To be honest, playing as the divine may not be what some older players want as you did not play as him in divine divinity (as far as im aware of, i only recently got it myself and im 2-3 hours in)
however in D2:DKS you actually played as the dragon knight, like i said earlier i feel a lot more attached to a character if you play as him/her over multiple games (like mass effect) or if i made him/her myself (like D2:DKS) also i think your character being the silent protagonist makes you think about what his/her choice sounds like during conversations, which might lead to you thinking about other things about the character you have created, childhood, who they where before becoming a slayer, that kind of thing, which made me even more attached to my character, but in divine divinity i chose 1 character out of a selection of 6, and because of the camera being so far away, i just felt like some dude in the sky, not actually the character, i think to have older players satisfied is have something to do with the "marked ones" from divine divinity (only just got to that part so please dont spoil that plox :L) or maybe if it is the conclusion to the epic that is divinity, have all the characters from all the other divinty games, like the prince from dragon commander, maybe you have to search through the wreckage of the raven, or the pair from original sin, have them mentioned, that way it keeps all the players happy, as i saw from E3, most people who had a look at dragon commander had no idea what divinity was, i even saw a youtube video on it on gamespot and machinima, people were saying things like "OMG why isn't this dragon think in a separate game, like an RPG, OMG" i replied with "go play divinity 2" dragon commander seems to be getting a lot more attention than than any of the other divinity games, which i think its a bit stupid as larian make mainly RPGs, and they dont get as much attention for those as they have dragon commander over the past few months or so since they announced it, or at-least since gamespots video "our dragon got a jet-pack, what has you got?"
anyway, back to my orginal point of having all the characters from the other divinity games, like have it where you search the wreckage of the raven, or maybe take the jetpack and use it for yourself, maybe speak to the spirit of the prince in his tomb, and maybe something from original sin (i dont know what i haven't researched into the game a lot because it doesn't look like my kind of game)
but in that way, it would make all the players of all the other divinity games happy
