So you visited Loco to ask about the rod of duplication but instead of returning to the tower via the waystone you decide to return to the village forgetting to close the portal. What might come through and what choas might ensue?.
Whatever it was would most likely be friend to no one in this world.
Could this be the end game where MC deliberately opens the gate to another dimension in order to unite all sides in his world to defeat them and then seal the gates for good?.
Nothing like an exterior threat to unite the different factions against a common enemy.
Just a thought.
Let me intervene in your discussion and express my own theory, if this is what we are talking aboutHonestly I reckon the big bad will be the Lord of Light, the god of light, virtue, chastity, order & purity. He is the brother of Qetesh, who is seen as the black sheep of the family for her "heretical" nature of being a sex positive fertility goddess. Then theirs her ex, Nergal, who embodies EVERYTHING LoL hates. If we imagine that LoL probably has a sis-com as well (because let's be honest gods have always been incestuous to some degree). Then it's possible he may even have been behind d Nergal catching Qetesh in the past, triggering the Goblin War.
In the game there is a certain ancient race that created LOCO and built a laboratory complex under the temple, and judging by the conversations, it was they who created all the intelligent beings in this world during experiments. Apparently, this race has chosen the path of scientific and technological progress and what if they are our descendants - the descendants of modern people. People have developed to such an extent that they began to experiment with parallel realities (including magical realities) and populated one of the worlds with their genetic descendants (people, elves, giants, orcs, etc.). And at this time, all the gods that are mentioned in the game are actually representatives of that ancient race who achieved the desired immortality. And the entire existing world is only an experimental testing ground for these superbeings, and only Qetesh wanted to break the existing order of things.