Hi!
Let me begin by thanking everyone who has taken the time to read and reply to my previous posts. I've found the spirit on this forum to be very open and generous, and it is on this note that I move on to a somewhat broader subject.
The Dragon Knight Saga is my first encounter with the Divinity series and I've not been playing it for very long - I'm still only att level 12. So I guess the questions below would be a typical 'noob' thing.
Anyway, and to put it bluntly: Is there any information around about the society and the world at large?
I start the game as a Dragon Slayer. This obviously means that I'm supposed to slay dragons (I got that part), but on top of that I seem to function as some sort of general free-for-all troubleshooter as well. People come up to me and ask me to help out with all kinds of problems, many of which require a violent solution. What, if any, are my actual duties and obligations? Do I have a license to kill? Do I answer to my superiors, or to any sort of higher authority (such as the law, or my liege lord, or the king)?*
How do people get recruited as Dragon Slayers? Do you have to be of noble birth, or do you have to have a talent for magic, or what?
What is my status as a Dragon Slayer compared to that of, say, the Town Watch or the Defenders of Aleroth? Is there a noble class and a clerical class to be aware of? Is there a church, or if more than one, which ones exist? (There is some kind of Divine Order, which I have concluded to be a priestly order dedicated to the Divine, but I seem to recall some NPC mentioning an Old Order, or someting like that. If so, how do they interact?)
Is it a feudal society or a republic? Is there a king, an emperor or a High Priest around somewhere? (Or is everything anarchy after the Divine got bumped off?)
It is obviously a High Fantasy world, in the sense that magic wielders are a normal and accepted part of society. I've seen a number of female guards around, so I would say that the society is egalitarian in principle (at least according to species; apart from a few well-spoken undead I've yet to encounter any non-human species that I'm not supposed to kill on sight).**
Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions here. I've been thinking that maybe my general knowledge of the world and the society I live in was wiped out alongside my training memories during the initiation, and everything will be revealed gradually over time. I've been buying, stealing and reading every book I can get my hands on (this worked in Oblivion), but so far there is very little real information to be found in these musty old tomes.
Or maybe there are no definitive answers, and the players are supposed to fill in the gaps themselves?
I might be treading over ground that has already been thoroughly mapped, but I thought it could be fun to discuss these things...
Procrastes
*Of course, my day-to-day duties as a Dragon Slayer would be somewhat redundant now that I'm a Dragon Knight. By all accounts, I should currently be on the run, dodging hunting parties and assassination attempts from those whom I once called friends and colleagues. It hasn't happened yet, though.
**I've heard rumours of elves and dwarves etc in previous chapters of the story line.
