We'd previously heard that Avowed was at one point supposed to be Obsidian's Skyrim, but this is the first we've heard of a co-op multiplayer angle on the RPG, which Bloomberg compared to Destiny.
The game was planned to be the Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity studio’s magnum opus and was going to be an online fantasy RPG mashing together Destiny and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.