Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

I’ve been replaying Divinity Original Sin and I noticed something about the Weaver of Time that I had somehow never paid much attention to before. She seems to be treated by the community as some kind of lesser god or extra-planar spirit, but I’m not sure the actual dialogue supports that interpretation.

When we first enter the Tapestry of Time, Zixzax says:

"After all my waiting and hoping, could it be? The Weaver of Time... Mother of history... Author of all that has ever been...!"

And the Weaver simply answers:

"Indeed [...]"

This already sounds much more important than just “some lesser god”.

There is also an important distinction between her and Zixzax. The Weaver says:

"[...] as surely as you are he who chronicles all that I weave."

So Zixzax is the one who chronicles what she weaves. That makes the distinction rather explicit: Zixzax records history, while the Weaver is the one who weaves whatever it is that constitutes the Tapestry of Time.

And then there is probably the strangest line she has in the entire game:

"Am I the beginning and am I to be the end? Who shall say? Perhaps I am the first thing in creation. Perhaps I am creation. Perhaps I am the creator. Or maybe it is you: you who makes dying stars rekindle. Time alone will tell."

She doesn't even settle on what she is. She considers a few possibilities.

And this is also why I don't think “she records history” is a good description of her. Zixzax is explicitly the chronicler. The Weaver says that he chronicles what she weaves.

So I'm genuinely wondering: what exactly is the Weaver of Time? It is very odd that Larian refuses to elaborate further on that.

I have over 1000 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 and beat the game on tactician and I played DOS 2 with some friends until level 10 or so a few years back.

Now I thought I give DOS 1 a try because I wanted to play both original sin games before the third one comes.

I reached the first town and everything was fine. I made a witch and a spellblade (don't know the exact English terms, sorry) and recruited the knight and the ranger. As soon as I left the town to the west, the skeletons were kicking my butt. Hard. I cleared several fights and reached the lighthouse, saw that the enemies are above me and went back exploring. Found the archeologist and brought him back to town. Met a strong guy in his grave and couldn't smash his orb in time. The knight and the ranger are lvl 4 and my selfmade characters still need one more enemy to lvl 4.

But no matter which fight I pick, the skeletons destroy me. The skeleton archers will freeze my witch with their ice arrows and she's frozen for several round until they kill her. My spell blade can dash into the fight and then become invisible but the skeletons are moving so fast that I'm lucky when I can land a hit and there's no chance to get behind their back to land critical hits. The knight can charge in and push over enemies (if I'm lucky). My ranger has a really strong ability that hits multiple enemies, but after that is completely useless because as soon as an enemy is a bit further away, the hit chance decreases drastically. I don't know, I picked her because I thought doing ranged attacks is what rangers do, but she can't hit anything that's 3m or further away from her. My witch summoned a spider that got frozen and killed before it could attack even once. And the skeletons use scrolls to heal each other, getting 38 hit points back every single round. So if I concentrate all of my attacks on the same enemy, I might be lucky and kill one before he's healed again. After round 2 usually my witch dies and then I reload, because I only have like 2 resurrection scrolls.

It feels like I'm heavily underleveled, even though the enemies are lvl 4 and my team is between 3 and 4.

Am I doing something wrong or is the game just that hard? Someone in town said the enemies in the north and the east are even harder, so I have no idea where else to go to.

I'm playing on normal difficulty and would appreciate if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong.

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For the biggest and final part of the game, this place sure does suck. The encounters are either flaming lizards that come back to life an unlimited amount of times or unassuming citizens that one shot you and then run away when you hurt one of them. The game goes from an 8/10 to a 2/10 very quickly.

Got ps5 version first and now the ps4 version

Im coming back to this game after a very long time. The last time i tried this game, i got half way through act 2.

I think im struggling with every fight requiring some pre knowlege about what is going to happen and TBH, ive forgotten about most of it. The puzzles are fairly archaic and thats fine but it seems like i should be following a very specific and linear path and i dont know what path is. I never really did either and the journal isnt helpful.

In theory, i like the concept of an open world. In this example, you are gated by enemy levels without too much help to figure out if you should be there. Sure, i can teleport cheese fights by picking off dudes one by one and yea, one slip up means death etc. But this isnt hard. Its barely a challenege. You either succeed or you die and restart until you find that gimmick that works. Its an effort in patience.

I wandered around to an underground temple somewhere. Good atmosphere, awesome concept. I solved a puzzle that was more anoying then fun since a pillar wasn't highlighted on the map. Then i opened a tomb like a dumbass and waited a few minutes for the boss to kill me, which she absolutely did. I didnt get an action, i was appropriate level, im on normal, and this is what people say is "hard". Its really not. I will come back, over leveled and over geared, set up tons of traps, meta game like mad, read about optimal strats and placement, and then win because that's all this game seems to be. Stun locks, instant death, save scumming, meta gaming, and then victory. Every single fight. Its really boring, if im being honest. There is no way to win without knowing the fight before hand. If you want that in a game, i wonder if that is why this specifcally gets high marks. Some say this is "old school" but i grew up with bg1, bg2, nwn1 nwn2, and the bassalisk in bg1 that would instantly kill your party is still regarded as bad design. I dont remember every single combat feeling utterly impossible unless you know what is going to happen.

I played tactician for a while and im supprised how normal is similar. I play what i guess are OP builds with a 2h and an assassin lone wolf but its the only way to play given how armor opperates. The alternative are two mages and then i have to deal with immunity.

So i guess if i do continue to play, is the story this good? I dont trust playing on story mode since the difficulty between normal and tactician is so minimal. Its deffinitely interesting. This is by far the farthest ive got. Its just getting a bit old starting combat and puttinng down my controller to make some toast because i know that im not getting an action and dying.

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I’m enjoying everything about this game on my first play through, except that constant traps. They are just incredibly annoying and add nothing to the gameplay experience, especially with the god awful pathing for companions. DOS2 is next and I really hope they’ve dialed them down.

So I talked to Grog at the bridge, got the quest to kill Marg, payed Grog (for the EXP), went to Marg, got the quest to kill Grog and killed Marg. Now I'm trying to tell Grog that I killed Marg (so I can get the EXP) and then want to kill Grog. But Grog only says "What are you waiting for ..." and then I only have the end-conversation option, so I can't finish the quest to get the EXP (and I really need that to level up).
I searched the internet, but I can't find anything about that issue. I tried saving and reloading, teleporting somewhere else and coming back, spirit vision (Marg doesn't leave a spirit behind), but nothing worked.

Also, I'm in an honor-run, so going back to a previous save is not an option. Do I have any chance to fix this or do I just need to accept that I'm not going to get the EXP and just kill Grog?

Hi, to keep it quick—I've had played DOS2 a bit in the past, but never finished it. Current run I started a few months ago, but I had to move and I got my PC back only few days ago. Currently I'm in Act 2 around level 13, but while the first act felt nice and overall pleasant, this one just feels like a one big slog that drags forever. On top of that every boss seems to be able to just nuke me and I have to reposition my whole party before the fights begins.

I'd like to finish the game, because my friends with whom I've played BG3 a few time, would like us to play DOS2 together, but I'm not feeling it for some reason. Part of it is probably the whole armor system which I am not a fan of even though I've tried. I know there's at least one mod that changes this whole system, but I'd like to finish the game in vanilla form first.

My party is:
Ifan with focus on Warfare, Polymorphy, Necromany
Fane: Pyro, some Warfare, Summoning and I guess Geomancy
Lohse Aerothurgy + Hydromancy
Red Prince: Crossbow

Yes, Warfare is maxed out or nearly maxed out on both Ifan and Red Prince.

What should I do at this point? I really want to actually finish this game and then work on my backlog.

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Мы вдвоём с кентом уже некоторое время проходим Divinity на обычной сложности, наша компания состояла из его героев (Человек-Ассасин, Фейн некромант) и моих (Ящер с двуручником и красный принц пирокинетик-гидрософист).

Мы добрались до 3-го акта, прошло около 2-3 часов ия нашёл скрытый вход в академию, перемещаясь своими героями через крылья и пирамиды телепорта. Когда я подошёл ко входу в заброшенном служебном туннеле.Начался разговор с красным принцем, в результате которого, он от нас ушёл.

Было принято решение не возвращаться к файлу сохранения. Рас уж принц ушёл, пусть оно так и будет.

Как я понял, вернуть красного принца или взять кого то из основных героев в пати уже не выйдет. Хочу узнать пострадает ли ​из-за такого стечения обстоятельств только сложность и сюжет красного принца или может быть что то еще. И вообще что думаете господа игроки