Castle MacFusty is the seat of the clan proper and houses her chief. On the northen edge of the isle of Lewis, it holds the biggest and richest group in the clan and serves as the gathering point for feast days, festivals and meetings. Enchanted to appear to muggles as an old ruin and with extra charms to repel them, it's served the clan well. A dragon-sire, known as Moraig, lives below the castle in the sea-cliffs. His lair is accessable from the castle by decenting into the caves. He has a favorable relationship with the residents, but only a few of the clansmembers dare to traverse his lair.

They raise livestock on the grounds, mostly cows, horses and sheep, and as this case is one of the bastions of wizardy in the Outer Hebrides, they often house travelling wizards and occasionally host other pageantry.

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Other Residents not pictured: About 15, including hangers-on.

A small group of immediate family, they guard the dragon known as Mingulay, who currently has several whelps, masking her a good potentional way to renew the dragon breed. Mingulay Isle is the poorest of the MacFusty groups. Living on the uninhabited isle, they are entirely self-suffient; they have the most rural and disconnected life of their clan. They farm and raise livestock (much of which gets eaten by their resident dragon) and fish offshore. The island, abandoned by Muggles in 1912, is covered in ruins, which the family often makes use of.


Exterior
The island itself is one of the highest in the British Isles, standing at almost 1000 feet above sea level in areas. It's not a large island, however - only 2 square miles - and so it often battered and completely separated from the mainland by storms. This small size and the huge cliffs make it ideal for open-range farming.

The ruins of the main muggle settlement still remain, and the MacFusty children consider them extremely entertaining to play in (and on). The family often scavenges stones and brickwork from the ruins.

The exterior of the farm consists of their barn for the (valuable) horses and their well house; the rest of the farm is largely open-range, and there's a very, very good reason for that - when your livestock feeds a dragon as well as you, you don't want it stopping by the barn for a snack.


Interiors

The farm house appears to be a classic two-room house; however, once inside you find the upper level of the house is the kitchen and dining room, and the sleeping chamber (yes, singular) is underground, accessed via a stair way chipped down into the island's stone. The lower chamber is entire stone-walled, and again, this is due to the dragon; should the dragon turn on them and attack the house directly, the children and elderly can retreat into the lower chamber and be protected from the dragonfire should it torch the house. The lack of extravagance in its construction is largely due to this - the farm house has been burned to the ground quite a few times in its long history.

The lower chamber is large enough to house the family as well as a decent amount of their livestock (if you pack them in tightly). This is so, in an attack, they can save as much of the stock as they can.

Their dogs sleep indoors with them.

Livestock
The livestock kept by the family feed and clothe them; they use their leather, wool, milk, and meat for sustenance, tools and anything else they deem necessary. However, the horses are something of an exception; they keep and elderly Clydesdale mare (Bessie) who pulls the carts and a few choice mares and their stallion, Markus. The rest of the horses are left to roam free to act as bait for the dragon along with the cattle; the dragon of Mingulay has gotten her main food supply from this family for many centuries and the departure of muggles simply made it easier for the family to get these animals to her.

Their sheep are their main livestock herd and their dogs, which they breed, have helped them herd them along with the horses for centuries.


Cooking and Crafts
The family uses magic as much as possible and this has enabled their existence to thrive on an otherwise uninhabited island. However, their lifestyle is quite archaic; this is largely due to tradition, and the fact many modern commodities and luxuries don't survive dragonfire. Angus, in recent years, has made an effort to modernize his family, but the MacFusty philosophy is 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'

They pass much of their freetime (what they actually have of it, anyway) making music and building tools, ornaments and clothes. Due to this tradition, most of their instruments are home-made; it's is considered a point of pride that they sound different and 'pure'.

They use their magic to help, but still make most of their clothes and food in older medieval fashions and using older methods. This is also largely due to them taking sometime to become attached to the Floo network; before, getting from one place to another was often a pain for the family at large, especially with children in tow, and thus they have grown used to being separate from their cousins.

They fish offshore as well as raise livestock; as their boat is something they cannot rebuild easily, it's kept in an on-shore cave when not in use.


Played Residents: Tynan MacFusty
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