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Hello there!

Just finished Dragon Commander(DC), great game by the way, and have just one question:

Will we met the characters from DC, in Original Sin? Especially the generals, it will be very cool, to see on their lives after the war. Maybe even talk to them again!

Or events are occurring in another era?

That's all, thanks for the great game, and good luck on the new one!

Dragon Commander is set 8800 years before Original Sin (see the Kickstarter update #13), so none of the regular characters will make an appearance (there's always a chance if there is a sequel to DC, though). Maxos lived quit a while before leaving on a quest (and not returning to Rivellon by the time of Divinity 2, 1300 years after Original Sin), but I don't recall how long it had been since he left. It was long enough Maxos was known to few historians in Divinity 2; his battle tower on Sentinel Island remained empty for quite awhile before Laiken was able to get through the protection spells, and Laiken was there long enough the island itself was corrupted.
The main character from Dragon Commander theoretically could live that long, being half dragon.

Well, seems 8800 years quite long for human being to live! That's unfortunate, i quite like the generals.

Thanks for the answer!

Could the Dragon Commander have lived about up until the events of Divinity 2, do you think?

I would assume so, though you could go either way with the lore. If Larian wanted him to make an appearance in Original Sin, I think he would have to be motivated then to go on a long journey somewhere, to get him outside the realm of Rivellon. Either that, or have him die in Original Sin (of old age and/or some kind of heroic sacrifice). Just making an appearance and not having an explanation of why he made it 8800 years and then disappeared somewhere during the next 1300 would leave an obvious and unnecessary plot hole.

I don't think there needs to be a dragon involved in Original Sin, though, unless it is to show them being withdrawn, or withdrawing more, from the affairs of the seven races, and dragon knights not being directly involved in Ferol. Now for an RPG about dragon knights I'd have the D2:ED hero, Patriarch and the Dragon Commander all involved. Personally, in a turn based isometric game, I don't need to talk to a near deity who isn't going to get involved (at best providing some limited help or information) and isn't going to turn my character into a dragon knight.

I have an idea of what might have happened to the Dragon Commander, one which fits with the established lore, but I'm going to save it for my LP. I don't think the universe requires that the Dragon Commander be dead in Original Sin. It's a big world. There were no Dragon Knights mentioned in Divine Divinity.

I think that the Dragon Commander's empire didn't last forever, and that once it dissolved, with the Demon Tech long since destroyed, the Dragon Commander wasn't inclined to start a massive war to retain an iron grip on the entire world. They'd probably had enough politics for even a Dragon Commander's lifetime.

IMO for a good ending to DC, you'd need 100 years of peace... or maybe 1000 if the Dragon Commander stayed involved. After such a 'golden age' things could go back to normal.

I would assume he ruled for a while, either directly or as more of a figurehead / adviser. After the empire (or republic, depending on the political decisions you make in DC) was up and running, presumably he would eventually withdraw from politics to concentrate on more interesting things, or just start to take on more of the dragons' non interference attitude. When the empire started to decline, I could see the Dragon Commander simply not wanting to get involved, let alone not wanting to go to war. With 8800 years, he could even come back a couple times to restore the empire before giving up on the seven races. If the government transitioned to a democracy at some point, then the Dragon Commander could have come to believe that democracy is the best political system, not because it allows people to choose their leaders, but because it gives people the government they deserve.

It's a damn shame the ignorance of the many always drowns out the wisdom of the few.

Ho, I think he may make some appearance but not being integrated in the story line... Come on, he had to destroy all his siblings, and has at least one wife (or more) to take care of him. Furthermore, in the end, he is pretty powerful and doesn't need to wage war again (remember, he learned all the secrets)...

We may find an ermit not wanting to speak to us ... And if we try to attack him, he just transform in an HUGE dragon (we can/can't beat, depending on the Larian Team humor) and who either destroy us (With the imp buster thing with his breath) or flee (why would he want to spend some time with two nameless brats ?)