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The next time I wake up. It's much different than before. I'm not even sure I'm completely me A new set to memories lie in my mind ones of an 8 year old boy named Ronan Black, For a single second I worry about if I had killed this kid maybe I'm some evil spirit taking hold of the kid but then I kind of review the memories and I can't explain why but I'm pretty sure that this is me. The way he makes decisions, his disposition, his thought process, and his personality.
Just by the brief review, I know this is more of a reincarnation, unlocking past-life memories scenario. I don't know if that is because, based on the memories, the kid was a lot like me in my past life as a kid, or if it's something deeper, but I felt completely connected to his memories, his feelings.
At the same time, my old memories seem kind of distant. I realize that even though intellectually my mind felt more like 23-year-old Danny Stevens, emotionally I was more like Ronan, maybe so it was like I was Danny, but if I/He reverted to a 12-year-old. The more I sort through Ronan's memories the weirder they get. From what I can see, I was raised by my mother in this life, and she is quite an odd British woman. What really stands out about my mom is that she is a witch. I'm talking full-on broom potion-making, wand-waving witch.
She is also really rich. I am talking Batman rich. Speaking of Batman, from what I can see the DC Universe is in full swing here. I'm definitely in some kind of weird mix of Harry Potter, Avengers, and Smallville. My mother is part of a group called Veritas. Once a year, she would take me to a meeting of the Veritas council.
Veritas was different from the show, where the group was supposed to be a few of the extreme elite. Pretty much anyone who had global significance could become a member of the Veritas Council. It had many different factions and alliances, but there were four main factions. The Light faction, the Dark Faction, the Muggle Faction, and the Sorcerer faction. Though I definitely wouldn't let my mother hear me say it, the factions were pretty equal in power, money, and influence. My mother was the current leader of the Dark faction after the fall of Voldemort.
We would often spend time with some familiar names to my new memories of the original show, Teague's, Queen's, Luthor's, but the Veritas Council was much larger than it was in the show, with a lot of other powerful members, a few more from the DC universe, The Waynes, high level Members of the Court of Owls, A.R.G.U.S. Directors. Some from the Marvel universe like the Starks, Kingpin, The Hand, world council leaders(S.H.E.I.L.D./Hydra), Wakanda, etc.
The sacred 28 were indicative of the 28 families that had several of its members to become veirtas council members, unlike the wizengamot, the seats were not inheritable, though only 5 or so had been able to keep their seats. Magical families like The le Fay's, The Black's, The Potters, and The Greengrasses. Outside of the 28 families in Britain, there were about 112 other great magical families worldwide that had produced a member of the Veritas Council. Only About 40 of those families produced more than one member.
You would think those families would look down on Muggles, but another change from my memories, the harry potter world was less xenophobic, while the pure-blood agenda was a very real thing, wealth and influence could raise a non magical person to a status not to the level they were seen as equals but magicals were more realistic of the threat that Muggles presented especially since a natural fear of the sorceror faction with the sorcerors and chi users but they were only somewhat well known among the elite wizards families that had a veritas council member at one point or another the common wizard believed muggles were mostly powerless.
A thousand year ago, when the varitas council was truly defined there were only 12 members:
Dark Faction: Rowena Ravenclaw, Morgana le Fay, and Salazar Slytherin
Light Faction: Godric Gryffindor, Merlin Ambrosius, and Helga Hufflepuff
Muggle Faction: Arthur Pendragon, The Black Panther and Vandal Savage
Sorcerer Faction: Kun Lun's Iron fist, The Mandarin, the Ancient One Yao
Merlin Ambrosius was the first and only leader of the Veritas Council. He was a ridiculously powerful individual whom they all respected, but he was even more mysterious than the sorcerers' faction. They controlled the world for a time behind the scenes, but the council's main purpose was protecting the world from extraterrestrial threats. They forged many alliances and treaties with several alien races, the Asgardians for one, a very shaky non-aggression pact with the Kree after an incident with the Inhumans, a treaty with the kryptonians and martians, but sooner or later, one by one they all the original council members died or disappeared. Except for the sorcerer faction that never seemed to change, and Vandal Savage.
Merlin left for the stars one day, vowing to return one day, but before he left, he left the heads of the different he left two objects for the Veritas Council:
The first A Magical book on and alter that had two functions, one of which was to update with those qualified to be in the Veritas Council, sending out an invitation and instructions on how to reach the council. Acceptance of the invitation would bind the individual to a vow of secrecy. The second function lets faction heads and sub-faction leaders put forth laws and rules that would govern the world.
The second was a massive, magical council hall that anyone who was a part of the council would instantly be teleported to if they thought about the hall while walking through a doorway. The council had around 500 members at any given time, though there were only four council heads who votes counted for about 40 votes a piece, The council members would get to vote on their subfatcion leaders; the leaders vote would count as 20 votes and there were about 10 leaders per faction except for the muggle faction since merlin knew the populace of the muggle faction was the masses they had a whoppong 25 faction leaders, so the muggle faction held 540 votes themselves, the light faction 240, the dark faction 240, the sorceror faction 240. and around 450 votes for regular coucil members. Majority rules
After Arthur Pendragon died, Vandal savage incited the church to nearly destroy the other factions. The Sorcerers withdrew and were barely affected by the witch hunts. The Church and several other alliance groups from the light magic and even small groups from the sorceror faction which would later become the Hand almost killed all Magicals, but after a few years, some of the church members changed their mind believing the genocide unjust, believing that Magicals had a gift from god and took in certain families and children, and the families soon flourished, making their own Governments with the help of the church and the monarchies of the right after the dark ages.
When The newly formed ministry of magic set out to make all magicals align with the church and in a way they succeeded the dark was completely suppressed the leaders of the dark faction the dark wizards were mostly gone forcing most of the monster sub factions into hiding though they would pop their heads out once a year at the veritas council though that was only for the Parts of the dark faction that had some semblance of immortality so they could afford to be brazen like Vampires, High dragon's, and Demon's. The others, like werewolves, Giants, and goblins had to make alliances with the newly formed magical governments or get wiped out.
The British Wizard Council, which would later become the Wizengamot, made hereditary council seats that had limited powers of nobility. That was made for families who, at the time, had seats on the Veritas Council to show they had control of the government.
Though there were a few of members who were somewhat dark on the newly made wizards council most of the really dark wizards died The magical standards of the time of the first council was very different today in comparison Godric Gryffindor would of been deemed dark magic today and because of that fact traditional families creeped more and more into the dark faction even though they were initially more neutral. So the longer the council existed, the more "Dark Wizards' were part of the council.
The Veritas council changed along with the world's political climate, but after the first few years of the first magical government, other governments followed suit, forming their own magical governments and schools. But most of the magicals similarly introduced specific family lines to control the various magical governments. That was when the ICW was formed where certain representatives made the big decisions of the wizarding world 85% of all wizards were light and neutral wizards, They all supported the ICW The remaining 15% were Dark wizards that didn't die in the crusades they mostly kept their heads down dealing in the dark put on a smiling face and kept most of their actions in dark corners a great example would be my family line descendants of Morgana le fay who changed their last names to black.
The biggest difference between the seats of any specific wizard council or even council seats for the ICW that represents wizards as a whole was that The Veritas Council could be bargained, bought, or even stolen among the faction. If you were among the Veritas Council you were the elite of the elite despite if were muggle, magical, demon, alien or spy.
There were so many underlying groups and sub factions like the death eaters were a sub faction of the dark group, so was the leader of most 'Monster' factions, The leaders of the vampires, werewolves, goblins, giants, and demons. Each faction was secretive from each other faction and had limited interaction Honestly this meeting of the leaders of veritas was the only time most of the factions met peacefully.
The Dark faction though disliked by most of the members of the other Factions had hard connections with each of the other three faction they controlled 83 council seats. My mother was the main leader of the Dark faction.
You would think that the Muggle faction would be the weakest seeing that the other faction had access to various forms of magic but no in the muggle faction they not only had their own brands of magic from the Homo Magi who used magic in a whole different way then the rest of the world they also had sub factions involving the church that had once nearly destroyed the dark and light factions. They had gotten even stronger over few hundred years the only reason the scales where balanced was because the Muggle faction was so splintered.
Though the largest faction the group that maintained most of the power pf the muggle faction was run by Vandal savage. After his trickery trying to destroy veritas didn't succeed he decide that he might for control within the group rather than destroy it. I had met him once he really did live up to his name less man more a wolf in sheep's clothing. The Muggle faction maintained control of 148 council seats.
The Light Faction had the fewest sub-factions of the four, but they were about equal in numbers to the Dark faction most of the worlds magicals the leaders were most of the leaders of the ICW and a few well-known experts like the Flamel family, The Scamander Family. Albus Dumbledore was the leader of the light faction. They controlled 75 council seats.
The Sorcerer faction was the most mysterious of the four faction's. Their sub faction's included a big portion of the eastern magicals, TH martial arts user of Kun Lun, The Hand, The Inhumans and the ten rings. Even though on the surface they seemed to have at least the same level of strength as the Muggle Faction they were less interested in ruling and more about protecting the world though most sub factions seemed sketchy about their definition of protection. The ancient one was the leader of the sorcerer Faction. They maintained control over 61 council seats.
All the faction had their own criteria for members,
For The dark it was about power if you had power the dark respected you.
For The light they mostly wanted magicals who rejected the dark side.
For The muggles Wealth, Political power, and influence.
But the sorcerers most of their veritas members were immortal or at the very least gifted with extremely long lives and so there wasn't much turnover for those positions.
I hadn't even gotten to the most surprising part my Mothers name is Bellatrix Black.
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