Every Player Character in Hogwarts Mystery has an elder brother named Jacob, who disappeared while looking for the Cursed Vaults. This is what happened to Jacob.
He was starting his first year at Hogwarts.
Another year at Hogwarts is over and another Cursed Vault has been opened and conquered. You celebrate with your friends and boyfriend.
During the First Wizarding War, an unfortunate young man named Jacob Bernard started his search for the Cursed Vaults at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. He would not realize that his search would only fuel a growing obsession in him, and cause much destruction for those around him. Such consequences of his actions would finally come up to him, and he was eventually expelled. The aftermath of the incident left his family name tarnished, his peers distrustful, and he himself vanished.
It was his younger sibling that had to face the repercussions of his actions.
Effie Bernard must now navigate the landscape, amidst the wake of the First Wizarding War, the Cursed Vaults issue, the alienation from her peers, the appearance of Death Eaters and the loss of her brother.
On the night before you, Bill, and Rowan break into the Cursed Vaults, you have to get something off your chest.
Jacob Michaels made headlines at the beginning of 1983. It was rumored the Slytherin was obsessed with the Hogwarts ‘cursed vaults’ and attempted to plague the entire school with them. So close to the disappearance of Voldemort via a lost fight against an infant, the public watched with a morbid fascination as Jacob was expelled from Hogwarts for his dark deeds only to soon disappear himself. Rumor was he went mad from the Cursed Vaults and had run away to join Voldemort in a deranged delusion that he could bring the Dark Lord back.
A couple years later, his younger brother goes to Hogwarts.