Archive Record Office · Retrospective Review Programme

Case Files

Before the first recorded persecution in 1618 there was no registry, no Tally Roll and no test. The Archive reviews the surviving legends of the pre-record world and asks one question of each: could the figure at the centre of the story have been a Metamorph?

Consistent: the account fits a known ability pattern
Inconclusive: the sources do not settle it
Ruled out: better explained without one
Withheld: findings held by the archive

RR-0007Consistent
Medusa
Greek · before 700 BC
A gaze that turns the living to stone, recorded in two traditions and twice in sculpture. The pattern is narrow, severe and repeatable.
Estimated Class3 · Major

MDRI Archive · Series RR Retrospective assessments are provisional. They are made from surviving accounts, not from testing, and the Archive revises them as sources are recovered. A verdict of Consistent describes a pattern in the record. It is not a finding of identity. Issued for public information.

Case Files

Medusa