You probably needn't have played either, but there will be winks to the previous games. If the screenshots we have seen are really in-game as in that this is a place you will be able to travel to, we shall go back to Aleroth. That's about as close to Divine Divinity as you can get of course.

I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.