Upon being activated, the machine unleashes a field of energy, that awakens something in the player character upon their exposure to it, imbuing them with the power of a Watcher a person who can peer into people souls and read their memories. Here they witness a cult performing a ritual, where the cult members activate a mysterious machine by sacrificing their souls to it. But no sooner than their caravan has crossed the border, before everything begins to go horribly wrong the travelling company is hit by by a magical storm that kills everyone but them, as they manage to just barely seek refuge in a nearby ancient ruin. The world may be about to enter a golden age as a result, but the rapid advances in technology and society occurring mark the era as a time of turmoil and conflict.īut currently, all of that is not of much concern to the Player Character, a foreigner who has arrived with a group of other immigrants to the Dyrwood, lured by promises of cheap land to settle and cultivate. Souls are not mere metaphysical abstractions they are quantifiable, measurable objects, and their discovery has had vast implications for society, leading to the founding of a whole new field of science know as "Animancy". Paradox Interactive signed a distribution agreement with Obsidian Entertainment to market and sell the game to the general gaming public. Including PayPal donations, the gross total budget of the game was roughly $4.3 million dollars.
Meeting its initial funding goal of $1.1 million in 27 hours, it went on to break the site's funding record at the time (set by Broken Age), pulling in just shy of $4 million. Intended as a Spiritual Successor to Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale, the game was funded in October 2012 through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, where it was pitched as Project Eternity. Pillars of Eternity is a computer roleplaying game by Obsidian Entertainment, released on March 26, 2015.
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