Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Why source matters in the main story? [spoilers]

1. So the concept of Source is pretty obvious in general but i don't understand why everyone makes such a big deal of it.
- Source is life; no source, either a zombie or dead. Source spells, I agree. Better but not a lot better and pretty much one use except in the final battles.

2. So the whole story is about how objectively dangerous (randomly spawns hostile monsters)
- That isn't clear at all. It's alluded to be propaganda spawned by Lucian to make it easier to round up sourcerors so he could steal their source to fix the veil.

3. It raises a lot of questions about the story, e.g. why people who are sourcerers use this dangerous skills in skirmishes against fantasy-nazis instead of using safe types of skills
- Some of the source spells are real battle changers like the protection bubble and are unique (although. for some, I'm not sure how useful). Some of the three dot source spells work over several turns. The characters perceive them as more powerful and, if it means not losing the first battle to live and fight a second battle versus easily killed voidwoken, oh well.

4. There are only 2 good endings here that actually make any sense: bring back eternals (fix history) or use the source to fix the veil
- I don't call the evil ending of killing everyone to bring back the echo of the eternals, now voidwoken, to make sense at all. The veil has been torn since the beginning of seven race history and has caused problems but life went on. Fixing it means killing everyone and all life for the most part since all the source the seven used would have to be returned. There is a hole here in the endings as there should be nothing for the main characters to come back to. I feel (and I think it may well be the canon ending since it allows a total reboot of the series, ie, a fresh start to a staling product) to be the give the source to everyone ending as the godking is defeated and a golden age happens. It allows other side of the veil stories as well as new evil people of the seven races such as a new Baccus to be enemies in the future without having to rely on what happened prior.

5. Just killing him should pretty much save the world and resolve all conflicts
- There were plenty of conflicts prior to Lucian and some of the endings do just that - kill Lucian with possibly a new divine (who hopefully isn't as flawed) taking over. The gods have been back stabbing each other from the beginning. The only thing they could agree to is that they would never trust each other to unite so they created the concept of the divine. Any four gods would theoretically be able to defeat the divine.

6. So the whole point of source is to be building material veil and it doesn't have any other practical use
- There was source in the world prior to tearing the veil. The eternals used source and there was life in Rivellon. Fane discovered the veil and wanted to discover what was beyond it. The seven saw a way to make them all powerful - using some of the veil to create new life. Astarte released additional source into the world for healing purposes but it was misused by some (like Baccus) so was deemed evil. It then became good again with only "healers" using it until it was needed to fight the void. Lucian discovered the truth that the gods used their created beings to sustain themselves (another hole in the story line - does life grow source? if not, what would be the point?) and he knew his mistake allowed the void to not be controlled by them (killing the elves) so wanted to fix his latest mistake by draining the source from the gods and all new life and fixing the veil. How he would do this as a zombie I have no clue. The gods' believed that a new, more powerful divine could fix stop the void and sustain their creation but hoped the one in their particular image, the champion of that god, would respect the god afterwards that he could now easily eliminate. I'd say the god was dreaming but, whatever. If you become divine, it's the status quo; nothing really changes - the void can get to Rivellon so there is constant strife but life goes on. That also makes more sense then fixing the void or allowing the voidwoken to rule (at least to me).

I'd say the story is not shallow at all but is not very consistent, ie, full of holes. I think most issues are just to make a playable game. How fun would it be if Lucien could just smite you easily at the end? Would it be fun if you could call up source spells so powerful that all enemies would die instantly? I still believe that that dadblasted sword should be some 20x more powerful, though - it doesn't even make a dent on Braccus (or Lucien).