History FanFic / ScepterOfDarkness

* BadassGrandpa: Cypher, but so are most Drachenorden who can, in the case of previous timeline knights, be thousands of years old.
** Cypher can with a thought kill an entire City [[PsychicPowers with his mind]].

* BioAugmentation :

* AlternateHistory
** 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.

* EnergyBall: Isaak and Harry.
** {{Fireballs}}: Radu a lot, also his daughter.

* FairytaleMotifs:
** It's called the Order Of The Dragon and its members are all badass.
*** Order as in a group of knights.
*** And the fact their leader commands the king of dragons who is supposedly only cowed by God's power.
* FamousAncestor: Subverted by the time travelers and possibly going to be played straight by some others.
* 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.
* FertileFeet
* FeudalFuture: Both alluded to have occured in the prequel during and in the aftermath of the Eurasian wars as well as present in the Reich.
** Prominient examples being:
*** Duke of Kiev [[spoiler: Ukraine having defected from the USSR]]
*** Baron of Luxor
*** Count of Donetsk
* FireIceLightning: Depending on which three you want to use of the Senior Council, when it comes to specialties, 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.

* {{Ghostapo}}: The Thule Society and the SS are separate, but fundamentally are all Nazis with supernatural powers.

* GreenEyes: Harry and his son, as well as Lily, 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."
** Oddly, the fic having been released before the Deathly Hallows' epilogue, Helltanz98 has Arzachel, Harry's son, being the only one of Harry's children seen so far that has GreenEyes.

* IHaveManyNames
** All the senior lords have several names and titles.
*** Not even counting actual noble titles like Count of Donetsk, or Duke of Kiev.
** 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.

* {{Alchemy}}: Dumbledore's specialty, and its especially useful if you give the alchemists preptime

;;Scepter of Darkness;; is nominally a ;;Franchise/HarryPotter;; time travel fan fiction.

Scepter of Darkness is nominally a Franchise/HarryPotter time travel fan fiction.

The fic is apparently undergoing a rewrite but is still pretty heavy on tropes.

Prequel Summary: (divided into parts per the author's recent poll)

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3674583/1/Scepter-of-Darkness Part I]] comprises the Beginning, and the Elysium War.

Part II comprises the Eurasian Wars.

Part III comprises the Damnation War and the Preparations for the Great Journey.

!Tropes contained in ''Scepter of Darkness'':

* TheUnmasquedWorld: Post World War II Europe and Asia.
* TimeTravel

* WizardsAndWitches
* WizardsLiveLonger
* WorldWarII: The first couple of chapters take place in World War II, though it goes from what happened in the [=OTL=] to Germany launching [[spoiler: Operation Midgardsormir]] which is an [[spoiler: Axis invasion of Asia]] it goes much better with future tech.

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*** Inspired by AceCombat Scinfaxi and Hrimfaxi.

** Though in the prequel Asran has two {{Magitech}} 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.

To cut a long story short, time traveling knights led by [[spoiler: Harry Potter]] 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]].

** The Drachenorden may be a tongue-in-cheek foil of TheDraka, given their similar name, genetic engineering, BadassArmy, BadassCreed, and Spartan-style cultural trappings.

Scepter of Darkness is nominally a HarryPotter time travel fan fiction.

* 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 [[HarryPotter Ministry of Magic]] .

Scepter of Darkness is nominally a Harry Potter time travel fan fiction.

Anyhow, to cut a long story short, time traveling knights led by [[spoiler: Harry Potter]] 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 [=OTL=] 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]].

Part I comprises the Beginning, and the Elysium War

Part II comprises the Eurasian Wars

Part III comprises the Damnation War and the Preparations for the Great Journey

** Of course only certain demons.
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells
** Notably Asran's 'Executioner' bullets which destroy souls.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
** Prequel
*** Harry's taming Bahamut, who is the king of dragons.
*** Technically Harry is pretty much nearing godhood by this point so its more like one Cthulhu punching out another.

* EmpathicWeapon: Asran's Gram, which is a demon blade of some kind so this may be EvilWeapon instead.

* EnergyAbsorption: The Killing Curse just makes Harry stronger
* EnergyBall: Isaak and Harry
** {{Fireballs}}: Radu alot, also his daughter

* FairytaleMotifs
** It's called the order of the dragon and its members are all badass.

** Not kidding even though the 'present time' in story posted on FF.net is circa the sixties the timetravellers have FTL ships

*** Duke of Kiev [[spoiler: Ukraine having been defected from the USSR]]

* FormerTeenRebel: most of the leading time travelers were mercenaries at best at the very beginning of the prequel.

* {{Ghostapo}}: The Thule Society, and the SS are separate, but fundamentally are all Nazis with supernatural powers.

* GodEmperor: Asran in the new timeline is considered a physical god, and commands the Drachenorden, and Dracaena

* HealingFactor

** 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.
*** Non vampire Drachenorden Knights who underwent the Conditioning before Antoine's death appear to be weaker Immortals of this type as well.

* KillItWithFire: Get into a fight with Radu and he'll do this, also most the Drachenorden are capable of pulling this off via incantation sorcery, or by other means for older knights.

* 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

* MagicKnight: The Drachenorden, also the Amazons
* {{Magitek}}: The Order, Thule Society, and Americans love the stuff. In particular all three consider Magitek items highly valuable items to protect all cost

** All the drachenorden look after their own.

* OnlyMostlyDead: Harry dies a couple times in the prequel only to wake back up a few days later more or less good as new

* PeoplePuppets: Cypher can turn entire cities of normal people into remote controlled attack dogs
* PersonalityPowers: Subverted in the case of Radu who is quite levelheaded up until you attack Harry in which case he's a raging inferno.
* 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.
* PhysicalGod

* PlayingBothSides: The Order of the Dragon gladdly supplies everyone from behind the scenes as a prelude to world war II/

* PowerOfTheVoid: Harry, as befitting his early NietzscheWannabe attitude, Kemmler, and later Harry teaches Zero amongst others wield this

* PsychicSurgery: Antoine's most well known ability, and used far more than HealingHands

* 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

* RealityWarper: Wizards in general are very weak ones, but Harry is a RealityMaker, as is Cypher to a lesser extent
* RewritingReality

** Though not particularly useful against older drachenorden knights because of their HealingFactor

* SupernaturalSensitivity: Crops up from time to time

** The Potters
** 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.
* TheDarkArts Grindelwald, Kemmler, and Riddle all like using the Dark Arts. Grindelwald in particular has a Demon anchoring his soul to the mortal plane.

* TheMagocrac:y 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 [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HarryPotter Ministry of Magic]]

* ThePowerOfCreation: Harry's ability to create Shangri-la

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The actual 'first book' in the series Harry with Gram in knife form performing an EyeScream.

* WhiteGloves: Isaak, and Dietrich, plus the Hellsing Characters, dark color gloves tend to be quite common.

* WorldWarII: The first couple of chapters take place in World War II, though it goes from what happened in the OTL to Germany launching [[spoiler:Operation Midgardsormir]] which is an [[spoiler: Axis invasion of Asia]] it goes much better with future tech.

{{Expy}} The Drachenorden may be a tongue in cheek foil of the TheDraka given their similar name, genetic engineering, BadassArmy, BadassCreed, and spartan style cultural trappings. The Ordo frequently uses the excuse of a BlueAndOrangeMorality

** 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.

** 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.

Nominally is used because with out reading the prequel which the author has yet to repost, though continues to promise to do so hasn't yet. Another reason is because of the fact it crosses with multiple different series.

Anywho long story short time traveling knights led by [[spoiler: Harry Potter]] 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 OTL is to basically force a massive development of weapons technology, this leads to keeping the Nazis in control of Europe while allowing world war II to play out leading to a bloody stalemate.
The fic is apparently undergoing a rewrite but is still pretty heavy on tropes

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade
** Asran's Gram though he probably does have the strength to actually put the force behind the blade
** Drachenorden runeswords

** Demon blades

* AlienInvasion: Happened in the prequel hence the time travel, [[spoiler: despite the fact the earth won]] and is supposed to happen again
* AllGermansAreNazis: Subverted the largest example being 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

** 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
* AlternateUniverseFic
** See above
* AmicablyDivorced: Harry and Arzachel's mother, well for the most part.
** Its 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.

* BadassFamily: Most Drachenorden bloodlines, also Grindelwald's 'kids'.

* BioAugmentation

* BlackMagic

** If Asran [[spoiler: Harry Potter]] starts breaking it out some one is about to be fubared to an extreme.
* 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]].
* BloodKnight: Tobias, besides being litterally called Blood Knight, makes a habit of going out and fighting, and killing rivals who oppose the Order's agenda without being ordered to.

* ClothingDamage: Literally.

*** Any time a drachenorden force of battallion strength numberwise takes the field well... the enemy is [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrecisionFStrike fucked]] no matter how many there are.
* CoolAirship
** the German Sturm class.

* CoolBoat

* CoolStarship
** The order of the Dragon Bahamut-class is a 'quarter of the size' of Luna, and is fully [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthInSpace stealthed]]

* {{Expy}}: Radu Barvon and Isaak Ferdinand von Kampfer of Trinity Blood are pretty much directly copied over.

Tropes contained in Scepter of Darkness

* Alchemy Dumbledore's specialty, and its especially useful if you give the alchemists preptime

* EnergyAbsorbtion The Killing Curse just makes Harry stronger
* EnergyBall Isaak and Harry
** {{Fireballs}} Radu alot, also his daughter

* GodEmperor Asran in the new timeline is considered a physical god, and commands the Drachenorden, and Dracaena

* 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

* MagicKnight The drachenorden, also the Amazons
* {{Magitek}} The Order, Thule Society, and Americans love the stuff. In particular all three consider Magitek items highly valuable items to protect all cost

* MiddleEasternCoalition The UAS, which excludes Egypt, and other North African states, but did previously contain Iran before they separated
* MulticoloredHair
** Harry ends up having two red streaks through his hair after one of his massive boosts in power.

* OnlyMostlyDead Harry dies a couple times in the prequel only to wake back up a few days later more or less good as new

* 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.
* PeoplePuppets Cypher can turn entire cities of normal people into remote controlled attack dogs

* PowerLevels occasionally mentioned with {{Muggle}}s and regular wizards being the bottom
* PowerOfTheVoid Harry, as befitting his early NietzscheWannabe attitude, Kemmler, and later Harry teaches Zero amongst others wield this

* PsychicSurgery Antoine's most well known ability, and used far more than HealingHands

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In TheEmpire [[Understatement]]do not do this, the SS will find a special way to kill you if you, and thats if the drachenorden doesn't find you first it doesn't matter who you are.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Vampires - Hellish Pupils are common too when they're pissed off.

* RealityWarper Wizards in general are very weak ones, but Harry is a RealityMaker, as is Cypher to a lesser extent

* 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.

* 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.

* SupernaturalSensitivity crops up from time to time

* 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 [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HarryPotter Ministry of Magic]]

* ThePowerOfCreation Harry's ability to create Shangri-la
* ThePowerOfLove First Timeline Dumbledore claims, as in canon, this is the power the dark lord knows not, Harry thinks Albus is crazy.

* GodModeSue: Played straight - the Drachenorden leadership are absurdly powerful and the big boss himself takes it even further.

* RootingForTheEmpire: Depending on your persuasions it's possible for someone to root for any one of the superpowers.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The actual 'first book' in the series Harry with Gram in knife form performing an EyeScream... ItGotWorse.
* ValuesDissonance in the new timeline the point of divergence is 1929, with over five million people coming back from the future, by the 1960s the different power blocs have radically different notions. Borders on BlueAndOrangeMorality at times with some of the Ordo, Vampires and naturally the SS.

* BlueEyes: The ubermench twins Zero, and Ein. The Potter Family shows a strong trait for type 1.
** This is except for Harry and his son who have green eyes. Oddly his [[spoiler: daughters]] seem to be inheriting his father's blue eyes.

{Expy}

** Its 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 YourMileageMayVary as Maria's mother is the only semi solid example.

** Vampires, obviously.
** Harry and the non vampire Senior Lords all appear to be Type III.
*** Most likely since Antoine is killed near the end of the prequel and he's stated to be as immortal as the others.
** Non vampire Drachenorden Knights who underwent the Conditioning before Antoine's death appear to be weaker Type III Immortals as well.

* ApocalypseFic: The prequel.
** First you have the Eurasian Wars which feature a limited nuclear exchanges, well after things start to look like they are getting better then the Damnation war starts up and... yeah.

Scepter of Darkness is nominally a Harry Potter time travel fan fic.

Anywho long story short time travelling knights led by [[spoiler: Harry Potter]] 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 OTL is to basically force a massive development of weapons technology, this leads to keeping the Nazis in control of Europe while allowing world war II to play out leading to a bloody stalemate.

* TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior: The actual 'first book' in the series Harry with Gram in knife form performing an EyeScream... ItGotWorse.

* 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 radiuses.
** The Drachenorden has railguns in space.