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What is the Arisen in Dragon's Dogma 2?

Much like the previous game, the Arisen begins their journey as beckoned by a Dragon to find it and challenge it, as fate dictates. Not much is currently known about the context of the overarching world, but it's been revealed that players will begin the game in an underground prison. The outside world above seems to have numerous conflicts that the Arisen will have to resolve, such as the need for protection of Empress Nadinia, and the presence of someone masquerading as you, the Arisen. It is unclear if the Dragon is still Grigori from the first game, which would imply that the previous main character did not ascend to be the new Seneschal, leaving Grigori no choice but to assume his role of recruiting the next candidates as Arisen. Similarly, it is unclear how the sequel chronologically connects to the second game.

Nevertheless, the Arisen will have to rise to the Dragon's challenge and journey through the vibrant new world, filled with new and old enemies alike, to face their fate. To do so, we expect players to again be able to learn and improve upon their Vocations and Skills and make use of powerful Equipment. In this regard, there was one new wieldable weapon revealed in the trailer - a censer, as well as possible new Vocations or Skills that have power over the wind and gravity.

This page will be updated as more information about the Arisen is revealed. In the meantime, view our reveal impressions on the trailer for a sneak peek at the Arisen in Dragon's Dogma 2.

DD2 Gameplay Reveal Impressions

Will Character Creation be the same in Dragon's Dogma 2?

Much like in Dragon's Dogma, Dragon's Dogma 2 brings back the character customization for the Arisen as well as the Main Pawn. Character customization in Dragon's Dogma is highly detailed and adjustable, allowing players to create a unique avatar that fits their playstyle and preferences. Players can choose from a variety of attributes, an all new race called Beastren has been added into the character customization list. Beastren is a humanoid race with feline features, and has been shown in the Dragon's Dogma 2 trailer as well as the Capcom Showcase.

On top of appearances, players may choose their Vocations. It is revealed that players can choose from a variety of Vocations, on top of the already existing vocations from Dragon's Dogma, for their characters as well as their Pawns. This gives more room for playing around with the customization of characters and Pawns.

Will character height and weight affect gameplay in Dragon's Dogma 2?

Like many other games, Dragon's Dogma's character customization allows you to alter your Arisen's height and weight. Unlike many other games, your choice in the matter will affect your gameplay. In the first game, lighter characters would not be able to to carry as much weight as heavier characters and were more prone to knockbacks, but had faster climbing speeds and recovered stamina more quickly. Shorter characters on the other hand were slower and more prone to getting drenched when walking in water, but were able to access secret passageways that were too small for taller characters to fit through. It is possible that this mechanic will return to Dragon's Dogma 2.

Photorealism in Dragon's Dogma 2

Creating your character and Main Pawn in Dragon's Dogma 2 will be highly detailed with the upgraded photorealism captured by photogrammetry technology. This technology is also used in streamlining the character creation process by initially asking players to choose from a preset selection of faces, then recommending other potential faces that resemble the chosen face to get you closer to the look you have in mind. 

Fur (Beastren only)

A Beastren-only customization, this section focuses on the texture, pattern, and colors of your fur if you choose to be of the Beastren race. There are only seven main patterns to choose from, but they can be further customized into different colors, of which you'll have over a hundred options to choose from, for different layers of your character's fur. You can also either make your fur thinner or thicker with the Fur Type option.

• Fur Type
• Pattern
• Patter Color Present
• Custom Pattern Color 
• Custom Color Thickness

Body

This section focuses on the appearance of your character's actual body. A lot of your customizations here will affect your character's Weight, which will play a role in your Inventory management so keep that in mind. This section goes as far as customizing the sizes of certain muscle groups which allows you to fully control your character's physical build.

• Height
• Torso Length
• Muscle Style
• Muscle Strength
• Traps Size
• Upper Body Muscle Mass
• Lower Body Muscle Mass
• Upper Body Size
• Lower Body Size

Head

This section focuses more on the volume and mass of your head, rather than its surface appearance. You can dictate the size of different parts of your whole head here, including your neck.

• Head Size
• Head Length
• Head Width
• Head Depth
• Face Height
• Neck Length
• Neck Thickness

Upper Body

This section goes even more in-depth with your body customizations, focusing on your upper body. A lot of it has to do with your chest, arm, and shoulder appearances, focusing on other muscle groups from the Body section.

• Shoulder Width
• Shoulder Size
• Chest Thickness
• Chest Size
• Chest Shape
• Chest Height
• Torso Width
• Torso Depth
• Arm Length
• Arm Size
  • Upper Arm Thickness
  • Forearm Thickness

Lower Body

This section hones in on the Lower Body section of your character's appearance, focusing on even the muscle groups of your legs. Funnily enough, you can even customize your character to have skipped leg-day a lot on his workouts.

• Waist Width
• Waist Size
• Rear Size
• Leg Size (Overall)
  • Thigh Size
  • Calf Size

Posture

This section has to do with customizing how your character looks in certain situations or as they move. When they walk, they swing their arms and move their knees, so the appearance of your character overall when they move will be affected by how you customize this.

• Movement Style
• Elbow Angle
• Knee Angle
• Posture

Head

In this section, you can change the base form of your character's head, without changing its mass and volume too much.

• Base Head

Skin (Human only)

This section focuses on your base skin. You can choose for your character to have certain imperfections on their skin if you want to, in the form of wrinkles.

• Base Skin
• Skin Color
• Wrinkles
• Skin Sheen

Brow

This section affects your character's forehead. Here you can change the different dimensions of your forehead, by increasing its size, as well as the angle at which it sits off of your character's face.

• Brow Height
• Brow Spacing
• Brow Depth (Overall)
  • Brow Depth (Inner)
  • Brow Depth (Outer)
• Brow Angle
• Brow Bend

Eyes

This section focuses on your character's eyes and will customize aspects of it that deal more with their shape and form. You can choose to edit each eye separately with the first two options in this section, allowing for a variety of ways to customize how they look. You can also choose to have one of them be slightly closed or fully closed as if they were permanently injured in battle.

• Eye Height
• Eye Width
• Eye Depth
• Eye Size
• Eye Angle
• Left Closed
• Squint (Left Eye)
• Right Closed
• Squint (Right Eye)

Nose

This section deals with how your character's nose is positioned on their face, as well as the sizes of each of its parts. You can customize everything down to the angle of the character's nostrils' opening.

• Nose Length
• Bridge Width
• Bridge Height
• Bridge Bump (Overall)
  • Bridge Bump (Upper)
  • Bridge Bump (Lower)
• Nostril Size
• Nostril Height
• Nostril Width
• Tip Depth
• Tip Angle
• Tip Sharpness

Ears

This section focuses on the positioning of your character's ears, as well as how they look - down to the angle in which they sit, and the size of their lobes.

• Style
• Size
• Angle
• Openness
• Tilt
• Tips
• Lobes

Cheeks

This section focuses on detailing your character's cheeks. In this section, you can change the dimensions of your character's cheeks, which ultimately also affects the appearance of their face. Notably, you can also change the thickness of your neck which plays more into how your cheeks look.

• Cheek/Neck Thickness
  
  • Cheek Bulge
  • Neck Fat
• Cheek Height
• Cheek Width
• Cheek Depth

Mouth

This section focuses on the details of your character's mouth, including how much it protrudes out of your general jaw. It's important to note that customizations here will affect how your character looks when conveying certain emotions throughout the game, especially when you customize the lips.

• Mouth Height
• Mouth Width
• Mouth Protrusion
• Mouth Corners
• Lip Thickness
• Lower Lip Position

Jaw/Chin

This section focuses on the lower part of your head, specifically the jaws and the chin. This section can customize the size of this lower section of the character's face for a sharper look if desired. It's interesting to note that much of this section cannot be seen if you've chosen to have a lot of facial hair for your character.

• Jaw Definition
• Jaw Width
• Jaw Position
• Jaw Protrusion
• Chin Height
• Chin Width
• Chin Protrusion
• Chin Sharpness

Hairstyle

This section focuses on how your character's head-of-hair looks. You'll have a whopping 57 hairstyles to choose from, and then you can further customize its colors and how it shines under light.

• Hairstyle
• Root Color
• Tip Color
• Root/Tip Blend
• Sheen Position
• Sheen

Eyebrows (Human only)

This section affects your character's eyebrows and how they sit on their face. You can change things like how the eyebrows bend, and their thickness.

• Shape
• Color
• Thickness

Facial Hair (Male only)

This section affects your character's beard or mustache if you choose to have any. You'll have over 40 styles of facial hair to choose from, including the choice to not have any. You'll also be able to customize the colors of specific areas of your facial hair.

• Style
• Root Color
• Tip Color
• Root/Tip Blend
• Sheen Position
• Sheen

Body Hair (Male Human only)

Confusingly named similarly to the bigger section it belongs in, this section focuses more on the hairs that are not on your character's head and face. This includes styles and color options for having hair on your chest, legs, or arms.

• Body Hair Style
• Body Hair Color
• Body Hair Density

Face (Beastren only)

Specific to Beastren, this section focuses on the overall appearance of your Beastren character's face. It can be overwhelming at first, but each section just deals with a layer of the animal-like appearance of your character, similar to how your pet's fur might frow in certain patterns. These patterns can be different for the face, the cheek, and even the neck. Each section will have its own opacity or intensity slider so you can customize the patterns you choose.

• Face Pattern Presets
• Face Color Presets
• Base Pattern
• Base Pattern Opacity
• Face Pattern
• Eye Pattern
• Cheek Pattern
• Nose Pattern
• Color 1
• Color 2
• Pattern Color 1 Intensity
• Pattern Color 2 Intensity
• Face Pattern Opacity
• Eye Pattern Opacity
• Cheek Pattern Opacity
• Nose Pattern Opacity

Nose Color (Beastren only)

Again specific to the Beastren characters, this section changes the color of just the literal tip of the nose of your Beastren character.

• Nose Color
• Opacity
• Sheen
• Intensity

Eyes

In this section, you again deal with your character's eyes, but this time more of the layers of the eyeballs and internal customizations. Like before, you can choose to customize each eye differently.

• Eye Style
• Eye Color Presets (Both)
  • Iris Primary Color
  • Iris Secondary Color
  • Iris Tertiary Color
  • Sclera Color
• Iris Size
• Pupil Size

Eyelashes

As the name of the section suggests, this section deals with the line that outlines the top of your character's eyes. You can change its colors and how the line looks and angles itself.

• Eyelash Root Color
• Eyelash Tip Color
• Root/Tip Blend
• Length

Eyeshadow (Human only)

This section deals with the small area around your character's eyes. You can slide different aspects of it up and down, as well as change the colors, with a whopping 49 colors to choose from.

• Eyeshadow Style
• Eyeshadow Color 1
• Eyeshadow Color 2
• Eyeshadow Intensity
• Eyeshadow Coverage
• Eyeshadow Opacity
• Eyeshadow Metallic
• Eyeshadow Sheen

Eyeliner (Human only)

This section deals with the lines that outline the entire eye. Like in real life, you can have it finish off to the side a certain way depending on which style you choose from out of the 13 available. You can also change its color, make it thicker, and customize different aspects of its color.

• Eyeliner Style
• Eyeliner Color
• Eyeliner Coverage
• Eyeliner Opacity
• Eyeliner Metallic
• Eyeliner Sheen

Freckles (Human only)

This section allows you to put natural freckles on your character. You're able to customize how much freckles are visible with each style choice, as well as how visible they actually are.

• Freckles
• Freckles Color
• Freckle Opacity

Cheeks

This section allows you to customize the makeup that will be permanently on your cheek. There are only four styles to choose from, including the choice of not having any at all, and you can switch up different aspects of it as you desire, including its color, thickness, and textures.

• Cheek Style
• Cheek Color
• Cheek Opacity
• Cheek Metallic
• Cheek Sheen

Lips (Human only)

This section deals with lipstick and how you'd like your character to have it on them - not to be confused with the previous section that deals with how the lips are shaped or formed. Like all the other makeup options, you can switch up its color, thickness, and textures.

• Lip Style
• Lip Color
• Lip Color Spread
• Lip Opacity
• Lip Metallic
• Lip Sheen

Teeth

This section deals with the visible portion of your character's teeth. This affects your character's appearance when they smile or otherwise open their mouth for something. Humans will have 8 teeth in both their upper and lower rows, while Beastren will have 8 at the top, including fangs, and 6 at the bottom. You are able to actually customize which of these 14-16 teeth are present for your character, and their color.

• Upper Teeth
• Lower Teeth
• Teeth Color

Claw Color (Beastren only)

Limited to the Beastren race again, this section deals with the color of your character's nails.

• Claw Color

Tattoo Presets

This whole big section deals with extra markings on your character. You can choose from these 20 presets to have an easier time with your customizations, as they already present different combinations of tattoos that you can then customize the layers of when the next sections.

• Tattoo Presets

Body Tattoos

This section deals with tattoos mainly on your upper body. It provides in-depth customization, with even the option to treat your tattoos as tiles and spread them across whole surface areas. You can have a maximum of two tattoos per body part, but they can cover that whole part or be put in a specific part.

• Body Tattoo Style
• Tattoo Primary Color
• Tattoo Secondary Color
• Tattoo Tertiary Color
• Vertical Position
• Horizontal Position
• Rotation
• Overall Scale
  • Vertical Scale
  • Horizontal Scale
• Vertical Tiling
• Horizontal Tiling
• Opacity
• Intensity
• Metallic
• Sheen

These customizations are present for the following sections as well:

• Right Arm Tattoos
• Left Arm Tattoos
• Right Leg Tattoos
• Left Leg Tattoos

Scar Presets

Similar to tattoos, this section will cover 8 presets that the game offers with different combinations of scars across different body parts.

• Scar Presets

Body Scars

Again, similar to tattoos, this section covers mostly scars you can customize on your character from the waist up. Just like tattoos, you can have two designs per body part, but you can choose how much of your character's skin they cover. It's interesting to note that they have different types of scars here, not just the generic types - there are also options for different degrees of burn scars.

• Body Scar Style
• Vertical Position
• Horizontal Position
• Rotation
• Overall Scale
  • Vertical Scale
  • Horizontal Scale
• Vertical Tiling
• Horizontal Tiling
• Opacity
• Intensity
• Sheen

These customizations are present for the following sections as well:

• Right Arm Scars
• Left Arm Scars
• Right Leg Scars
• Left Leg Scars

Dirt

A unique inclusion is this Dirt section which customizes how scruffy and rough you maybe would like your character to look. There are three patterns to choose from, and you can customize how much surface area they cover, as well as their thickness and color.

• Dirt Pattern
• Dirt Color
• Dirt Coverage
• Dirt Opacity