Line #193 FanFic/ScepterOfDarkness


1	''Scepter of Darkness'' is nominally a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' time travel fan fiction.
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3	To cut a long story short, time traveling knights led by a man under an assumed name arrive in 1930 along with most of their gear, and decide the best way to prevent the extreme damage done to earth in their original time line is to basically force a massive development of weapons technology. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This leads to keeping the Nazis in control of Europe while allowing World War II to play out leading to a bloody stalemate]].
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5	Prequel Summary: (divided into parts per the author's poll)
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7	* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3674583/1/Scepter-of-Darkness Part I]] comprises the Beginning, and the Elysium War.
8	* Part II comprises the Eurasian Wars.
9	* Part III comprises the Damnation War and the Preparations for the Great Journey.
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12	!!This fanfic provides examples of:
13	* AbsurdlySharpBlade:
14	** Asran's Gram, though he probably doesn't have the strength to actually put the force behind the blade.
15	** Drachenorden runeswords.
16	*** These are described as cutting through tanks and armored bulkheads.
17	** Demon blades.
18	* AlienInvasion: Happened in the prequel, hence the time travel ([[spoiler: despite the fact the earth won]]), and is supposed to happen again.
19	* AllGermansAreNazis: Subverted; the largest example is the reminder that the SS actually included all police forces throughout Nazi Europe, and the fact the Drachenorden will be very quick to remind any and all they are their own organization.
20	* AlternateHistoryWank: In short, time travellers come back in time and decide to sell weapons and technology to everyone, while carving a super state out of Eastern Europe.
21	* AlternateUniverseFic: See above
22	* AmicablyDivorced: Harry and Arzachel's mother. For the most part.
23	** It's hinted that she's not above scarring off or killing any of the mother's to Harry's other children, but this is rare and Maria's mother is the only semi-solid example.
24	* AnIcePerson: The Count of Donestk Dmitri, the Drachenorden supreme naval commander.
25	* {{Backstory}}: Even though the prequel has yet to be reposted but its there a rather nagging allusion every now and again that something really bad happened in the previous timeline.
26	* BadassFamily:
27	** Most Drachenorden bloodlines, also Grindelwald's 'kids'.
28	** Cypher and his grandson are particularly noteworthy.
29	* BadassLongcoat: All the officers wear them, but most notably the time travelling knights wear them especially.
30	* BioAugmentation:
31	** The Drachenorden's conditioning, and they encourage their members to go beyond that.
32	*** Coupled with TheSpartanWay some members of the order are keen on declaring themselves a SuperiorSpecies.
33	*** Any previous timeline knight is so heavily bio augmented they certainly venture into and well past GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke.
34	** In addition there are others like the SS, and Thule Society, Japan's Unit 731 and related organizations get in on the action as well. Then you have the Soviets' own equivalents.
35	** The Allies, particularly the American Central Intelligence Agency, are into this.
36	* BlackMagic :
37	** Grindelwald is a DarkLord.
38	** If Asran ([[spoiler: Harry Potter]]) starts breaking it out, someone is about to be fubared to an extreme.
39	* BloodBrothers: The Drachenorden consider the death of one of their own to be an intolerable offense, and promptly show you just how powerful magical time traveling knights can be. [[spoiler: Most the present timeline knights consider so much as bad mouthing the older knights as just asking to be killed]].
40	* BloodKnight:
41	** Tobias, besides being literally called Blood Knight, makes a habit of going out and fighting, and killing rivals who oppose the Order's agenda without being ordered to.
42	** Asran when he's younger also qualifies.
43	* BloodMagic: Mentioned in the background.
44	* BrickBreak: Probably everyone who has magic and is in a military role.
45	* BrokenMasquerade: Before World War II in the Ukraine turns into TheUnmasquedWorld afterward.
46	* ClothingDamage:
47	** When this happens it basically indicates some serious ass-kicking is about to occur.
48	*** Chapter five or six in Scepter of Darkness Harry takes a round from a cruiser grade gun and it destroys his shirt.
49	*** He then slices the tank in half.
50	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Subverted.
51	** Elite troops are more effective in groups.
52	*** Any time a Drachenorden force takes the field, well... the enemy is [[PrecisionFStrike fucked]] no matter how many there are.
53	* CoolAirship:
54	** The German Sturm class.
55	** Drachenorden [=ADOREs=].
56	* CoolBoat:
57	** USN Montana class super Battleship.
58	*** If you thought the Real Life Version was scary this monster is equivalent to a nightmare with 12 sixteen inch guns that fire Nuclear shells. The Block I served in the new timeline World War Two because the order in the pacific seriously weakens the usefulness of carriers.
59	** Improved Bismark class super Battleships.
60	*** It's a huge battleship, sure it isn't as cool as the US's Montana but it's still a big ship with big gun.
61	** Elysium class super battleships.
62	*** Nuclear Powered that has [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrickinLaserBeamsFrickinLaserBeams laser cannons]] on both model though Dracaena versions carry railguns in place of normal big guns.
63	** Soviet Lenin class super Battleships.
64	*** They carry missiles, big ones.
65	** Drachenorden super submarine carriers.
66	*** Inspired by VideoGame/AceCombat Scinfaxi and Hrimfaxi.
67	** Obviously the Soviet Akula class submarine.
68	** Zilant class super carriers.
69	*** Big ass carrier that can carry gunships that make the AC 130 look like a joke, and is more importantly MacrossMissileMassacre capable.
70	** America class super carriers, which was meant to combat the below.
71	** Prussia class super carriers, which took a que from the order and has missiles and fighters.
72	* CoolStarship:
73	** The order of the Dragon Bahamut-class is a 'quarter of the size' of Luna, and is fully [[StealthInSpace stealthed]]
74	*** They are building the thing in orbit and nobody has noticed.
75	* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Drachenorden members who made the 'great journey' all have this, seeing as civilization on earth was pretty much screwed and billions died.
76	* {{Expy}}:
77	** Radu Barvon and Isaak Ferdinand von Kampfer of Trinity Blood are pretty much directly copied over.
78	*** Not true in Radu's case while his name, physical appearance, even signature ability are definitely copied his personality isn't so isn't only a partial expy.
79	** The Drachenorden may be a tongue-in-cheek foil of Literature/TheDraka, given their similar name, genetic engineering, BadassArmy, BadassCreed, and Spartan-style cultural trappings.
80	* DarkIsNotEvil: America and the Orden.
81	** In America's case they're considered by England's magical world and well FantasticRacism abounds there, but they also employ a high level demon who is actually a [[GoodSamaritan pretty good guy]].
82	* DeflectorShields: Wizards can create them with magic, and then there are the tech examples.
83	* DemonSlaying: The Drachenorden.
84	** Only certain demons, of course.
85	* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Notably Asran's 'Executioner' bullets which destroy souls.
86	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
87	** Harry's taming Bahamut, who is the king of dragons.
88	** Technically Harry is pretty much nearing godhood by this point so its more like one Cthulhu punching out another.
89	* DiagonalCut: Landcruiser getting destroyed by Asran counts.
90	* DoomsdayDevice: Alchemic nukes seem to fit it rather nicely, opening FTL 'gate' did a number to the French Ministry of Magic and that was only for the size of a large person.
91	* DualWielding: The Drachenorden used to do this during the Elysium and Damnation wars.
92	** Mainly because they have magic swords which you know can cut through tanks like tissues.
93	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Drachenorden Stargate Command 'Hell's Citadel'.
94	** Which doesn't make any sense considering the OoD can make extradimensional bases already why build something on Earth.
95	* EldritchAbomination: The 'Great Enemy', the enemy during the Damnation War.
96	* EmpathicWeapon: Asran's Gram, which is a demon blade of some kind and so may be EvilWeapon instead.
97	** Gram is described as malevolent in most instances.
98	* EnergyAbsorption: The Killing Curse just makes Harry stronger.
99	%% * EnergyBall: Isaak and Harry.
100	%% * {{Fireballs}}: Radu a lot, also his daughter.
101	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The KnightTemplar SS about rape. They go batshit crazy about it and will hunt down the guilty. This leads to certain problems with the Imperial Japanese Army and the Soviets's intelligence chief Beria, who they repeatedly try to kill causing Beria to be extremely paranoid as he gets older.
102	* FamilyEyeResemblance: Harry and his son Arzachel is the only one of Harry's children that has green eyes, as well as Lily (Harry's mother), who hasn't shown up. In the prior two though its generally used to reference terrible killing power as its described more "cold shards of glittering emeralds. All the enemy that were before these deathly eyes died this day."
103	%% * FamousAncestor: Subverted by the time travelers and possibly going to be played straight by some others.
104	%% * FasterThanLightTravel: Not simply on ships either. Not kidding even though the 'present time' in story posted on FF.net is circa the sixties the timetravellers have FTL ships.
105	%% * FertileFeet
106	* FeudalFuture: Both alluded to have occurred in the prequel during and in the aftermath of the Eurasian wars as well as present in the Reich. Prominent examples are Duke of Kiev [[spoiler: Ukraine having defected from the USSR]], Baron of Luxor and Count of Donetsk
107	%% * FireIceLightning: Depending on which three you want to use of the Senior Council, when it comes to specialities, or lots of the more powerful wizards use all three. As far as trios go the most typical one is Radu, Dmitri, and Asran (usually), Asran's position can be subbed though.
108	* FormerTeenRebel: Most of the leading time travelers were mercenaries at best at the very beginning of the prequel.
109	* FunctionalMagic
110	%% * {{Ghostapo}}: The Thule Society and the SS are separate, but fundamentally are all Nazis with supernatural powers.
111	* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel: Intentionally invoked from the Order's point of few having three power blocs will surely cause humanity to develop even better ways of killing each other, and by proxy the ChaoticEvil Aliens who wiped out most of humanity.
112	* GodEmperor: Asran in the new timeline is considered a physical god, and commands the Drachenorden and Dracaena.
113	** Supposedly justified in that in the prequel the BigBad were monsters that even with all that power were still capable of killing more than half of the population of the previous timeline's earth.
114	** Lampshaded by the time traveler's leader when Dumbledore attempts to kill Grindelwald.
115	* GunsAkimbo: Mostly averted.
116	** Though in the prequel Asran has two {{Magitek}} Berettas loaded with DepletedPhlebotinumShells which he uses during the Damnation, course one of them gets destroyed so he carries a back up HK USP nowadays to replace the lost one.
117	* GratuitousGerman: Most of it was removed.
118	* GreenEyedMonster: In a non figurative sense, [[spoiler: Harry Potter]] under his assumed name, being a time traveler, as well as his son, are referred to as the Death Eyed knight and Angel of Death respectively and have all kind of monstrous powers.
119	* HalfHumanHybrid: Arzachel Leonid Asran, Harry's eldest son. Most speculation points toward his mother being a member of the [[TheFairFolk True Fae]].
120	* HealingFactor:
121	** Asran takes a sniper bullet through the carotid on a downward trajectory and starts healing in seconds. The bullet doesn't even slow him down.
122	*** Hitler isn't so lucky.
123	* HyperspaceArsenal: Drachenorden Greatcoats, or possibly just Asran's.
124	* IHaveManyNames Harry takes this to a new level by abandoning his birth name after ill meetings with the English Wizarding world in the prequel. He of course has a bunch of other titles Death Eyed Knight, Duke of Kiev, Viscount of Oddessa, Sovreign of all the lands of the Dragon, Grandmaster, Lord of the Cosmos.
125	%% ** All the senior lords have several names and titles.
126	* {{Immortality}}
127	** TheUndead: Vampires, obviously.
128	** ResurrectiveImmortality: Harry and the non-vampire Senior Lords all appear be this. Most likely since Antoine is killed near the end of the prequel and he's stated to be as immortal as the others.
129	*** Non-vampire Drachenorden Knights who underwent the Conditioning before Antoine's death appear to be weaker Immortals of this type as well.
130	* ImmortalImmaturity: [[spoiler: Harry]] frequently complains his son is one of these, something about him being reckless.
131	* ImmuneToBullets
132	* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Cutting through tank armor plus other superhuman feats.
133	* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Stargate cross.
134	* ImprobableAimingSkills
135	* InertialDampening Present: On spaceships.
136	* InfiniteSupplies: Shangri-las seem to be separate worlds which have easily accessible resources and more can be made.
137	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Prequel and then the present timeline characters are much younger than those of the previous timeline by thousands of years yet tend to get along quite smashingly.
138	* InvisibilityCloak: No one has yet noticed the fact that the Drachenorden is building a warship that is supposed a quarter the size of Luna.
139	* {{Invocation}}: The Drachenorden have a specific branch of magic that involves around this.
140	** Actually it's shown the Battle Incantions don't require it.
141	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Happens a few times in varying forms and by different characters.
142	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Subverted. Only the Japanese use katanas, everyone else uses appropriate cultural blades.
143	* KillItWithFire: Get into a fight with Radu and he'll do this. Most of the Drachenorden are capable of pulling this off via incantation, sorcery, or by other means for older knights.
144	* KnightTemplar: The actual stereotypical SS, and others.
145	* KungFuWizard: The Entire Drachenorden are this, particularly since lower level order knights rely on longer incantation spells they have to be able to fight hand to hand.
146	* LamarckWasRight: Strong people tend to have strong kids, though in the Drachenorden's case this might just be the 'genetic engineering' being hereditary.
147	* LightIsNotGood: England's wizarding Government, which is arguably the Most Light side by Wizarding standards, which has FantasticRacism.
148	* LiteralCliffhanger: The start of the Elysium arc in the prequel.
149	* LostTechnology: Chapter 1 starts in an 'Ancient' Laboratory in Sinai.
150	* MagicKnight: The Drachenorden and the Amazons.
151	* {{Magitek}}: The Order, Thule Society, and Americans love the stuff. In particular all three consider Magitek items highly valuable items to protect all cost.
152	* MasterRace: Younger members of the orden, and rather commonly their children, some wizarding groups, certain mutants, the SS.
153	* {{Masquerade}}: The wizarding world's International Statute of Secrecy, which Harry really hates leading to the BrokenMasquerade in Imperial Countries.
154	* MegaCrossover: This author is notoriously bad about them.
155	* MightMakesRight: The Drachenorden early on, and origin to modern the Orden's Duchy, military governing, system.
156	* MiddleEasternCoalition: The UAS, which excludes Egypt, and other North African states, but did previously contain Iran before they separated
157	* MulticoloredHair: Harry ends up having two red streaks through his hair after one of his massive boosts in power.
158	* MusclesAreMeaningless: None of the knights are described as having a body builder physique yet they can thoroughly trounce most threats.
159	* MultigenerationalHousehold: Cypher, one of the leaders overall of the Drachenorden, lives with his Grandson. Cyper's son however died in the Damnation War.
160	** In the prequel they were fighting demons in unarmed combat and winning.
161	* Nakama surprisingly even when he's trying to be a NietzscheWannabe he looks out for his crew.
162	** All the Drachenorden look after their own.
163	** The word Tovares, comrade, gets used a lot.
164	* {{Nanomachines}}: Timetravellers have them in a variety of forms not limited to being used to heal there is also an artificial life form, plus for construction.
165	* NietzscheWannabe: The early part of the Prequel, Harry despises weakness, going so far as to consider anyone without power as below him.
166	** He gets better, to a degree.
167	* OlderThanTheyLook: A lot of people, the drachenorden has more or less countered the effects of aging [[spoiler: however the new timeline knights are only mildly so seeing as someone important died before the trip to the past]] though for the most part they all look like adults [[spoiler: Harry]] looks to be middle aged while his son is supposed to look in his mid twenties.
168	** The commander of the SINEW III is Seventy years old by the Earth Calendar but actually quite a bit older than that due to his participation in the Elysium Crusade.
169	*** Retcon SINEW are now called Sphere Type Aerial Warship the acronyms have been ditched.
170	* OnlyMostlyDead: Harry dies a couple times in the prequel only to wake back up a few days later more or less good as new.
171	* OurMonstersAreDifferent
172	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: There are a number of different vampire species.
173	* OrcusOnHisThrone: Subverted. [[spoiler: Harry]] hates this and would much rather lead from the front lines and frequently does.
174	* OverlyLongName: Radu Barvon, Baron of Luxor, Ifrit of the Empire, Lord of fire, Lord of Smoke, Lord of Ash, Senior Lord of the Drachenorden, etc.
175	* PeoplePuppets: Cypher can turn entire cities of normal people into remote controlled attack dogs.
176	* PersonalityPowers: Subverted in the case of Rad,u who is quite levelheaded [[BerserkButton until you attack Harry]]. Then he's a raging inferno.
177	* PersonOfMassDestruction: In addition to the senior lords of the Order of the Dragon, there is Zero, and Ein, not to mention Arzachel, who is not only a time traveler but bears the title Angel of Death by the Army.
178	* PhysicalGod:
179	** Admittedly they don't need worship though each of the Senior Lords do seem to have a speciality.
180	** Radu is fire.
181	** The Count of Donetsk is Water.
182	** Asran just blatantly messes with Reality.
183	** Antoine is life.
184	** Isaak is magic.
185	* PlayingBothSides: The Order of the Dragon gladdly supplies everyone from behind the scenes as a prelude to World War II.
186	* PlayingWithFire: Radu Barvon the Baron of Luxor is known as the Ifrit of the Order (or the Empire), and Lord of Fire.
187	* PowerLevels: Occasionally mentioned with {{Muggle}}s and regular wizards being the bottom
188	* PowerOfTheVoid: Harry, as befitting his early NietzscheWannabe attitude, Kemmler, and later Harry teaches Zero amongst others wield this.
189	* PsychoSupporter: The side story posted in the latest chapter on FF.net shoves this in your face pretty clearly though there are other examples.
190	* PsychicSurgery: Antoine's most well known ability, and used far more than HealingHands.
191	* PsychicPowers: The Drachenorden, but the senior council in particular Loremaster Cypher who is amongst the strongest, he also heads the Drachenorden Counter Intelligence Taskforce, which involves mindreaders.
192	** Cypher himself is capable of predicting the attacks of other senior lords and holding them at bay for several hours, except when they start using their more advanced attacks even so his psychic barrier can hold off Asran's radiation 'wings' for a short while.
193	* {{Qurac}}: The United Arab States averts this for the most part as its basically it a united Middle East mini super state. That was formed after World War II by the Axis.
194	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: How the Drachenorden started out.
195	* RagnarokProofing
196	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In TheEmpire [[{{Understatement}} do not do this]]; the SS will find a special way to kill you if you, and that's if the Drachenorden doesn't find you first it doesn't matter who you are.
197	* RazorWind: Zero, Grindelwald, Harry along with probably the Amazons and the Knights of the Drachenorden.
198	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: And then some - anyone who is from the previous timeline has at the very least seen their first Millenial Birthday due to the difference in the passage of time in Elysium.
199	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Vampires - HellishPupils are common too when they're pissed off.
200	* RefusalOfTheCall: Harry during the Eurasian Wars and during the Damnation Wars. He tells the English Wizarding world they can go burn.
201	*** In the case of the Damnation War refusal he has a justifiable reason; the wizards in England are leaving the rest of humanity out to dry in fighting the invaders and he doesn't like that.
202	* RealityWarper: Wizards in general are very weak ones, but Harry is a RealityMaker, as is Cypher to a lesser extent.
203	* RewritingReality :
204	** USSR is portrayed as a relatively benign communist nation, who is unlikely to collapse thanks to improved trade allowing them to vastly increase social programs.
205	** Even the South African Superstate by 1980, if you're a rabid anti-colonialist, by which point they've mellowed out a bit from their earlier batshit tendencies.
206	* ShockAndAwe: Harry, and Isaak to a lesser degree.
207	* SmokingIsCool: Starts in the thirties and proceeds from there. Isaac, by nature of being an expy of the character of the same name from ''Trinity Blood'', smokes.
208	* SniperRifle: An integral part of the modern military.
209	** Though not particularly useful against older Drachenorden knights because of their HealingFactor.
210	* SocialDarwinist: Harry early on in the prequel.
211	** As the protagonist he gets better.
212	* SovietSuperscience
213	* StateSec: Everybody ranging from the SS and Drachenorden psychics in the case of the Axis, to the CIA, and wizards of the Secret Service in the case of the Americans.
214	* StormingTheCastle: The English wizards 'storm' a Drachenorden Castle built in Targoviste as a base for the Eurasian Wars.
215	** Harry blasts them off a tower with relative ease.
216	* StupidJetpackHitler: The advanced drafts of the rewrite make it abundantly clear the Axis wins because the Order can afford to give millions and millions of tonnes of war material to the Axis, all the while supplying technical schematics to the Allies, and the Soviets.
217	* SupernaturalMartialArts: Drachenorden Pankration is both brutal and useful at fighting demons in hand to hand combat.
218	* SupernaturalSensitivity: Crops up from time to time.
219	* SwordBeam: Gram releases immense bursts of raw malevolent energy which well think wind scar from Inuyasha for the low power or just outright wiping things from existence.
220	* TheClan: Wizard Nobility.
221	** The Potters.
222	** Likewise Drachenorden 'Houses' tend to be similiar with a member of the family, usually a Drachenorden peer, as ThePatriarch. The House of Asran has the House of Kiev and the House of Moldova as subordinate branches to it.
223	* TheDarkArts: Grindelwald, Kemmler, and Riddle all like using the Dark Arts. Grindelwald in particular has a Demon anchoring his soul to the mortal plane.
224	* TheEmpire: The third Reich after WWII becomes this.
225	** Officially it's comprised, subdivided into smaller 'Kingdoms' like Germanicus, and Dracaena, and the UAS.
226	** Also the Empire of Imperial Japan.
227	* TheMagocracy: The Order of the Dragon with heavy influence of AuthorityEqualsAsskicking. In America though its more like CourtMage, while England also has a separate Magocracy in the form of the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ministry of Magic]] .
228	* ThePatriarch
229	* ThePowerOfCreation: Harry's ability to create Shangri-la.
230	* ThePowerOfLove: First Timeline Dumbledore claims, as in canon, this is the power the Dark Lord knows not. Harry thinks Albus is crazy.
231	%%* TheUnmasquedWorld: Post World War II Europe and Asia.
232	%%* TimeTravel
233	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: In the 'first book' of the series, Harry performs an EyeScream.
234	* WeaponOfChoice: Asran's Gram the regular knights all carry runeblade swords which can tear through tank armor with ease.
235	* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Rio gets blown up by the Luftwaffe using a {{Unobtanium}} bomb not to mention conventional nukes, alchemically enhanced nukes, bio weapons, poison gas unobtanium enhanced alchemically enhanced nukes with controlled radii.
236	** The Drachenorden has rail guns in space.
237	*** And on tanks and as fixed artillery installations.
238	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The whole point of getting the Nazis to win the war, is to prevent the ominous future from the previous timeline.
239	* WhiteGloves: Isaak, and Dietrich, plus the Hellsing Characters. Dark color gloves tend to be quite common.
240	%%* WizardsAndWitches
241	%%* WizardsLiveLonger
242	* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Radu has dark blue hair.

Context FanFic / ScepterOfDarkness