Blood Lineage and Character Origin

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Now I know for the record the protagonist received their Hogwarts Acceptance Letter significantly late compared to most wizarding children who starts manifesting magic at an early age.

Now there have been multiple claims he/she/they could be a Squib. At some accounts, a similar background to Harry Potter (half-blood, raised as a muggle). What are your thoughts about it? Would the game give us a brief history in regards to the protagonist’s blood lineage and origins on our customization comparable to Dragon Age 3, wherein our character differs depending on our selected race and class?

[Scytirix]

I'm assuming we'll find out as the story develops throughout the course of the game.

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Originally posted by Bleurg:

I'm assuming we'll find out as the story develops throughout the course of the game.

Yeah, I have the same notion. Would be great to establish our history from the start though to really make the game as immersive for us RPG stans.

[Scytirix]

All we really know - beyond the fact that we enter Hogwarts as a 5th year - is that our character experiences some kind of 'incident'.

[The Former]

Originally posted by Bleurg:

All we really know - beyond the fact that we enter Hogwarts as a 5th year - is that our character experiences some kind of 'incident'.

So you're saying the Fire Nation attacks.

[Agent Chieftain]

I thought the player character was a transfer student or something. Doesn't that mean you were already learning at a different school, and just got moved to Hogwarts, rather than going to school for the first time late?

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Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

I thought the player character was a transfer student or something. Doesn't that mean you were already learning at a different school, and just got moved to Hogwarts, rather than going to school for the first time late?

Apparently what we know so far is the character got a the late acceptance will enter Hogwarts as a fifth-year student, and after surviving an “unidentified incident”.

[Mathias Giovanni]

By the power of grey skull I have the ancient power now!

[Scytirix]

Originally posted by Lockfågel, Paradoxriddaren:

So you're saying the Fire Nation attacks.

Or the Lizard Queen dances on the roof of our home while praising Xenu who bestows us with his power, or the hag in the swamp curses us with magical ability but it is slowly killing us...Maybe our magic comes from being bitten by a rabid aardvark.

[Miral]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

I thought the player character was a transfer student or something. Doesn't that mean you were already learning at a different school, and just got moved to Hogwarts, rather than going to school for the first time late?

We've definitely been told that the player needs to "catch up" to the other students, and from all appearances you seem to be learning all the spells from scratch (though that's not entirely proven).

So the chances that you were at another school before seem incredibly small. Being a muggle-born is the most likely explanation, but it's also possible that you were a squib until some traumatic event suddenly unlocked your powers.

Or perhaps your parents deliberately decided to keep you away from the schools for reasons of their own, although that seems somewhat unlikely with the way things seem to be run in the books -- though this is in an earlier time period, where perhaps things were more lax, so it's not entirely impossible. Or perhaps your parents actually were Dark Wizards and were keeping you in hiding for nefarious purposes...

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Originally posted by Miral:

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

I thought the player character was a transfer student or something. Doesn't that mean you were already learning at a different school, and just got moved to Hogwarts, rather than going to school for the first time late?

We've definitely been told that the player needs to "catch up" to the other students, and from all appearances you seem to be learning all the spells from scratch (though that's not entirely proven).

So the chances that you were at another school before seem incredibly small. Being a muggle-born is the most likely explanation, but it's also possible that you were a squib until some traumatic event suddenly unlocked your powers.

Or perhaps your parents deliberately decided to keep you away from the schools for reasons of their own, although that seems somewhat unlikely with the way things seem to be run in the books -- though this is in an earlier time period, where perhaps things were more lax, so it's not entirely impossible. Or perhaps your parents actually were Dark Wizards and were keeping you in hiding for nefarious purposes...

I concur with you on the last theory. It’s pretty obvious the protagonist won’t be some deadbeat nobody. Since it’s been confirmed that the main character will have the ability to control a mysterious form of ancient magic, I would imagine he’s been isolated from the wizarding world for his own safety or the other way around.

[annedoe]

1.I just want to point out in the books until Voldemort's takeover of Magical Britian- that magical parents were free to either keep their magical children at home after they turned 11, or sent them to another school (Beaxbuton, Durmstrang- Draco's Dad originally want him to go to the latter). It was only under Voldemort's regime that going to Hogwarts was mandory for "Pure-bloods" students

2.The last trailer seem to imply that we know OF Hogwarts but couldn't attend Hogwarts until we were 15 years old. So that seems to hint that we might have been a Squib with Magical parents who told us tales of Hogwarts before "the incident" where we get powers.


I highly doubt we're Muggle-born because if we were- we would have gotten the letter when we're 11 not 15.

The closet character in the book to have gotten magic "late" (or for the "Enrollment Book sakes) was Neville Longbottom when he;s 7-8years old when he was dropped accidently by his great-uncle.

But he still got the letter when he's 11 and he's a pureblood!

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Originally posted by annedoe:

1.I just want to point out in the books until Voldemort's takeover of Magical Britian- that magical parents were free to either keep their magical children at home after they turned 11, or sent them to another school (Beaxbuton, Durmstrang- Draco's Dad originally want him to go to the latter). It was only under Voldemort's regime that going to Hogwarts was mandory for "Pure-bloods" students

2.The last trailer seem to imply that we know OF Hogwarts but couldn't attend Hogwarts until we were 15 years old. So that seems to hint that we might have been a Squib with Magical parents who told us tales of Hogwarts before "the incident" where we get powers.


I highly doubt we're Muggle-born because if we were- we would have gotten the letter when we're 11 not 15.

The closet character in the book to have gotten magic "late" (or for the "Enrollment Book sakes) was Neville Longbottom when he;s 7-8years old when he was dropped accidently by his great-uncle.

But he still got the letter when he's 11 and he's a pureblood!

I agree that the main character definitely had some sort of a magical upbringing if not entirely. I noticed how too familiar he was with the customs and how easily he can adapt to the norms and workarounds of wizarding kind based on the latest trailers and spoilers that were shown.