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Hello everybody,

I'm here to ask a simple question:

"What happened to the deads?"

The zombie Jake is firstly found at Aleroth, burried in the cemetary near his wife, in the underground of his house and in the poor's cemetary in DD.
Thelyron is found in the deepest level of Aleroth's Catacombs.

In DD2, Jake is in the underground of Aleroth.

But in D:OS, we learn that Jake was a concillor at Cyseal and Thelyron is killed in the old church.

D:OS happen aproxymatively 1 222 years before DD so What happened to the "corpses" of Jake and Thelyron? Why are they near Aleroth after all this time and not near the sea, where Cyseal was supposed to be?

Thanking you in advance,

Myrakiel

Maybe Esmeralda retired to Aleroth and took Jake with her, then Thelyron followed to be in an area with source magic to try to resurrect himself fully. Maybe Jake brought Thelyron there, and Esmeralda followed.
Maybe Thelyron was doing some experiments in Aleroth on the side, while living in Cyseal (a contingency plan), and Jake went there originally in hopes of being resurrected, as well, but then decided he preferred being a zombie, so he wouldn't have to deal with the living.

The lore book being written now should presumably cover that.

I also think of it, what questions me it is that Mardaneus has already met Thelyron, it would mean that Mardaneus would have made build the village above catacombs by knowing that the spirit of a powerful necromancer lived there?

It's difficult to believe on behalf of the human member of the council, even if Mardaneus did not really plan to let the necromancer revive.

Since Cyseal is clearly in a vastly different geographic location than Aleroth, and there's no reason why those bodies would be moved across the country to a tiny town's tiny graveyard and stay there for 1200 years, I am going to assume that these are all different people with the same names. That's the simplest explanation.

It's obviously a different Thelyron, since Mardaneus met one who was alive, Thelyron was a healer in the village. Thelyron's (helpfully dated) journal entries you can find in the catacombs indicate that he would only need to be dead and wait in the afterlife for 11 years before his machine could revive him.

Was this ever resolved? Did the lore book that Raze mentioned end up covering that?
I've played through Divine Divinity a few times and I'm playing through it again now and am stumbling across their graves for the first time, and I have the same burning questions as OP and would love a response that's canon.