Dragon’s Dogma 2 is lastly out and I’m betting that Capcom’s new massive factor will seemingly be essentially the most talked-about sport for some time. One of many issues making this a one-of-a-kind expertise is its “Pawn System”, whose mechanics I delve into proper right here.

However if you happen to’re much less involved in regards to the technical points and extra concerned with studying what pawns symbolize within the sport’s lore, then you definately’ve come to the fitting place. Let’s be taught what’s on the coronary heart of a pawn in Dragon’s Dogma.

Pawns in Dragon’s Dogma lore

A pawn is a singular sort of companion. Whereas different RPGs have characters with backstories and motivations becoming a member of our occasion, Dragon’s Dogma comes as shut as potential to a story-based sport acknowledging the existence of bots. Although they appear identical to actual human beings would and have their particular person vocations, Pawns don’t have any backstory or company to talk of.

Pawns are summons made by the Arisen, the particular person chosen by future to slay the dragon, to assist them of their quest. A pawn’s actions are all the time not more than the reflection of the Arisen’s will. On this planet of Dragon’s Dogma, you possibly can establish a pawn by taking a look at their arms, which can have a mark that matches the scar the dragon made on the Arisen’s chest when their coronary heart received ripped out — extra on that right here.

The Arisen will get to create one pawn of their very own, however we’ll nonetheless see many different pawns on this planet of Dragon’s Dogma and Dragon’s Dogma 2. That’s as a result of we’ve got entry to Rift Stones, which function a kind of portal to parallel video games universes the place we get to recruit the pawns of the Arisen from that universe. Despite the fact that pawns belonging to different Arisen had been summoned to serve that exact same Arisen, that’s not an issue as you’re nonetheless an Arisen, and that’s sufficient to command their loyalty. For story functions, there are some pawns that you just can’t rent within the sport, however any pawn that you just handle to rent will show as loyal as your individual.