The thing is that the repositories didn't contain the ancient magic that we used in game. It contained all the crap Isadora pulled out of people and was snorting like cocaine.

The Keepers' trials only prove you're a powerful fighter and good at solving puzzles. It doesn't do anything to prove how noble or honest you are.

Why couldn't we give Prof Fig a Wiggenweld Potion like he gave us at the very begining of the game instead of letting him die? He certainly had enough time to drink it.....

The problem with opening it or not is, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL. Everyone treats you the same and no-one asks you about it. It's like they all had "Obliviate" cast on them.

The first time I beat it I opened the repository and felt bad asf at the moment but left an empty feeling overall. The second time I beat it and saw the scene with fig it got me teary-eyed.

There is no good and evil. There is only power and those too weak to seek it.

This is my thing. We don't see the "effects" of opening the repository or not. If you finish the game, and then keep playing the side missions and just doing final cleanup....there's no concequences because this game isn't really an RPG that shows those concequences. So I'm just going to do whatever I want 🤷🏻‍♀️

We fear what we don't understand. I think opening the repository is an objectively good thing to do depending on what matters to your character. For me my character grew a strong bond with Sebastian and knew that this ancient magic for a fact could if studied possibly help Anne in the future and others maybe if not used in the careless manner Isodora used it. I wish the scene with Fig could have appeared in both endings. Like especially if you choose to open the repository but the entire game your character has been morally good on their own terms despite possibly choosing to learn dark magic to protect wild beasts from exploitative poachers.

I had no idea Fig had a proper death if you go the other way. He kinda got smashed off a cliff and that was about it. Then every one said he was dead and I was like “huh did Fig die?!”

How is one supposed to be a powerful dark wizard if you keep it hidden?

The thing I noticed is... the negative effect on Isidora's father is likely not the norm. I mean, she took a lot of pain from a lot of people. Surely there would have been a ton of emotionless husks wandering around afterwards, especially Isidora's students. But no, no mention of that at all. Why? Because it worked as intended, just removing a bit of pain. So why did Mr Morganach become an emotionless husk? It's quite simple, really. He was consumed by the grief of losing his son. We see and hear this from the Pensieve memories. When all you're capable of feeling is pain, and that pain is removed, what's left...? Also, notice how the Keepers never tell Isidora what became of her father, not even a brief mention. If it truly was an isolated incident, then the Keepers straight up murdered a fellow teacher for no good reason...

See, I thought Dan was going to argue for the ending where you open the repository and share it. Because he's right, the Keepers did fail. Ancient Magic isn't going to stay a secret no matter how hard you lock it up. So why not share it, so that the Wizarding World can learn how to deal with the threats, and boons, it holds?

Just a note. It’s not ancient magic sealed in the repository. It is the strands of emotions that she pulled out of people and stored to use as power or whatever else she wanted. The problem was she had no will to study, just use it. So what you are protecting is something they did not know what to do with. Emotions they could not destroy or return. Isidore was leaving people without any emotions. She also altered her own memory so you wouldn’t see the negative side effects of taking away someone’s emotions and feelings.

My theory is the very first wizards ever had this ancient magic and they all could use it. However as they began to reproduce with non magic people slowly they could use magic but not the ancient magic and I think maybe every once in a while a wizard who is directly decended from the original wizards has the ability to see it and use it

By the books, movies and any other "Harry Potter" media it's totally safe to say Hogwarts is literally un-safest place in the world to keep anything secret/precious. So I think an all powerful teenager prodigy who can master any spell instantly and defeat armies of wizards and monsters alone is pretty much the right choice, if you REALLY want it protected from anyone else.

For my first time playing I wanted to keep the Repository as is for now but not forever. There are so many good wisher and witches that we’ll want to use this power for good. So I plan to study it and not react like Isadora did. Her intention were good but she didn’t really know how to weld her magic and caused the world a due of pain. As my character cannon or not will study this magic and find ways to use it for good like betterment of food, water, and all the basic needs for people to live and to protect the Wishording world and human world from people like Ranrock or Wordwood. Sebastian made really good points about the keepers though and even though my character defeated the keeps choices that may me think that I should ask if they really did know what this magic is. If it is dangerous to the wrold there’s heck yeah I’ll keep it in the Repository forever but if it has paternal to be good then I’ll like I said study it more carefully and not study it on students! The Keepers keep this SECERT and it seemed like they didn’t know what it is which is ironic. And even if they and I scratched the surface we still don’t know what it even is! I have so many questions like, “Did people centuries ago used the power and hid it away” or “Do the Keepers really know what the magic is!?” Perhaps we’ll see it in DLC or sequels to get a better understanding of this Ancient Magic but for know i can only think, “What secrets our the Keepers keeping from…me and the characters I made?” 🤨

SPOILERS!! In game "Ancient Magic" allows the wielder to manipulate and alter the natural world to a degree no other magic can. Isadora was literally sucking out her victims emotions and feeding on them to increase her own magical power. She turned her father into an empty husk at the end. The reason why the Keepers kept it hidden was because messing with the natural order too much can irreparably damage the world.

I think the best choice is keeping it secret for the time being then informing people we trust when ready, a middle ground between the two extremes with the most likely way forward to have a good long term result.

It shouldn’t be locked up or released it should be destroyed so nobody can use it for Ill purposes ever again.

By opening it, it should give us much more powerful magic like completely changing terrains and even more dueling spells

so....what IS the diff....????????

Actually, the logic of the Keepers was that Ancient Magic should not be used to toy with another person's humanity. That's exactly what Isidora was doing and why I think the magic from removing her father's pain looked different from the other traces of Ancient Magic in the game. She was using Ancient Magic to try and bring peace by removing pain, but instead ended up stripping people of all ability to feel emotion. Isidora was someone who preferred a world of emotionless zombies to one of humans who could feel pain. The line "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" should actually be "the road to hell on earth is paved with good intentions."

The keepers are the villains in my opinion they refused to try to learn anything from it and painted her as a villain. A great example of this is the encounter her in the chamber they don't try to talk her down they don't try to reason with her or figure out what's going on the one dude almost immediately kills her using an unforgivable curse and no one bats an eye at it

There is the option where you lock it for now and eventually will share the info with the people you trust

I think power is always better in the hands of the majority rather than the few. When we think about power in a different way, like the incredible power Voldemort, or even Hitler, we saw how that turned out. The magical power every wizard has in the wizarding world has, for example, is incredibly powerful already, and why isn't that power hidden in a vault somewhere? Two reasons. 1. Everyone has it. 2. There is a nonbiased third party, in the form of the Ministry of Magic, watching over them and catching people and jailing them when they act out and abuse that power. Also, we saw how easily Ranrok got to that power when it's hidden. The keepers were clearly useless in protecting it. They're literally paintings. What can they really do? That's why I think keeping power hidden is never a good idea.

There's one little problem with your video. In your video you state that there are pretty much two choices, either open the repository or close it and keep it secret forever. If you pay close attention to your dialog options there is actually a small third option, which admittedly is the best option in my opinion. If you notice when you say that you're going to keep it contained Professor Fig talks about keeping what you had been doing secret from everyone. Then it gives you a dialog choice on whether you're going to keep it secret forever, which is what you chose, but it gives a second option of keeping it secret for now as well. If you take this option you pretty much say that you'll keep it secret for now but then open it and study it once you have found people that you can trust not to misuse the magic. Which actually fulfills exactly what you said you wanted to do, without opening yourself up to the corruption that influenced Isidora.

Finally beat the Game, but feel kind of cheated with choosing to open the repository being automatically the “Evil” choice. Despite me choosing to open it, then clarifying that I don’t intend to use it the same way Isadora did. Obviously this is a case of most of our choices not mattering in the slightest, still sucks.

i thought it was a big disappointment when i chose to keep the power to use for myself but..i wasnt any more powerful. the whole story was about being a special wizard that could use ancient magic and all you got was ancient throw. very disappointing

Opening the Repository isn’t “canon” which is probably why that is the standard option. People in the Harry Potter books don’t know about ancient magic / don’t mention anything about removing pain & emotion with a spell

It’s not about understanding, it’s about how Isidora used it to take people’s pain away, something we are supposed to deal with it, she even takes people’s emotions entirely. We need new keepers, modern day ones.

Did anyone else think, after the boss battle that surely Hogwarts is going to collapse after all the damage to its foundations and rock under the castle?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions? You could say the same thing applies to the Keepers. Their good intentions could just as easily lead to doom, and they're self-righteous enough not to see it.

Everyone that believes that all knowledge should be shared amongst all people...has not been paying attention

unlike Far Cry 3 where every choice has a different ending, in Hogwarts Legacy, no matter what choices you make, you'll still be you, and Professor Fig stays dead

How are we not talking about the name of his character? Baldemort Baldo? 🤣🤣🤣

As someone who completed the game and sealed the repository away, I would only lock it away temporarily until I could learn more about ancient magic itself so that such power is not abused and rely on those around me to use it properly so I wouldn't become corrupt like Isadora or the Keepers, who are shady in their own rights.

Isn’t the repository just a jumbled up mess of peoples negative emotions though?

Yeah, I don't know how the Keepers thought that anyone would be able to keep their secret when EVERY HOGWARTS PROFESSOR was fighting goblins in a secret chamber they knew nothing about.

You are awesome for this thank you so much, you literally played twice😅 I couldn’t

While I see your point on why you should open the repository, I kind of prefer the ending in which you keep it closed. In the "open it" ending, Fig dies very abruptly by a falling rock. In my first playthrough I chose this ending. However, I was kind of flabbergasted by the funeral scene as I did not realize Fig actually died. He just kind of disappeared. In the "keep it closed" ending, Fig's death got more feels from me, as you actually see him die, as well as hearing his final words. After that, the funeral scene actually hits harder. I think a better solution to the whole issue would be to let the Department of Mysteries research this magic. That way this power can be studied in a regulated environment and also kept from evil hands.

I hated Professor Fig for the whole game so I loved the fact for the correct ending they gave him absolutely zero recognition besides the speech at the end it was my favorite part about that ending honestly

Im still at 49% of the game cuz I'm taking my sweet sweet time doing side quests and spending time in the vivarium 😂 I'm taking notes though, I wanna give my character only the best :))

Does opening the magical repository effect gameplay after you finish? Like when you go to continue and complete your side-quests?

Ancient magic isn't a problem, but what was in the REPOSITORY held negative feelings emotions magic and it shouldn't be something you desire, even if it might add one more powerbar on you ancient magic meter or something. If all you want is power, sure, but it's not going to make you happy. It certainly didn't make Ranrock any happier or reasonable just ever angrier, hateful etz. That's my take on it. It's not worth it unless you really want to be a palpatine or Voldemort and jsut go around killing people at random and drowning cities and destroy nations.

I personally think that opening repository is better... Technically, it's like creating whole other timeline (I think that keeping it a secret leeds to Harry Potter's events eventually)! Kind of nice, especially if you play as grey moralled mage

i prefer the scene with fig, after all we had done together

LOL "a goblin with a big ass drill"

2:00 Well it was still a secret during the fantastic beast era and the HP era.

Im so confused on what ancient magod actually is & what any of it has to do with these repositories

Again, you make the mistake of believing the keepers want to lock away Ancient Magic No. For god sake no Its to lock away SPECIFICALLY what isidora did. The pain take away spell that ripped the emotions and everything else away as well in the end. The spell that isidora used to experiment on CHILDREN. That she was doing to people against their will in the pursuit of poser They are locking away that and that alone, and the dark, corrupting power left behind from when she did it Im sick and tired of people not getting that its not about locking away ancient magic as a whole!

I have questions: 1. Does opening the repository grant you greater power in gameplay 2. If you open the repository does Professor Fig live

Where is Halfdan?

how did fig die in the evil ending

Either way I keep it hidden would of liked to pick this ending on my second play through but it doesn’t affect the final game so no point in my opinion

I kept the repository hidden. For me, it's the only logical solution. We've seen how corrupted the wizarding world already is, so it doesn't need an even greater power. What really annoyed me was us telling our secret to so many people. If you're a keeper, you should keep quiet about all this stuff, too. My favorite ending would have involved Fig to stay alive and guard the secret with us. We could have studied the Ancient magic nontheless, but it's not something that should be shared with the whole world or used for our own advantage. I think it's very presumptuous to believe you have any right to open it in the first place.

No endings are good because professor fig dies in both endings 😭😭😭😭

But They are both meaningless in the end nothing happens!!

4:00 I’m curious in what would next?

Honestly i would keep the magic to myself just because no one should come a cross of this giant Powerball. I think it's safer with me than under ground :/ I don't want to be evil just want everyone to be safe.

I chose to keep it hidden. My idea was that as it's new Keeper I can defend the repository if necessary. It doesn't matter in the end. Fig still dies and we can still get our house cup.

I think this is a Collector Base situation. Sure it seems like the logical conclusion to keep the base and study the technology of far superior beings like the Reapers. But is it worth it, as Shepard puts it to "sacrifice Mankind's soul?" I think not. Some things should always remain hidden.

I wonder... If you choose to gain the powerful magic, will the sequel read your final save file and give you super powers?

My name is Orville Longbottom, and I took the POWER!

The Keepers are *VERY* sus. Hear me out. So the mansion/estate MC and Sebastian stumbled upon is obviously Isidora's home, right? The triptych at the Undercroft depicts the entire scenery of the estate, so it stands to reason that the triptych might be Isidora's version of the Map Chamber. But the painting, HER painting, from the other side, the one in the estate, was destroyed. That means she can no longer appear on the Undercroft. *BAKAR KILLED HER AND THEY BURNED HER HOUSE TO KEEP HER FROM TALKING.*

Yeah opening it just makes so much more sense, than just letting it down there. If the Magic could be harnessed it would do so much more good than just beeing locked away forever. The PC can harness it and use it for too much positive things than just keeping it. I mean my personal Goal was to open it for more Power but my Point still stands.

I choose to open it, AND haven‘t seen Fig died AND after there was a funeral ceremony at school… wtf ahahha

To me the better end would be if we did find a way to just dissolve it turn it all back to the world because no one should have that much power. Yeah you could keep it here but the if someone with bad intentions discover it could end being the end of the world really and power also corrupts in a way that I definitely wouldn't want it on me too. So let it go back to the nature in a way it fade away was what I wish could do at the end. But since you can't I will just keep letting it there. Also you are being total crazy if you think Isidora wasn't bad she was draining peoples emotions to smell it like an drug addict make her father an empty shell after experiment on him some crazy magic and was doing the same stuff not to long after in children??? And if you came "oh but maybe she didn't knew...." If she didn't knew it is even worse because shes not even keeping track of the people she uses it to see if it makes any collateral effect which absolutely should be something happening when trying to make some revolutionary treatment. The keepers aren't saints too but at least their way wasn't harming anyone.

First run I didn't..but my 2nd character i will..

You haven't really explained why you should open it. The 'keep it closed' ending was objectively better

I'm not convinced.

I will never open the repository I'm not going to become another voldamort

How does your choice have influence in the professor appearing again at the end or not? Makes no sense. He should appear in all choices, maybe the dialogs could be different, but he should appear.

If we did the same with new discoveries we'd still be sitting in caves because FIRE is dangerous!

But what's upsetting, you can't use the magic, even after taking it. Kinda lame imo

The 'good' ending is such a bummer. Thanks Big Dan! Miss the streaming dude.

yeah so it didn’t give me to option to choose “i’d like the power for myself” sooo yeah

Why did you make the darker character "evil" and the white character "good"? Lol

I kept the repository for myself. PPOOOOWWWWEEERRRR!

When i played i thot is gonna be a choice to destroy or shere the ancient magic that becouse i chouse to open the repisatory because i was thinking if the repisatory remain a new threat will apear again and again until sooner or later somoane will succeded in taking the power for themself .

So… If you open it post main quest you don’t get any cool new magic? WHY OPEN IT THEN.

Honestly, both decisions you put forth in the video seem like the wrong decision to me. One is power-hungry and hints towards the character planning on going down a dark path. The other just repeats the mistakes the keepers and Figg were doing throughout the game. The middle-ground options: sharing the power, or keeping it concealed until the world is ready to wield it, seem like the better options.

I don't necessarily hate the keepers throughout the game I just hate the way they took this I mean yeah Isadora did start going down at the sort of darker path is somewhat to say but it's because none of them not even Isadora took the time to study taking away people's emotions so hold a news that she could do it and they saw that it was giving her whole power-grab and that's why they're like yeah we need to stop this before it gets too far but if they had taken the time to study it they probably could have found a way to take all that negativity and made it positive somehow.

You should open it because you become more powerful and you are most likely to become an auror so a powerful auror would be a positive more than an negative.

The whole game was great until the end just a mundane ending. Open it or not makes no fucking difference. Only that Fig Dies.

I decided to open the repository, basically because the keepers don't explain a sheet.

This is just coming to the Uk 🇬🇧 on Wednesday , really , really want multi player

Man, I hated the keepers in this game!

There is only one ending.

When I saw the red eyes I knew I made the right choice. I wanted to be bad that's why I chose Slytherin🐍

There is no good and evil. There is only weight, and those too weak to lift it.

Do you have the power to let power go?

Lol you go through the hole game using the ancient magic. Then at the end decide noone should.use this 😅

prfs fin is dead i swear i can t stop cryinggggggg

You cant keep something like that lovk away forever eventually it will find away to the world

Borimir would like a word with you.

Thinking about this game i think keeepers are wrong because they dont understand this power i do not think this power should be locked forever and because this profesor that keepers killed her ( forget name) used this power that way , then Main character will use this power same way too or just for evil things, Sebastian is not voice of reason but he is right this power should be kept and studied by mc, there is no progres in with pushing away everything that we fear and dont understand

Goood to kow. Because i still not pass the game xD Ive buy it three days before lunch day

I knew that the secrets would inevitably be uncovered at some point, so I opened it for the knowledge to be shared responsibly.

The keepers feared what they could not understand, but how could anyone ever hope to understand the ancient magic if it is never studied? That is why I couldn't seal the repository away, because while Isadora was reckless she was right in the end. Even the keepers resorted to using forbidden arts when it suited them (Killing isadora with the killing curse) so yeah, I don't see sealing the magic away forever at the behest of those hypocrites as a good ending. Better the repository be opened by the MC and properly studied rather then fall into the hands of a villain like Ranrok or Rookwood.

I cried he was my father in that moment