The events at the ending of ED happened in the hall of echoes which is a very strange place, but I'll leave it up to Jan (our writer) to explain that
Will do!
What's up with Rhode is FoV territory, so I'm still going to use spoiler tags for that one.
Rhode has been petrified by Bellegar, as you know, but that does not mean she is dead of course. I like Rhode very much and I think she's a great character, but - as Lar said - it's impossible to say whether she'll be back. The good thing is, she easily could. One just needs to find the right spell (or convince Bellegar he's been naughty).
And actually, there are people new to Divinity II here as well, so once more spoiler tags for your second question.
About the end of Ego Draconis: the story is quite complicated, though the intent is actually rather simple. This is what happened. You travel to the Hall of Echoes, i.e. the land of the dead; the afterworld. In this afterworld you have to find the soul of Ygerna and bring it back to life. You do this by going into her memory and in that memory stopping her execution. By changing the past in her memory, her execution and thus death becomes undone. To do this you fight Zandalor and the Divine, but they are of course not the 'real' Zandalor and Divine, but merely Ygerna's memory of them. To put it really simply: you kill them in a dream, not in reality. All the while the Divine is locked in his crystal and Zandalor is still back in Aleroth having a beer with Deodatus.
There it is. Couldn't be clearer!
And about Arhu
I just hope someday he'll be back and play a much more active part just like he did in
