Yaxley

## Family Members

### Played Characters

Guinevere Yaxley (b. 2001), Cordelia Yaxley (b. 2003), Rhiannon Yaxley (b. 2005)

### Available Characters

Gawain Yaxley (b. 1999), Cadmus Yaxley (b. 2003)

## OOC

### Writers in Family

Becca, Liz, Sidney

The Yaxley family is a pureblood family and a part of the Sacred 28. It survives in at least one individual.

### Site Canon

The Yaxley's were staunch Dark Arts supporters and loyalists when it came to Voldemort. In the downfall after the second Wizarding War, they have fallen out of favor with many of the other families within the Sacred 28. It is seen that the Yaxley family dirtied their name and their reputation during the ages of Voldemort's reign and have lost a sizable amount of their once vast fortunes. As a result, many of the Yaxleys that are still in existence are either embracing their reputation as misfits within all "good society" or working desperately to remediate it so that they can return to their former glory.

### Family History

Lilith, through no fault of her own, was set to be a Yaxley one day. She’d heard some teasing discussions around dinner parties in whispered voices that her father had lost a bet to Leander Yaxley at Tavistock one day and that was how her future was decided. She never asked, as it wasn’t her place to, but every night leading up to her wedding at the age of nineteen, she sat down and prayed that it would be called off. She’d been raised to look forward to her wedding but the idea of marrying a man who was thirteen years older than her and hadn’t said a word to her before, was not exactly her idea of fun. Not only that but he was a Yaxley and while the Rowle family had it’s own tortured history, the Yaxley’s hadn’t publically distanced themselves from their support of the dark arts.

The night before her wedding, Lilith was sleepless, contemplating taking off and never coming back but only getting so far as packing her bag but never actually going anywhere.

Leander was never cruel to Lilith when they first married but always distant, behaving as though his wife was someone he had acquired to remediate his name and bear a new generation of Yaxley’s. He had no love for her but could appreciate her beauty and showed that often by summoning her to his bedroom regularly and dismissing her when he was through. Thankfully the first indication that he had was that she was as good at bearing children as she was at being a positive face associated with the Yaxley name, as almost ten months to the day after their wedding she gave him a son.

He didn’t pay the boy much attention as he trusted his wife would hire the appropriate staff and see to his needs. After what he felt was a sufficient amount of time had passed, Leander began to summon his wife to his bedroom again, wanting to have a sufficient amount of heirs to carry on the Yaxley line. However, after nearly a year without another child, he threatened to leave Lilith penniless and alone if she didn’t produce more children. To show her that he meant business, he began inviting other women to the house, whoever he could afford to buy for the evening, and insist that his wife play host to them while they were there. Instead of requesting that Lilith spend the evening in his bedroom, he would make her ask, beg, to be allowed in, and tearfully promise that this time she would provide him with more children.

Nearly three years later, she kept her promise, and Guinevere was born.

The cycle continued again until the twins were born, a handful of illegitimate Yaxley’s born in the period between Guinevere and Cordelia and Cadmus and even more between the twins and Rhiannon. Discovering his second child was a squib, Leander stopped allowing his wife into his bedroom and left Lilith to care for the children, only communicating with her in a business-like manner when absolutely necessary.

*Credit to Becca*