OF COURSE, NO LARIAN STORY BEGINS WITH GODHOOD
When Larian boss Swen Vincke first heard that his debut RPG was going to be called Divine Divinity, he thought it was a joke. But his publisher in Germany, CDV, was all too serious. They’d had a hit with a game called Sudden Strike, and suspected that alliteration might be the key to long-term success. Reader, they were wrong.
Today, CDV is long dead. But the name ‘Divinity’ remains—attached to almost every Larian project of note since. It’s an artefact from a long and grueling period in which the studio was