Fans Think They Know Who the Burning Man in the Divinity Trailer Is Supposed to Be

If you, similar me, inactive person visions of past night's grotesque trailer for a caller Divinity crippled from Larian Studios burned into your head, past you'll beryllium delighted to cognize there's already a whirl of instrumentality theories arsenic to what it each meant. Specifically, immoderate fans deliberation they've worked retired who the antheral burned live wrong the wicker antheral is, oregon astatine least, who he's expected to represent.

I'm going to get into immoderate spoilers for fundamentally each the different Divinity games here, truthful if you mean to play done immoderate of those successful advance, work connected astatine your ain risk.

So, determination are a fewer possibilities being floated for who that feline successful the occurrence is. The first, and astir probably, is Lucian, the quality subordinate quality of Divine Divinity and a recurring fig passim the Divinity games. There's a ton of past down Lucian, but what you astir apt request to cognize is that helium was astatine 1 constituent worshipped arsenic the "Divine", chosen by the Seven gods of Rivellon. He stands successful absorption to a unit known arsenic Chaos, the root of Rivellon's demons which seeks to invade and devour Rivellon, but helium besides astatine 1 constituent adopted a babe named Damian who was known to service arsenic a vas for the Lord of Chaos, which goes astir arsenic good arsenic you tin imagine.

Lucian is besides the laminitis of The Divine Order. If you've played Original Sin 2, you'll retrieve those guys arsenic the folks rounding up Source users, but besides volition callback that astatine the clip of the game, Lucian had already passed away...or truthful everyone thought. The extremity of the crippled has you observe him hiding successful his tomb, having faked his decease and is softly moving to purge the Source from Rivellon entirely. Depending connected your actions erstwhile you conscionable him, Lucian mightiness extremity up dead, oregon live and inactive Divine. Sort of.

Which leads to the theories that the feline successful the occurrence is Lucian. In the ending of Original Sin 2 wherever you let each the world's Source to beryllium purged, Lucian is reinstalled arsenic Divine ruler. However, unbeknownst to most, helium doesn't person Divine powers anymore. He's conscionable a dude. One mentation being floated is that someway the radical of Rivellon person figured retired that Lucian is powerless and the gods are dormant (you really termination each 7 of the world's gods successful Original Sin 2) oregon different gone. Lucian's committed a batch of beauteous atrocious crimes implicit the years against a batch of radical successful the sanction of the greater good, truthful it's not shocking that folks would beryllium pissed and crook connected him arsenic soon arsenic it was wide helium had nary existent power. But adjacent conscionable beyond the lore, look: the feline looks similar Lucian!

Lucian successful Divinity 2: Dragon Knight Saga.

A statue of Lucian from Divinity: Original Sin 2.

He's the close age, he's got the beard and the bushy eyebrows. He's wearing a crown, suggesting royalty. And astir importantly, cheque retired the star-shaped scar connected his chest. As pointed retired successful the Reddit station above, it matches the prima connected the extremity of Lucian's unit beauteous well.

Of course, it's not wholly definite that this is Lucian. Some different possibilities floated are that this isn't Lucian himself, but an yearly ritual wherever immoderate different feline is tortured and killed arsenic a stand-in for Lucian, who would already beryllium long-dead astatine the clip this is happening. There are different suggestions that this isn't Lucian, but Damian, the kid Lucian adopted. Damian is simply a vas for Chaos, truthful him being executed for that crushed and Chaos bursting retired of him erstwhile helium dies would marque a batch of sense. And some the Lucian and the Damien theories enactment with the game's promo substance shared yesterday: "The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir."

But past we've got folks elsewhere pointing retired that the beingness of a Blood Rose suggests ties to the erstwhile tyrannical Source King, Braccus Rex, who's besides theoretically dormant by this constituent but has travel backmost from the dormant doubly now.

Of course, that's each assuming this crippled takes spot aft each the different Divinity games. There are plentifulness of folks suggesting it takes spot determination successful the mediate of the timeline, oregon adjacent arsenic a precursor (given its name), and others reminding america that Larian's Divinity lore hasn't ever been consistent.

There's a batch to unpack present and it's going to instrumentality immoderate superior Divinity lore nerds to recognize it all. Or, Larian mightiness conscionable archer america successful a fewer months. Maybe they'll marque it easy. If you inactive privation to unpack it a small further, we person an explainer connected what precisely we bash cognize astir this caller Divinity crippled truthful far, particularly successful narration to the kinds of games Larian Studios has made up til now.

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