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TO: OUR FOLLOWERS FROM: WENDY DUFORT & AURORA SCARBOROUGH

If you have been following us for a while, (first, let us just say, thank you) then you know how long we have been committed to this world. We love it dearly. This world has been an escape for us on the good, the bad and the ugly days. Being able to create people, places and things always brought a smile to our faces. We are and forever will be dedicated to all the possibilities that could come to life here.

However, we all certainly know this is not our world. In our world, we are not two interns in the records department of MACUSA. W.D. works as an analyst. A.F. is a school teacher. The real world gave us multiple expansive breaks since 2015 that have allowed us to get this idea to where it is today. We are very grateful that we’ve had the time to develop this world.

Now, our world has come knocking again. W.D. will be going overseas for six months and will have little to no connection to cell service, let alone the internet. Shortly after, A.F. will be starting the school year juggling, not only teaching but other jobs. This means, for at least the next half year this page will see little to no activity. We sincerely apologize for this. Trust us, if we could continue to manage it, we would.

In the near future, we hope that the crowds will continue to find inspiration in our writing and will fall as deeply into this world as we have. Now, don’t fret too much, we will be back. There is still much to do. This is not goodbye.

And so, without further ado, (to the regulars and the new) witches and wizards, welcome to New York! Tread lightly and enjoy your stay!

Much love, W.D.& A.F.

#we'll be back #the world calls for us right now

Not only is the Woolworth building enchanted to appear mundane, but features extensive expansion charms to fit all the different pieces of the magical government together into one place. The busiest wizarding building in America is a sight to behold. As well as a wild maze with vague directions.

#The Departments of Woolworth #DWUSA

The very foundation of the Magical Congress of the United States of America began to form in 1693 as the need to protect the wizarding community of the New World grew alongside that of their population. Despite the cries of injustice regarding particular laws and policies that have been/are still in circulation, It has managed to do just that––though, granted, there have been quite a few bumps along the way.

#Politics of the Magical Congress #DWUSA

While the seven senior wizarding schools are the best known places for magical education in the United States, the local private schools have produced witches and wizards of the most interesting talent. The magic of the Hawai’ian Islands is odd, old, and adaptive - as is the native Islanders. They were teaching magic amoung their people long before they were visited.

#kanalao hālau 'o mana #kanalao halau o mana #dwusa

Hey I was wondering what's the wizarding history of Queens

What an interesting topic! We’ll start from the beginning:

Discover Wizarding United States of America: Queens Borough

#WD #anon ask #Im so sorry this is so late i TOTALLY forgot about it

Queens is the largest of the five boroughs of New York City. It was established in 1683 and presumably named to honor European Queens. At this time, The majority of the settlers were from the Netherlands and many of their population were witches and wizards. They forged a very decent relationship with the natives. The land grew up into a prosperous town that fostered a safe community for the wizarding folk from all over the world.

#queens borough #DWUSA #I wrote this one drunk my bad guys hope there is nothing wrong love you all - WD

DOCUMENTATION OF PALOMA DELAMUERTE

This Significant Individual Report was submitted on the tenth day of the month of June in the two thousand and twentieth year to the Records Department for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. This reporting follows the declaration of President Samuel G. Quahog for the historical preservation of significant events and individuals of the War of Death’s Eye that spanned from the year two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and twenty within the United States of America.

#significant individual report

As No-Maj Europeans began to emigrate to the New World, more witches and wizards of European origin also came to settle in America. Like the non-magical settlers, they had a variety of reasons for leaving their countries of origin. Some were driven by a sense of adventure, but most were running away. This lead the population to being suspicious of everyone.

From the beginning, however, it was clear that the New World was to be a harsher environment for witches and wizards than the Old World. The witches and wizards in the new world were largely experimenting for the first couple years. They were among new plants, new beasts, and new people - by which the no-maj's had started a tense and untrusting relationship. If they were capable of mending relationships with Natives then, witches and wizards found the new world opening up to them in a completely different way. Not only had conflict developed between the immigrants and the Native American population, which struck a blow at the unity of the magical community, their religious beliefs made them deeply intolerant of any trace of magic. The Puritans were happy to accuse each other of occult activity on the slenderest evidence, and New World witches and wizards were right to be extremely wary of them and relied heavily on keeping close to Native communities. The most dangerous problem encountered by wizards newly arrived in North America were the Scourers. As the wizarding community in America was small, scattered and secretive, it had as yet no law enforcement mechanism of its own. This left a vacuum that was filled by a band of wizarding mercenaries of many foreign nationalities, who formed a much-feared and brutal taskforce committed to hunting down not only known criminals but anyone who might be worth some gold. As time went on, the Scourers became increasingly corrupt. Far away from the jurisdiction of their native magical governments, many indulged a love of authority and cruelty unjustified by their mission. Such Scourers enjoyed bloodshed and torture and even went so far as trafficking their fellow wizards to be persecuted by the no-maj communities. The famous Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93 were a tragedy for the wizarding community. Wizarding historians agree that among the so-called Puritan judges were at least two known Scourers, who were paying off feuds that had developed while in America. A number of the dead were indeed witches, though utterly innocent of the crimes for which they had been arrested. Others were merely No-Majs who had the misfortune to be caught up in the general hysteria and bloodlust. Salem was significant within the magical community for reasons far beyond the tragic loss of life. Its immediate effect was to cause many witches and wizards to flee America and many more to decide against locating there. This led to interesting variations in the magical population of North America, compared to the populations of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Up until the early decades of the twentieth century, there were fewer witches and wizards in the general European American population than on the other four continents. Pure-blood families, who were well-informed through wizarding newspapers about the activities of both Puritans and Scourers, rarely left for America. This meant a far higher percentage of No-Maj-born witches and wizards in the New World than elsewhere. While these witches and wizards often went on to marry and found their own all-magical families, the pure-blood ideology that has dogged much of Europe’s magical history has gained far less traction in America. Perhaps the most significant effect of Salem was the creation of the Magical Congress of the United States of America in 1693, pre-dating the No-Maj version by around a century. Known to all American witches and wizards by the abbreviation MACUSA (commonly pronounced as Mah – cooz – ah), it was the first time that the North American wizarding community came together to create laws for themselves, effectively establishing a magical-world-within-a-No-Maj-world such as existed in most other countries. MACUSA’s first task was to put on trial the Scourers who had betrayed their own kind. Those convicted of murder, of wizard-trafficking, torture and all other manners of cruelty were executed for their crimes. MACUSA’s second great law enforcement challenge was the number of wizarding criminals who had fled to America from Europe and beyond, precisely because of the lack of organized law enforcement such as existed in their own countries. The first President of MACUSA was Josiah Jackson, a warlike wizard who was voted into the post by his fellow representatives because he was considered tough enough to deal with the difficulties of the post-Salem Witch Trials era. President Jackson strongly felt the need for a law-abiding force and so created the first group of American aurors to help build the foundation for Wizarding America. Several of the most notorious Scourers eluded justice. With international warrants out for their arrest, they vanished permanently into the No-Maj community. Some of them married No-Majs and founded families where magical children appear to have been winnowed out in favor of non-magical offspring, to maintain the Scourer’s cover. The vengeful Scourers, cast out from their people, passed on to their descendants an absolute conviction that magic was real, and the belief that witches and wizards ought to be exterminated wherever they were found. This will lead to decades of future unrest of which might never settle, as in the American population is extremely difficult to fool. However, Americans found themselves distract by a brewing war in which not only will the Native and European magical populations have to join forces but also pick and choose sides with the no-maj's.

#suspicion of everyone #romina

DOCUMENTATION OF CLEOPATRA E. MONIFA

This Significant Individual Report was submitted on the seventh day of the month of June in the two thousand and twentieth year to the Records Department for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. This reporting follows the declaration of President Samuel G. Quahog for the historical preservation of significant events and individuals of the War of Death’s Eye that spanned from the year two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and twenty within the United States of America.

#significant individual report

The Spanish rose up from the South to the Great plains building small towns and trading posts along the way. The French came down from the North, following the Mississippi river with their farming communities. The Dutch in the North also became good friends of the Native Americans. The British were harsh and greedy in their claim. It was obvious, as they propped up their walls and dug new fields, that they are here to stay.

As the newcomers began building log houses and planting fields of grain on the Atlantic Coast, the natives watched. On the Central East Coast, the Powhatan's Mamanatowick, Wahunsenecawh, found no trust in the English settlers. However, Wahunsenecawh did find an unlikely friend in the settler, John Smith. This lead to giving the English some aid in establishing themselves. Even then, Mamanatowick Wahunsenecawh told his young men to watch closely and carefully. It became rumor among the settlers in the early years and on to be mindful of the animals in the woods - that Powhatan scouting parties were transforming into animals. This became the legend of the Native American ‘skinwalker’. Even among their people, there was a debate about how these witches and wizards gained their powers. The most common practice noted across the tribes was a deep form of animal magic that takes roughly a year to perform. At the end of the process, the witch or the wizard may change at will. The word of the transforming Natives spread quickly across the coast and then deeper into the land, as almost every tribe had scouting teams of animagus. Some European witches and wizards built formable relationships with tribes and their magical people. They learned how to become animagus by learning the plant and animal magic of the tribes. The French were notable for teaching some tribes along the Mississippi how to create well-refined wands. While they now could produce a fully capable wand, it still remained unpopular. While the settlers with no magic brought rifles and cows, the magical Europeans brought new herbs and dragons. The relationship between Natives and settlers varied across the land. For years there was much bloodshed between the different people and conflicts never truly settled as more and more Europeans came to the new land. Colonies that angered the tribes faced plagues and curses upon their population by the witches and wizards of the tribes. This lead to a new fear among the settlers. New rumors of demons. They already feared Natives with extraordinary capabilities and now they looked to their own people with weariness.

#they are here to stay #rise of magic in north america #DWUSA

DOCUMENTATION OF AULORA PICQUERY

This Significant Individual Report was submitted on the fifth day of the month of June in the two thousand and twentieth year to the Records Department for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. This reporting follows the declaration of President Samuel G. Quahog for the historical preservation of significant events and individuals of the War of Death’s Eye that spanned from the year two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and twenty within the United States of America.

#significant individual report

It was a great shock to many when the long boats came and strangers landed on the beaches. Leif Eriksson and his crew first landed in the far Northwest islands of Canada. Eriksson may had been the first strange man tribes had seen, but not near the last. The Norsemen’s routes journeyed as far down the coast to what is now the City of New York.

A few of the natives in the more Southern wooded regions began attempting to enchant twiggy limbs of trees at the encouragement of these wand-wielding strangers. Rarely were the attempts effective in becoming a capable wand. Those that were successful continued to hone the skill. It was a man by the name Ahanu, who has been cited in stories to be the first successful wandmaker. Not many took to waving a short, wiry stick in their hands, though it did seem to become more popular for those attempting transfiguration and some charms. The knowledge slowly spread from coast to coast over the span of years. The people of the plains found little to no use for wands, but a few wandmakers appeared to find luck in the West where a new magic was being honed. Yet it will still be many years before wands seem necessary for the people of America. The wandless magic among the Natives is well practiced and extremely capable. A powerful shaman of the Wiyot tribe is told to be the first to produce a patronus. Legend says that she traveled to the top of the mountains deep in the night, followed by a great pack of animals. The animals spoke to her on the mountaintop and begged her to give them a way to be with their people once again. The animals were the ancestors of the tribe adamant on continuing to protect the Wiyot. It was weeks later that the shaman traveled down the mountains alone. Every man, woman, and child met her at the edge of the village. The elderly woman smiled as she waved her hands through motions and a bear made of silvery light burst forth. The shaman left the Wiyot people to travel to other tribes and teach them the charm. Her charm evolved to the most effective mode of communication at the time and was imperative when explorers began roaming their lands. The people of North America were more than capable of more advanced magic at this age which would become instrumental in the when whispers from their neighboring tribes in the Southwest that a terrible people of a flowery language landed. The North American people dismissed the traveling word easily and casually assumed it was like their encounters with the Norsemen. Off the mainland on a cluster of islands, a new people were also establishing themselves. The group of Polynesians had traveled incredible distances to find a home. They quickly grew their civilization on Hawai'i. They shared an understanding of magic with the gods and goddesses of their culture. They will live for generations untouched and thriving. As they build their civilization, trade routes with the other islands and an education system for their magical. Back on the mainland, it was the French that the native tribes found likenesses with when they came down from the North. A fair relationship between trading skills, work, and goods was built throughout the land. Among these travelers, were French witches and wizards in awe of the natives' abilities. They had also brought women with them by which none had ever seen. The veela’s were extraordinary to natives, but very much feared. Elders often said them to be tamed demons in a skin stolen from the moon. The East Coast's encounter with the English was far less pleasant. The brute men were said to sweep in like a storm, shouting and spouting fire from a stick. The English, however, had underestimated the magical talents of the natives as the magical among them were refugees intent on staying hidden. A lack of communication and cooperation lead to bloodshed. With the tribes facing slaughter, elders were forced to agree to uneasy treaties. The leaders of the Magical Chiefdom of the Native Tribes tried to contact the European Wizarding Community, in hope of gaining help with those settling on the coast. Spain and France both responded by sending envoys to ease tensions. Yet, the British Ministry of Magic stayed silent.

#stranges land on the beaches #romina

Magic is ancient and it first belonged to the original people of this Earth. It was many, many generations ago that people tapped into the power bubbling under their feet. In the beginning it explained much of the world around them, but as the bond strengthen between man and magic some grew capable of amazing feats. As the people learned, so grew the first roots of magic in North America.

#the first roots #romina

The aurors of the United States are the first line defenders of our home. Individuals spend an entire year immersed in the most demanding training that produces the high level operators that exist all across the nation. It is no secret to the world that the US greatly values a vicious defending force that is always prepared, and so one of the first declarations of the Magical Congress was the creation of a military capable force.

#the united states auror academy #dwusa

DOCUMENTATION OF LOLANA ELEPAIO

This Significant Individual Report was submitted on the twenty-seventh day of the month of January in the two thousand and twentieth year to the Records Department for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. This reporting follows the declaration of President Samuel G. Quahog for the historical preservation of significant events and individuals of the War of Death’s Eye that spanned from the year two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and twenty within the United States of America.

#significant individual report

DOCUMENTATION OF BILLIE BOWERY

This Significant Individual Report was submitted on the twenty-seventh day of the month of January in the two thousand and twentieth year to the Records Department for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. This reporting follows the declaration of President Samuel G. Quahog for the historical preservation of significant events and individuals of the War of Death’s Eye that spanned from the year two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and twenty within the United States of America.

#significant individual report

I am SO glad to see that you guys are back!

We are honestly very touched by this. I don’t think we can describe what this little sentence means to us. We send all our love,- WD & AF

#WD #AF #ask

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