He treads the path between Christianity and Shamanism to defeat the forces of evil. The core of the game is intriguing enough: Jonathan is a man tortured by his own lack of faith. By winter's end, over half the town's children vanish, including all of her accusers.

A week later, Kedward's main accuser disappears. In November, on the night of the first snowfall, the daughter of the town magistrate vanishes. The Blair Township parents discover her crime, find her guilty of witchcraft and bind her to a wheelbarrow in the woods, leaving her for dead in the middle of a particularly harsh winter. Some details of her past were changed, however, to fit the author's new narrative: for instance, Elly settled in Massachusetts rather than in Blair, Maryland.An old woman, Elly Kedward, lures several local children into her house and draws their blood. There, she could keep a watchful eye on Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Įlly is both named after and highly based upon the fictional Elly Kedward, who acts as the titular 'Blair Witch' in the Blair Witch franchise. She arrived in the summer of the following year and made her home at the base of Mount Greylock in what would eventually become the state of Massachusetts.

When he too died during the Great Frost, and she found herself again an orphan, she was subjected to horrendous treatment, first by the Muggles who imprisoned her at Baconsthore Asylum, and later by the wizarding community when they imprisoned her in Azkaban.Īfter her escape from Azkaban in 1768, she stole a wand, along with numerous other supplies, and made a six month voyage aboard a sailing vessel to the New World. The daughter of an Irish witch and a Muggle father, she was orphaned at a young age and briefly raised by an outcast wizard living in the Skibbereen hills in Ireland. 1729), later known as Elly Kedward, was a half-blood witch who grew up to become quite powerful in the dark arts.

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