Knowledge, Fill My Brain!
The Memory Palace was the signature skill of the great detective Sherlock Holmes.
It was a highly systematic and visualized method of organizing memory and thought used by Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist of the detective stories created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The "Memory Palace" was essentially a mnemonic technique, formally known as the method of loci, originating in ancient Greece and Rome. It helped the brain store and retrieve information more efficiently by visually associating things that needed to be remembered with specific locations in a familiar environment.
In the context of Sherlock Holmes, the "Memory Palace" was depicted as a virtual space within his mind—a vast, orderly "structure of thought" with a clear layout. He "stored" every observed detail, deductive process, case clue, scientific fact, past case, and more in different rooms, bookshelves, drawers, or corridors of this palace as though they were physical objects. Whenever he needed something, he could simply "walk into" the appropriate place and swiftly retrieve the information.
Although the term "Memory Palace" never directly appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle's original works, its core concept was deeply rooted in Sherlock Holmes's way of thinking and cognitive techniques.
Ian was also a Sherlock Holmes fan. That was why, after gaining the ability to create magic, he had used magic to recreate his own Memory Palace.
It was not particularly sophisticated magic, but it was undeniably practical. By now, he had even begun promoting this incredible learning technique in small Hogwarts classes.
Of course.
Though it was minor magic to Ian, the Memory Palace spell still had a certain learning threshold for most Hogwarts students.
That did not stop Ian, who had mastered his self-created magic to perfection, from absorbing the knowledge of this era on a floor of the great ancient