If FoV isn't the ending of the saga then of course a lot of my notes are invalid.
I realize that Damian is the Divines nemesis; but I also assumed killing Ygerna would have killed him. They were both alive, if one dies, so does the other. Hence I thought this was the end of the saga. In which case the ending would have hardy sufficed.
That's exactly the assumption that Zandalor, Lovis and Talana made about resurrecting Ygerna. Look how well that turned out...
Playing as the Divine? Heaven knows RPGs with pre-set characters need tons and tons of other content to compensate. (And personally, I don't want to play as the Divine.)
Playing as the dragon knight? No, that would be another expansion.
So yet another new hero pops out of the woodwork then?
Theoretically, from a design standpoint... The Divine could be weakened from his long stay in the crystal, the Divine could still be customized with whatever skills and attributes you want. Something else could happen plot-wise to nerf the Divine a bit. All that would be preset would be the name, face (and voice?), and even those might not be set because of the mechanic of illusionists in the game.
For the finale, it should be the Divine that defeats Damian to atone for his mistake, and it would be most satisfying if the Divine was the player avatar for at least part of that game.
I just overall feel like Larian didn't think this one through. They had a great plot setting for some sweet revenge. RPGs that manage to instill that feeling of wanted revenge have a good thing going and Divinity 2 did that.
And that great plot turned out far less pleasing than could have been.
All Damian did was threaten and gesture menacingly at the Dragon Knight, and send about 3 easily killed grunts after him twice all game.
The revenge the Dragon Knight wanted was on Ygerna, more than Damian. Ygerna was the architect of the Dragon Knight's betrayal and imprisonment. That's the emotional tie-in that is required for revenge.
Still, I'm hoping to maybe play my Dragon Knight again, it's a pleasing character and if the story isn't over yet then I'd like to help my now-not-so-frozen-in-place bother have his piece of carnage.
Though I really, really doubt we'll get to play our Dragon Knights again.
I wouldn't mind playing a Dragon Knight again, as long as there is a point and use to being a dragon. Some objectives that can't be bypassed, and need to be destroyed by something more powerful. Or defenses that threaten a human while being invulnerable to them, and require a dragon to deal with.
