Caroline Eilander

Caroline Eilander is a member of the Eilander family. She is the mother of Jakob and his siblings, Elizabeth and David. Her death sets off the events of Rusty Lake Paradise by causing Paradise Island to be cursed with the plagues.

Rusty Lake Paradise[]

In secret, Caroline had been studying the Elixir of Life and Death and its connection to enlightenment. She discovered a way to create the Elixir using ten elements, etching them onto the wall of an underground cave.

With the birth of her firstborn son Jakob, her husband Nicholas begins planning to sacrifice him to the Lake, as a way to achieve enlightenment. On the day of the sacrifice, she stops Nicholas by taking her son's place. Jakob is sent on a boat off the island, and she is sacrificed by being burned at the stake. The method of her death causes her to become a Corrupted Soul, and creates ten black cubes from her memories scattered around the island. These black cubes hold the ten elements necessary for the Elixir of Life and Death to be created. The Eilander family asks for themselves to be enlightened with the sacrifice of Caroline, but instead they are stricken with ten plagues.

Nicholas writes a letter to Jakob in 1796, to bring him home and help them. He arrives during the First Plague, and encounters his mother's Corrupted Soul. She instructs him to bring her memories to the Lake to stop the plagues, before disappearing. Jakob sets about collecting the black cubes, placing them into the well in the temple and giving her memories back to the Lake. During the Fourth Plague, she briefly appears to warn Jakob not to let their family use her memories. He also finds a book written by her further detailing the Elixir. She explains that the owl is the chosen one, and the chosen one will find enlightenment.

During the Tenth Plague, Jakob drains the water from the well, and enters his mother's secret cave. He once again meets his mother's soul, who explains that she withheld the last black cube and the final element of the Elixir. She comments that her memories are not only the key to the past, but also to the future, and tells her son to descend into the great depths of the Lake. He makes his way back to the island, and places the last black cube into the well. His family proceeds to burn him alive. As the world around him goes red, he is again alone with his mother's Soul. The elements of the Elixir surround Jakob, and his mother's Soul absorbs into him as he ascends as Mr. Owl.

Trivia[]

In Cube Escape: Case 23, Caroline appears on a painting in the murder scene and in the Chapel. The painting is titled "The Lady of the Lake", and its in-universe creator is an artist named Lacus Fleo.
- The painting is an edited version of "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist" by Jacob van Oostsanen; this version depicts a Black Cube on the silver platter in the place of the head of John the Baptist. As a result, Caroline's appearance is nearly identical to that of Salome.
  - After Dale Vandermeer retrieves the Black Cube from the copy of the painting in the Chapel, the platter is shown to be empty.
In Cube Escape: Paradox, it is revealed that she was born in the Summer of 1750.