Hey everyone welcome back to Harry Potter folklore. Today’s video is going to be about
a certain dark wizard who built azkaban and could in turn be responsible for the
creation of the dementors and I will explain how he may have done it a little later in the
video. I’m not gonna see you guys waiting til half way into the video to tell you who it is,
the majority you may already know who I’m talking about anyway, it is of course,
a man named Ekrizdis. He was like the grindelwald before the voldemort. Actually, if I’m honest, the
only thing the 3 had in common was the fact they were all dark wizards because when you think of a
comparison between just voldemort and grindelwald, well they didnt really have that much in common as
they viewed the world different in comparison to their approach to dominating it. Ekrizdis
wasn’t really anything like them. He was more of a loaner if I’m honest. Ekrizdis lived in the 15
century guys so this was a time when magical was still in a very early experimental stage in terms
of spells being created. Tensions were quite high between wizards and muggles with magical
still being viewed as something satanical. If you could do anything out of the ordinary
without logical explanation then people tend not to react well.. Only the known was safe.
Then we have Ekrizdis, who we know wasn’t exactly a normal wizard. He had a cruel and almost
unhinged personality. He embraces being a wizard and becomes quite powerful and knowledgeable,
especially in relation to the dark arts. However as I mentioned moments ago, magical was in a
rather underdeveloped stage with so much more to come. Don’t mistake me here guys, I’m not saying
people hardly knew how to use wands or anything but comparing it to todays level of magic,
you’ll find a considerable difference. Ekrizdis had a deep desire to learn more, to discover,
more even if the methods he used became unethical and even contradicting the boundaries of magic.
Knowing that the level of practice could land him in trouble with the law, the dark wizard
decides to leave his town and travel to a more remote location in order to continue
his experiments. The reason he wanted to do the? Well the dark wizard felt it was time to move on
to human experimentation. When he realises that there isn’t really anywhere he can go
without drawing attention to himself due to the disappreances of lhis intended victims, somebody
always comes looking for somebody, ekrizdis decides to build his own fortress, not on land,
but the sea. By erecting this fortress in the middle of the harsh and punishing North Sea,
he could work alone in solitude without any unwanted interference.
How would he get his victims to experiment on? Passing ships of course. Azkaban could be cloaked
from muggle and even wizarding vision so it was as if the it wasn’t even there should ekrizdis
want to that way. He’d remove the cloaking spell, lure the ship to the small island under
false pretences, then capture its crew, which shouldn’t be too difficult to do for a wizard of
his experience. At first, the dark wizard would experiment on these sailors, in an attempt to
achieve some wild feat of magic that had never been done before and when his host would die,
most likely from the torture they endured, ekrizdis would then dispose of their bodies
and move on to the next victim. I’m not exactly sure what the rate of passing ships would be but
given that azkaban is locate din the North Sea, thats a pretty busy shipping route so I would
say he had his fair share of victims. Ekrizdis mind slowly began to unravel..tahts what I’d like
to say..the truth is that it unravelled pretty quickly given from the state it was in for him
to even want to experiment on unwilling people. He dark experiments soon turned to pure torture. He
became obsessed with inflicting as much pain, torture and misery as physically possible,
all while keeping his victims alive for as long as possible and lets be honest, with
the aid of magic, he could heal wounds or make adjustments that a muggle would not be able to do.
Ekrizdis joyed in creating misery inside his establishment. The more misery the better. He
took an immense level of satisfaction seeing these poor sailors wallow in pain, knowing they’ll never
get out alive. His victim count is unknown but its assumed to be in the dozens. Azkaban soon
became a place of complete and total misery. The screams of victims were sealed within the walls,
their blood stained the stone floors, their last moments etched in the memory of the man who caused
it. With the atmosphere inside the fortress now so bleak, so cold and unbearably chilling in addition
to ekrizdis own adjustments, a new creature never before seen began to slowly emerge from the depths
of despair created inside the azkaban walls. A creature who was directly inserted among the
foulest creatures that walk this earth. Born from the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay
and misery, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them... They target every
good feeling, every happy memory and suck it out of you. This creature was known as the Dementor.
The Dementor’s kiss is the creatures most powerful weapon. In order to perform the kiss,
a single Dementor removes its hood, forcibly clamp its jaw around the victim's mouth,
and consume their soul. The victim is subsequently left in a vegetative state,
and are unable to move on to the afterlife or become a ghost without their soul.
The fate of sucked souls in question was left in the viewers and readers' interpretation,
though it's plausible that when a Dementor dies, every single one of the souls it
consumed eventually are freed and pass on, subsequently allowing the remaining shell
of a human to die. The creatures are also intelligent, can take instruction and don’t
look to far off being able to communicate. The best way to get a dementors alligence is with
the guarantee of victims to feed on. It is my guess that this is why Ekrizdis isolated
himself in his fortress for so long, for so many years. He tortured the dozens if not hundreds of
victims in an attempt to create an atmosphere so bleak and dreary, that the dementors began
to manifest. This was his intention all along. This is why he dedicated so much of his time,
so much of his life to torturing so many people. Dementors can’t just appear out of thin air. Their
environment has to be created alongside what I’d assume to be an additional magical input from
Ekrizdis. The creation of the dementor was always intentional. It makes perfect sense to me. The
dark wizard ensured he created enough dementors for the creatures to be able to then creature the
appropriate atmosphere themselves in order to continue to reproduce, which is why I believe
they all stay together in hoards, unless required by the ministry to go on missions.
We don’t even know what happened to ekrizdis, no information was recorded
in relation to his death. I can only assume that he succumbed to the dementors that he
created as he was the only human there and obviously the creatures need to feed,
they feel a hunger which would only grow stronger in time. The other possibility is that after
creating the creatures and realising they needed to feed, the dark wizard continued to capture even
more sailors passing through in order to keep them satisfied. After the death of Ekrizdis,
the concealment charms he placed on Azkaban began to lift, slowly revealing the huge island
fortress to the wizarding officials who quickly realised how beneficial the building could be
and also how it was important for it not fall into the wrong hands. I think what happened in
the early infancy of Azkaban adds to why the whole place has such a dark feel to it. So
much pain and toture occurred within the walls, in addition to the dementors being the result
of such horrific scenes taking place, it’s no surprise that the prison is such a feared place.
Dementors were feared so greatly by the wizarding governing officials of the time
that they refrained from destroying the fortress in fear of the next location the creatures would
flock to. Therefore they established an agreement with the creature that seen them be able to remain
in azkaban and guard the incomming prisoners in exchange for being able to feed off their happy
and positive energy but not their souls. That was saved as the ultimate punishment
fro criminals with no reprieve. The dementor who got to suck out their soul would’ve been
a pretty satisfied individual. Barty Crouch Jr was sentenced to the dementors kiss for
his crimes as a death eater but many believe it was more so out of necessity to keep him quiet
about Voldmeort’s return rather than it being a punishment. So guys, that is my take on Ekrizdis,
his origins and how I believe he created the dementors. If you have any additional input
then please feel free to leave it in the comments section I would delighted to read
it. Thanks for watching guys, please make sure to look out for the next video. See you soon.