The Central Theme of the game is how your origins affect who you are and what chances you get in life, which is expressed in your main Player Character's origin story having massive impact on how others in the world treat you. From there on, you uncover the mysteries of the Voidwoken, divinity, and the Source, in order to stop the Void from swallowing the whole world. You play as one of Fort Joy captives and have to band with the others to escape from the island before the Divine Magisters subject you all to a Fate Worse than Death. These "Voidwoken" are drawn to manifestations of the Source, so Bishop Alexander, Lucian's son and the new leader of his Divine Order, has decreed that all Sourcerers be corralled on a remote island of Fort Joy. His death has weakened the Seven Gods, however, who watch idly as monsters from the Void now threaten to overrun Rivellon. Like the enhanced version of the first Original Sin title, the Definitive Edition was given to owners of the original release for free.Ī few decades have gone by since Divine Divinity, and Lucian the Divine has passed away after winning the Great War against the Black Ring. A Definitive Edition was released a year later on August 31, 2018, which fixed numerous bugs and addressed criticisms of the original release, alongside a release for Xbox One and Playstation 4 (with a Nintendo Switch version releasing a year after that). It released on September 14, 2017, almost exactly one year after the first act of the game was released to Early Access by the developers. The game was originally projected for release in December 2016, but having smashed through every single Kickstarter stretch goal with over $2M in pledges, delays were inevitable. Thanks to the success of the original, Larian had enough funds to produce it on their own, but took to Kickstarter once more to attract additional funding, build up a player community early, and to sign Chris Avellone on as a stretch goal. Divinity: Original Sin II is the sequel to Divinity: Original Sin by Larian Studios note although, in terms of the timeline, it actually follows after Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity, given how the original Original Sin was set over a thousand years before all three.