There are a couple dozen gods, a number of competing factions, and lots of powerful figures in a world of maximal wizardry and plane-jumping action. Baldur’s Gate is set in the Forgotten Realms, a long-running setting for Dungeons & Dragons that is so beloved that the 5th edition of the game adopted it as the “official” setting. Deadfire is a throwback to the Baldur’s Gate games and Planescape: Torment, well-loved isometric RPGs that were built on dozens of years of official Dungeons & Dragons worldbuilding created in hundreds of official books. It’s a fantasy universe with seemingly endless complexity and depth, and that expectation of depth emerges from its lineage. This is what I mean by saying the game hampers itself. Now, hundreds of years later, the Principi are a powerful faction of pirates that raid the Huana, The Royal Deadfire Company, and the Vailian Trading Company equally. And, for whatever reason, they just didn’t. They loaded up on ships, sailed away from their homeland, and looked to settle on the islands of the Deadfire Archipelago.
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The world of the Pillars of Eternity franchise is chock full of empires who have shattered (or at least seen better days), and the Principi dealt with their collapse in the way that any faction might. The Principi sen Patrena are the last remainder of noble families from the fallen empire of Grand Vailia.
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It’s a complicated world that requires some buy-in from a player who is eager to learn and explore. The lore is so deep that the dialogue boxes have hover-over text that will define terms for you, often handing you a tooltip that contains two paragraphs of text about the aspect of a god.
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The lore is deep, and the connections between the factions, their leaders, their adherents, their religions, their perspectives on those religions, and their political beliefs are are shaped by the context of the world that they are in and its history. Pillars of Eternity 2, like the original and the games it borrowed from, is a fantasy-ass video game.