I always believed that when the player killed themselves with the Godsbane, their pawn instead fuses with the countless infinite other versions of themselves from the other worlds. It is said that pawns will slowly but surely start to look more and more like their masters, and adopt their mannerisms. So what we see at the end is them fully becoming their master, effectively replacing them. Considering after you start a NG+ the next Seneschal is your previous Arisen, I assumed that your Arisen did not die when stabbing themselves with the Godsbane, but instead inserting the blade themselves is part of the process of becoming the Seneschal in full. (Just like how the previous Seneschal already had the Godsbane in their body, and removed it from their chest to offer it to you) Meaning that likely a Seneschal can't kill themselves using the Godsbane, instead somebody else needs to kill them with it to transfer the role. As well as the role only being transferred in full when somebody inserts the blade into themselves. That is why the cycle was also never broken, but simply perpetuated. At least that's my look on things.

Me getting the Duke Ending. "That chick, the single random lady who I accidently talked to much in town? I barely know her. Go ahead."

I just got into the first game just as the second is releasing. Very underrated in my opinion. This video does a great job of explaining the lore and story. Thank you!

Still better than lightfall

Very well done, thank you! Played DDDA but never finished it because it's so janky it just feels like a chore after a while. I've completed DD2's Sovran and True endings however and was utterly confused about parts of this lore and Cycle. This cleared most of it up nicely. But this also means DD2 is missing epic endings from the first game and never even bothers to elaborate.

Awesome Video. Glad I could help with the cutscenes!

Real nice recap, thanks!

Great job breaking it down! Gonna play Dragons Dogma 2 now 👍 🐉

The way the people talk to you in the return to peace ending, as well as the way it says game over, makes me think it was a test and that this isn’t the real world you’re going back to.

I have the physical copy, and it has been amazing on the PS5. The 30 fps is actually not a problem.

excelent recap!

Keep em coming 💪🏽

Thank you for reminding me of that dreaded cycle...lol

I still don’t get what the dragons are getting out of this heart yanking?

Evaze? DD2? Whats going on here? …pretty cool

Bam

The new game plus makes no sense The game seems to imply that you break the cycle but you meet your last character.

I just came here to get a story recap after I just completed the game and wanted to know if I missed anything. Turns out, the story is just paper thin.

Better story than Skyrim

I feel so bad for AyTee. A full week and he's gotten 2 subs lol..... If you read this comment and you have a sec, give that dude a sub. He was at 76 subs and now he's at 78. 79 after I post this comment.

The New one is a remake of the original gonna be cool to see how much they've changed tho.

i dont know , i was good after the dragon .. i dont know why capcom cant give me credits and let me go. when you play this game longer as 40h ... its getting boring. same monsters , same bosses , same mechanics , same smaltalk. and the final boss is a absolout joke. thanks to me that i played the first game , that i already had and discovered that im not interessted to play the second game ... NO THANKS ! and besides of the dragons talk ... the whole story is .... what story again ? hearth stolen , arisen , go fight the dragon and never mind what you choose , you get the bad ending - great. and i dont even saw anything of the endgame gear .... this game is a absolout trash. standard bows , daggers , swords ,armor .... capcom realy knows how to motivate people. anyway , thank you for the video and showing me that i can uninstall the game. im not into farming.

I wouldn’t put much effort into dragons dogma. The story is complete nonsense. It’s all about the combat.