It's like playing a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, prodding and poking your way around as you gradually reveal information, careful not to prod too hard in case the game quickly turns against you - and it can, and does.

You will need to discover them and carry them out for yourself, which requires thought, memory and patience. The solutions are many, nearly a dozen, but they're not signposted. The origin stories all begin in the same area, a kind of prison camp for Source-sensitive (the game's magic) people. This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Lizard people with necks like giraffes! Elves that eat corpses! Undead (written by Chris Avellone) at some point! Dwarves! And the world reacts differently to them all. And this time it comes with nifty origin stories, like Dragon Age: Origins, that lovely game, and with more races to play as. Just because Larian hasn't talked about or shown Divinity 2 single-player doesn't mean it isn't important, even fundamental, to the experience. Of all the things I wanted to see, single-player was top of the list, because so far all talk surrounding the game seems to be about cooperatively or competitively campaigning with three other people, or fighting them in a player versus player arena. I popped to the lovely city of Ghent in Belgium recently to see Divinity 2 developer Larian and play the game.

Why go round the houses looking for the information you need to finish a quest when you can scoff a head and do it that way? It's Divinity: Original Sin 2 in a nutshell: a cheeky, subversive fantasy toy box that has an even bigger box of tools than the first game to play with. It's another option in a game of options. Eating corpses is a racial ability, what elves in Divinity 2 just happen to do, and when they gobble an arm or a head or a leg they learn things about who it came from - discover secrets.

Eat that Legolas! I suppose in Divinity 2 an elf literally would.

In Divinity: Original Sin 2, elves eat corpses.

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