Larian toned down Divinity: Original Sin 2 hints about Baldur's Gate 3

Larian recently streamed Divinity: Original Sin 2, the studio's last RPG in the Divinity series before it made Baldur's Gate 3. During the stream, communications developer Aoife Wilson brought up hints in D:OS2 about what Larian was working on next. Swen Vincke explained while plotting out his next move in the famously flammable oil fields of the Blackpits area: "Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit," and "We did it very last-minute because we actually, in the summer when D:OS2 shipped, we wrote the first draft of BG3 because we had a contract with Wizards of the Coast and we needed to do it then.

It was very bad." The hints ended up quite opaque. In the epilogue of D:OS2, your party member Fane can mention that octopuses are secretly plotting, and the necromancer Tarquin talks about "a mysterious race from another world—beings that feed on minds." Both are references to mind flayers, but not ones you'd notice unless you were looking for them.

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