
The price paid for a Pact always seems to be associated with a significant aspect of the human Pact Partner's life.However, the details of how a pact can be broken are vague and unclear. The price for the pact is most commonly something the person's most treasured feature, resulting in numerous tragic ironies: the more powerful the pact beast, the greater the price.Ī pact can also be broken, as demonstrated in branches C and D of Drakengard. The ritual involves the two beings merging their two souls together into one should one pact partner die, the other will follow. The basic concepts of the pact are present in this first instance: a ritual to save a life, the human member paying some price for the pact, and the lives of the two become linked.ĭuring the hundred years between the first pact and the events of Drakengard and Drakengard 2, it is shown that creatures and spirits like the Faerie, Undine, and Salamander, can enter pacts to feed of a human's negative emotions, while humans enter pacts either to gain power or to save their own lives.

A pact also occurred in the fifth branch of events told in Drag-On Dragoon 3 Story Side between Zero and Mikhail, when One's brother kills Zero after the other Intoners died, which causes Mikhail also die. The result was that Mikhail was resurrected with Zero's Flower transplanted into his eye and, while Zero survived, she regressed to a child-like form as her payment. Accord describes the procedure as "utilizing the reprogramming function of the Flower". It was later used in Drakengard 3 by Zero in a desperate effort to save the life of Mikhail after being poisoned by Raphael. According to Partition, forging a pact is "The most severe forbidden Magic of the Old". The pact system was first used during Chapter 16 of Drag-On Dragoon Utahime Five by One to save Gabriella from her beastification.

By the power of my Song, I hereby forge a pact in exchange for the life of this dragon! Gods of the east, goddesses of the west, I offer up the flame of my life as payment.
