Straxons Academy RP Wiki:Setting-up guide

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Starting Up Guide

So, you've decided to join our roleplaying wiki? That's great! We're happy to have you! However, you may struggle with starting up and getting set. Here is a guide on what to do.

Unfortunately, all users under the age of 13 are not permitted on the wiki. It is Wikia's policy (and a COPPA law) that you must be 13 years old to have an account here. And, since we don't allow users to RP without an account, then all users under 13 are prohibited from editing on this wiki.
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Gryffindor

Animal: Lion
Element: Fire
House Colors: Crimson and Gold
Characteristics: Bravery, nerve, chivalry, courage and daring
Ravenclaw

Animal: Eagle
Element: Air
House Colors: Blue and Bronze
Characteristics: Intelligence, wit, wisdom, creativity, originality, acceptance, individuality
Slytherin

Animal: Snake
Element: Water
House Colors: Green and Silver
Characteristics: Traditionalism, resourcefulness, cunning, ambition, leadership qualities, self-preservation, determination, cleverness, fraternity, power, blood purity
Hufflepuff

Animal: Badger
Element: Earth
House Colors: Yellow and Black
Characteristics: Dedication, hard work, fair play, patience, kindness, tolerance, unafraid of toll

* **Pure-blood** is the term for wizards and witches who have a purely or approximately pure magical heritage. This means that there are no Muggles in their family trees, but this is rarely, if ever, true if families are traced back all the way, for if wizards didn't mate with Muggles, their race would die out.
* **Half-blood** is the term commonly given to wizards and witches who have a Muggle/Muggle-born parent and magical parent. By the 1990s, half-bloods were the most common type of magical person, as the wizarding population would have become extinct had they not inter-married with Muggles and Muggle-borns.
* **Muggle-born** is the term given to a witch or wizard who is born to two non-magical parents. Their magical abilities do not seem to be at all affected by their Muggle parentage.

There are also different species in the Harry Potter series and characters can either be a half-breed of that species, meaning they have ancestors or parents with that species' blood or be a full-member of the species.
* **Dwarf**: A short, stocky humanoid creature.
* **Giant**: A very large humanoid which can potentially grow to approximately twenty feet tall and appear to be a large human. Some may appear as large and hairy humanoids, while others resemble humongous-sized people, and some may even have bestial features (i.e. protuding sharp molars).
* **Goblin**: A highly intelligent race of small hominids with long fingers and feet that coexist with the wizard world. Their diet consists of meat, roots and fungi.
* **Hag**: A savage being that looks like an ugly, old witch but has more warts.
* **House-elf**: A house-elf (sometimes also referred to as just elves) is a magical creature which is immensely devoted and loyal to the one designated as their master. They serve wizards and witches and are usually found under the employment of old wizarding families taking residence in elaborate establishments, like mansions, and must do everything that their masters command unless they are freed.
* **Vampire**: An immortal species that feeds on blood.
* **Veela**: A species that usually takes the form of a very beautiful woman, but men can be part-veela as well. Easily angered, very attractive to the opposite gender and can turn into a harpy if full veela.
* **Werewolf**: A species that changes into a wolf every full moon.

Bold 3.pngThe first is putting ''' before and after your choice, like this: '''A) A Complex Spell'''.Bold 4.pngThe second is highlighting your choice and clicking on the bold button at the top of the editor.Bold 5.pngThe third is putting <b> before your choice and </b> after your choice, like this: <b>A) A Complex Spell</b>.
At the end of your quiz you will see this:
Number of A's:Number of B's:Number of C's:Number of D's:Please fill it out according to your quiz.

* **History**: Write about some significant things that helped make your character who they are now. What were their parents like? How was their childhood? What was their first sign of magic? History should be at least **two paragraphs**, that are at least three sentences long.
* **Appearance**: What does your character look like? What are their physical traits? Write about it here. If you have a picture in mind, please put it here. If you have a model in mind, please place their name there as well. To see if your character's picture is taken, have a look at the Taken Models List.

* **Full-being**: If your character is full-veela, werewolf, vampire, house-elf, hag, giant or goblin.
* **Part-being**: If your character possess veela, werewolf, vampire, hag or giant blood, or any other magical being that is not a wizard or witch.
* **Metamorphmagi**: The ability to change one's appearance at will.
* **Ghosts**: A dead witch or wizard inhabiting Hogwarts as a ghost.
* **Photographic Memory**: The ability to recall memories with great precision.
* **Sociopathic/Psychopathic**

A user is only allowed to have 40% of their characters be exotic and may not have more than one of the same exotic unless approved by an admin. Also, please remember that full-vampires, veela, hags and giants cannot attend Hogwarts as they are not permitted to have a wand. However, werewolves are.

* **Adults**: Adults can be any age above seventeen.

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Your character's page can be designed any way you want it to be designed, it can contain any information about your character, but it's highly recommended that you place your character's history, personality, appearance, spell list and link to your user page as well.
You can also use EasyChars, which was created here, but we are using a new version now created here and already includes your House Colors and other things. You can use that by putting your character's full name in the appropriate box below, and clicking create.
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For those who want to make a paranormal character. Put your character name in the box
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* 1st Years - 10
* 2nd Years - 17
* 3rd Years - 24
* 4th Years - 31
* 5th Years - 38
* 6th Years - 45
* 7th Years - 52

You can pick the spells from your year or lower, so a second year will have 10 1st Year Spells and a further 7 1st OR 2nd Year Spells. Please keep your spell list on your character page. The code for a basic spell that you can copy onto your character's page is here. An example of a real character's spell list is here.
Choose your character's spells from here. You can also add spells that you learn in class.

* Character
* Male/Female
* Wizard/Witch
* Students/Adult Character
* Name begins with "(X)" - this is the first letter of the character's first name (not title)
* Pure-Blood/Half-Blood/Muggle-Born
* (Color) Hair/Unlisted Hair Color
* (Color) Eyes/Unlisted Eye Color - please note "Grey" is spelled in the British manner
* (Wood) Wand/Unlisted Wand
* (Core) Wand/Unlisted Wand
* (Month) Birthday/Unknown Birthday
* Slytherin/Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff/Gryffindor
* [If a current student] Slytherin Students/Ravenclaw Students/Hufflepuff Students/Gryffindor Students
* [and] (Written number (e.g. Second)) Years
* [If a graduated character] Slytherin Alumni/Ravenclaw Alumni/Hufflepuff \*Alumni/Gryffindor Alumni + Graduated Character
* Left/Right Handed
* Patronus Listed/Patronus Not Listed
* [If Listed] Bird/Exotic/Mammal/Reptile/Sea Patronus
* [If Listed] Small/Medium/Large Patronus
* Born in (Country)
* (Culture) [Any that apply]

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Just enter whatever you want your template to be called here. Some users prefer using their username in order to combine all their bubbles into one template, and others like using one bubble per template for their characters, in which case it's recommended your template name is your character's name.

```
{{Word-bubble
}}

```

```
{{Word Bubble IC
}}

```

Now, make sure that you don't remove any of the {{{ or }}}'s. They're there for a reason. Also, when filling out your word bubble template page, you don't have to replace {{{time}}} with the actual time. Only replace what's in caps. If you're having a hard time deciding on things like colors and fonts, you can use EasyBubbles.

WORD-BUBBLE TEMPLATE(the smaller one)

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preload=Template:EasyBubbles/Ferretway1
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<createbox>
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buttonlabel=Create Eagleford
preload=Template:EasyBubbles/EagleFord1
</createbox>
<createbox>
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buttonlabel=Create Windyram
preload=Template:EasyBubbles/Windyram1
</createbox>

WORD BUBBLE IC TEMPLATE(the bigger one)
<createbox>
align=Center
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prefix=Template:
buttonlabel=Create Petalhook
preload=Template:EasyBubbles/Petalhook2
</createbox>
<createbox>
align=Center
break=no
prefix=Template:
buttonlabel=Create Ferretway
preload=Template:EasyBubbles/Ferretway2
</createbox>
<createbox>
align=Center
break=no
prefix=Template:
buttonlabel=Create Eagleford
preload=Template:EasyBubbles/Eagleford2
</createbox>
<createbox>
align=Center
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prefix=Template:
buttonlabel=Create Windyram
preload=Template:EasyBubbles/Windyram2
</createbox>

```
<includeonly>{{#if:{{{NAME OF THE FIRST BUBBLE|}}}|</includeonly>
```

2. The name of the first bubble should match whatever is written in between the {{{ }}}'s corresponding to text. So, if your bubble has, *for example*, this at the end:

```
}}

```

The top part should look like this:

```
<includeonly>{{#if:{{{John|}}}|</includeonly>
```

3. Now at the bottom of the first bubble, below the }} at the very end of the talk bubble code, copy paste this:

```
<includeonly>
```

4. For your second bubble the following code has to be in the top:

```
```

Just like earlier, it has to correspond to whatever is written in the second bubble. At the bottom of the code, again, you will place an <includeonly> and repeat the step four with all the bubbles you want to place in your template.5. For every bubble you place in your template, you have to place a pair of brackets, or }}, after the final <includeonly>. Then, you're done.

```
{{TEMPLATE NAME|time = ~~~~~|BUBBLE NAME = What you want to say here.}}
```

So, *for example*, if the name of your template is John Smith, and the name of the bubble is John, you use it like this:

```
{{John Smith|time = ~~~~~|John = What you want to say here.}}
```

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