Dragon's Dogma 2 Gaoled Awakening Walkthrough

Gaoled Awakening is a main quest in Dragon’s Dogma 2. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Gaoled Awakening main mission.

Starting Location: Excavation Site, The Hole
Quest Giver: Fiska, the Overseer
Requirement: none, this is the game’s starting main quest
Reward: First Taste of Freedom
Quest Description: Having sat upon the throne in your dreams, how could you be content to remain a slave? When a voice whispered that your fate was not to perish here, you seized your chance to escape and took to the skies.

Objectives:

Heed the Overseer
Pick up a Boulder
Carry the Boulder back to Rook
Investigate the Disturbance
Fend off the Beast
Flee for your Life

Introduction – Character Creator & Starting Class

Your first task is to create your own character. You can customize one yourself or pick one of the presets. We recommend picking the Mage. Whether you pick a human or beastren or male/female comes down to personal preference, either is fine.

There is no mana gauge in the game, so as a mage you can cast magic infinitely and without a cooldown. The mage starts with a healing spell called Anodyne (a green bubble that heals you and your allies when stepping inside it). And he also starts with a powerful flamethrower spell called Flagration that will make quick work of any early-game enemies. Later, the mage has better spells such as Palladium which completely block all incoming damage so you won’t take any damage, and other elemental attack spells. The mage is easy to control, has superb damage output, the defensive and healing spells are a must-have in any team, and he is easy to control. You can still change your class (called vocation) later at any time through Guild Halls. But if you want to have the easiest playthrough go with the Mage.

Heed the Overseer

After picking your character, follow the overseer out of the excavation site’s prison until Rook approaches and starts following you. After crossing the bridge, keep going downhill where you’ll reunite with the overseer.

Pick up a Boulder

Continue downhill and Rook will stop you to tell you what to do. Continue past the wooden structure until the next objective triggers.

Carry the Boulder back to Rook

Grab one of the boulders with / and carry it back to Rook.

Investigate the Disturbance

After carrying the boulder back to Rook, a commotion disturbs the excavation site. Go back up the hill until a cutscene triggers.

Fend off the Beast

Now that you’ve picked up your Vocation’s weapon, start getting the hand of the controls, you can pressing / if you need a detailed rundown of them. You can also heed the game’s suggestions, but after you’ve whittled down the beast’s first health bar, it will retreat and trigger a cutscene.