Expect a horde of new animal friends in Aion!

NCSoft confirmed that each Daeva will be given 100 pet slots under the new pet system, which goes live with the Aion 2.0: Assault on Balaurea update scheduled this fall. These totally adorable pets ranging from show dogs to backpack-toting pandas can be classified into five function types:

• Companion – Adventure with their owner throughout Atreia
• Signal – Alert their owner to the presence of enemy players
• Pack – Expand their owner’s inventory
• Fortune – Produce items for their owner after being well-fed
• Purebred – Provide their owner with multiple functions at once

The developer added that despite their large menagerie, each player can only summon one pet at a time. Pets also provide their perks even while kept inside your inventory, presumably for when your cuddly kitten proves too much of a distraction during a fight.

Each pet can even be named freely; pet names are not restricted to be unique from all other pets, allowing for duplicates in the game world.

Filling up those 100 pet slots could be a time-consuming challenge, but could be worth it if only to watch each pet’s unique emote animations.