TOM RIDDLE

# **Summary**

**Thomas Marvolo Riddle Jr.** is a muggleborn wizard and the current Lord of the Ancient and Noble House of Gaunt. He is the son of muggle Thomas Riddle Sr. and squib Merope Gaunt. He is married to Libra Gaunt (née Kolumbiko), and is a Prince Emeritus. He is the founder of the Magical Youth Liaison Program, the largest non-profit charity in Wizarding Britain aimed at supporting all underprivileged magical youth regardless of blood status.

# **Background**

## **Lineage**

Through Merope, Tom is Ancient and Noble House of Gaunt, only daughter of Marvolo Gaunt - the last Lord Gaunt until Tom's successful reclaiming of his seat.

House Gaunt arrived in England in 1066 with William the Conqueror's Norman forces, successfully aiding William's campaign in Britannia and helping establishing the Wizards Council. Somehow, the Gaunts also succeeded in gaining the status of Ancient and Noble despite being part of the new invaders. For his contributions, Ectorius Lord Gaunt was rewarded with over one hundred acres of land within the New Forest to erect his family's new manse. Through a series of arcane blood magicks, Ectorius warded the lands and erected Castle Basilicus - a 30 room edifice constructed of his own unique magicks.

Some time after settling into Britannia, he married Salazar Slytherin's daughter Eurydice - the Founder's eighth child and last-born daughter. They bore five (5) children, with the first-born male established as Heir Apparent Gaunt. The House enjoyed great prosperity, yielding seven (7) Princeps Emeriti and a handful of Consilierii.

However, growing complacency, rampant inbreeding, and a frightful obsession with blood purity allowed instability and violence to flourish within what was once a great and magically-innovative Ancient and Noble House. Marvolo Gaunt's drunken attack on Griselda Marchbanks during a Wizengamot session against Muggle-baiting was the final straw that broke the camel's back. What little remained of the greatly diminished coffers of House Gaunt was used to pay off the exorbitant fines incurred by Marvolo's impulsive actions, officially plunging the House into irreversible debt. Unable to maintain the costs of upkeeping a great ancestral manor and the fee demands of keeping an active Wizengamot seat, House Gaunt officially went into abeyance. Castle Basilicus was abandoned along with their House Seat, until officially assumed by the new Lord Gaunt in 1950.

## **Abilities**

* **Parseltongue**: Natural Speaker, as a Descendant of Salazar Slytherin
	+ **Apophic Parseltongue**

* **Parselrunes**
* **Parselmancy**
* **Legilimency**: **The Peisinoan Affect**, a siren-like effect on the mind that psychically lulls its target into lowering his or her Occlumency shields, making them vulnerable to a more intensive attack.

* **Occlumency: Level Seven**
	+ Dilation
	+ Multiple psychic Personality backups
	+ Advocatus Diaboli (16 Year-Old Erasmus Wilkes during their time in the Lair)
	+ Eidetic Memory Recall
	+ Simultaneous Thoughtstreams
	+ Emotional Control
	+ Complex Memory Organization
	+ Warding off Multiple Legilimens
	+ Defensive & Offensive Mindscape
	+ Evading Veritaserum
* **Wu Xi Do**: Learned during travels and studies at Shamballa, Kamar-Taj, and Shangri-La. 325th Master in the Paths of Air, Fire, and Water.
	+ **Signature Moves**:
		- *The-Gannet-Dives Downward*
		- *To-Strike-Like-Medusa*
		- *The-Racing-Kingfisher*
		- *Drifting-Like-the-Lone-Cirrus*
		- *Ascend-Like-the-Feilong*
		- *The-Wails-of-Notus*
		- *The-Cobra-Awaits-the-Right-Strike*
		- *The-Ever-Rising-Flame*
		- *The-Spinning-Salp*
* **Dueling**
* **Blood Magicks**
* **Magical Subjects**
	+ **NEWTs**
		- Alchemy (O)
		- Ancient Runes (O)
		- Arithmancy (O)
		- Astronomy (O)
		- Care of Magical Creatures (EE)
		- Charms (O)
		- Defense Against the Dark Arts (O)
		- Herbology (O)
		- History of Magic (O)
		- Muggle Studies (O)
		- Potions (O)
		- Transfigurations (O)
	+ **Masteries, kept in the DoM's records:**
		- **Alchemy** (Teaching Master - Nicholas Flamel)
		- **Defense Against the Dark Arts** (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
		- **Ancient Runes** (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
		- **Charms** (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
		- **Arithmancy** (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
		- **Potions** (Teaching Master - Nicholas Flamel)