0:01 really think about the companion
0:03 characters that I will gain in Hogwarts
0:06 Legacy the more worried I become about
0:08 the strength of the storytelling I'm
0:09 especially nervous about how the African
0:14 NPC companion natsayonai will be handled
0:16 there are deep implications with her backstory
0:17 backstory
0:19 and I seriously question whether or not
0:22 the writers can deliver the Nuance required
0:24 required [Music]
0:29 welcome to the channel my name is Magic
0:32 Maestro and I've been closely following
0:34 development information about the
0:37 upcoming video game Hogwarts Legacy
0:39 Avalanche software recently released
0:41 backstory details about three of the
0:43 known companion characters that you will
0:45 acquire as you play the game
0:49 one such companion not sionai is a
0:52 member of Gryffindor House natsai Is Not
0:54 British she's actually a transfer
0:57 student from Africa before Hogwarts she
0:59 attended wagadu reportedly the largest
1:01 Wizarding School in Africa
1:04 wagadu students don't receive a letter
1:06 via Al when they are accepted instead
1:09 they're admitted via dream messenger and
1:11 wake up with an inscribed stone in their hand
1:12 hand
1:16 not sayonai grew up in matabili land a
1:18 former British colony which is now a
1:21 region in Southwestern Zimbabwe and this
1:23 here is where I start to have questions
1:27 the game takes place in 1890. what was
1:29 happening in matabili land during the
1:33 1880s and 1890s let me tell you despite
1:36 those who argued against allowing Cecil
1:38 Rhodes to create a chartered company in
1:40 the region he used his pocketbook to
1:43 pave the way much a British colonization
1:45 in the area had to do with potential
1:47 gold mining loving Gula the leader of
1:50 the matabili kingdom was deceived by the
1:52 British and was slowly encroached upon
1:55 until War inevitably broke out they
1:56 didn't stand a chance against the
1:59 British Maxim gun the first machine gun
2:01 after a second war eventually peace was
2:05 negotiated but matabilan became part of
2:06 British Rhodesia
2:09 to what extent is the backdrop of
2:11 British colonization going to affect the
2:14 motivations of natsai unai it seems like
2:16 JK Rowling waved her hand when it came
2:18 to potential conflict between the
2:21 magical and Mughal worlds for her The
2:24 Wizarding World was real world adjacent
2:26 with the explanation that due to
2:28 persecution witches and wizards remain
2:31 separated or camouflaged from what
2:33 happened in our world though she didn't
2:36 have a hand in the story of this game
2:38 to what extent have the writers taken
2:39 her approach to dealing with Mughal
2:42 historical timelines in the game
2:44 natsunai's mother is the Hogwarts
2:47 Divination teacher divination is the use
2:50 of magic to foresee the future was she a
2:53 former professor at wagadu did she leave
2:55 matabili land because of the future
2:57 conflict with British colonizers there
2:58 are a number of complications and
3:00 questions that pop up when we start to
3:02 look more critically at the intersection
3:05 of Our Two Worlds so that leads me to
3:07 ask the question how can Avalanche
3:10 possibly make the Story Land right how
3:11 much of African history will they
3:14 incorporate or ignore in the telling of
3:16 the story making Nats ionai's character
3:19 African has additional implications
3:22 on that Scion I use a wand in the game
3:25 according to JK Rowling African witches
3:26 and wizards didn't use wands until
3:29 around 1900 and instead used hand
3:31 gestures and finger pointing adopting
3:33 the wand out of convenience
3:36 I'm not sure why it was so important to
3:38 remove the use of Wands in Africa if you
3:41 can use magic without wands then what's
3:43 the point of using them at all how cells
3:45 don't use wands and neither do any of
3:47 the other magical creatures and if all
3:50 of book 7 wasn't nearly 200 000 words
3:52 about whose wand Is It Anyway
3:54 then we could just ignore the use of
3:55 Wands completely
3:58 Rowling states that African magic users
4:00 were feared because of their Adept use
4:03 of magic without wands because it gave
4:05 them deniability when questioned about
4:07 the misuse of magic
4:10 I was only waving I never meant his chin
4:11 to fall off
4:13 I'm not sure if this writing from her
4:16 has aged particularly well she wrote
4:19 that a king body a student of wagadu
4:22 succeeded Albus Dumbledore as the
4:23 Supreme mugwump of the international
4:27 Confederation of wizards this kind of
4:29 comes across like tokenism or the mirror
4:32 appearance of diversity it would have
4:34 been better if she had allowed writers
4:36 from other countries to contribute to
4:38 the crafting of the extended Wizarding
4:40 World and to provide their own adaptations
4:41 adaptations
4:44 gamers are quick to call out real or
4:47 perceived tokenism and social justice
4:50 activism in their video games it's hard
4:52 for gamers to swallow a pill that many
4:54 development companies won't take
4:56 themselves no one can deny the
4:58 inequality in video game development
5:01 people want to be represented in the
5:02 stories they play but they don't want to
5:04 be a check mark on a video game
5:07 developer's checklist either to avoid
5:09 tokenism in the character of not sionai
5:12 Avalanche riders need to on the one hand
5:14 create a strong human character with
5:18 strengths weaknesses hopes and fears but
5:19 they also can't ignore a character's
5:21 Roots what social and environmental
5:23 factors influence the development of
5:25 their personality will the writers of
5:27 Hogwarts Legacy fall into the Trap of
5:30 tokenism with not cyanide's character I
5:33 can only hope their characterization is
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