Elf lore and culture?

[MouseKlown]

Has this been gone into in depth? I'm new to the series and am currently playing an undead elf witch but I am brainstorming her background and how she died and I am unsure of what her life may have been like in elven culture because I can only find very sparse information on it through google.

Is there anyplace that has the elven lore somewhat compiled for this setting? I have played the very first Divinity for a few hours but that was years ago and I'm a good number of hours into Divinity 2 and I just don't know much about the elves beyond their affinity for memories and speaking in the present tense.

[PK_Ultra]

Boy are you in for a surprise.

Elves in this game are basically cannibal native americans. Everybody is racist towards them and their entire civilization recently got wiped out in a war.

Most of Elf Lore is unlocked with Sebille and Beast in the party iirc. Their main quests go into what happens. And that paladin NPC you meet after escaping Fort Joy.

Besides that, look up Fextrafile's wikia. gl.

[jack_of_tears]

That said, the Skeletal race aren't the reanimated remains of living people, they are their own race.

[MouseKlown]

Originally posted by PK Ultra:

Boy are you in for a surprise.

Elves in this game are basically cannibal native americans. Everybody is racist towards them and their entire civilization recently got wiped out in a war.

Most of Elf Lore is unlocked with Sebille and Beast in the party iirc. Their main quests go into what happens. And that paladin NPC you meet after escaping Fort Joy.

Besides that, look up Fextrafile's wikia. gl.

Got Beast in the party, looking forward to that. I know they are cannibals but cool on the native american part; I am familiar with the western natives here in the us.

[Shellbie]

Originally posted by PK Ultra:

Boy are you in for a surprise.

Elves in this game are basically cannibal native americans. Everybody is racist towards them and their entire civilization recently got wiped out in a war.

Most of Elf Lore is unlocked with Sebille and Beast in the party iirc. Their main quests go into what happens. And that paladin NPC you meet after escaping Fort Joy.

Besides that, look up Fextrafile's wikia. gl.

Sebille, Beast and Ifan.

[Stabbey]

Elf lore and culture literally changes every game. The Elves in DOS 2 don't bear much resemblance to those in Dragon Commander (the only other game where they get much screen time on their culture) except for "tall" and "pointy ears".

[ArchaicReaper]

Originally posted by Stabbey:

Elf lore and culture literally changes every game. The Elves in DOS 2 don't bear much resemblance to those in Dragon Commander (the only other game where they get much screen time on their culture) except for "tall" and "pointy ears".

To be fair, Dragon Commander is an almost mythic history given how long ago it happened. Going by the timeline, Dragon Commander was in 8800 AR (BC) while Original Sin 1 was 4 AR and Divine Divinity was 1218 AD (AD). I don't think it's unlikely for a culture to undergo drastic changes in over 8000 years.

[Stabbey]

Originally posted by ArchaicReaper:

To be fair, Dragon Commander is an almost mythic history given how long ago it happened. Going by the timeline, Dragon Commander was in 8800 AR (BC) while Original Sin 1 was 4 AR and Divine Divinity was 1218 AD (AD). I don't think it's unlikely for a culture to undergo drastic changes in over 8000 years.

Divine Divinity is set only about 20 years before Original Sin 2, and what we see of the elves in DD seems to put them much closer to the ones depicted in Dragon Commander than in Original Sin 2.