NEW COMPANIONS – While some familiar faces will be returning, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire will also welcome a fresh crop of travelers with stories of their own. Quests may even present different opportunities depending on when and where characters and environments are approached. They will carry on with their affairs even when you’re not watching. A LIVING, BREATHING WORLD – The people of Deadfire have lives of their own, jobs to do, and appointments to keep. Resolve a multi-layered conflict between the locals, ambitious trading companies, and bands of fierce pirates while following in the footsteps of Eothas. EXPLORE DEADFIRE – Voyage by land and sea across the myriad islands of Deadfire to discover new cultures and environments. To save your soul, you must track down the wayward god and demand answers - answers which could throw mortals and the gods themselves into chaos. Ripping his way out of the ground, he destroys your stronghold and leaves you at the brink of death. The god of light and rebirth was thought dead, but he now inhabits the stone titan that sat buried under your keep, Caed Nua, for millennia. Deadfire builds upon the rich narrative, beautiful environments, and intricate, tactical combat that made the original a fan favorite and a critical success. Still, learning more about her can be one of the most rewarding stories in Pillars of Eternity.RETURN TO EORA Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is the highly-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed role-playing game Pillars of Eternity. She also does not have much interactions with other companions, nor much banter. Of course, being a cipher like you, the Grieving Mother's dialogue can be rather cryptic. Now she weeps and laments the dead babies. This put a strain on her and the spell broke, leading to the village blaming and torturing her. Using her powers as a cipher, she put all the mothers in her village whose newborns died under a dream- a lie to convince the mothers that their babies were unaffected by the curse. 
RELATED: 10 Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns That Would Make Great Movies That means she can also peer through the spiritual energy of the world and see souls both dead and alive. Unluckily for the Grieving Mother, her profession was that of a midwife and a cipher in a time of the said curse. It renders newborn babies dead and soulless.
The Grieving Mother is quite a tragic tale of the aftermath of the curse of the land, called Waidwen's Legacy. RELATED: 15 Best Doctor Who Companions Of All Time
So, in case you haven't made up your mind yet on favorites, here's a ranking for all eight of them. However, some companions are arguably better than others. The choice is up to you who to level-up with or bring in a party. Unfortunately, you can only bring a handful of companions in the actual gameplay (five to be exact) out of all the eight you can have. While Pillars of Eternity doesn't exactly use a D&D ruleset, it still takes after the formula. After all, the spirit of D&D rests on the interaction between friends and multiple characters. Without them, the game definitely would not have been as interesting. Of course, the companions players meet in-game are also responsible. More than anything, it proved that it's usually the excellent storytelling and worldbuilding that carries a good RPG, regardless of how great is the gameplay. For one, it proved that old-school Dungeons & Dragons style games are still not out of style. The popularity of Pillars of Eternity says a lot about the roleplaying game (RPG) genre of the video game industry.
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