The Murder Scene and Discovering a Strange New Realm

Discover the Star Stone in the murder scene, triggering a magical explosion and teleporting you to a strange new realm. Meet Zixzax and learn about the Void Maelstrom.

If you peer into the room before you enter, you should notice two things immediately - there is no dead body and lying on the floor is a glowing blue stone called the Star Stone. (Hover your mouse cursor over objects to get names or descriptions). Now walk through the door. As soon as you enter the room, this Star Stone will cause a magical explosion and the party will be magically teleported to a strange location. [Note: Alternatively, you can get a similar experience by talking to Evelyn in the infirmary and finishing her quest. She too has a Star Stone that will produce the same magical discharge and teleport the party. Only one of the Star Stones will give this experience. If you've found one, the other will not teleport the party.]

In this strange location, you will meet "Zixzax", an Imp Historian. (You've met Zixzax before if you have played previous Divinity games.) He asks how you came to be there and you explain. He gives you a lot of mystical mumbo-jumbo and then he asks you to look into the large Lens just behind him. Peering into the Lens will show you a cutscene of some kind of cosmic destruction - the Void Maelstrom as Zixzax will call it later. Talk to Zixzax again and he will give you more information about himself and some impending doom, the ending of all Time, which, of course, only YOU can remedy. He points out a now active Portal which was activated by your using the "Star Stone". He goes on to tell you that he is in the Homestead on the Shelter Plane at the End of Time. What? He will become your contact person for a number of tasks and adventures. He asks you to find and retrieve similar stones to the one that Evelyn used or that you saw in the murder room.