#dos2 lady vengeance

[prototypelq]

DOS2 has the best elves

They look like 2,5 meter high (not kidding, they are ridiculously high) twigs, and have arguably the best racial abilities in the game - a super effective combat ability and a great Corpse Eater talent, which gives all elves the ability to see/relive memories when licking/eating flesh of any living thing.

I really want to highlight two amazing stark moments from the second act of a six years old game, so beware some secondary quest, not exactly big spoilers below

In the second act of the game you can find an elf camp, where a lot of bandaged warriors will be. They are raiding the sawmill nearby, because the people running it have started cutting suspiciously wide trees. When you arrive, the elves are holding a ritual, and you either need the highest persuasion possible to enter, or an elf in your party. Inside the small camp you will see this burial rite for one of the fallen warriors.

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Narrator - *Three battle-weary elven warriors make ritual over the body of a fallen comrade, their chanting low and fierce, the pain of their losses manifest in every word.* Tovah - Blood to earth to wood to birth. The blood of Sarias to this earth. Sebille - [ELF] *Hold your tongue. You know not this Sarias.* Narrator - *The tallest, strongest elf, whom you take to be the leader, gives you a disapproving look, then turns away. She places the tip of a long-bladed spear on poor dead Sarias's chest-bone.* Tovah - Blood to earth. Narrator - *Her companions reach out and grasp the spear, ready to plunge it into Sarias's heart.* Tovah - Blood to earth! Narrator - *Together they plunge the blade deep into Sarias’s heart, then twist three times, in practiced motion. Blood flows freely to the ground, and Sarias's heart lies open to the world, neatly cut in four.* Tovah - Blood to blood! Narrator - *Each warrior plucks a piece of heart and places it in their mouth. Chewing solemnly, their leader looks to you to see what you will do.* Sebille - *Nod your head respectfully, but do not eat the flesh.* Narrator - *The elven leader gives you a curious look, then turns away.* Tovah - Sarias is a warrior, proud and true. Blood to blood. Earth to earth. Wood to wood. Birth to birth. Sarias becomes his tree. May Sarias take root. Narrator - *The elves pick Sarias's bloody corpse from the ground. Tovah looks to you... ...and the meaning in her glare is clear; you should not help. The elves send Sarias to his final resting place. His corpse rolls to a stop at the bottom of the pit. The elven leader stands and stares at her fallen comrade. Then she wipes away a tear, and turns away.*

I received great joy just by seeing this burial rite, but that's not the last of it! If you have the Spirit Vision ability unlocked, you can see the moment the ritual is finished, there will appear a spirit in a form of a tree in the place where they leave the body buried. He doesn't talk much, probably still coming to terms with shock and death and newfound tree spirit form, buuut at the sawmill, if you use Spirit Vision, you can find...this heartbreaking interaction to get a little further glimpse into elven culture

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Narrator - *A ghostly aura shrouds the log, along with a penetrating, icy cold.* Lohse - *Place your hand on the log.* Narrator - *Bitter cold shoots up your fingertips, through your arm, shoulder, neck, and into your brain. Your whole body contracts with the aching freeze... and a voice sounds inside of you.* Log - See what I see. Feel what I feel. Log - Look down. Lohse - *Do as the voice says and look down.* Narrator - *Where your feet should be, you see great, gnarled roots disappearing into a mossy forest floor. As this log once was, you are an Ancestor Tree.* Narrator - *As you examine yourself, you see the top of a small elven child's head as she approaches. She wraps her arms around you and rests her head against your great trunk.* Lohse - *Remember with her.* Narrator - *You pass her a memory. Once, you were her father. You pass her the softness you remember of her chubby cheeks; you pass her the warmth between you when you curled back-to-back to sleep.* Narrator - *A tear trickles from the child’s eye and onto your bark. She whispers that she loves you. She says she will come back tomorrow.* Log - You see? Narrator - *The child departs, and night falls. You hear voices and the dull thud of axes. A human approaches you and pats your trunk. He raises his axe and - * Log - You see? Narrator - *You lie in pieces on the forest floor. Rough hands toss you into a cart and haul you away.* Log - You see. You see what he does to me. You see he takes me from my life. You see he cuts me into parts. Log - You make him pay.

The elfwood is actually...a material you can use in this universe! I have no idea how, but I found some somewhere, I swear I didn't go elftree chopping. There is another extremely sad story tied to an elfwood, this one you encounter before this in the end of act 1. There is an entire BATTLESHIP, The Lady Vengeance, who was constructed from a single Mother Ancestor Tree, and her spirit has never left. She suffered through the construction, and worst of all, later her spirit inside the tree has been subdued and enslaved by some ancient magic.

(I have nothing against top-down camera view except for when it doesn't let me take shots of everything properly)

(the figurehead of the ship comes alive to talk to you, then she turns into her usual position)

I'm no Divinity lore expert, and to be fair this is just an upgraded Cameron's Avatar logic plus some blood and cannibalism, but this is very cool and I wanted to share, anyway I love DOS2 elves.

#THERE IS NO LADY VENGEANCE GIF ANYWHERE CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS #I SEARCHED FAR AND WIDE WHY IS THERE NO LADY VENGEANCE GIF #she looks amazing when she turns to talk to you and then back this must be gif-ed #anyway dos2 is very cool #dos2 #divinity original sin 2 #dos2 lady vengeance

[the-southern-cereal-king]

I am once again pleading bg3 players to play Divinity Original Sin 2, another larian studios game, because it’s very similar and so enjoyable. You can find a lot of commonalities in characters between the two games.

I played dos2 to pregame baldurs gate because I wasn’t used to the turn based combat system, and I was much more prepared for it. Larian Studios is not a one hit wonder, and when I have the funds I plan on playing the other games they’ve made. They also have a dos2 website and digital art book/ character sheets/ cosplay guides that’s worth checking out

Also, dos2 explores the crafting/ combining mechanic WAY more, and I honestly wished Larian had kept more crafting in bg3.

Oh also, Amelia Tyler, the narrator for baldurs gate 3, plays a really great character in divinity original sin 2

#dos2 #divinity original sin 2 #divinity #sebille #sebille is my wife #lohse dos2 #fane dos2 #red prince #the beast dos2 #malady dos2 #larian studios #Amelia Tyler #I’m a larian studio dickrider #the lady vengeance

[oceanatydes]

no spoilers but when is the scene where mc and their li sleep together supposed to take place??

i'm in act 5 now and currently in the forbidden library

#i saw some things saying it happened on the lady vengeance but what triggers that?? did i miss it?? #please help #i do not want to have to re do but i need to see ifan's/the red prince's #dos2 #divinity original sin 2 #divinity: original sin 2 #dos2 ifan #dos2 the red prince #ifan #ifan ben mezd #the red prince #ifan dos2 #the red prince dos2 #the red prince x godwoken #ifan x godwoken #dos2 help

[faneposting-my-beloved]

Some environment photos I took with the camera mod

#dos2 #divinity original sin 2 #screenshot #rivellon #cloisterwood #fort joy #Council of The Seven #The Eternal Academy #Arx #Lady Vengeance

[yieldtonone]

Lady Vengeance  (aka the great acorn that fell from the sky on Reaper’s coast)

#lady vengeance #divinity original sin 2 #divinity original sin #dos 2 #dos2 #dos #larian studios #video games #rpg #the great acorn

[cloudmancy]

I have no desire to get you in trouble but I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the new episode and the preview because I also have.. thoughts and I'm interested in what other people clocked as not great or kinda.. idk. other people's concerns, because I have had a lot of them and I never see people really talk about those things

they're doing a new format this season where they film a bunch of rp episodes in a row then take a break when there's a battle so the crew can get the battleset ready, so I understand the dissonance. but the tone of this episode from the tone of last episode was SO jarring. I was ready to chew drywall at the end of episode 17 but we head into the episode 18 fight and at the end all I can say is... damn! that sure is a battle that happened. the entire fight felt really low-stakes even though objectively a few of the bad kids were in mortal danger, but the mood at the table was so relaxed and chill and there was almost no roleplay at all... which drove me so crazy

>no rp except for fun silly party stuff (no callbacks to the adaine elven oracle in a storm thing? after all the fun setup last time??)

>fought 8 different antagonists and none of them said a word

>nobody questioned why or what oisin's grandma or all those dragon were doing there they just started taking them out one by one like raid battles in world of warcraft

>cassandra/nightmare king showed up only to not make any impact or get a single word in

>dos2 lady vengeance fight did the floating boat/ballistas/dragon fight better SMH

and then after all of that we're headed straight into ANOTHER battle episode judging by the preview... and it's against the rat grinders and porter/jace! let me out I want PLOT & DIALOGUE fhjy cannot end like this (5 hours straight of battle where they just kill everyone that moves). there's 2 eps left so I really hope they do the last ep as a 4 hour long roleplay only epilogue episode because as we've all seen ending campaigns on a battle leads to frankly really rushed character and world decisions. it's ultra disappointing too because I loved this entire season so much so far. the setup and buildup and plot points and mystery of fhjy is the best they've ever done it in dimension 20 period

ep 18 fhjy battle was a letdown to me... not giving the party an rp episode after 3 hours of loredump + going straight into a final battle without being able to interact with the world after gaining info is bad. they should've had a chance to process everything they learned about house sunstone, porter's plan, the rat grinders being used as ascension fodder, whatever the whole deal behind ambrosia and lucy frostkettle and why they needed a helios cleric in buddy IN ROLEPLAY. I don't want all this stuff explained to me after the battle by brennan or in some throwaway lines in the adventuring party - I want the bad kids to talk to people! I want them to investigate! I want fig to pull some BS with porter knowing the full extent of all his plans. it really sucks for us as an audience too to be hit with all this lore and get approximately 0 time for it to sink into the implications of how the worldbuilding was shaped by it or realizations of "ohhh that's why that happened at the beginning of the season" before we go straight into killing everyone.

with the way this is going I don't have any confidence they're gonna be able to actually empathize at all with the rat grinders too before they start lopping heads off because in battle episodes everyone kind of just. becomes numbers and an objective to take out except for pet favourite npcs of the cast. and they've mostly been interacting with the rat grinders as nuisances all season 😭 I'm PRAYING to be proven wrong and the last 2 episodes of this are fantastic but it's not looking good folks

#asks #anon #fhjy spoilers

[nightthinker-08]

lil DOS2 rant?

Le sighhhhhh Finally finished DOS2 again, and I do adore this game a lot and has easily become my favorite. I love the combat of the game and the implementation of magical and physical armor really makes you think on your builds and strategies. And I know some might disagree cuz not a lot like turn based combat apparently? The story is so rich from start to finish, absolutely no parts of it bored me. The dialogues are fun and witty, catching me off gaurd and making me laugh way more than I thought it would. And the characters are so well written, you fall in love with almost all of them, especially the origin characters and the people you sail with in Lady Vengeance. But for all that praise, whenever I think of the romance in the game I can't help but feel its more than a little lacking. I love the characters to death I, wouldn't've have played the game twice already and have over 200+ hours on it if I didn't- but interactions with them are so few and far between. You don't even have one quiet moment with them. Well... I mean you do get one moment alone with them, but to call it a quiet one would be so... hilariously untrue for a number of reasons Anyway me being me took the little romance I can get in stride on my first play through, thinking "oh if I progress their quest they give me important dialogue!" So I focused a lot on the one person I wanted to romance (it was Sebille) and absolutely eating up any romantic dialogue that pops up (most of them catching me off gaurd cuz again we didn't talk much through out our journey and suddenly she's cozying up on me-). Only to have missed a lot in my first playthrough (not really a big complaint cuz I like you can do a lot of different things to get to the same point), and accidentally not progress one of my companions stories and have a small betrayal at the end. But then by the end of it all, while the ending I got was mostly happy, the ending I had with my chosen partner was absolutely bittersweet. While yes- I did make a lot of mistakes in my first game cuz I had no idea what the hell I was doing :D So it could absolutely be chalked up to me just missing a lot of key things to ensure a better ending with us. Hence why I played it twice in a row, and believe me I missed A LOT especially in forth joy, the first chapter. I tried my best to be as thorough as I can. Exploring every inch of them map, talking to almost every NPC I come in contact with, finishing every quest in my log book, talking more instead of fighting to get more dialogue. And while I can safely say I was absolutely more thorough this time round, I'm pretty sure I still missed a few things. Its a long ass game- there are a lot you need to keep track of, and I can be very forgetful. But I think I completed well enough to know this is the general scope of what an average player—or maybe not even averege, but a slightly more avid player—would get. So what did I get after all that? Well... Roughly the same ending with only minor differences... Was the entire game more different the 2nd time round cuz I knew what I was doing and found a lot of new and cool things through out that gave it more charm? 100%! Without a doubt! Did the companion I got together with get a happier ending? Also yes. But am I still a bit disappointed at romance and how that side plot ended? Sadly yes. Spoilers below for people who haven't played or haven't gotten to the end game.

So somewhere in the late game there's a choice to have Sebille rooted into the mother tree, I dont want to have to overly explain it but it basically bounding her to elven duties for the rest of her days and also she turns in a a tree once she dies :'Dc. Now I was an idiot and actually rooted her even when I had 2nd thought on it cuz I thought that was just her duty. And bit me in the ass at the end and was mostly what made the ending so bittersweet for me. She wasnt free yet we still loved each other so we had to part ways. Of course she said she'd always love me and never forget me before sharing a sweet kiss but it was still sad... Me being the simp I am I made a completely new game just to ensure she gets a happy ending (preferably together with my character) and she did and it was nice but... It made the whole end game conversation with her a lot shorter, it wasn't explicitly stated we'd stay together but in the epilogue nothing about our romance was mentioned. She was just happy traveling and living her best life and don't get me wrong- like Go girl! Live your best life! No need to get tied down! But I just wish the bond you form not just with your romance partner but with all your companions didn't feel like such a forgettable chapter of their life. There could have at least been a mention where at least one, or preferably all, of your party members would gather to together to meet up every now and again in the new world. Maybe its just makes me sad cuz I thought of my party as being a found family towards each other, so to see them be so ready to leave each other, split off and never talk to each other ever again really pained me. The origin characters are one, if not, my top reason I want to keep coming back to this game and replaying it but every time I just keep thinking of how it all ended, my heart sinks.

Minor complaints up ahead.

Poly? Where poly? No poly?? Give me the ability to romance both Sebille and Lohse you cowards!! so like at the end of my 2nd play through I made a save where one onf them I chose to be the new devine, made ifan sad and was generally a more sad ending- but also made me spilt with Sebille again cuz she was like "can a god mingle with us mortals?" and Im like oh shit so this is the wrong choice. So I reload my save and spread the source to everyone. and this time round it was happy again but she was still like " what happens with us is up to you" Like girl what you mean? We're on even playing field neither of us have responsibilities we're both free, what am I missing here? BUT ALSO SHE DOSENT KISS ME IN THIS ENDING?????? maybe I messed up the dialogue?? She says she wants me and love me but doesnt lean down for a kiss like my save before that or in my first game play either so I was left so confused-

another Sebille centered minor problem, after you kill her master her story kinda just ends there- Like there's nothing for her in Arx at all. And before you say it yes, we meet with Saheila when we get there, she's talking about elves wanting to rise up to start that war. And she just dismisses it and chalks it up to Saheila being insane(which you know true) but that's it? you don't want to figure out why your kin who's been through almost the same things we've been through suddenly underwent an over night change?? you aren't going to talk to the hostile elven people in arx?? People's opinion of you after killing the mother tree/ being prime scion doesn't get touched on here??? It just another one of my little disappointments in her story. She was very prominent at the start but nothing in Arx, which despite being the last chapter is still a long one. So to just have her there with nothing important to progress with her or our romance it just left me a lil bumed :/

#dos2 #divinity original sin 2 #rant #ramblings #Sebille #well this got longer than I expected it to be- #woops- #been gone for what like a month then I randomly drop a long as rant lol #still love and adore the game ofc

[perenians]

FINALLY BEAT DOS2 and if i'm being totally honest, i'm rather disappointed with how it ended. spoilers for the endings & final battle under the cut!

the final battle sucked so FUCKING MUCH. the only reason i was able to beat it was because of some divine intervention i swear. like it was looking grim, folks. everyone died except for ifan, who was at like. 30 hp. and braccus rex was about to kill him when he suddenly died?? i'm assuming it's because of his vulnerability to fire damage, and if you've played dos2 you know that most fights end in fire or necrofire, so that's what got him. i'm just glad he kicked the bucket (AGAIN. HE EXPLODED INTO DUST IN THE FIRST DOS HOW IS HE ALIVE) but i wish there was the option to kill lucian as well. like, he sucks! he absolutely sucks! why does he get to live??

anyway. you get to choose to claim divinity or not, and you're given three choices: to return source to the people (like ifan spoke about previously), to become the new divine, or purge the world of its source to close the void.

you pick whichever one. if source returns to the people, windego pretty much curses your name for letting her stay shackled to the god king. if you become the new divine, she eagerly awaits a different godwoken just for the chance to get set free (unlikely, but one can hope, i suppose). if you purged the world of its source, you've freed windego from the clutches of the god king, and this one is seemingly the best ending because rivellon flourishes. i have mixed feelings on this one.

fade to black, you are on the lady vengeance that is somehow whole again because malady is ridiculously powerful and also suspiciously nice to you if you're the new divine. with the other options, she kind of just views you as an investment that didn't pay off. which like. rude, but fair

i somehow managed to foster romances with sebille and ifan simultaneously (didn't get there with lohse because i only added her to my party on the first leg of the journey to driftwood). sebille basically doesn't really care all that much about your choice, preoccupied by her fate as a scion. lohse also doesn't care. she just wants to get back to barding. they're both pretty neutral about it.

ifan isn't. ifan has exactly zero chill and will either give his approval (sharing source across rivellon; romantic ending, best reaction because that's what he wanted), acknowledge you as the new divine (vaguely romantic ending—he ditches you to help regrow the elven forest), or angrily call you a betrayer (purging the world of source entirely, worst ifan ending because you let lucian stay divine and alive so he wants you dead).

personally i feel like we should have gotten an ending where like. we purge rivellon of its source, kill lucian, and all seemingly goes well. but this is not an option, even though you should've killed lucian in the battle beforehand. that way, ifan won't treat you with contempt or malice, because he disapproves of choices lucian made as divine and not as much about purging source. we could truly have had it all.

#i keep hearing about how act 3 was rewritten and i'm afraid to ask but like #how bad was it before #because it sure as hell ain't great in de either #okay i did just summarize the entire ending bit of the game but like i was processing it okay #dos2 #per plays #per rants #calm down per

[fithragaer]

Fights where the goal is something other than “kill all the other dudes” 😩😩😩❤️😩❤️

#even something as simple as ‘grab the mcguffin’ #don’t mind me I just got to reapers coast and I love the battle on the lady vengeance #i love that she’ll buff your party/allies #text #misc #alma plays dos2 #perso

[boneforts]

luv how it's canon that your sentient ship magically makes you a room inside themself for you to fuck in 🥴

#my godwoken descending into the lady vengeance's guts to get her own guts rearranged by ifan and lv bein like #😤👌 you're my bitch girl the GOAT blease have this special room inside me to get that scraggly wolf dude inside'a you #misc: text #dos2 is a ride y'all 😂 PLUS THE NARRATOR NARRATES THE SEX SCENE IT'S INTENSE #it's not even like horribly done either but i'm still 🥵😳😬😳🥵 the entire time #this is why i don't listen to audiobooks but woof

[greencrusader13]

Ambient conversations we’d better overhear about The Lady Vengeance in Divinity: Fallen Heroes:

Ifan and Sebille talking about the best ways to assassinate someone, and how they would go about eliminating different people on the ship, much to the horror of their companions.

Fane pestering the crew about inane questions pertaining to the current civilization, and enthusing about banal topics.

Lohse pointing out that The Red Prince has put on some weight since becoming emperor, which other companions start agreeing on to his annoyance.

Beast singing sea shanties, with others joining in. 

Collective fear from the group when Sebille offers to cook.

The Red Prince being caught writing a love letter to Sadha. Fane gives unwanted literary critique.

Ifan talking about his time working for Alexander/Lucian.

One of the party admitting they don’t know how to swim (which is a problem when at sea).

#dos2 #divinity #divinity original sin 2 #divinity fallen heroes #ifan ben mezd #ifan #beast #fane #the red prince #lohse #sebille #the lady vengeance

[galasgamingcorner]

Divinity: Original Sin 2 | The Lady Vengeance (animated cut scenes)

#divinityedit #dos2edit #gamingedit #divinity: original sin 2 #dos2 #lady vengeance #animated cut scenes #mygamegifs

[takhy-dh]

Day 17 - Ornament

#divinity original sin #dos2 #fanart #lady vengeance #red prince #inktober2019 #ornament #dragon #ship

[oceanatydes]

i just finished dos2 and it was such an excellent game but what the hell was the red prince's epilogue scene??

he had so much character growth at the end, going so far as to give up what arguably was his birthright to be a god amongst men (aka lizards) and ruling to mc and trusting them as the new divine

then he turns around and says lol be my slave like what the hell?? where was the character progression?? the romantic acknowledgement that he literally tells mc he loves them?? what was that??

#it felt like the ending was written by a completely different person who 1.) did not like the red prince 2.) did not understand his #character at all #OF COURSE he will always have a degree of arrogance that's just who he is but he's grown so much as a person and father like ???? #i'm just so let down by that the rest of the game was truly fantastic but the endings made me so sad #they either felt lackluster or just like. we had these life changing adventures together now bye forever #which i guess is how it is sometimes but it made me so sad #also the game kept bugging out & flagging as if id slept w sebille (which i hadnt) & not counting all the romance #stuff i did w ifan prior to the night on lady vengeance w the red prince #so that also sucked bc it was never acknowledged after #also why make the red prince a romance option if he's not even going to have a proper route???? i have so many more thoughts on this but #tw slavery #slavery mention #dos2 #dos 2 #dos2 spoilers #dos 2 spoilers #divinity original sin 2 #divinity: original sin 2 #the red prince #dos2 the red prince #dos 2 the red prince #the red prince x godwoken #the red prince romance #slavery tw

[zippers]

imo in video games its not stealth if you are shooting/killing people... to me it shows that you just are bad at being stealthy, lol

also i appreciate that tpp wont give you a perfect stealth ranking if you kill people :3 also appreciate that you are permanently penalized for killing people and it adds up :3

actually on the topic of permanently penalized for killing. dos2 is one of my favorite games and i mean the combat is SO fun, its one of the best things about the game, but my horror when i got to that judgement thingy and it was like. if you killed, had sex, or (lied, maybe? its been a few years) you werent able to enter the sanctuary thingy and like. the GODS WERE WATCHING so they straight up wouldnt let you in. and me who slaughtered every guard in fort joy for XP, slept with every one of my companions plus fane on the lady vengeance, and lied my way through the entire game was horrified. definitely taking the actions have consequences game approach to the extreme XD

and of course on the other spectrum of games that i love. toontown is like "you are a seven year old furry, join our organized resistance against capitalism and murder this ceo"

#i like that in mgs they usually go on alert if they get knocked out or find a dead body #but if u just kill people thats not stealth that is just violence #yes this is referring to the immense guilt i got after lethally sniping the 1st soviet patrol in the virtuous mission & getting away with it #i felt so bad even after i finished the virtuous mission that i wiped the save file #so i would not have to be confronted by him in the sorrow boss battle

[dragonologist-phd]

...are all of the DOS2 companions I didn’t have in my party on the Lady Vengeance just dead now?

#dos2 #i guess so? #thats wild #i mean luckily i had my 3 favs with me at the time so i dont have to go back to a previous save #but this is driving my completionist brain insane #uuuh i guess lark is just hanging with ifan lohse and sebille for the rest of the game then