Windows

Divine Divinity

Trivia

Fun with Polymorph:

The 'Polymorph' spell is designed to transform an opponent into a harmless creature, such as a frog or a rabbit. After the transformation, you can easily kill the opponent.

But try this:

Polymorph a member of the Black Ring at your first encounter. For example, he/she is now a frog. Beat the frog and he/she will, as usual, escape. When Janus later summons his allies in a scripted scene, the polymorphed member will not appear in its normal form, but still as the frog, even when weeks have passed between those two encounters. :)

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There's a huge secret easter egg area in the game, but it's quite hard to find. First, find these four treasure maps:

• The first can be bought from Mpenzak.
• The second can be found on a dead body in the far northeastern part of the Verdistis Sewers.
• The third's in a a spider cave to the northwest of the Archer’s Guild.
• The final one is inside locked prison near the entrance to the mines in the Dwarven Halls.

The entrance to the area itself is hard to find; it's in the far northwestern corner of the Dark Forest, in a nook in the cliffs, just behind a large pine tree. Inside, there's a door hidden behind spider webs, which can only be seen if you have the four maps. Collect the three crystal balls in the next area and put them in the Giant Stone Bowl. Touch the shrine in the next room and defeat the demon; a new passage to the south will appear. In the next room, walk through the illusionary north wall and you discover a teleporter stone. Make sure you have the following items in your inventory, otherwise it won't work:

• Exactly 2002 gold pieces (the game was released in 2002)
• Five bottles of Ale (purchase them from Rimmer in the Dwarven Village)
• The four pieces of rope lying around the teleporter
• The silver breastplate
• An additional teleporter stone (otherwise you can't get back)

When you have all these items, use the teleporter stone and you'll be transported to the ultimate secret area. Inside, use the rope to open the Prison Pits. You can free the people from Larian Studios and chat a bit. In the southeast, you can talk to Swen, the lead programmer. Kill all the bugs for him (get it?) in the room to the north and he will reward you with the ultimate armor: the Armor of Larian. You can find many other interesting things in this area as well.

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The game is filled with jokes and funny references:

• On Janus's castle's roof, there's a skateboard, a ramp and fitting graffiti on the walls. You will need to use Elven sight to see it, though.



• On the second level under the Warrior's Guild in the Dark Forest, there's an open slate in the west wing. The cursor doesn't change, buy you can go down. In the small room below, you will find the Kaa Gent scroll. It's useless, but the name refers to AA Gent, a Belgian soccer team not far from the studios.



• In the Treasure Cave, there's a tombstone which reads: "The heart of all at Larian Studios go out to those who died or were bereft in such tragic circumstances in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, on September 11th, 2001.



• Many early forum regulars found their nicknames included in the game.



• In Imp World, behind a flower patch, there's a note which reads: "Bronthion was here".



• The game contains a short sword called "Sting". It glows near orcs and dragons, an obvious reference to Lord of the Rings.



• The game has a magic carpet. To make it fly, you have to read the tag. It reads "Axeminster", the name of a carpet manufacturer in the United Kingdom.



• In the Farmlands, there a scroll with a poem tribute to Stephen King's IT: "Your hair is winter fire, Aventuris embers, My heart dwells there too. - Written by IT."

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One of the in-game manuscripts depicts a dragon and a url encoded in some runic alphabet. Upon decoding, you get the address www.valaraukar.de, which links to graphics designer Marian Arnold's personal website.

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