This contains revelations from just before the final boss fight, so if you don't want spoilers, leave.

I would think that after 100 or so hours into a game, I would have a firm idea on what exactly Source is, what Sourcerers are and what makes them different from regular people, and what exactly Godwoken are (and what makes them different from Sourcerers).

Perhaps the fault is mine and I just failed to understand the explanations given. Or maybe it's a fault of the writers for not explaining it very well. The writers might have hoped that repeating the terms over and over again would be just as good as explaining what they actually mean.

Now, onto the ending revelations:
The one who gives the big speech before the final boss fight explains that Source is the veil separating Creation and the Void, and the Gods, greedy for Source, weakened the veil by drawing source from it in their hunger - ignoring the warning no to do so. That is what allowed Voidwoken to enter the world. Okay. That part I can comprehend.

The explainer then goes on to mention that to seal the hole again, all the world's source will need to be taken to seal it. ALL the Source.

This will leave us, the Godwoken as empty shells, Silent Monks. But here's where I get lost: Why WON'T that also happen to literally every living being on the planet?

Up until this point, I thought that Source was something like "Soul-powered magic". After all we see, all over the place, ghosts. Ghosts of both regular people and Sourcerers, and animals too. You can drain them to get a Source point. That is considered Evil for reasons I also don't quite manage to grasp. I guess because the Gods are bad for eating souls, which I don't really understand either. So I guess I fail to understand the point of the Hall of Echoes as well and why its important for souls to go there instead of becoming God Chow. Another one for the list.

So I thought Source was soul-powered magic, but apparently, it's not, and draining all the Source in the world will only negatively affect Sourcerers and not regular people?

On a related matter, I thought I understood what Godwoken were, they were individuals specially chosen by a god to be their replacement, at which point why would become the new god. They were not the same thing as the Divine One, who was chosen by the gods in unison to act as their collective agent against the forces of Chaos. (Speaking of which, the Lord of Chaos mysteriously was absent from the endgame explanation of the creation of the world and the races.)

I thought that was correct right up until Act 3, where there's a literal Academy to train them. I was under the impression that Godwoken were incredibly, super rare, even compared to Sourcerers, but they apparently come by the dozen, and failed candidates remain as guardians and teachers on the island.

So what are Godwoken, and what are they supposed to do?

And why are all these things still unclear to me at the literal end of the game?

Last edited by Stabbey; 03/11/17 11:45 AM.