While you won’t have access to their personal quests, you can still recruit them and control them if you wish. Once you’ve picked an Origin Story, the Origins that you didn’t pick will become available as party members in the world that are available for recruitment. The game becomes quite different playing as an Undead, not to mention the fact that healing spells and restoration items won’t work on you.

Origin Stories will also affect how other NPCs behave around you, and this makes party management that much more engaging.Īnd, just a tip: while being an Undead does sound pretty cool, I recommend staying away from that race if you’re not foo familiar with CRPGs. These Origins also shape your character’s personality, and when you interact with other NPCs in the world, you’ll sometimes have access to Origin-specific dialogue options that might offer you an alternate way of getting a quest done or just getting an NPC to react to you differently. These Origin Stories will give your characters a special backstory, and add a new layer of depth to them as they all have their own individual motivations and personal quests to pursue.

You can still create a custom character of your own, but trust me, the Origins are a lot more interesting, and open up a bunch of dialogue options for you in many conversations. New in Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the ability to pick an Origin Story for your character.

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