You can talk to them for a little information.
Divinity original sin 2 siding with the black ring.
There are the seven gods the divine order magisters the paladins the black ring sallow man etc and the voidwoken.
After the battle when i spoke with the dead paladin godwoken woman she berated me for siding with them and i got the option to tell her it was just a ruse.
I feel dirty siding with either one though near the start of nameless isle you have some choices.
First encounter i unwittingly sided with the black ring cultists.
The voidwoken and the black ring both serve the god king.
The sallow man is important but ultimately his loss is not the end of the black ring as they serve the god king through a selected proxy.
Nikor one of the black ring survivors if he survived will vouch for you when you reach one of the black ring encampments later on in act iii the nameless isle.
After playing through the game on my first run making that choice seemed so wrong though.
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You can then loot his body and give his head to the sallow man to learn how to get into the academy or you can just get in there through the southern entrance.
Nov 6 2017 2 45pm as corisai said you have to kill or cc him before he gets an action.
There will be 4 black ring magisters 2 of which will summon a golem for a total of 2 to aid them in the fight.
So maybe there are follow ups yes.
The black ring are a collective of dark mages aligned to damian the adopted son of lucian and host to part of the soul of lord of chaos.
After freeing nikor his guys we killed them too a lot of exp they re black ring madmans anyway.
If it matters which it doesn t i just played through that last night.
Hmm i did side with black ring in one playthrough and there were infact some differences and one pretty big one in the nameless island sadly it was a playthrough where i killed that guy in blackpits.
If you are planning to side with the black ring you will have to kill alexandar either way so simply finishing them off here with the help of gareth nets you the most rewards.
Go to the ancestor tree to the north and prepare for a fight.