Who is Damian? How did Lucian die?

[Dralicien]

Okay, so I've never played a Divinity game before and normally have had no problem catching up with lore and whatnot. But I've hit Act 4 and people keep mention Damian. Nothing game altering (yet) Because I only just got there today, but I still cannot figure those two questions out. (sorry for the noob question) Thanks mates, and have yourself a good one.

[DrShoking]

Damian is lucian's adopted son, who rebelled against lucian who eventually killed him. One of the random books you can find, can't remember thename but it had father and son in the title, tals about it.

[Dralicien]

Okay, so how does Alexander fit in? I assume he is Lucian's other adotped son?

[FraBet]

Some major spoilers for the first Divinity game are needed.

First, Lucian is supposed to be the canon protagonist of the original Divinity (since you can create your own character in the game). The main plot of the game is basically Lucian trying to stop the prophecy of the birth of a child destined to be the Lord of Chaos. He fails, and the child is born. What's worse is that instead of killing the child while he is a baby, he decides to adopt him instead and raise him to be good.

The adopted child becomes Damian. Suffice to say this fails spectacularly and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Damian becomes the evil Lord of Chaos, and becomes the Antagonist of Divinity 2.


Alexander is supposed to be Lucian's biological son but he only appears in DOS2. He's an obvious retcon since chronologically, DOS2 takes place between Divinity 1 and Divinity 2 and he was never mentioned in any of those games. Though the fact that Alexander dies in this game may explain why he is never mentioned again.

[Dralicien]

Okay. I think I get it now. Thanks for the help. Like I said i'm new to this game/series. Thanks for the help!

[Revolucas]

If you go by the games the lore is all over the place. Should go only by the lore in the DoS games told through books because they might be trying to retcon some things to set the series back on track.