Hi, I'm not really shure how to explain this, but I hope it's understandable...

A while ago, I began playing the EE on Steam in co-op with a friend. We spent 144 hours and were close-ish to the end (we'd done Hunter's Edge and most of Phantom Forest, we were just in the process of going through Cassandra's temple to burn her bones). Then when I booted up the game, I was prompted to create a profile. Surprised, because I thought I already had done that, I created a profile, and promptly lost all my save games. I was unable to recover them through the cloud or through the file explorer, they were just GONE. Deleting the new profile didn't help, and there was *no other* profile to switch to. I spent days trying to find a solution, and had it confirmed via this forum that there was nothing to be done.

So I've bitten the bullet and started a new profile + playthrough, trying to recreate every choice we made to play the game to the point at which it blew up in our faces. I've gotten through all of Cyseal, all of Hiberheim, and am now in the process of wanting to investigate Luculla Mines.

Except on the path to the mines I began noticing that the goblins on the path were almost all dead, with the exception of the ones sleeping in a camp. This was... weird, as I distinctly remembered having more fights there in the first playthrough. Regardless, I keep going, enter the mines and...

The Luculla mines are toast, flooded with lava, killing my party upon entry. As if I'd already fully explored them and finished the quest line. Which.... I haven't in this new playthrough/profile. I *just* got the quest form the newly freed Icara to investigate the mines, and I'd not even been in the area until now.

And now after having invested another 20+ hours...I can once again no longer progress, and I'm utterly baffled as to what could have caused this... glitch or whatever it is, and how to proceed now. Until now the main quest has progressed quite as normal... Can anyone help me with this?

All I want is to be able to finish this game so we can move on to Divinity II...