate.

## Trivia

* The book was initially to be called **The Manic Masquerade**, as announced in The Futile Facade: Epilogue. However, upon the release of the book, Violet wrote that she changed Manic to Malignant to represent how "Harry thought she cut out the ruse like a tumor, but it had already metastasized".

## References

1. ↑ **The Malignant Masquerade**: Chapter 1 Author's Notes
Neville Longbottom

## Appearances

"You—Slytherin?" Neville squeaked.
"From that reaction, I'm guessing your family are Gryffindors. So are mine," Rigel admitted.
"And you're actually hoping for Slytherin?" He looked half-doubtful, half-confused.

**Neville Longbottom** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. He is the first student that Rigel Black meets.

### Personality

* friendly
* perpetually hopeful

### Skills

* Herbology
* has cultivated some dueling skills

## History

### 1991-1992 School Year

Neville almost falls from his broom during their first flying lesson but Harry Potter catches him. Neville is one of the first students to be struck by Sleeping Sickness. He misses most of the second semester.

### 1992-1993 School Year

Neville tells Rigel when she comes to ask Percy about Transfiguration that Ginny fainted and that all of her brothers are in the Hospital Wing with her.

Neville is the first student attacked by the diary construct. A section of a corridor is blown up on Halloween and Neville is petrified by the Basilisk on Halloween.

### 1993-1994 School Year

Neville asks if he can join Harry, Draco, and Pansy fighting on the front lawn, and his question ends up forming the Dueling Club. This is the first year Neville has made it through to the end.
Harry finds out that Neville, Harry, and Archie played with each other when they were kids, and resulted in a traumatic experience for all involved.

## Relationships

### Ron Weasley

Neville and Ron frequently hang out with each other.

## Trivia

He is the first person who is introduced to "Rigel"

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
2. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 1
PP13

## Summary

The first staff meeting of the new semester sees special mention being made of Neville Longbottom's timidity, and the fact that Marcus Flint is unexpectedly completing all his assignments. Professor Snape asserts that Flint is having someone else do his homework, but he can't act without proof. Professor McGonagall also tells him about Rigel's difficulty with spellwork, which surprises him, and he promises to investigate.

When he meets with Rigel and tells her that he is addressing a discrepancy in her classes, she at first panics internally and thinks her work for Flint has been caught, but she is able to suppress her reaction enough to work out what it's actually about. They are able to establish that her wand is a poor match for her, as she struggled to get any non-violent reaction out of almost Ollivander's entire stock, and this one at least didn't explode things. Her frustration at her inability to perform spells then results in an outburst of magic that shatters a row of jars and transfigures an entire chair into hundreds of needles. At Professor Snape's further inquiry, she confirms that her childhood incidents of accidental magic were infrequent, but powerful and destructive; he suggests that she may be afraid of her own magic and unconsciously suppressing it, which resulted in the unusual reactions to Ollivander's wands, and he insists that she must obtain a new wand.

Rigel then receives an anonymous note telling her to come to the greenhouses at sundown, "or everyone will know your secret." It turns out to have been a bluff written by Rookwood and Rosier, who tell her that she must prove herself worthy of Pansy's friendship; they set her the task of retrieving some berries from the Forbidden Forest. She succeeds, though with difficulty due to her broken wrist, gaining their approval, and Rookwood (who has significant veterinary experience) heals her wrist for her.
Bertham "Bertie" Teramansk

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## Character Information

### Name(s)

Bertham Teramansk
Bertie

## Game Information

### Languages

Common

**Bertham "Bertie" Teramansk** is a Goliath Barbarian and Rogue with the ? subclass. He is a PC played by Tom Hazell in the A Rogue's Gambit campaign, and was introduced in the Character Creation stream.
Sphinx

The sphinx is a minor boss which spawns naturally in Duat. Sphinxes are neutral mobs that will attack the player if provoked. Right clicking a sphinx will open up a gui, which will offer a riddle. If the player correctly answers the riddle, the sphinx will despawn and place a loot box in its stead. If the player fails to answer or answers incorrectly, the sphinx will attack the player. In reality, sphinxes are closer to standard mobs than minor bosses.
Strigoi Shrouds

### Purpose

a coven in the lower alleys, loyal to Count Aurel, and in general, follows the rules of the Rogue and the lower alleys. Follows a strict code regarding not associating with wizards, especially when fighting with other vampires.

### Location

lower alleys, edge of the Cesspool, Lamia Lodge

## Members

### Other members

* Silo
* Irina
* Kasten (heir)
Millicent Bulstrode

Rigel pinned her with a frankly assessing stare, "Why? Feeling guilty?"
The thicker-set girl flushed slightly, "They deserved it. Megan Jones is a friend of mine, and those two have been spreading sick gossip about her all week."
"Maybe they deserved it," Draco said, "But Pansy got blamed for it."
"She has an alibi," Bulstrode lifted her chin, "And it's not like I hurt them. I didn't know about the rash."
Rigel smiled slightly, "The only way they'll get a rash is if they're allergic, so there's about a 2% possibility."
"Oh," Bulstrode grinned at Rigel, "Thanks. And sorry you got pinned, Pansy. If Snape somehow believes them, I promise I'll own up to it, okay?"
  — The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 17

**Millicent Bullstrode** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. Millicent Bullstrode shares a room with Pansy at Hogwarts.

## Profile

### Personality

* Millicent has a stony often unapproachable disposition. She deeply cares for her friends and has a strong sense of justice.
* "If by exciting you mean has anyone royally embarrassed themselves in the forty minutes since the doors opened," Millicent said airily, "Then yes, there have been five scandalous events thus far, but unfortunately no one's life was ruined." (party in second year)
* enjoys politics, people underestimating her

### Skills

* handwriting
* astronomy
* reading between the lines

## History

### 1991-1992 School Year

Millicent shares a room with Pansy during their first year. She becomes closer with Blaise, Theo, Pansy, Rigel, and Draco after rigging Daphne Greengrass and Tracey Davis' door with Hair removal potion. She joins their study group after that. Later that year, she succumbs to the Sleeping Sickness (and it's revealed that she was waking Pansy up in the morning). During the Sleeping Sickness, she figures out how to clear much of the tar, but doesn't have the stamina to get rid of it completely.

### 1992-1993 School Year

They meet up over the summer for Draco's birthday, and Rigel is introduced to everyone's parents (including Milicent's parents).
She and the other Slytherins from her year discuss the reasons for Lockhart's presence as professor. During the term, Millicent asks Rigel for potions help. It turns out Theo, Blaise, Pansy, Draco, and she had been meeting every evening in order to give each other help with their assignments. Rigel was completely unaware and is slightly disturbed.
During one of the nights on lockdown, they have fun bantering.

### 1994-1995 School Year

She assists Pansy with making a dossier on the Triwizard Tournament contestants.

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
2. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 9
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
4. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 12
5. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 5
6. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 18
7. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 19
8. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 21
9. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
Tallum

## Appearances

**Master Tallum** is the Head potioneer at AIM. He teaches Advanced Potions at Seven Years.

## History

### 1991-1992 School Year

He evacuates his class during November when Archie Black cries that a troll is in the basement. While they leave, Hermione Granger steals the "A" graded Polyjuice Potion and upends all the others, making him believe that it is a prank and not a theft.

### 1992-1993 School Year

He is made fun of by the other teachers for the Polyjuice Potion debacle, according to Hermione.

### 1993-1994 School Year

Tallum speaks with Archie because of Harry Potter's internship at the Guild during the summer.

Harry gives him her notes on shaped imbuing.

## Appearances

**Appearances**
 * The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 9 (*mentioned*)
 * The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 7
Minotaur

The Minotaur is a minor boss which spawns in Labyrinths that naturally generate underground in the overworld. The Minotaur, like most bosses, will drop a chest full of loot upon death. Those include the Wings of Daedalus and Ariadne's string.

### The Cretean bull

The createan bull is a mob which spawns naturally in the overworld, as a rare variant of cows. It has the same uses as a cow, only it will rarely drop water shards and has a rare chance of turning into a Minotaur. The cretean bull has a white appearance.

## Mythological Background

The Minotaur and the Cretean bull is associated with the king Minos of Crete. Minos was, according to myth, given a snow white bull by the gods, a gift he had to return by sacrificing to Poseidon. Minos believed the bull was too beautiful to sacrifice and decided to keep it. Instead, he tried to trick Poseidon by sacrificing a normal bull. To punish him, Poseidon made his wife fall madly in love with the bull, which prompt her to fuck it. She eventually gave birth to the half bull abomination. Minos followed the words of the oracle, who instructed him to imprison the beast in a massive labyrinth. The Minotaur, being nor human nor bull, had no natural source of nourishment, and had to devour humans for sustenance. Minos, being a tyrant who just conquered Athens, forced the Athenians to send him seven boys and seven girls, every year so he could feed them to his Minotaur. The beast was eventually killed by Theseus.
Liberespirare

**Liberespirare** is a potion which lets you breathe in any environment: underwater, in heavy smoke, high altitude, and even through poisonous fumes. It is difficult to brew and takes 3 hours. Ingredients must be added rapidly, and magic expenditure is high. The final colour is murky blue with a hint of violet.

## Literature

* Recipe was published in Prince's Potions
* Intended to be attempted with another person, due to the very tricky timing.
* Two years ago, a well-known article argued for its inclusion in the top forty most difficult potions of the modern age

## Trivia

* The color of the potion is clearly a reference to the name of the series' author, murkybluematter, who also goes by the name Violet Matter.
* Harry and Caelum made a double batch prior to year 4.
* Possible theory: Caelum's dose was given to Jacob Owens to help with task 4 in the triwizard tournamnet.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Futile Facade: Chapter 5
2. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 14
Voldiary

## Appearances

**Voldiary** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

Greedy without morals. Desires to obtain a body

* he was in the posession of Lord Riddle for most of his life. He was very neglected.

## History

### 1993-1994 School Year

* attempting to find a body, found followers (poached from Lord Riddle and the Cesspool)

### 1994-1995 School Year

* launched an attack on the Quidditch World Cup
* launched an attack on the Shrouds (as they refused to join him)
* posessed Gavril
* infiltrated the last task in the triwizard tournament in order to obtain Rigel's magic
* obtained a body, but the magic transference ritual did not work
* received a bit of Lord Riddle's magic (so maybe he can integrate it)
Tiberius Ogden

— Ogden  (The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1

**Tiberius Ogden** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. He owes one life debt to Rigel Black, one to Archie Black (as Rigel), and one to Harry Potter. There have been two assassination attempts on his life at two separate parties.

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

During the Malfoy's Summer Party, Rigel Black saves his life by preventing him from drinking his punch glass in which nightshade had been added. Tiberius was entranced by the masking agent, Nimue's Breath, making the retrieval of the glass complicated. Pansy Parkinson takes his drink while her father takes control of Tiberius. Coming back to his senses, he thanks Rigel profusely and announces that he owes her a life debt. Her friend, Griselda Marchbanks, declares then that she's an equal party in this life debt and requests that Rigel claims it from her if not from Tiberius.

## Relationships

### Griselda Marchbanks

She is Tiberius' oldest friend. She is engaged with him before he is attacked during the Gala of 1993.

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
Elemental Shards

Elemental shards are items dropped by most mobs and used to craft certain items. As opposed to cultural currency, they are not unique to a mythology, they are attached to a specific element(fire, earth, wind, water, soul, ice). Elemental shards are dropped by mobs associated with the respective dimension and are used to craft items associated with respective dimension. They are rarer than cultural currency.

## Mobs that drop shards

### Fire

* Phoenix
* Fire spirits
* Muspels

### Earth

* Dark elves
* Cave deities
* Draugr (as loot)

### Wind

* Valkyrie
* Griffin
* Pegasus
* Wind spirits

### Water

* Ahuizotl
* Siren
* Drowned spirits
* Cetus
Bosses

Bosses are end game entities that can be found in most dimensions. Only one boss of its kind can exist in a game, save for the gatekeepers, who have 12 different versions. They do not spawn naturally and can only be naturally found in survival in this mod's provided map. Bosses provide high end loot and unique mythic items upon death, but tend to be hard to kill. Bosses are spawned when the player right clicks their respective boss spawner, although in some cases, this requires additional conditions.
Rings

Rings are items commonly found in loots. They exist either in silver, copper or gold, either as a default plain form or in a rarer form that holds precious stones. They don't really have any apparent uses besides the Amethyst rings, but they can either be sold to a dwarven collectioner or broken down into parts. Plain rings can be smelted down into nuggets of their respective metal. Rings that bear precious stones can also be crafted into their respective stone. which will also give you back a plain ring. Draupnir, a mythic item dropped by Odin, will spawn eight plain golden rings roughly every nine days.

Amethyst rings, like the amethysts themselves, will prevent the user from enduring the nausea effect from alcohol.
The Futile Facade

Original Work — Artist w\_marvin\_w — Creator: Elfangor

**The Futile Facade** is the fourth book in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. It was completed on January 28, 2021.

## Summary

Under pressure from Tom Riddle, Rigel participates in the "True Triwizard Tournament", which is intended to prove that Pureblood wizards are superior to half-blood or muggle-born. However, after she wins, the Diary-construct attacks her, and in the process of fighting back, she is revealed as a half-blood, forcing her to flee from Hogwarts and end the identity swap.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Harriett Potter
* Arcturus Black
* Severus Snape
* Draco Malfoy
* Lionel Hurst
* Pansy Parkinson
* Tom Riddle

## Chapters

Word count was calculated using https://wordcounter.net/ and may differ from Fanfiction.net's native word counter. Except for author's notes (A/N), it includes content like the chapter introductions and endings and perspective changes.

Release date, where unclear, was determined using the date of the first review of the chapter. It may not be wholly accurate.

## Trivia

* This book is currently the longest in the series, and has the highest average chapter length, over 30,000 words.
* Regarding the book's title, Violet (murkybluematter) wrote, "I know it seems very ominous, but try not to read too much into it" on the first chapter of the book.

## References

1. ↑ **The Futile Facade**: Chapter 1 Author's Notes
Ginny Weasley

“You have repeatedly done so to her face.”
“That’s how I show affection.”
  — The Futile Facade: Chapter 13

**Ginevra Weasley** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

### Personality

Ginny is direct and forthright, to the point of being frequently brash and rude. She does care about her family and friends, however, and claims that mild insults are her way of showing affection.

She is very sensitive about her independence, possibly influenced by having so many older brothers, and shows deep disgust at the idea of the Sleeping Sickness trapping her inside her own mind.

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

She "faints" in the Charm corridor while meditating. Rigel brings her back by going through her magical core.

## Family Tree

*Note:* The following family tree may not display correctly on mobile devices.

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 4
2. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
Ruins

Ruins are structures that spawn in the overworld. They are unique to a mythology. They serve as an early game source of cultural currency, that can be used to craft the portal igniters necessary to access mythological dimensions. They are found in biomes which most accurately correspond with the climate of their respective mythology's culture:

### Norse:

* Tundra
* Rivers
* Frozen rivers
Sphinx Correspondence School of Magic

**The Sphinx Correspondence School of Magic** is a school for magic located in Britain, which operates by sending assignments to students via owl. Harriett Potter was enrolled there.

The school is run by its headmaster, Earnest Callaway, and financed by Gareth Goldentower.

## Students

* **Harry Potter** is a British student hoping to qualify for more British employment by attending a school in Britain as well as the American Institute of Magic.
Man with the knife

## Appearances

**Man with the knife** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

As part of Claw's followers, he takes part in the battle of the Dancing Dragon. He kills the Man in the blue vest before Harry's eyes. He then tries to kill her, but is stopped by Leo.

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
Brian Phillips

*" We want Full Touch to allow users to feel the world they're playing in. We want them to feel---- like it's real, to be honest with you," -Brian Phillips*

### Relatives

Cane Phillips, creator of the game Elemental Defense

## Physical description

### Eye color

Blue

Brian Phillips is an engineer, famous for creating the Full Touch headset, which allows users "to feel the VR world" as Brian stated in an early press interview. Brian doesn't like publicity though, so he keeps his identity a secret. The only people who know what he looks like are his family and his partners who worked with him on stuff. Brian Phillips is currently working on the Nintendo Snap, Nintendo's new project. He has also announced a possible sequel to the Full Touch VR headset. He has hinted that it will include all five senses.
Gina Whitefield

## Appearances

**Gina Whitefield** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. She assisted children from escaping the tar during the sleeping sickness. She is a master Occlumens from St Mungo's.

## History

### 1991-1992 School Year

She helps Rigel Black wake up the children stricken by the Sleeping Sickness, in Professor Snape's stead.

## Appearances

**Appearances**
Rispah Cooper

By Team7Extra for her 2022 RBC calendar

## Appearances

  — Rispah  (The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 2

**Rispah Cooper** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. She is the Queen of the Rogue and manages familial affairs of the court.

## Profile

### Appearance

  — The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 2

Rispah has long, curly red hair and brown eyes, and she lines her lips. She has a "mature sort of beauty," and is likely in her 30s. Her voice is low and husky.

She has been seen wearing clothing such as a corset and a sequined barely-there lacy bodice. Harry once thinks that the creamy whites and browns she wore made her look like a "despoiled milkmaid".

She is also quite talented at making expressions, and the shy, secretive smile she once showed Harry made Harry realize she had a lot to learn. Rispah claims that "That look will get you anything you want—and the guy will think it was his idea.".

### Personality

Kind, Intimidating, Flirty. She is passionate about the Alleys.

### Skills

* Proficient Dancer
* She has not participated in duels, but that does not mean that she cannot.

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

Harry meets her in the Dancing Dragon, along with Solom, Aled, and Marek.

## Relationships

### Leo Hurst

She likes to meddle with his love life, and is accused of being a matchmaker. She is one of his closest confident.

## Appearances

**Appearances**
 * The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 2
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3 (*mentioned*)
 * The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 2
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 4
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 7 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 8 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 10
 * The Futile Facade: Chapter 1
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 2 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 3
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 4 (*mentioned*)
 * The Malignant Masquerade: Chapter 1

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Violet Q&A Session 2 — 1:19:35
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 10
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 2
5. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 3
6. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
Fluids

This mod includes four different fluids, with each their abilities

* **Lethe Water** is found in the Lethe river of Hades, and will drain the xp of those who swim in it
* **Styx Water** is found in the Styx river and Stygian marsh of Hades, and will give strength and resistance buffs temporarily to those who swim in it
* **Smoky water**, is found in the blinding fog region of Mictlan, and will give the blindness status effect to those who swim in it
* **Blood**, is just decorative, it's just blood
Minor Boss

A minor boss is a mob that, like bosses, are hard to kill and provide high end loot upon death. As contrast to true bosses, minor bosses are not as strong and do not provide mythic items as loot. Like true bosses, they tend to spawn only when their respective boss spawners are right clicked, but rarely they can also be found already spawned in generated structures, or spawn naturally like common mobs. Minor bosses are generated infinitely, and thus are not unique like true bosses.
Adam Quincy

## Appearances

**Adam Quincy** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. Adam Quincy is a squib who owns a cart and makes deliveries. He runs items for the Maywell Clinic.

## Profile

### Appearance

* Middle-aged man
* "ordinary looking"
* He carries carts all day, and is likely quite strong
* Have a little of hair left

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

Adam Quincy is delivering a cart full of cauldrons when Jack, a runner in the Lower Alleys almost runs into the cart before Harry Potter stops him with wandless magic. Adam is wary of Harry because of her father, and asks for her clemency for the sake of Jack. He then gives her directions to get back to Kyprioth Court.

### 1994-1995 School Year

Adam Quincy helps Merriam move her belongings from Harry's Apartment on Dogwood Lane to a quiet little cul-de-sac tucked off of Pendragon Alley, not far at all from the intersection with Wormwood Row. He appears to be sweet on Merriam and tries to ask her out on a lunch date.

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Futile Facade: Chapter 3
Gale

## Appearances

**Gale** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. She lives on 7 Dogwood Lane, just downstairs of Harry.

## Profile

### Appearance

Wears about eight pounds of curlers when she goes to Miss Betsy's Beauty Boutique and sticky Magic Mascara.

## History

### Adult life

She has lived on number 7, Dogwood Lane for nearly ten years.

### 1992-1993 School Year

Leo spies on her when she complains about not knowing anything about the new tenant upstairs.

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
Potions Guild

### Purpose

To provide quality assurance for potions, standardization for recipes, provide licensure, opportunity for research, apprenticeships and teaching with the goal to advance the field of potions.

## Members

### Other members

* Severus Snape
* Master Thomas
* Master Rutherage
* Regulus Moonshine
* Master Montmorency
* Master Thompson

*Interns*

* Renaldo Cassius
* Caelum Lestrange
* Harry Potter

## Internship

Every year during the summer, the Potions Guild sponsors three persons for an internship, in which they have to write a paper. The first month they get some tutoring, and they are then assigned a tutor to supervise their research for the second month.

## Apprenticeship

A formal apprenticeship has to be approved by a board of Adepts.

## References

1. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 6
PP3

## Summary

Draco is supposed to write a letter to his mother about Rigel, but doesn't, as he has nothing to say, and thinks about his "interactions" with Rigel of the past night. When Rigel awakes, he asks her where she's going, and Rigel only answers "yes" before going to the bathroom. Draco gives himself one week to befriend Rigel, but will abandon the idea if nothing happens.

Rigel, who was aware of the glare Draco was sending her, finishes using the bathroom and meets Theo. Draco intercepts her on her way outside. He introduces himself properly, but Rigel doesn't try to make conversation and just leaves to explore the dungeons, using the Marauders' Map, given by Sirius through Archie. She then uses the staircase to go to the Great Hall for breakfast, where she meets Theo, Draco, and Adrian Pucey, who are surprised that she only got there. She makes them believe that she got lost. Pansy arrives when they are eating, and exchanges *words* with Rigel for not being there to take her to the Great Hall. Rigel extends an invitation to wake up early with her. At 45 minutes till the end of breakfast, the Slytherin students goes back to the Slytherin common room to listen to Snape's start of term speech. He says among other things that their goals are his goals and that he will assist them to realize them. Pansy and Theo exchange words on the impression they got about Snape. Instead of thinking that Snape is Rigel's hero, she decides to call him her future mentor and muses on the fact that he seems inapproachable and that she will have to make *him* notice *her*.

## Characters (by order of appearance)

* Draco Malfoy
* Rigel Black
* Theodore Nott
* Adrian Pucey
* Pansy Parkinson
* Severus Snape

## Settings

### Hogwarts

* Dorm
* Slytherin common room
* Staircase going to the Entrance Hall
* Great Hall

## Deep foreshadow

* Rigel says, "if Malfoy didn’t qualify as wrong, she’d eat her Potions ingredients." (AA14)

## Differences

There following major differences were found between the version posted on fanfiction.net and the version posted on archiveofourown.org (found using text-compare):

* All instances of **Black Heir** were changed to **Black heir**
* All instances of **Marauders' Map** were changed to **Marauder's Map**
* Minor grammar adjustments
Caleb Tate

## Appearances

"Really, Mr. Tate?" Harry blinked in surprise as she took the card automatically, "Thank you very much. I promise I'm a good brewer, so you won't be wasting your recommendation."
Tate laughed jovially once more, "Oh, Miss Potter, nothing spent on you is wasted, be it time or ingredients, that much I know."

**Caleb Tate** runs Mulpepper Apothecary on Diagon Alley in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. Harry has been visiting this store since she was eight.

## Profile

### Appearance

Tate is a large, burly man with warm brown eyes and curly brown hair pulled back into a messy ponytail. He usually wears an apron stuffed full of items he has acculumated throughout the day that he doesn't have the time to put back.

### Personality

* he works in a service industry job and has always been warm and good-natured to Harry

## Etymology

From the Old Norse word *teitr* meaning "bright, glad, cheerful

## Trivia

* Tate has quite a few illegally obtained in the back of Mulpepper's Apothecary. He has never shown Harry as she is the daughter of the head auror.

## References

1. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
2. ↑ https://www.babycentre.co.uk/babyname/1008683/tate#:~:text=Derived%20from%20an%20English%20family,bright%2C%20glad%2C%20cheerful%22.
3. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 5
Edmund Rookwood

## Appearances

  — Chapter goes here

**Edmund Rookwood** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

Rookwood is also described as a “*rock-statue*” compared to Aldon Rosier.

### Personality

He is calm and protective of those he considers friends. He doesn't like being lied to.

## History

### 1992-1993 School Year

He asks Rigel how Adrian Pucey can take care of his new snake, a vipera berus, and then forces her to reveal she is a parselmouth to them, Draco, and Pansy.

### 1995-1996 School Year

He marries Alice during the summer and receives a present from Rigel, a potion in which they can store memories.

## Relationships

Rookwood is not as a general rule inclined toward other men.

### Aldon Rosier

Rosier is Edmund's earliest friend, due to Aldon's stubborness.

### Alesana Selwyn

Edmund is infatuated with Selwyn, and they are married. They play a game where they exchange animal parts and guess what animal it is from.

## Etymology

Edmund is a name derived from the Old English *ēad*, meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and *mund*, meaning "protector".

## Appearances

**Appearances**

## Notes

1. ↑ Though the author's note writes that "Edmund is the son of Evan Rosier and Aldon is the son of Augustus Rookwood", this seems to be a mix-up as Edmund is the Rookwood and Aldon is the Rosier.

## References

1. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 12 Author's Notes
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
3. ↑ The Malignant Masquerade: Chapter 1
4. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 9
5. ↑ Edmund on Wikipedia