Larian Studios showed up at The Game Awards this year with a brand-new Divinity trailer. It was one helluva spectucal, treating us to a brutal Source-fuelled Burning Man festival slash orgy, in which a terrified old man - who has a seven-pronged star carved into his flesh - is set alight within a towering wooden effigy that eventually unfurls into an even gorier depiction of the statue we've all been debating over.
But this has ignited another discussion entirely among fans: who is that guy? And why are they sacrificing him?
It's been a while since I've had to wind up the ol' Divinity lore in my noggin, so bear with me. We don't have much to work with aside from the trailer, but Larian teased that "The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir", and fans like u/robad0114 suggest that these merry festival-goers are making an offering to the gods to "break their silence" and bring Lucian back to the world, if not invoke a new Divine through him.
Spoilers for the Divinity series; if you're new here, go play the games!
While it's unclear when exactly Divinity takes place, presumably it's set...
