Thanks Raze, when I was trying to figure out everything I considered just pming you and asking but I didn't want to be annoying you either. When I first joined this forum after revisiting Divine Divinity about two years ago you also gave me some story details on stuff I missed. You really have an encyclopedic knowledge of these games and this forum, it's really impressive.
I don't think Damian was planning that far ahead when he manipulated a dragon knight into attacking the Divine. The Black Ring was winning the war until the other side formed an alliance with the dragon knights, who tipped the balance of power. Having a dragon knight attack the Divine was a convenient way to get revenge and break up the alliance.
Thanks, I'd forgotten that from the lore.
Ygerna was able to detect and exploit the player character's mind after the unfinished slayer ritual and Talana's gift of the dragon powers.
Understood that but was it just a coincidence that Damian was near too then? Surely that's what allowed her to detect it?
The cutscene comments when Ygerna was resurrected state that Ygerna and Damian were working independently of each other, matching the Divine's speech when the dragon knight was imprisoned. The Divine didn't claim they would both be invincible, just Damian.
I don't remember her saying that, to me it's hard for the whole story to make more sense if they weren't working together. Unless due to the soul forging there was some "feeling" that was sort if subconsciously guiding him but they didn't have direct contact.
Damian couldn't kill the dragon knight. He had already asked Patriarch to open a portal to the Hall of Echoes and been refused. The only hope he had to resurrect Ygerna was to let Zandalor's plan progress that far and try to get ahead of the dragon knight at the end.
That seems very risky, allowing the Dragon Knight to live and enter the Hall of Echoes but then hope that they failed and Ygerna escaped? Seems too much to gamble. Though again, perhaps the soul forging gave them some insight here.
There will be a Divinity 3 to finish off the story arc with the Divine and Damian. Hopefully there will be another RPG continuing with the dragon knight, as well.
I know that alright yeah, and I know originally Divinity 2 was planned to be a much larger story and even involved an RTS at the end where after you gather lots of armies you fight Damian's forces!
I need to play through this again and take note of the story in more detail then. Am I correct in thinking that in FoV Ygerna was manipulating the player to revive Behrlihn?
Out of curiosity, do you kill General Raze when you're playing or do you leave him live?
