Dumbledore when you select Tom riddle:you serious right now

*bans u from the game*

Also I don’t know if dumbledore is in the game lol

I'm going to be calling mine Alexis Ravenwood, by far my favorite OC I've made for the universe.

@Wizardrii Her house?

Ravenclaw lol.

Ravenclaw and her surname is Ravenwood??? I'm confused...

It's best to be yourself, I mean sure you can play one of the historical characters if you want, but the story isn't going to reflect that in the game.

I think it's based off an individual basis the game was kind of like a clean slate meant for you to feel individualized in the story of the game, kind of like how games like Skyrim work, you could be any race any gender, and you exist in this world, however because the game is linear when it comes to the main story, you could choose to do a playthrough where you're not the dragonborn so long as you have the right mods LOL.

@Cubbyman1 In Skyrim I just didn't do the Dragonborn Questline and explored the game myself.

You aren't supposed to climb the highest mountain before the dragonborn questline, so I glitched up it with my horse.

I played like 60 hours before even doing Mirmulnirs Quest.

Much more fun to ROLEPLAY a commoner than the Dragonborn.

~5 years later, still didn't ever beat the main story.

Damn a full 5 years and you still haven't beaten the game from the main quest, that was the first thing I did, and I enjoyed it just fine, but I totally get the understanding of wanting to play somebody else in the story, it makes sense that you can be whoever you want to be based off of the actions that you want instead of just following the story.

This is kind of weird but unfortunately it's not exactly a choice in the game simply due to how the Mechanics Work, but I wanted to do a playthrough where I was Bandit that would build a criminal Empire based off of banditry across the landscape of skyrim, basically in the way that you would become a criminal in the game you would be recognized by the Bandit tribes scattered across the landscape, except you would be given a choice to perhaps Rebrand or run these other bandit locations as an Empire, obviously this doesn't exactly fit there are no mods that make this work, but a mod one day could exist that would allow such a system to be said in place.

But I love the choices, I love creating a new playthrough doing things slightly different from the last time, because there are only so many choices that you can choose from in the game, I mean you could start out as a mage and just think of yourself is not the Dragonborn and not the chosen one, just somebody who happens to be trying to help out, but your story can change based off of your choices, like maybe you get access to a certain weapon that is is a powerful weapon when used based upon the lore, the ebony blade for example requires you to kill innocence, so you could play an evil character, it's all based on Clear Choice or, say you didn't want to go that route you wanted to be a good guy, you could take that weapon and give it to the vigilance of stendar because you're trying to be a good character and not using Daedric weapons in your playthrough.

Anyway that's what I got from the mentality when it came to the idea of this Hogwarts Legacy game, it appears that you can be who you want to be, sure everyone's going to have a similar experience because you all start off within Hogwarts, but it's possible someone will come along with a mod that will allow you to start the game as someone else outside of the Hogwarts location, like you could be a mage that's was into necromancy or something and you got to hang out with some of the evil bad guys throughout that time, and you don't start out learning your skills from the school instead you learn it from certain activities or story elements, hopefully the game allows that much choice, I don't know for sure I've only seen little clips of it here and there, but that's my takeaway that I got from one of the videos that I watched, hopefully lives up to that player choice kind of capability.

Sorry for my long comment, this is who I am, and I've actually tried to condense my writings, but what I'm talking about something I enjoy talking about and I talk about my aspirations for certain things I kind of go overboard, so I'm sorry this might be too long for some folks.

@Cubbyman1 You know, that Hogwarts Legacy was developed to appeal to the masses of casuals and won't actually feel like a living, breathing world.

You will just get railroaded trough the story.