Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter Update #15, $501,846 and Counting

After reaching the first stretch goal for the Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter, the folks at Larian have sent out a new update, which includes a new backer-driven goal, similar to Project Eternity’s Endless Paths and Torment: Tides of Numenera’s Castoff’s Labyrinth, a new video on rewarding exploration and some assorted info. Here’s a snip:

Expanding The Lair

From now on, for every 1000 backers that we gain, the lair of the monster beneath Phantom Forest will become deeper and deeper. (This means, we start counting at 10’000 backers.) Or in the words of Jan, our writer extraordinaire:

“As you travel onward beyond the woods of Luculla, it doesn’t take long to reach the outskirts of Phantom Forest: a vast, towering woodland shunned by almost all that lives. Once entered, a few steps suffice to be engulfed in absolute nocturnal darkness that even the eyes of a cat would have great difficulty in piercing. Armed with a torch one might proceed, but it requires an iron will not to turn and run in fright when beholding the torturously contorted grimaces that seem to slither through every coarsely barked trunk. Dead bodies hang from twisted branches, silent and still, for not even the winds dare penetrate the foreboding canopy of Phantom Forest.”

Phantom Forest, not for the weak of heart…

“Neither do the forces of evil that threaten our heroes, for it is said that deep within its reaches a creature lurks that is so cruel the world knows not its like – not even the sinister Engineer that shall plague the Marked One centuries later can compare with the shadow that stalks this distorted wood. And yet, it is there that the key can be found to unravel an essential piece of lore of infinite value to those who seek to control the Source…”

The lair of this nightmarish beast is a labyrinth riddled with death, puzzles and mystery. It’s up to you however, to decide just how extensive this lair will be. For every thousand extra backers that pledge from here on out, a new level full of pitfalls, threats and riddles will be added!

With your help, the depths of Phantom Forest will become the stage of an unforgettable adventure, and to those that walk in unprepared, certain grisly death!