If you go on our front page and read the intro to the game, that's what the theme is. Keeping to theme means to fit your character and plots to that feel. This means if you want to explore a character's severe psychological trauma from rape and physical abuse, this probably isn't the game for you. Angels and demons and aliens from outer space don't belong here, but we're sure there are other games that fit your tastes.

Applications for things such as powerful skills (Animagi, Occlumency) that come from canon will generally require an application. Anything that is your original invention should generally be applied for. When you submit a character application, the staff will request you fill out certain applications if they apply to your case. Sometimes the need to fill an app develops through RP. Some good rules of thumb:

• -Is this skill something your character wouldn't normally have in the context of his or her occupation?
• -Are there Ministry regulations regarding your character's artifact or item?
• -Is this skill, item, or spell something unique to my character? Something my character invented?
• -Did my character join a new faction, such as the Ministry, Dark, or Werewolf?

All OotP members are recruited on a IC and OOC basis. We look for characters who will work well with the existing Order members, who embody Dumbledore's core values of love and loyalty, and whose players can handle IC consequences, even death, gracefully.

Under Beings and Beasts, put 'werewolf' for race. Indicate in the character history the date they were turned into a werewolf.