The story and lore of the Divinity videogame series
An attempt of putting together inconsistencies in the lores of these videogames.
This is 70% true and 30% my headcanon. The games in this text are (at the moment) the ones I played: Divinity Original Sin 1, Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity Original Sin 2.
This is 70% true and 30% my headcanon. The games in this text are (at the moment) the ones I played: Divinity Original Sin 1, Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity Original Sin 2.
There’s the world and there is the void, another dimension (?) where nothingness only exists. Astarte creates the Source, a magical powerful force that permeates different dimensions and worlds. The world of Rivellon is one of these dimensions, the First Garden is another one (where Astarte lives). The Void is a particular danger dimension of nothingness, and a veil made of Source divides the multiple dimensions from Rivellon.
Rivellon is inhabited by immortal creatures called Eternals. One of them, a man named Fane, discovers the Veil and the Source and wants to study it. The King of Eternals refuses to approve of his studies, but other eight Eternals decide to help Fane. The problem is that they are not so keen on studying the Veil but they decide to consume the Source in it and use it for their own power. Now extremely powerful, these eight Eternals exile the other Eternals, and their King, into the Void. Consuming the Veil, weakens the divisions between the different dimensions.
The eight Eternals declare themselves Gods and the Lord of Chaos is the first god who decides to create for himself new creatures to have as slaves. He makes demons, the first intelligence race. The other seven Eternals/Gods also decide to create their own creatures: Rhalic creates humans, Duna creates dwarves, Tir-Cendelius creates elves, Zorl-Stissa creates dragons, Vrogir created and enslaved orcs, Xantezza created imps. Amadia didn’t really care about creating and preferred to live in solitude, but centuries later she met a wizard (ZANDALOR??) and together they had childen (demi gods). Amadia decided to grant to his lover immortality and she became the goddess of wizards.
The 8th God is not particularly loved, so the seven Gods throw the Lord of Chaos and his demons into other dimensions, outside of Rivellon (?). The dragons are also not quite beloved by the other races, so Zorl-Stissa transforms them into lizards, less dangerous and powerful, to be able to let them live alongside the other people of Rivellon.
Rivellon is inhabited by immortal creatures called Eternals. One of them, a man named Fane, discovers the Veil and the Source and wants to study it. The King of Eternals refuses to approve of his studies, but other eight Eternals decide to help Fane. The problem is that they are not so keen on studying the Veil but they decide to consume the Source in it and use it for their own power. Now extremely powerful, these eight Eternals exile the other Eternals, and their King, into the Void. Consuming the Veil, weakens the divisions between the different dimensions.
The eight Eternals declare themselves Gods and the Lord of Chaos is the first god who decides to create for himself new creatures to have as slaves. He makes demons, the first intelligence race. The other seven Eternals/Gods also decide to create their own creatures: Rhalic creates humans, Duna creates dwarves, Tir-Cendelius creates elves, Zorl-Stissa creates dragons, Vrogir created and enslaved orcs, Xantezza created imps. Amadia didn’t really care about creating and preferred to live in solitude, but centuries later she met a wizard (ZANDALOR??) and together they had childen (demi gods). Amadia decided to grant to his lover immortality and she became the goddess of wizards.
The 8th God is not particularly loved, so the seven Gods throw the Lord of Chaos and his demons into other dimensions, outside of Rivellon (?). The dragons are also not quite beloved by the other races, so Zorl-Stissa transforms them into lizards, less dangerous and powerful, to be able to let them live alongside the other people of Rivellon.
From the Void a Dragon starts to attack the world, probably sent as a herald of the king trapped in there, to bring end to all creation. Or maybe just a mindless desire of the Void itself, created from the anger of the ones trapped in it. The Void Dragon attacks Rivellon and three generals manage to stop the Dragon, even if one perishes. The Void Dragon is locked into a box, a Godbox kept safe in another dimension, which happens to be the First Garden, the kingdom of Astarte.
The two generals offer themselves to guard the box forever, and the gods turn them into demigods, probably filling them with Source.
The Generals stand as guardians for millenials, until one day a creature called Trife, who lives in the First Garden as well, manages to trick Astarte. It is not clear if the Trife is a demon or a creature that always existed in the First Garden. The Trife tells Astarte that he knows how to kill the Void, so that the two Guardians can be freed from their duty. Astarte distracts one of the Generals/Guardians, telling them that their companion is free already. The distracted Guardians are now planted with doubt and curiosity and, for a moment, they look at each others. Astarte opens the box and the Void Dragon jumps out. The Guardians, shocked, run away, but Astarte decides to act and she drags the Dragon into the Void itself where they battle one against the other, since. And this is how the Source is corrupted.
The Trife is cast from the First Garden into Rivellon, for his trickery, while the Guardians, overcome by guilt, reaches the Tapestry of Time (which records the events of Time) and take out their thread so that their failure, but also their existence, becomes unknown. The thread they ripped falls to Rivellon as Star Stones, while the Guardians get reincarnated into humans. Now that the Source is corrupt with the Void, Sourcerers start to go mad while attempting to use it. Braccus Rex, a powerful Sourcerer, starts his conquest of Rivellon, trying to become a new God. To avoid ever being killed, Braccus Rex, whose soul is forged with Cassandra’s, his sister, decides to transform Cassandra into an immortal Lich, corrupting her. It’s just before she becomes corrupted, that Cassandra transforms the cat Arhu into a human and falls in love with him.
A first Council of Seven, with a representative of each race (Zandalor being the representative of the wizards?), creates the Source Hunters and they defeat and kill Braccus Rex, after Cassandra destroys the connection between their souls. Arhu escapes, and Cassandra moved to the Phantom forest, becoming a terrible tyrant. Echos of Braccus Rex’s power will remain in Rivellon for millenials.
Centuries (?) later, the Sourcerers are still chased by the Source Hunters and it is forbidden to use the Source. Leandra and Icara, two young Sourcerer sisters, see their parents being killed by Source Hunters, just because of who they were. The trauma brings their souls to forge. They escape together and move to the forest of Luculla, alone, learning how to use the Source. One day, Zandalor stumbles upon them to learn power alongside them and it is clear that Zandalor has no prejucide against the Source itself, as he knows better. Both the sisters fall in love with him, but Zandalor seems to love Icara the most. Icara and Zandalor reveal their relationship to Leandra, who decides to leave. Filled with resentment, her connection with Icara’s soul grows weaker and weaker.
Leandra is approached by the Trife, now confined on Rivellon, who convinces her that the best solution is the complete peace of the world. This complete peace is non-existence, the destruction of the world that the Void Dragon can bring. Leandra, now known as the Conduit, starts a new religion where her followers, the Immaculates, work to bring the Void Dragon to the world. Working for her plans, Leandra also decides to kill Zandalor, but her plans end up getting an important citizen of Cyseal killed, and attract the attention of Arhu, living in Cyseal as a man, who decides to call the Source Hunters, suspecting something darker than a simple murder is going on. Luckily for her, Leandra manages to at least capture her sister Icara with the help of King Boreas, the Elemental King of ice and winter.
Two Source Hunters arrive in Cyseal and they soon find out that a group of fanatics called Immaculates want to revive Braccus Rex, the Source King who almost became a God. They stop the Source King, but in the meantime they find out that the Immaculates are collecting mysterious stones, called Star Stones, and using sacrifices to fill them with blood and turn them into powerful artefacts.
Once the two Source Hunters start finding these stones, they are catapulted to another realm where an Imp called ZixZax tells them that Time is in danger because the Immaculates wants to bring the Void Dragon to the world.
Leandra creates some powerful creatures, called Death Knights, which are immortal and invincible. The Source Hunters find the failsafe that Leandra built into the Death Knights (a spell), and they free the White Witch Icara from her prison. Icara asks them to find her lover Zandalor to get his help. He is the only one who seems to know how to get into the Phantom Forest, where a path to the First Garden resides. The Source Hunters manages to kill Cassandra (destroying her previous body) and they soon find out that they are nothing else but the reincarnation of the two Guardians who accidentally let the Void Dragon free.
With the help of Icara and Zandalor, the two Guardians reach the First Garden where Leandra and Trife managed to welcome the Void Dragon. Together, the Source Hunters trap the Void Dragon into the Godbox, once again, and save Astarte, freeing the Source from corruption. Astarte remains in the First Garden to guard the Godbox and the Garden itself.
The Trife is casted away into the reign of the Lord of Chaos, becoming the Demon of Lies and working for his new God in an attempt to get revenge and destruction. The Source is used again by a small amount of Sourcerers in Rivellon, and the Gods keep ruling over Rivellon, choosing the Divine when necessary (a Sourcerer herald that unifies all the races and follow the will of the Gods).
The two generals offer themselves to guard the box forever, and the gods turn them into demigods, probably filling them with Source.
The Generals stand as guardians for millenials, until one day a creature called Trife, who lives in the First Garden as well, manages to trick Astarte. It is not clear if the Trife is a demon or a creature that always existed in the First Garden. The Trife tells Astarte that he knows how to kill the Void, so that the two Guardians can be freed from their duty. Astarte distracts one of the Generals/Guardians, telling them that their companion is free already. The distracted Guardians are now planted with doubt and curiosity and, for a moment, they look at each others. Astarte opens the box and the Void Dragon jumps out. The Guardians, shocked, run away, but Astarte decides to act and she drags the Dragon into the Void itself where they battle one against the other, since. And this is how the Source is corrupted.
The Trife is cast from the First Garden into Rivellon, for his trickery, while the Guardians, overcome by guilt, reaches the Tapestry of Time (which records the events of Time) and take out their thread so that their failure, but also their existence, becomes unknown. The thread they ripped falls to Rivellon as Star Stones, while the Guardians get reincarnated into humans. Now that the Source is corrupt with the Void, Sourcerers start to go mad while attempting to use it. Braccus Rex, a powerful Sourcerer, starts his conquest of Rivellon, trying to become a new God. To avoid ever being killed, Braccus Rex, whose soul is forged with Cassandra’s, his sister, decides to transform Cassandra into an immortal Lich, corrupting her. It’s just before she becomes corrupted, that Cassandra transforms the cat Arhu into a human and falls in love with him.
A first Council of Seven, with a representative of each race (Zandalor being the representative of the wizards?), creates the Source Hunters and they defeat and kill Braccus Rex, after Cassandra destroys the connection between their souls. Arhu escapes, and Cassandra moved to the Phantom forest, becoming a terrible tyrant. Echos of Braccus Rex’s power will remain in Rivellon for millenials.
Centuries (?) later, the Sourcerers are still chased by the Source Hunters and it is forbidden to use the Source. Leandra and Icara, two young Sourcerer sisters, see their parents being killed by Source Hunters, just because of who they were. The trauma brings their souls to forge. They escape together and move to the forest of Luculla, alone, learning how to use the Source. One day, Zandalor stumbles upon them to learn power alongside them and it is clear that Zandalor has no prejucide against the Source itself, as he knows better. Both the sisters fall in love with him, but Zandalor seems to love Icara the most. Icara and Zandalor reveal their relationship to Leandra, who decides to leave. Filled with resentment, her connection with Icara’s soul grows weaker and weaker.
Leandra is approached by the Trife, now confined on Rivellon, who convinces her that the best solution is the complete peace of the world. This complete peace is non-existence, the destruction of the world that the Void Dragon can bring. Leandra, now known as the Conduit, starts a new religion where her followers, the Immaculates, work to bring the Void Dragon to the world. Working for her plans, Leandra also decides to kill Zandalor, but her plans end up getting an important citizen of Cyseal killed, and attract the attention of Arhu, living in Cyseal as a man, who decides to call the Source Hunters, suspecting something darker than a simple murder is going on. Luckily for her, Leandra manages to at least capture her sister Icara with the help of King Boreas, the Elemental King of ice and winter.
Two Source Hunters arrive in Cyseal and they soon find out that a group of fanatics called Immaculates want to revive Braccus Rex, the Source King who almost became a God. They stop the Source King, but in the meantime they find out that the Immaculates are collecting mysterious stones, called Star Stones, and using sacrifices to fill them with blood and turn them into powerful artefacts.
Once the two Source Hunters start finding these stones, they are catapulted to another realm where an Imp called ZixZax tells them that Time is in danger because the Immaculates wants to bring the Void Dragon to the world.
Leandra creates some powerful creatures, called Death Knights, which are immortal and invincible. The Source Hunters find the failsafe that Leandra built into the Death Knights (a spell), and they free the White Witch Icara from her prison. Icara asks them to find her lover Zandalor to get his help. He is the only one who seems to know how to get into the Phantom Forest, where a path to the First Garden resides. The Source Hunters manages to kill Cassandra (destroying her previous body) and they soon find out that they are nothing else but the reincarnation of the two Guardians who accidentally let the Void Dragon free.
With the help of Icara and Zandalor, the two Guardians reach the First Garden where Leandra and Trife managed to welcome the Void Dragon. Together, the Source Hunters trap the Void Dragon into the Godbox, once again, and save Astarte, freeing the Source from corruption. Astarte remains in the First Garden to guard the Godbox and the Garden itself.
The Trife is casted away into the reign of the Lord of Chaos, becoming the Demon of Lies and working for his new God in an attempt to get revenge and destruction. The Source is used again by a small amount of Sourcerers in Rivellon, and the Gods keep ruling over Rivellon, choosing the Divine when necessary (a Sourcerer herald that unifies all the races and follow the will of the Gods).
One day, centuries later, the Lord of Chaos attacks Rivellon. Dwarves and soldiers manage to defeat him. The Black Ring, a group of evil wizards led by Ulthring, manages to bring the Lord of Chaos back into Rivellon again, but once more he is defeated: The Council of Seven is created, probably based on some ancient memories of its existence, so many years after the first time. The Chaos Demon is defeated once again, but Ulthring’s sword, the Sword of Lies that is filled with the Demon of Lies himself, falls in the hands of the Duke Ruben Ferol’s apprentice Ralph.
Working in secret for centuries, the Black Ring gets once again closer and closer to their purpose of serving the Lord of Chaos and bringing doom on Rivellon. This time, they decide to give him a human form so that he can rule over the world instead of destroying it. In the meantime, a piece of the demon inside the sword, the Demon of Lies, takes possession of the young Duke Janus of Rivertown. The Demon of Lies manages to almost start a war between dwarves and elves, while working to bring back the Lord of Chaos. Knowing that the Gods will chose a Divine and fill them with their Source, to stop the Lord of Chaos, the Black Ring starts to look for these possible Godwokens, the chosen ones to be the next Divine.
Working in secret for centuries, the Black Ring gets once again closer and closer to their purpose of serving the Lord of Chaos and bringing doom on Rivellon. This time, they decide to give him a human form so that he can rule over the world instead of destroying it. In the meantime, a piece of the demon inside the sword, the Demon of Lies, takes possession of the young Duke Janus of Rivertown. The Demon of Lies manages to almost start a war between dwarves and elves, while working to bring back the Lord of Chaos. Knowing that the Gods will chose a Divine and fill them with their Source, to stop the Lord of Chaos, the Black Ring starts to look for these possible Godwokens, the chosen ones to be the next Divine.
Zandalor and the cat Arhu try to help the three Godwokens survive the Black Ring attempts at assassinations, but Lucian is the only one who manages to escape. To ascend to divinity, Lucian needs to call the Council of Seven again (the new representative of each race) so that they can perform the ritual. The council (a part from the Orc representative and Zandalor) is slaughtered, but not before Lucian is turned into the Divine by the seven Gods.
With the help of one of the last Dragon still existing, Zandalor and Arhu manage to get Lucian to the Black Lake, the place where the Lord of Chaos is being summoned by the Demon of Lies, and made human. Lucian manages to destroy the main Black Ring wizards and the Demon of Lies himself (maybe forever!), but a baby has already been possessed by the soul of the Lord of Chaos. Unable to kill a child, Lucian decides to take him with him as his adopted son Damian, a human personification of an Eternal and a God.
Zandalor and the Divine decide to start an order of Paladins that can finish their work against the Black Ring. Years later, Damian, now a young man, also joins the Paladins, but has also fallen in love with a witch named Ygerna. Unfortunately, Lucian soon finds out that Damian’s lover is part of the Black Ring, and that she wants revenge against Lucian himself for having killed her father.
Lucien captures Ygerna and executes her. Damian is heartbroken and decides to run away to plot his revenge. He joins the Black Ring and returnes with their help and army, revealing that he knows he has the soul of the Lord of Chaos in him, the God of Demons. Lucian is ready for him and he subdues Damian, before casting him into a demonic realm called Nemisis, cursed to be trapped there until the time a Paladin of the Divine actually decides to free him and take him out of Nemisis itself.
Damian, trapped in Nemisis, conquers that dimension and becomes renown as a cruel tyrant. He also uses ancient knowledge to create Death Knights again, almost invincible executors of his will. Stealing some ancient imp’s magic, Damian opens the doors of Nemisis to outside demons and enslaves the native creatures of the world. Among these demons there is the Demon Samuel, chosen in particular for his stupidity. Damian knows Samuel loves to torture his victims and he hopes Samuel will soon captures one of the Paladins.
With the help of one of the last Dragon still existing, Zandalor and Arhu manage to get Lucian to the Black Lake, the place where the Lord of Chaos is being summoned by the Demon of Lies, and made human. Lucian manages to destroy the main Black Ring wizards and the Demon of Lies himself (maybe forever!), but a baby has already been possessed by the soul of the Lord of Chaos. Unable to kill a child, Lucian decides to take him with him as his adopted son Damian, a human personification of an Eternal and a God.
Zandalor and the Divine decide to start an order of Paladins that can finish their work against the Black Ring. Years later, Damian, now a young man, also joins the Paladins, but has also fallen in love with a witch named Ygerna. Unfortunately, Lucian soon finds out that Damian’s lover is part of the Black Ring, and that she wants revenge against Lucian himself for having killed her father.
Lucien captures Ygerna and executes her. Damian is heartbroken and decides to run away to plot his revenge. He joins the Black Ring and returnes with their help and army, revealing that he knows he has the soul of the Lord of Chaos in him, the God of Demons. Lucian is ready for him and he subdues Damian, before casting him into a demonic realm called Nemisis, cursed to be trapped there until the time a Paladin of the Divine actually decides to free him and take him out of Nemisis itself.
Damian, trapped in Nemisis, conquers that dimension and becomes renown as a cruel tyrant. He also uses ancient knowledge to create Death Knights again, almost invincible executors of his will. Stealing some ancient imp’s magic, Damian opens the doors of Nemisis to outside demons and enslaves the native creatures of the world. Among these demons there is the Demon Samuel, chosen in particular for his stupidity. Damian knows Samuel loves to torture his victims and he hopes Samuel will soon captures one of the Paladins.
Years later, this is exactly what happens. One of the Paladins of the Divine ends up prisoner in Nemisis, after trying to kill a necromancer. The Paladin is tortured and imprisoned, but when she tries to escape, the Demon Samuel, who rules Nemisis, bonds the Paladin’s soul with a Death Knight who accidentally let the Paladin escape the first time. Now soul forged, the Death Knight and the Paladin manage to run away from Samuel’s prison.
In reality, the Death Knight is Damian, who had managed to trick Samuel and the Paladin both. Now soul forged with a Paladin, Damian has his way out of Nemisis, being the Paladin a follower of the Divine. The two partners are often summoned by a necromancer who is looking for the crystals to repair the rifts that can open the way out of Nemisis. Of course, the necromancer thinks the Death Knight he is summoning is simply someone doing his bidding, and not his lord Damian.
Once their soul forge is broken and they manage to repairs the rifts and get back in Rivellon, the Death Knight reveals to the Paladin that his mentor Lucian has cursed him into Nemisis and that he is in fact Damian, the Damned one. Damian attacks the Paladin, but, at the end, he decides not to kill her because she proved herself to him. He teleports the Paladin away. Damian is finally free.
In the meantime, Lucian finds out what the Gods are: they are Eternals and draining the Source from the Veil destroyed the equilibrium of the world. He meets an Eternal named Dallis, who explains how the Gods betrayed her people. To protect Rivellon from the Void, once for all, Lucien decides to drain the Source from the Gods themselves and from the world, so that the Veil can be restored.
Weaking the Gods end up piling up innocent victims. Lucian sends his agent Ifan to meet the elves, ending up using him to actually bring Deathfog to the elves. With so many supporters of Tir-Cendelius dead, the God is extremely weakened. This ends up having unseen consequences: the weaking of the Gods brings more void creatures (called Voidwokens) to Rivellon.
To continue his plan in peace, Lucian fakes his death, leaving Dallis to direct his Divine Orders and its magisters. It is easy for the Divine Order to pretend that the presence of the Void creatures is the fault of the Sourcerers as the Void is attracted by the Source itself and craves the Source. Using this excuse, the Magisters round up Sourcerers in a prison camp known as Fort Joy with the purpose of purging them of their Source. This is the only way to finally free Rivellon from Source, kill the Gods, and seal the Void once for all.
In Fort Joy, the Divine Order is kept submissive by the illusion of a future new Divine: bishop Alexander, Lucian’s natural son. But some of these Sourcerers in Fort Joy are chosen by the Gods as the new Godwokens. One of these Godwokens will be the new Divine and will chase away the Voidwokens, to save the Gods themselves. Of course, even the Gods are not aware of Lucien’s plan or the fact that he is still alive.
Some of these Godwokens manage to escape Fort Joy, helped by a half demon called Malady, and end up in the island of Reaper’s Coast where they learn how to control their Source and where to find the Council of the Seven to be able to ascend to Divinity. The group of Godwokens arrive to the Nameless Isle, where they slowly find out that this is not about becoming the new Divine, but a new God itself. This is not the Council of Seven, this is the ancient place where the Gods lived as Eternals before ascending to Gods. They also discover that these Voidwokens are only Eternals, trapped in the Void by their betrayers. The group of Godwokens decide that one of them will be Divine, and will take the power, but before they can reach the Wall of Ascension, Dallis, the Magister that has haunted them since their escape from Fort Joy, use an ancient artifact (the Aeteran) to destroy the Wall of Ascension and the Source in it.
Escaping from the island, the Godwokens are attacked by those very Gods who helped them up till now. Scared by the Godwokens’ failures, the Gods try to punish them but they are so weakened that the Godwokens actually manage to destroy them. It is not clear how many Gods are destroyed on the island.
Now free from the Gods’ voiced and control, the Godwokens decide to aim for ascension to save Rivellon from the Voidwokens attacks, as they now that the King in the Void wants to bring back the Eternals to Rivellon, but this could be the destruction and enslavement of the people currently living there. It’s in Arx that the Godwokens find out Lucian is actually alive and what his plan is: draining all the Source that has been stolen by the Eternals/Gods to give it back to the Veil and seal the Void once for all, even if this means hurting innocents. Under Dallis’ control there is also Braccus Rex, the old Source King resurrected by her.
While Lucian’s plan seem to have a peaceful purpose, the end doesn’t justify the means and his old friend Ifan, the Godwoken, attacks him to finally get his revenge for the elves killed by the Deathfog. Braccus Rex also manages to fight Dallis’ control and in the subsequent battle, Lucian is, apparently, killed.
The Godwoken can now reclaim his Divinity, the power of the Source and decide what to do with it. If he becomes the new Divine, the world will continue as always, him the herald of the remaining Gods, against the Void. But the Godwoken can also decides to release the Source, or… finish Lucian’s plan. Purge the whole Rivellon of Source, finally fixing the Veil that separates Rivellon from the Void and trapping the Eternal God King in the Void, forever.
One of the consequences of this difficult war against the Gods and the Void, is the rise of the Red Prince, a red lizard who is destined to meet a Red Princess and repopulate the world of the ancient Dragons.
In reality, the Death Knight is Damian, who had managed to trick Samuel and the Paladin both. Now soul forged with a Paladin, Damian has his way out of Nemisis, being the Paladin a follower of the Divine. The two partners are often summoned by a necromancer who is looking for the crystals to repair the rifts that can open the way out of Nemisis. Of course, the necromancer thinks the Death Knight he is summoning is simply someone doing his bidding, and not his lord Damian.
Once their soul forge is broken and they manage to repairs the rifts and get back in Rivellon, the Death Knight reveals to the Paladin that his mentor Lucian has cursed him into Nemisis and that he is in fact Damian, the Damned one. Damian attacks the Paladin, but, at the end, he decides not to kill her because she proved herself to him. He teleports the Paladin away. Damian is finally free.
In the meantime, Lucian finds out what the Gods are: they are Eternals and draining the Source from the Veil destroyed the equilibrium of the world. He meets an Eternal named Dallis, who explains how the Gods betrayed her people. To protect Rivellon from the Void, once for all, Lucien decides to drain the Source from the Gods themselves and from the world, so that the Veil can be restored.
Weaking the Gods end up piling up innocent victims. Lucian sends his agent Ifan to meet the elves, ending up using him to actually bring Deathfog to the elves. With so many supporters of Tir-Cendelius dead, the God is extremely weakened. This ends up having unseen consequences: the weaking of the Gods brings more void creatures (called Voidwokens) to Rivellon.
To continue his plan in peace, Lucian fakes his death, leaving Dallis to direct his Divine Orders and its magisters. It is easy for the Divine Order to pretend that the presence of the Void creatures is the fault of the Sourcerers as the Void is attracted by the Source itself and craves the Source. Using this excuse, the Magisters round up Sourcerers in a prison camp known as Fort Joy with the purpose of purging them of their Source. This is the only way to finally free Rivellon from Source, kill the Gods, and seal the Void once for all.
In Fort Joy, the Divine Order is kept submissive by the illusion of a future new Divine: bishop Alexander, Lucian’s natural son. But some of these Sourcerers in Fort Joy are chosen by the Gods as the new Godwokens. One of these Godwokens will be the new Divine and will chase away the Voidwokens, to save the Gods themselves. Of course, even the Gods are not aware of Lucien’s plan or the fact that he is still alive.
Some of these Godwokens manage to escape Fort Joy, helped by a half demon called Malady, and end up in the island of Reaper’s Coast where they learn how to control their Source and where to find the Council of the Seven to be able to ascend to Divinity. The group of Godwokens arrive to the Nameless Isle, where they slowly find out that this is not about becoming the new Divine, but a new God itself. This is not the Council of Seven, this is the ancient place where the Gods lived as Eternals before ascending to Gods. They also discover that these Voidwokens are only Eternals, trapped in the Void by their betrayers. The group of Godwokens decide that one of them will be Divine, and will take the power, but before they can reach the Wall of Ascension, Dallis, the Magister that has haunted them since their escape from Fort Joy, use an ancient artifact (the Aeteran) to destroy the Wall of Ascension and the Source in it.
Escaping from the island, the Godwokens are attacked by those very Gods who helped them up till now. Scared by the Godwokens’ failures, the Gods try to punish them but they are so weakened that the Godwokens actually manage to destroy them. It is not clear how many Gods are destroyed on the island.
Now free from the Gods’ voiced and control, the Godwokens decide to aim for ascension to save Rivellon from the Voidwokens attacks, as they now that the King in the Void wants to bring back the Eternals to Rivellon, but this could be the destruction and enslavement of the people currently living there. It’s in Arx that the Godwokens find out Lucian is actually alive and what his plan is: draining all the Source that has been stolen by the Eternals/Gods to give it back to the Veil and seal the Void once for all, even if this means hurting innocents. Under Dallis’ control there is also Braccus Rex, the old Source King resurrected by her.
While Lucian’s plan seem to have a peaceful purpose, the end doesn’t justify the means and his old friend Ifan, the Godwoken, attacks him to finally get his revenge for the elves killed by the Deathfog. Braccus Rex also manages to fight Dallis’ control and in the subsequent battle, Lucian is, apparently, killed.
The Godwoken can now reclaim his Divinity, the power of the Source and decide what to do with it. If he becomes the new Divine, the world will continue as always, him the herald of the remaining Gods, against the Void. But the Godwoken can also decides to release the Source, or… finish Lucian’s plan. Purge the whole Rivellon of Source, finally fixing the Veil that separates Rivellon from the Void and trapping the Eternal God King in the Void, forever.
One of the consequences of this difficult war against the Gods and the Void, is the rise of the Red Prince, a red lizard who is destined to meet a Red Princess and repopulate the world of the ancient Dragons.