Originally Posted by Heim


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"B-but... where's muh Souarce ?!

In Divine Divinity, at the very beginning in the little village of Aleroth (so millenia before DKS !) your character use "the Source" (a fountain with magic water) to cure some people. So, indeed, there's Source in the first game ! But it was not described as an so important point as it is in the two DOS.
In DKS, in this same Aleroth which has become a great metropolis, the Source (always the same a priori - the fountain) is decried as dried up. Which is perfectly logical with the plot of DOS2 and the death of the Seven (I remember that some books in the game speak of the death of the gods). In the end, this is a good coherence from this point of view: the dragons "take back" their place of divinity - some DOS2 dialogues suggesting that they existed far before the Seven made their putsh and that the Patriarch himself seems totally indifferent to the disappearance of the Rivellon Source.



I'm not sure it's necessary to mark these things as spoilers. We're mostly talking about quite old games after all. But...

I actually forgot that DD had this fountain, shame on me, but I'm more or less certain that the Source mentioned then has nothing to do with the Source we have now. In fact, I actually believe they expanded on that detail that never had a conclusion (?), and made a big thing out of it. As you mentioned, it only became important in the two DOS games.

That's all fine and dandy, but doesn't explain why no one in DOS2 mentions the dragons as being behind the death of Lucian. It seemed like everyone KNEW that they were behind his disappearance, while no one knows that or thinks so in DOS2. Also doesn't explain where the Knights and Slayers went.

But... we don't know where Aleroth lies in relation to Reaper's Coast, do we? For all we know, they could be very far apart, thus created their unique mythos around Lucian's death. Though when I think about it, it doesn't make much sense, considering magic and all that fuss. Things would've gone around.


I don't really have much to add to the rest. Things have been left out, obviously. I'm pretty sure they will continue with this IP, and hopefully sort a few things out.