kinda wanna write kinda wanna take a nap

This shot has me gnawing on the bars of my enclosure because I'm pretty much convinced this is the moment that the Hero of Briar Hill's powers first awaken—we have two kids and the one wielding the spell seems to be wearing the same outfit seem on the protagonist in the childhood section footage from the Developer Direct a few months ago.

I'm assuming that means that the kid on the left is our brother Connor, and that this is the moment of extreme danger described in the direct.

It's another way the Hero of Briar Hill is being distinguished from the bloodline protagonists because those inciting incidents are centred exclusively on people: the Hero of Oakvale had the bandit attack, Sparrow had Lucien, and the Hero of Brightwall had Logan. Their turning points were all largely human-driven, but while our Hero of Briar Hill will gain a human foe in Isabel, the moment that actually awakens their gifts is distinctly tied up in a non-human entity, and a pretty terrifying one at that. Trolls aren't exactly your basic starter enemy for even a fully trained Hero like the Hero of Oakvale, so for a pair of little kids, that's definitely what I would call extreme danger. And I have my doubts that our little Hero of Briar Hill and Connor could actually succeed in killing it, given that trolls are very dangerous and can't just be beaten to death like most enemies. There's a trick to it, and I can't see a little kid pulling it off in the heat of the moment.

So maybe an older trained Hero happens upon the situation and saves the two of them. Maybe Isabel is travelling through the area and that's how she gets tied in as the human element of the Hero's trauma because she saves them at first only to come back around as an antagonist? Maybe a younger Humphry before he ends up retiring and becoming a drunkard, which leads the Hero of Briar Hill to seek him out when they set out on their journey, because they remember him as the Hero he was that day and that gives him the emotional thrust he needs to get back in the armour and be a Hero?