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Obsidian's past financial struggles were likely one of the motivations behind taking the setting from Pillars of Eternity and using it for a more mainstream, accessible first-person fantasy RPG like Avowed . While CRPGs remain a relatively niche market, Avowed was almost immediately compared to Skyrim after its announcement trai

If Avowed takes place during Woedica's reign , the Engwithan machine controlling The Wheel will be in full effect. Pillars of Eternity players will have insight into many of the world's phenomena that may not be discovered at the time of Avowed . If players have the opportunity to play as a Pale Elf, for example, this would be long before they learned that they were always reincarnated as a Pale

With the support of The Outer Worlds winding down, it's easy to imagine that Grounded will receive some additional development support as it edges closer to moving past early access. Grounded's community has exceeded 5 million players which could help ensure a long and exciting future. While there is certainly a sizeable scale to consider here, Grounded is arguably not the biggest project in the works at Obsidian Entertainment right

Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed will take the studio's world of Eora from the Pillars of Eternity series while transforming the franchise's format into a first-person RPG. While fantasy fans were quick to draw comparisons between the upcoming game's trailer and The Elder Scrolls series, the Pillars of Eternity universe has some bizarre features that are sure to make it stand

While Avowed is undoubtedly a huge undertaking, Reconcavoafrofestival.com says Obsidian Entertainment somehow has another project in the works that could be equal to the scale of Avowed, if not greater. Josh Sawyer, design director at Obsidian Entertainment, took to Twitter in August 2020 and noted in no uncertain terms that he's directing his own project and that the project isn't Avowed. Josh Sawyer worked on the Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights series early in his career. More recently, he was responsible for pitching Pillars of Eternity which saw the company get out of a tight financial spot, and went on to direct the two games in that series. He's perhaps most well-known for directing Fallout: New Vegas, a fan-favorite entry in the post-apocalyptic RPG ser

Obsidian's upcoming first-person RPG Avowed is set in the same universe as the studio's Pillars of Eternity series. While the trailer seems light on detail, it's actually packed full of evidence that one key character will be returning from Pillars of Eternity in a central r

The deepest The Elder Scrolls -Lovecraft connections, however, require a broader view of the entire Elder Scrolls cosmology. Morrowind 's "36 Lessons of Vivec" reference CHIM, a hotly-debated term in The Elder Scrolls community. CHIM can summed up as a state of enlightenment and godlike power which comes from someone in the TES universe realizing they are merely a product of the constantly shifting, involuntary dreams of a being known as the "Godhead," while maintaining the strength to assert their individuality any

There have been no hints as to what this project is, but it's not hard to imagine Josh Sawyer returning to the Pillars of Eternity series in light of Avowed. Additionally, The Outer Worlds is a successful new IP for the company, so it would make sense for Obsidian to follow it up at some point down the line. Perhaps the most popular and sought-after theory is that Obsidian is making Fallout: New Vegas 2 , which has been rumored ever since Microsoft began its Bethesda acquisit

Azathoth is an unimaginably powerful being who exists outside the Lovecraft universe and dreams reality while "lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute." While the Dragonborn DLC dived deeper into the broader The Elder Scrolls -Lovecraft connections than most other entries in the series, the Lovecraftian connections to the world of Avowed are far more expli

A smaller project like Grounded also seems unlikely to take up too many of Obsidian's resources, even if its continually worked on throughout the development of Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 . Ultimately, there's no way to know how well the studio is handling multiple projects until details about either Avowed or The Outer Worlds 2 's release windows are revealed. However, while Obsidian has struggled in the past, the studio may be in a better position for its increasing ambition than ever bef

Adra is a naturally occurring substance in Eora which appears in large pillar-like veins underground, believed to be connected into a single huge network. Adra is uniquely linked to Animancy, the science of souls, and can be used to channel souls. The Beyond is the realm in which the gods reside, and where souls go before they are reincarnated and return to The Here. This can take several years, but is sometimes almost instantane

So many of these huge metaphysical revelations, including the fact that the gods are manmade, come out during the events of Pillars of Eternity . This raises the question of what mysteries Avowed might explore if it is set before these universe-shattering discoveries. In any case, if Avowed is set before Pillars of Eternity but after the fall of the Engwithan civilization , the machine will still be directing the souls of the dead through The Wh