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In Drakantos, heroes are the game's classes. Each hero is a class with its own abilities, lore, and personality, rather than a blank character you build from scratch at creation. You unlock every hero on a single account and swap between them freely, so there is no need to make a new character to try a different class. Level and gear do not carry between heroes: each hero has its own level and equipment. Artifacts, trophies, and cosmetics, however, are shared across the account, which gives the roster a layer of cross-progression.

There are 21 unique playable heroes in total: 20 named heroes plus one unrevealed, secret hero. The store premise frames the cast as more than 20 heroes, with more planned to come. Heroes cover the familiar tank, healer, and damage-dealer roles, and several of them take unusual approaches to those roles. Some tanks, for example, lean on agility, crowd control, or illusion rather than raw durability. The roles and playstyles described below are the ones confirmed in official material. For heroes whose kits have not been detailed, specific abilities are not detailed in confirmed sources, and inventing them would be guesswork.

Hero Roster

The 20 named heroes are listed below. The In CBT column marks the 15 heroes that were part of the closed beta starting roster. Note that Gameplay balances all stats in PvP Modes, so a hero's strength there comes down to its kit and the player. A few hero names (Korz, Ophis, Urijor, and Ozul) are also used for bosses in the Open World and Adventurer's Guild layer; the entries here are the confirmed playable heroes that share those names.

Beyond the 20 named heroes, a 21st hero has not yet been revealed. The closed beta starting roster covered 15 of the named heroes, and the rest are expected to join over time.

Customization

Every hero supports a deep layer of cosmetic customization. Skins come with unlockable styles that change parts such as hairstyles, hoods, helmets, and armor variations, and dyes let you recolor those parts to taste. Each hero also has over 30 emotes, and every emote has its own unique voice lines. Wingeon has said the game is planned to launch with at least 6 styles per hero, which should be read as a launch target rather than a guaranteed count in the current test build.

Cosmetics are separate from power. Beyond looks, you can reshape how a hero actually plays through Orbs, Artifacts, and Trophies, which change what a hero's skills do and which passives they carry. Because those build pieces are shared across your account, progress you make on one hero feeds into the others. Cosmetic work has continued alongside the roster: alternate skins have been revealed for Yura and Reya, and a young version of Byron was created after them.

Ultimate System

Heroes charge an ultimate by landing hits in combat, so staying active in a fight builds toward your big play. An early devlog described ultimates being able to stack energy beyond 100%, up to 125%. That figure comes from a WIP-era 2024 devlog that predates the CBT2 combat overhaul, so it should be treated as an early design detail rather than a confirmed value in the current build. The general idea, charging the ultimate through combat, is consistent with the game's action-combat direction.

Role Identity and the Trinity

Tank, healer, and damage roles exist, but the way they are expressed is unusual and the developers have explained the reasoning. Every hero's baseline damage is deliberately levelled, so nobody feels weak for picking a support or a tank, and each hero can hold their own alone. Role identity is concentrated in the ultimate rather than spread through the basic kit.

The design came out of a problem the team hit in testing. When healing sat on an ordinary cooldown, a support could hang back, dodge everything, and press one button, which was neither fun to play nor fun to play with; tanks did the same thing with taunts, pulling aggro and then wandering off. Putting those effects on the ultimate, which charges by landing hits and cycling abilities well, forces the player to engage. A healer who plays passively has no healing to give, and a tank has to commit to get the taunt and the defensive burst.

The result is that the trinity matters most against bosses, where the developers find the interaction between roles most interesting, and matters less against ordinary enemies. The team has also acknowledged the wider problem it was designing around, which is that in most games with strict roles the damage queue fills instantly while tanks and healers stay scarce.

Roles are still coarse in confirmed material. Only the heroes with an official teaser have a described playstyle; the rest of the roster is a name and, at most, an origin. Full ability lists, cooldowns, and numbers have not been published for any hero.

Lore and Origins

Each hero carries its own backstory tied to the world's kingdoms, and several origins are confirmed. Faendar is an elf Archdruid from the elven kingdom, while Orbryn is a dwarf Engineer from the dwarven kingdom. More background on these regions is covered under Cities and Locations. Heroes were also gradually revealed through the game's Closed Beta History, with teasers and devlog spotlights introducing the roster over time.