I don’t know why the Traitor’s Keep DLC treated Logan’s motivations in locking up Faraday as such a mystery. Milton is there speculating like ‘no wonder your brother locked up Faraday, imagine if he’d set this army on Albion’ and we’re just there like ‘...Logan would’ve wanted that army to fight the Darkness, I really doubt he locked up Faraday because he considered him a threat to Albion’
and it’s not even a mystery to the HOBW either because you can’t play the DLC until after you’ve completed the main story, meaning you know all about Logan’s motivations for the things he did. Did his sibling just decide to let Milton speculate, waiting for it to turn out that ‘Logan locked up Faraday for refusing to surrender his machine army!!!!’ because... it’d be funny?
and come to think of it, no one in Ravenscar Keep seems to even be aware that Bowerstone was attacked. The Darkness came and went and they were all too busy twiddling their dicks to notice, apparently.
I just... I dunno, if this DLC wanted to keep playing with the idea of ‘why would your brother do this??’ then maybe it would have been better set before the Battle for Bowerstone, when you’re still heading up the revolution and ready to take on Logan? So you’re attacked by the assassin and Milton shows up and explains that your brother had the assassin taken from the Keep for the express purpose of getting rid of you - a lie to fool the HOBW and co into thinking that Logan really is far gone enough to try and murder his own sibling. Milton then explains that General Turner and the soldiers of Ravenscar want to aid in bringing down Logan so that a new, better Monarch can take his place.
You get to the Keep only to find that, oh no, Turner was executed on Logan’s orders and now there’s been a riot in response. The HOBW can use this as an opportunity to prove their leadership to Milton and his men and get things under control. Cue tracking down Faraday and Witchcraft Mary. You discover that Logan had Faraday locked up for refusing to surrender his mechanical army.
Mary, on the other hand, had once been in Logan’s employ, having been the only person who believed his story about Aurora and was initially working to try and find some way to counteract the Darkness and its corruption. However Logan locked her up when she began to believe that the purity she sought could be distilled from the Darkness. She never outright names the Darkness or talks about what happened to Logan, but alludes to his real motivations in her writings.
You return to the Keep and oh no! You learn that someone has kidnapped Milton and taken him down into the pit. Except it’s a trap. The assassin triggers the trap that knocks out the HOBW, and Milton reveals his true colours as said assassin frees him from his restraints... only for Milton to then murder the assassin rather than keep his word to let him leave the Keep. Milton then reveals that Logan had never been the one to send the assassin or order Turner’s execution. It had all been a ploy, and the General had been alive all along. Turner explains that Logan is mad, having imagined up some threat to Albion to justify his actions, and that the only way to fix his mess is to ensure the monarchy falls. The Hero argues that they’re fighting Logan too, but Turner presumes that all they really want is the throne and its power, and that is why they have to die.
Using Mary’s formula, Milton is transformed into the HOBW, and it becomes clear that they intend for Milton to pose as them while Turner takes his place as their General, and that once they’ve deposed and executed Logan, they’ll dissolve the monarchy and turn power over to the people. However when Milton kicks the HOBW’s dog, they break free and begin fighting. During the fight, the power of Heroes goes to Milton’s head, and he decides that he wants to keep it for himself. Mid-fight, he fatally wounds Turner in a cutscene, and announces his plan to become the new Monarch himself. The Hero then kills him.
The HOBW can then comfort or mock the dying Turner, who then reiterates that the blood of Heroes doesn’t make one more deserving of power and freedom than any other person before passing.
The soldiers of Ravenscar, now leaderless, decide to follow the HOBW and swear to serve should they succeed in taking the throne. The HOBW then wonders aloud to Walter if becoming Monarch is the right thing, and what could have frightened Logan so badly that he became a tyrant. Walter reminds them that Logan changed after returning from an expedition in Aurora that ended in the loss of his men, and wonders if what he encountered was worse than realised. Regardless, Albion won’t change overnight, and still needs a better leader than Logan before real change can be enacted.
this is just off-the-cuff, barely thought out stuff that I could be persuaded to work on and polish up if folks are interested 👀