After the events of Divine Divinity, The Divine and his Paladins were kept fairly busy going after Black Ring members, so the ones defeated in DD didn't cripple the organization. Damian was only just starting to have his powers emerge when The Divine drew him to the rift temple and banished him.
What? That makes no sense!
They were summoning their bloody MASTER. Chaos and the fate of everything they were doing depended on this bloody summon... And you're telling me they didn't send everyone to protect their only chance of victory? Their only chance of success?
Well, Black Ring is an organisation of idiots then! Idiots? Nah! Retarded foolish idiots with no brains! Seriously! They probably come from the city which can't recognize Superman!
With his powers grown, the ability to open rifts to other realms, the organization built up on Nemesis (pre-Beyond Divinity) and alliances formed with powerful demons, etc, I think his second campaign would almost have to be more successful than his first.
As I've proven before, Black Ring is too stupid to be able to do such a thing.
Yea lol. They wiped out few races, forced Dragons to hide, killed the Divine One, bring the world to chaos, but!
One Dragon Knight pnwd them all!
COMMON SENSE. There is a lot of it.
Yeah. Instead of bothering to make an explanation that makes sense, Larian just went "Whatever, we don't give a crap. Too much work to make Elves and Dwarves, so we'll put a stupid unconvincing story instead."
And my D2 DKS still didn't come

I think it'll be here before Wednesday though.