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3	''Beyond Divinity'' is the 2004 not-quite-sequel-not-quite-GaidenGame to the original ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'' by Creator/LarianStudios.
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5	Set 20 years after the first game, it follows a {{Paladin}} who finds himself [[PsychicLink soul-forged]] with his complete opposite, an evil [[BlackKnight Death Knight]], thanks to a powerful demon's twisted sense of humor.
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7	Gameplay-wise, ''Beyond Divinity'' is quite similar to ''Divine Divinity'' but with a twist that you have two characters under your control most of the time (this idea would later be revisited and expanded in the {{Prequel}} ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'').
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10	!!Tropes found in the game:
11	* BigBad: The demon overlord Samual.
12	* ChainedHeat: The protagonist is forced into {{Synchronization}} with a stereotypically villainous BlackKnight by a demon, and they work together with the shared goal of not only separating themselves from their rather disliked counterparts, but to get back at the demon who did it to them.
13	* CrutchCharacter: The Death Knight wears his own armor and thus is powerful in the beginning, but has to be safeguarded from harm as the game progresses if you want to keep him around because of his hilarious remarks and the fact that he's soul-forged with the protagonist, so if either dies, it's Game Over.
14	* DownerEnding: The game ends with [[spoiler:the sarcastic Death Knight, your only companion and ally throughout the game, revealing that he is in fact Damian himself. Despite your best efforts, he escapes to plot his next scheme, leaving your character to wonder just what the hell they even managed to accomplish]]. The ending becomes even worse when you consider that — if certain characters in the game are to be believed — [[spoiler:you could have saved the entire world just by dying, literally at the beginning of the game. At that point, Damian was still soul-linked to you, thus your death would be his as well, thus he would never leave his little personal dungeon, thus, no threat.]]
15	* DuelingPlayerCharacters: After the final boss fight, [[spoiler:the Death Knight turns out to be Damian himself and fights you to the death.]]
16	* EnemyMine: The premise of the game.
17	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Towards the end, [[spoiler:you find out that the Death Knight you've been working with the entire time is Damian. And now that he's no longer soul-forged to you, he's free to continue his evil, going on the become the BigBad of ''VideoGame/DivinityIITheDragonKnightSaga''. And the whole mess in that game could have been avoided if you had just simply let yourself die.]]
18	* TheReveal: The dark knight is actually [[spoiler:Damian, who was the baby at the end of ''Divine Divinity'']].
19	* SealedEvilInAnotherWorld: [[spoiler:After Lucian the Divine's [[TheAntiChrist son Damian]] turned to evil, Lucian [[IdentityAmnesia removed his memories]] and stranded him in [[AnotherDimension the demons' home dimension]] rather than kill him. It doesn't work for long: he's the Death Knight, and you unwittingly help him return to Rivellon.]]
20	* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: [[spoiler:If the Death Knight has got all of your good stuff when he turns on you, he can be nearly impossible to beat]]. If you remove all of his stuff just before the final boss fight right before the big reveal and manage to keep him alive, he's incredibly easy to beat.
21	* {{Synchronization}}: This is punishment for letting the human escape, and the death of one will result in the death of the other. As such, Death Knight attempts to break out of the prison, in order to find someone powerful enough to remove the curse.
22	* TeethClenchedTeamWork
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