Gaoled Awakening is a main quest in Dragon's Dogma 2 (DD2). Read our guide for a walkthrough on how to start and complete the Gaoled Awakening main quest!
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You can choose from a selection of presets during character creation or import your Arisen from the Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creator & Storage.
You'll also need to select your character's vocation from the character creator from the four starting vocations: Fighter, Mage, Thief, and Archer.
All four vocations are viable and you can always change your vocations later. For beginners, we recommend the Fighter for its well-rounded offense and defense, as well as Mage since it has access to the Anodyne healing spell.
Best Starting Class and Starter Vocation
Follow Fiska the Overseer out of the prison and into the deeper parts of the excavation site, and start working.
Rook instructs you to pick up a boulder on the deeper layers of the site and asks you to carry it back to him.
Investigate what the ruckus was all about after delivering Rook his boulder. You can follow the guards and prisoners who're running outside in case you've lost your way out.
Help the people kill the Medusa attacking the excavation site with your newly acquired weapon during a cutscene. This part of the quest mostly serves as a combat tutorial.
Rook will periodically provide combat tips related to your vocation on how to deal the most damage to Medusa. It'll retreat once its health has been lowered enough.
After fending off the beast, follow Rook and flee the area. Jump off the cliff to trigger a cutscene, which will complete the quest.
Start a fresh save of Dragon's Dogma 2 to start this quest, as this marks the story's introduction as to how you became the Arisen.
Check out our guide on how to delete your saved data to start a new game if you want to replay the beginning or if you're unsatisfied with the choices you made when you progressed through the game!
In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Capcom mentioned that they'll be adding an option to start a new game even when an existing save data is present, and this will be applied to all platforms!
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| Quest Type | Main Quest | |
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| Location | Excavation Site Gaol | |
| Unlock Condition | Available at the start | |
| Quest Giver | Fiska, the Overseer | |
| Rewards | None | |
All Quests and Unlock Conditions
| # | Story Quests |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gaoled Awakening |
| 2 | Tale's Beginning |
| 3 | In Dragon's Wake |
| 4 | One-Eyed Interloper |
| 5 | Seat of the Sovran |
| 6 | Monster Culling |
| 7 | Disa's Plot |
| 8 | The Caged Magistrate |
| 9 | The Stolen Throne |
| 10 | The Nameless Village |
| 11 | An Unsettling Encounter |
| 12 | Feast of Deception |
| 13 | Nation of the Lambent Flame |
| 14 | Flickering Shadows |
| 15 | Convergence |
| 16 | A New Godsway |
| 17 | The Guardian Gigantus |
| 18 | Legacy |
| # | Post Game Quests |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dreams Apart |
| 2 | Halls of the First Dawn |
| 3 | A Scholarly Pursuit |
| Other Quest Guides | |
|---|---|
| Best Side Quests Worth Doing | Vernworth Quests Recommended Order |
| Timed Quests | |
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