Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Few questions about Talana\Ygerna\Dragons-Spoilers

Here's what happened. Talana was a real Dragon Knight, the last one alive. After being mortally wounded by Rhode she meets you and with her last efforts grants you her dragon powers in a vision. In this vision she also shows you the forces of the true enemy: Damian.

Talana is now dead and Zandalor becomes your guide. From here on however, Ygerna sounds in your head, posing as Talana. No one knows she is playing you, you don't even know it because you have every reason to believe she is in fact Talana.

That is the deceit that is taking place. Ygerna seeks a saviour from within the afterworld and chose you because of the unprecedented events that take place. Only a Dragon Knight can survive in the Hall of Echoes, but she can't corrupt Talana. You on the other hand have no idea what's really going on and Ygerna makes use of this weakness.

The Divine explains this in more detail when you first meet him. Here's the complete text of what he says so you can have a closer look (if you're up for it ):

I’d bid you welcome, Dragon Knight, were this a place one would want to be welcomed to. Yet do not judge it too unfavourably off hand, for it is here you shall have to learn the meaning of eternity.

Poor creature. Ygerna has claimed another soul and Damian, my… my son, is stronger than ever. Yes, that is what I call him still despite everything.

No doubt you have guessed the truth by now: I am Lucian, the Divine. Quite alive, yet often wishing I was not as I dwell in this half-world, this cageless prison designed to keep me ever conscious and so suffer the torment of awareness. To be a wordless witness to the Damned One’s deeds.

Nonetheless, I have often shouted out in vain at one who unwittingly advanced Damian’s schemes by doing the bidding of his dark mistress. From the very Hall of Echoes she skimmed the surface of Rivellon for her knight in shining armour - who was to be both strong enough to find her, and weak enough to be controlled.

Then there you came: a formidable Slayer blessed with the power of the Dragon, but humbled by a mind exposed after a ritual incomplete. It was Ygerna who led you here, not Talana.

As she took on the guise of that courageous woman and showed you a vision of things to come, this sinister empress led you to believe the lie even my old friend Zandalor held to be true: Ygerna’s life is Damian’s death.

No, Dragon Knight, Ygerna’s life is Damian’s invincibility as I learned from my accursed son himself. They have been questing for the same outcome from within the Hall of Echoes and from without.

Ygerna was the first to triumph. You, her champion, ensured that victory against all odds: against her lover, even, who never realised you wanted to find her soul for resurrection, not destruction.

Now nothing is left for us, lost phantoms caught in their sinister webs, but to watch as they lay claim to Rivellon and obliterate all that the heroes of man have spilled so much blood to protect. We will watch as the Damned One and his queen wade to their victory through war's crimson rivers.

Now, I should point out that even the Divine knows not all. He says - for instance - that now Damian and Ygerna are invincible. In Flames of Vengeance you prove this to be untrue. He also says it is Ygerna who was responsible for the vision, but that was probably Talana. Some minor things remain a mystery.

How? Well, she doesn't really possess you, now does she? You get dragon powers from Talana and you make your way through the game with the powers you have, but Ygerna just steers things. She doesn't actively control you, she just suggests things you need to do in order to – you think – kill her, but in fact – as she well knows – to free her.

She can't, after all, leave the Hall of Echoes, but she talks to you from within it. You never actually see Ygerna until you meet her in her memory. This means that you only actually meet her real self at the very end of Flames of Vengeance.

You see a dying Talana; you see a dead Talana on the ground in dragon form, but you never saw Ygerna. She is just the impostor in your head whom you have no reason to doubt as even Zandalor never guesses her scheme.

One thing though, I must correct, and that is when you say 'Damian is the Lord of Chaos and he can't be killed/destroyed'. This is not quite true. Damian has the essence of the Chaos Lord in him, but he isn't the Lord of Chaos yet! This is a very important thing to keep in mind when thinking of the way the story develops and will develop. Again, an in-game character explains this in more detail. This time it's Thaddeus. Among the many things he says, he tells you the following about Damian:

Player: So Behrlihn is a follower of Damian, then.

Thaddeus: Yes, in so far that the human Damian is now the shell in which the Chaos Demon dwells and evolves. (...)

Player: If I understand correctly, Damian is a budding Demon – one who has not yet reached full growth.

Thaddeus: Oh, yes! The true Lord of Chaos has not yet been freed: the Black Ring was never as strong as the wizards that once supported him. But they did succeed in kindling his spirit within that creature Damian, where as yet it is but a flame waiting for conflagration. I don't know how that sinister design could be brought to reality, but never doubt he and his believers work tirelessly to bring the Demon about!

You can always go back to him in the game and ask him about all this again. He doesn't mind, I assure you!