Dragon's Dogma 2 Fans Think Capcom Is Teasing an Expansion Set in the Game's Northern Region

Capcom tweeted a portion of artwork to observe Dragon’s Dogma 2's 2nd anniversary. Nothing antithetic astir that successful itself, but fans were speedy to announcement details successful the representation which whitethorn hint astatine a imaginable expansion.

The artwork shows Dragon’s Dogma 2 characters including Brant and Sven partying it up underneath a “2nd anniversary” banner. However, sharp-eyed fans rapidly homed successful connected 2 cardinal details: a missive successful the foreground and a mysterious quality successful the background, arsenic summarized by idiosyncratic PaiDuck connected Reddit.

The missive is written successful the in-game Gransys alphabet. Decoding this reveals that the missive says: “Sightings of Griffins Flying successful From the Northern Region of Organ Have Been Confirmed.”

Although mentioned successful in-game text, the Northern Region is not presently visitable successful Dragon’s Dogma 2, sparking rumors that the missive could beryllium hinting astatine a imaginable DLC enlargement acceptable successful this region, specifically successful a spot called Organ. Load crippled substance successful Dragon’s Dogma 2 describes the northbound of the continent arsenic “home to an past nation” but “records of its beingness are scarce” and determination has been “no interaction with its radical for implicit a century.” Then there’s the in-game statement of the Hyperboreal Lorica armor, which mentions Hyperboreans, a bow-wielding radical from the north, nevertheless they bash not marque an quality successful the game.

In the artwork, determination is besides a quality with their backmost turned. They bash not look to beryllium immoderate of the characters featured successful the game. Some fans speculated that this could beryllium a caller Beastren character, oregon a Vocation (Dragon Dogma 2’s occupation system) from a imaginable expansion. One Japanese-speaking commentator drew immoderate instrumentality art, musing that it mightiness beryllium a caller alchemist oregon monk-style Vocation. The mysterious caller quality is besides lasting adjacent a mates of Vocations Maisters, further suggesting that your Arisen oregon Pawn mightiness beryllium capable to maestro a caller class.

The quality besides seems to beryllium wearing lukewarm clothing, which would not beryllium precise suitable for Dragon Dogma 2’s main mounting of Vermund, nor the vigor of Battahl. This further suggests that fans mightiness get immoderate benignant of enlargement featuring a colder, bluish portion not recovered successful the basal game.

For now, we’ll person to hold to spot if Capcom truly does person a Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC up its sleeve. Could an announcement beryllium acceptable for this week's Xbox Partner Preview showcase?

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.