Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Some unanswered questions

Hi this is my first time in this forum and what's more my first time IN a forum jej, I apologise for mistakes as I'm not an English speaking person

I've beaten the game and I've got two things in my mind that i would like to know

first is there an alternative ending or something like that? I'm almost certain that there isnt but it doesnt hurt to ask

and the other is not a question really but i was wondering how come you don't fight rhode??? or did i miss the fight?

I would also like if some of you who played the first two titles could give me some background on characters as I've heard that Zandalor and Damian were on the first two games

thanks!!!

Plot or game specific questions should go in the Help/Tips/Tricks forum, as many people following the General forum have not played the game yet. Fortunately your question are not very revealing, but the answers would be (which is fine as long as spoiler tags are used).

I don't think there are multiple endings.

In Divine Divinity Zandalor shows up to save the main character relatively early, provides some background information, and takes off to do some investigating. You later meet up with him, and after he provides some additional info, you have more main plot things to do. He sticks around after that to provide advice and support, but doesn't do an awful lot (the usual 400 year old wizard concentrating on big picture stuff while the inexperienced main character does most of the work). The game ends with the hero defeating the main Black Ring members and the Demon of Lies, but arriving too late to prevent them from summoning the Lord of Chaos into a baby (Damian).

Unwilling to kill a baby, the hero (Divine One) takes him to raise himself, with Zandalor's help, which doesn't turn out very well. That is covered in the BD novella, included in the fansite kit (17.7MB) with a summary here, and in Beyond Divinity. The fansite kit also includes the background story to DD, covering the previous war with the Lord of Chaos.

In Beyond Divinity, the main character is a follower of the Divine One (who setup a group of Paladins to hunt down the remains of the Black Ring), who was pulled into another realm by a demon when trying to take down a necromancer. After getting soul-forged with a deathknight, the two escape prison and try to find a way to get back to Rivellon to undo the soul forge. As this happened to be where Damian was banished, along the way they see the aftereffects of his actions, and learn more about what happened up to that point. Of course Damian shows up at the end and manages to break his banishment (which is where D2:ED and its backstory take over the plotline). Zandalor was not in BD.

Sorry for misplacing the topic, I'll try to do it right next time!

Thanks for the background info

If someone has any info about the other thing

And sorry bout how do i use the spoiler warning tags?

You can either type in spoiler tags yourself, or switch to the full reply screen to use (there is a menu with buttons to add spoiler tags, lists, URL links, images, etc, and various text font/colour options, etc).


With added spaces in the tags so it stays in plain text,

[ spoiler]text to hide[ /spoiler]

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Raze


Yeah, that Death Knight (where are these sweet guys in D2? ;<) was teh Damian, as the "History of the Damned One Part VI" says:

Now that Nemesis was a barren land littered with ruins and Demonic encampments only, Damian waited patiently for one of his Black Ring followers to unwittingly set in motion his escape. The wait was long, but finally a necromancer on Rivellon summoned a Demon from Nemesis when he was being beleaguered by the Divine Order. The Demon slew all of the paladins and took with him the prize Damian desired: a prisoner.
In disguise, the Damned One freed the nameless paladin and convinced this unfortunate servant of good he'd help with the escape and devise a way to get back home. Together they travelled and combated the inhabitants of Nemesis, those loyal to a Damian incognito. At long last they reached the Raanaar citadel, where the paladin learned how to open rifts. And so, because a servant of the Divine wanted it, the Damned One could once more enter Rivellon...
Jodocus Lipsius, court historian.

The one thing I don't understand - why BD always was called as spin-off? Because it wasn't about the Divine one? But D2 wasn't as well. Actually, I guess all these games are completely related and D2 is a sequel for BD as the latter sequel for DD.

Also, there is some mess with titles in Divinity Universe: initially, The Damned was the servants of The Lord of Chaos as Story.pdf (goes along with DD) tell us:

Powerful as they were, the Damned - as we named the wizards - were relatively few in number and could receive no further reinforcements.
[...]
After long isolation in their mountain fastness, the
Damned had re-emerged with a much larger army
Damned looked unnaturally young - none over
thirty - which served to confirm the rumor that the
Lord of Chaos offered eternal youth to his
depraved followers.


but in D2, we have the Damian, a reincarnation of the Lord of Chaos in physical form, called as The Damned One, which is weird, since he is not a servant of the Lord but the Lord himself.
Well, usual holes in game plots :P