Between Divinity 2, DOS1, and DOS2, I don’t think there really is any real established lore for Rivellon to begin with. All I ever got is that…
1) A hero named Lucian defeated a dark force, but refused to kill infant Damian who was already destined to become the next bringer of darkness or something (which came true in Divinity 2).
2) Lucian was killed prior to Divinity 2, and the Dragon Knights were framed for it, all hunted down and killed until the player character becomes the last one. Except Lucian wasn’t actually dead, just sealed away. Damian nearly takes over the world during Divinity 2, but by the end of the game, you end up freeing Lucian and start the beginnings of a resistance. This particular timeline has been left on a cliffhanger.
3) DOS1 started establishing new lore by taking place approximately 2 thousand years prior. It talks about the threat of the void and the Source (which in the original timeline was the domain of healing magic from what I remember).
4) DOS2 takes place a couple decades before Divinity 2 from a chronological standpoint, but there’s enough retcons or changes that it might as well be a separate timeline. For one, Lucian wasn’t sealed away here, he faked his death. Lucian also has a biological son this time around. Damian is mentioned but doesn’t make an appearance. Dragon Knights are already being hunted down but are closely tied to the lizard race, while they were dragons or humans who had the ability to take dragon form in the original timeline. Apparently the next DOS game before it got put on indefinite hold was going to have Damian as an antagonist.
Anyway my point is Larian is capable of fully fleshing out Rivellon if they want to. They just never really tried until they essentially started with a soft reboot in DOS1.
Last edited by Saito Hikari; 24/08/22 05:36 AM.
