Salazar Slytherin

**Salazar Slytherin**, formerly known as **Servius Fusius Camillus**, is one of the four founders of Hogwarts and was known for his belief in blood purity, which served as the cause for much discrimation in the wizarding world, especially in wizarding Britain.

Despite recorded as long dead, in reality, he is an immortal cambion and is still living to this day, taking on the identity of **August Cranmer** (オーガスト・クランマー, *Ōgasuto Kuranmā*), the leader of the Church of England's exorcists.

## Appearance

In total contrast to the shrivel and monkey-like old man in his portraits, Salazar appears as a tall, lean, and handsome man with long gray hair - A part of it is tied in a single braid on the right side of his head - and snake-like chartreuse-green eyes, which he usually keeps hidden under his hair.

For the majority of the time, he uses Illusion Magic to hide the "strange" parts of his appearance to the world, especially to mundanes due to his current position as the Archbishop of Canterbury. This included the jagged scar across his face, neck, and left pinky finger, as well as his stylish black-painted nails and piercings. He is also noted to have a long and snake-like tongue and fang-like canines.

He often dresses in a black robe, a long crooked top hat, and a gray scarf strapped across his chest and knotted by the hips. He wears a band of prayer beads around his neck, a chain of seven silver lockets around his hips, and his wedding band on his left index finger.

Like other cambions, he possesses three pairs of feathered bat-like wings sprouting from his back, each with a wingspan of 3-meters in length. His feathers are a phosphorescent chartreuse-green like his eyes and light up with Greek fire whenever he uses demonic power while manifesting them.

## Personality

Salazar is an eccentric, enigmatic individual who giggles frequently, appreciates laughter, enjoys frightening others, and provoking reactions with his strange mannerisms, and spends a considerable amount of time hiding away from his official duties and paperwork.

He is greatly dramatic and theatrical, with love for splendor and the finer things in life. This is most shown through his manners, with his movements grand and somewhat performative, as if to draw everyone's attention to himself.

Throughout the thousand years of his life, even during the numerous wars and battles and skirmishes, as well as the time he spent on the run, not once did he live anything less than the comfortable life of a nobleman.

He is a sly, cunning, unpredictable, deceitful, and ruthless manipulator of court politics. He is, at times, capable of putting on a friendly face with a welcoming smile, though his eyes don't often smile when his mouth does. Even to his closest allies, his exact motivations are unclear and it is widely believed that he has no real loyalty or genuine affection for anyone.

Behind his smiles and forced mild manners, he is shrewd and calculating, willing to casually dispose of people who consider him an ally like a man replacing a coat he no longer needs. He himself once admitted that the only people he actually cares about is his mentor, his "mate", his old betrothal, and his blood-sister, and even then, no one was sure if this is the truth or another one of his lies.

He is cunning, determined, ambitious, and resourceful - All the traits that he values the most in his students. For him, as an educator, it is important for him to teach his students how to learn and not just study, and how to use their knowledge for practical purposes, not just to store them there to gather dust.

Unlike popular belief, he does not believe that the blood purity and ancestry of one's lineage is any indication of one's true worth. In fact, his original distrust of mundanes and mundane-born wizards was not based in prejudice but in the political climate of the current era, with the ongoing witch-hunts actively persecuting and killing anyone labeled "witches".

He actually praises mundanes for their ingenuity for having discovered a way of life without the assistance of magic, with technology such as smartphones, computers, and the Internet considered by him to be mankind's greatest technoligical creations.

## History

### Early Years

Salazar was born **Servius Fusius Camillus** (セルウィウス・フシウス・カミルス, *Seruu~iusu Fushiusu Kamirusu*), a cambion offspring of the original Astaroth sometimes in the early years of Julius Caesar's reign, with a wizard of the noble class named Faustina who Astaroth raped during the Veneralia.

Shortly after his birth, he was taken from his dying mother by his half-sister Venus and was baptized by Zadkiel to be purged of his demonic essences. Afterward, he was taken in by a secret cult and was trained in many forms of magic, from the popular magic systems in current Rome to the foreign magic systems originated from foreign religions.

As he grew up, he was also taught by the cultists in the art of love-making, and with it, he began to climb the social ladders of Rome, one orgy at a time. He had many lovers, both men and women, of the higher class, who would gladly spend their entire fortune in exchange for his passion. According to Venus, his reputation back then was so infamous that, on more than one occasion, Juno had come before him fearing that he might be Jupiter in disguise.

### Coming to Britain

Servius came to Britain during its conquest by Rome, though the exact circumstances behind his moving are cloaked in mystery as his answer becomes different every time he's asked. According to him, "all are true and all are false" and "it's funnier to have a variety to choose from", though he admitted there are sprinkles of truth hidden within them.

One time, he said he was one of the soldiers within the Roman army and came there seeking excitement. Another time, he was drugged, tricked, and sold into the army as a slave before freeing himself and escaped. Later on, the story switched to him being the "bed warmer" of Aulus Plautius and was abandoned by the Roman general after he found a "newer and tighter toy to play". When asked by Hermione, he supposedly came here as a stowaway after a "wicked bad hangover".

### Church of England

Sometimes in early 19XX, he and Godric joined the Church of England as exorcists before slowly rising up the ranks due to their centuries-worth of experience. Eventually, he became the new Archbishop of Canterbury after the previous one died of "mysterious illnesses" - Later revealed as an assassination by the Khaos Brigade after he discovered their agents in the Church. However, this decision caused a rift between his and Godric's relationship, and they both decided that it'd be better for them to separate for the time being.

## Equipment

**Magic Wand** (魔法の杖, *Mahō no Tsue*): Salazar once owned a wand made of snakewood and contained a fragment of a basilisk's horn. After disappearing from Hogwarts and faking his death, he left it behind in his descendants' hands and was then passed down to the Gaunts. After it was laid to rest for a final time in Ilvermorny, it broke and from where it was buried grew a snakewood tree of an unknown species.

* **Second Wand**: Salazar owns a second wand made of silver-white ironwood, sharpened and polished so that it resembles a small dagger from afar. According to rumors, the wand's core is the crystallized blood of the Great Red Dragon mentioned in the Book of Revelations.

## Trivia

* He likes fast food and processed snacks, and hates badly-seasoned meals.
* He has terrible potionology skills, horrible enough to be considered the "Bane of Potion-Making".
* The bearded and elderly man typically portrayed as him in wizarding records is *not* him, but instead his distant descendant, Corvinus Gaunt, who was also responsible for hiding away the Chamber of Secrets behind a girls' lavatory.
* In his entire life, he has not once made any contact with the Astaroth Clan in the Netherworld.
	+ According to Ajuka, while his house does know there was a cambion offspring of their progenitor living under Julius Caesar's reign, they all believed he had died about half-century after he came to Britain, centuries before "Salazar Slytherin" was supposedly born.
* Despite his magical line ending with the Gaunts, his bloodline still continues through his mundane descendants.