A mossy ruin where a small leaf-green companion (original design) peeks from behind a fallen pillar at a lantern-lit clearing.
Painted card

Q49 · Chapter 07 · Companions & rescues

Many ways to meet a companion

How should the player acquire new companions?

Selected direction

The direction

Use multiple acquisition paths: quests, random dungeon encounters, discoveries, and capture/recruitment encounters. The first vertical slice specifically uses a quest that leads to discovering a companion, followed by successful extraction and an NPC-assisted bonding step in another town.

Recorded as: Selected direction

The original question’s prompt

Egg rescues, weakened-enemy captures, authored friendships, purchases of eggs, or another mechanism?

Examples in a prompt are not decisions unless the answer chooses them.

Still to decide in this chapter

Duplicate species, release/replacement mechanics and the form of companion upkeep are undecided. Habitats are deferred; bond capacity is enough for now.

Read “The first journey” in the artbook

In this chapter