Hey guys welcome back to Harry Potter Folklore. So with Hogwarts legacy taking the world by
storm, I really did consider doing lets play and taking you through the entire game until
I realised that about 70 trillion YouTubers had already done that, completed the game
and I just sat there thinking, I’m literally just repeating everything that is already
available on the platform. So I thought it might be more enjoyable for me to take you
all through the lives of characters from the game instead and tell you about their stories,
motives and powers. So we’re going to start with a familiar face and someone who has been
pretty much of a mainstay in the game and that is a Slytherin student known as Sebastian
Sallow. Sebastian is a really cool student who does have sincere motives but believes
that magic itself should be explored in as many aspects as it will allow. I always love
running into Sebastian as I know something fun will happen or I’ll learn a cool spell.
Anyway let’s go through his story, let’s talk a little bit about his life and examine
his own goals.
Sebastian was born in 1874 or 1875 alongside a twin sister, Anne. They were raised by two
professors who ingrained a thirst for knowledge into them, but also a sense of optimism and
open-mindedness, which Sebastian would later hope to emulate. Their parents died when
they were young after a lamp in their cellar poisoned them with an undetectable toxin. They
were taken in by their uncle Solomon Sallow who lived in a home in Feldcroft. In 1886,
at the age of eleven, he and his sister started attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, where they were both sorted into Slytherin house.He became best friends with Ominis Gaunt, a
fellow Slytherin in his year, and he, Ominis, and Anne would often go to the Undercroft,
a secret area within Hogwarts Castle that Ominis knew about through his family, to
play Gobstones and hang out. As Ominis himself was deeply uncomfortable with his family owing
to his own childhood experiences, Sebastian entertained him at their home in Feldcroft,
developing an even closer bond.
Sebastian's life changed around his fourth year at Hogwarts, when Anne was attacked
and cursed during a raid on their house in Feldcroft, presumably by Ranrok's Loyalists,
but actually by Victor Rookwood, resulting in her suffering from an illness. It left
her in constant pain and unable to attend Hogwarts. Sebastian wanted to cure her, and
after trying everything from Nurse Blainey to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and
Injuries, came to confide in the Dark Arts as her last hope. After this incident, Sebastian
developed a strong hatred for goblins, preferring them dead than alive. Sebastian was charismatic
and unafraid of detention and breaking rules. He was undaunted and determined to pursue his
goals and was unbothered by defeat. He was willing to use the Dark Arts to help his
sister and justified it with her condition. He did not view magic as good or evil, but
rather a tool to achieve his goals. He was optimistic, a trait his parents also had,
and he relied on their memory to stay open-minded and persistent, pursuing and using knowledge
as a guide. Sebastian's earliest known awareness of the
Dark Arts was when he was a child and learned that his uncle Solomon had cast an Unforgivable
Curse during his time as an Auror.
By the age of fifteen, he was capable of casting all three Unforgivable Curses himself, even
though they required extraordinary willpower and a real desire to commit evil in order
to cast. He’ll be the one to teach you the curse in the game. Anyway Sebastian's
range of spells were notably offensive, favouring spells such as the Blasting Curse, and often
jumping to the Unforgivable Curses by mere instinct. Even as a young wizard, he was addicted
to dark spell books such as Slytherin's Spellbook, and enthralled by darker tomes
such as Magick Moste Evile. Sebastian justified his interest in the Dark Arts by claiming
it was to find a cure for his sister Anne; however, not only did Anne not wish to be
cured in this way, but Sebastian also seemed to genuinely enjoy the Dark Arts regardless,
finding it "incredible" that he was able to possess Inferi in the catacombs of Feldcroft.
Sebastian was a highly charismatic and confident individual, which not only impressed his
fellow students, but allowed him to sway and manipulate his closest friends as well. He
was capable of convincing Ominis Gaunt to open Slytherin's Scriptorium, something that
initially Ominis was heavily reluctant to do, by appealing to Ominis' desire to learn
the truth about his missing aunt. When challenged on his use of the Dark Arts, he was able to
successfully avoid a direct promise to both Ominis that whatever mission he was doing
would be his last venture and then he would stop, before simply continuing to push the
boundary further. Solomon Sallow was the only individual that Sebastian was unable
to sway, which irritated him greatly. Despite his many faults, Sebastian could not ignore
his enormous devotion to his twin sister, Anne Sallow, to the point that he would willingly
sacrifice his own code of morality to attempt to save her, something we’ve seen happen
to many in different franchises. For two years, he gave his full attention to restoring
Anne's health, refusing to accept his uncle's claims that she could not be saved.
Sebastian's relationship with his uncle and guardian, Solomon Sallow, was notoriously
poor. Solomon constantly berated Sebastian's stubbornness and refusal to accept that Anne
Sallow could not be saved, detesting his nephew's involvement with the Dark Arts. Meanwhile,
Sebastian was unwilling to accept his uncle's reluctance to fully treat his sister, viewing
him as "letting her suffer". Solomon Sallow was the only individual who did not fall prey
to Sebastian's natural charisma, correctly perceiving him as intelligent and dangerous.
After dabbling with the Dark Arts, he evicted Sebastian from their home and forbade him
from interacting with his sister, after which relations between the two fully eroded.
I’m not going to reveal too much more about Sebastian’s story as you’ll find out as
you play the game. For those of you on the PS4, hang in there I promise you it’ll be
worth it. Let’s have a look at the main antagonist of the game and his story which
is of course Ranrok The Goblin. Rank started a Goblin rebellion so let’s find out why
by taking a look at his story. In Ranrok's youth, he stumbled upon a wizard's
illegal dragon-breeding camp, and became fascinated by the creatures. Mustering the
courage to speak to the man in charge after weeks of discreet observation, Ranrok noticed
he had dropped his wand; he picked it up and approached the man to give it back to
him as a pretext for an introduction. The wizard, however, was enraged at the sight
of a goblin handling a wand (the right to carry a wand having long been denied to all
non-human creatures as per the Wand Ban, clause three of the Code of Wand Use, 1631,
and assaulted Ranrok nearly to death. This left the goblin with a loathing for wizards
and a thirst for revenge.
The goblin, who was once happy to accept his place in the wizarding world now wanted a
way to unite goblins to mount an assault on wizard kind for centuries of mistreatment.
Ranrok discovered the powers of Isidora Morganach and sought to learn more. According to goblin
beliefs of ownership, he believed he was owed her ancient magic because his ancestor, Bragbor,
built her ancient magic repositories. The goblin rebel eventually learned how to harness
a corrupted form of ancient magic and would grant the Loyalists some of his power. Ranrok
then led his rebels into open conflict with the wizarding world in 1890. He began to
look into the locations of the other Keeper repositories and begrudgingly allied with the Rookwood
Gang.
This was a tumultuous relationship that relied solely on Victor Rookwood's knowledge of
his Keeper ancestor, Charles Rookwood, and Ranrok's ability to harness ancient magic.
The alliance is made even more fragile due to Ranrok's genocidal intentions toward wizardkind
and Rookwood being an espoused wizarding supremacist. Lodgok, once a good friend of
ranrok was banished from the Loyalists after showing sympathy towards the witch, Miriam
Fig, at Rookwood Castle. Ranrok killed the witch himself and stole her wand after failing
to find the location of a journal. Rookwood tipped off Ranrok about the key to Vault
12 in Gringotts Wizarding Bank. He sent a corrupted dragon to intercept the carriage
but only managed to lose the key and kill Ministry employee, George Osric. He encountered a late-blooming student
which will be your character in the game and Professor Eleazar Fig after arriving at
Gringotts to deal with the two himself. Ranrok grew impatient with the banker telling him
all the rules of the vault, and killed him, labelling him a traitor.
So guys, just a little insight to some of the characters from hogwarts legacy which
will be expanded upon with more lore as the game continues to reach more of you with the
upcoming releases for the 8th generation consoles.