Both you and Isidora started school as fifth-year students, and both of you can see traces of ancient magic that appear as beautiful glowing strands in the world around you. She was using ancient magic to extract pain from those around her, with a focus on helping her ailing father who never emotionally recovered from the traumatic death of her own brother.Īs for the similarities themselves, it almost shouldn't need mentioning.
They want you to see Isidora as a dangerous individual, but since she is presented as a reflection of your character themselves, they essentially are asking you to admit to being a danger too.Īlthough originally paved with good intentions, Isidora's downfall is, according to their memories, rooted in her innate thirst for power and control. Knowing me, knowing youīeing the main character doesn't mean you're safe from deceptive storytelling.Īside from being essentially holograms, another reason to distrust the Keepers is that they seem immediately mistrustful of you in the first place. By withholding information from us and guiding us down a linear path of memories to experience one after another, the Keepers effectively give the player no chance to think about whether what we're seeing is the truth – or if, much like the Keepers themselves, everything has been framed up for us just so. The paintings haven't been enchanted to give us any real information, only cryptic instructions and derisive glances. Really, they never tell us this outright. By killing her, the Keepers were only acting for the good of the wizarding world, right? Long story short, Isidora ended up being killed by one of the Keepers following a magical skirmish, and since then, the four Hogwarts professors have been waiting for the right person (that's you) to carry on their legacy.Īccording to the Keepers, Isidora went rogue.
As you play through the main questline, you'll uncover the Keepers' shared, solemn duty: to protect a repository filled with unstable ancient magic that has long been buried deep beneath the school, created by a fellow ancient magic-wielding professor named Isidora Morganach whose taste for power consumed her.