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I haven't read "Forgotten Realms" novels, so can't judge how close/different BG3's Shar is compared to the original, but I found her quite convincing as a Goddess of loss, and desire to return to the primordial nothingness. The biggest difference with solace from alcohol is that Shar actively converts and fights against followers of other religions. Shadowheart's little stories about the Dark Justiciars and their methods, the "education" Shar priests receive in their monasteries and the journals off the forceful conversion of Reithwin are quite believably presented, and sometimes brush very close to historical analogues.

As for Shar's "personality", The book they find in Act 1 : "the unclaimed" really painted a consistent picture of her in my mind. I found her very "believable", both her religious organisation as well as her aspect. Contrary to , e.g. Bhaal and his cult, which makes no sense at all for me.

The only really silly thing around Shar, IMO, was the rumour about relic "the Nightsong" in Act 1. No one in the party or NPC's ever thought of a possible connection with "the Nightsinger". Not even Shadowheart.

well done on almost finishing your first run

Keep in mind that the old divinity and divinity: original sin are very different things.

Divinity 2 lets you turn into a dragon and is the successor to Drakan we never got.

Greetings fellow old fan and old fans of the series.
Regardless of out histories, we're here for a common ground: Larian and their games.

To add my view to the choir:
In simple terms, I was awed years ago when I got into the series. Took a while to flesh out the reasons why, but it boils down to a few factors:
Sven and Larian have kept high standards for game quality and polish, and on their road to hitting that perfect game state (that they keep promising), there may be bumps, there may be imperfections, but there are clear steps of following that ambition.
The world they created felt more alive within its own standards than most other universes I've peered into. The world they crated has a varied and coloured history, including interpretation and reinterpretation. What we know and have experienced as players is our memory, but the world itself shows hints of a very real aspect: Over the course of time, history loses accuracy and potentially factuality too. There is a clear hint of the real to grasp onto in what is ultimately a fantasy universe with its own set of rules.
To be fair, no human can conceive something entirely alien, as it is our lot to build upon the existing...

I am back here on the basis that the new Divinity title will be an overall good game, regardless of any personal preferences and being unable to avoid the hype on a series I have attachment to. I am here to enjoy game and have fun... when it's out, ready to find new ways of enjoying game and having fun that I may not have considered before.

(As a short note, due to all the heated arguing I have read about: This is only my overall view that is in tune with appreciating what has come before, overall good, ever bettering itself. I am not here to discuss fine points, I am here to show appreciation, in the way I see it.)

I don't understand this complaint. Wyll's a conventionally attractive human (as long as you let him fulfill his quest to hunt Karlach), he's super handsome (by far the best-looking of the male companions, IMO, and there are only a couple of the NPCs who are more handsome than him, like Dammon), and he fulfills a very physical, heroic, knight-like role (you can always re-class him to a fighter if warlock is too "magicky" for you). He's clean-shaven, serious, duty-driven, muscular, forms a strong bond over time, etc. Basically everything you're asking for.

It makes sense to reduce Gale and Astarion's muscle levels. Personally, I think they didn't go anywhere far enough; Gale should have been more pudgy and Astarion more skinny to better for their backstories; Gale's spent the last year wallowing in depression and Astarion's been starving for 200 years. Their prominent abs are super eye-rolling — whereas Wyll's abs make sense because he's been running around as the Blade of Frontiers for several years when we meet him. Likewise, it makes sense for Karlach to remain muscular given she's a strength-based barbarian and has been fighting in the Hells for years.

there is already a Kotor3 in dev so the odds of Larian getting a license is exactly zero

add player, for co-op? (like maxplayers on hl2 source)

I wish I knew exactly how this happened, but I encountered a neat bug in honor mode, where as I triggered the long rest to cross my party into the Trielta crags from the goblin camp my Dark Urge decided it would be cool to murder Alfira and not go back to bed. My dark urge's position was in the underdark with glut in the party, so of course, that's where my very awake character gets spit out at, with no way to reload the save or warp back to camp. So very fun! Then I accidentally got the urge killed and cannot revert the state of the game in the slightest now.
Would love to know if anyone has encountered this before and suggestions on solutions are welcome. The obvious solution is to cut my losses and delete the save but where's the fun in that?
Screenshot hopefully attached below.






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Mod link: https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/cat-shadowheart#description

Turns out Larian just released another animation with reference to Cat Shadowheart. Is it coincidence? Or is it destiny?