Pawns

Pawns are the faithful servants of the Arisen that are bound by the rift to follow those choosen by the dragon until their journey is complete.

Description
Pawns exist to serve the Arisen in Dragon Dogma. They are accessed by using the rift stones that allow you to summon up to 2 other pawns from Arisens in different worlds to take along with you on your journey. When you first use the rift you'll be able to create a Main pawn who holds a permanent spot in your party. Using the rift you can access a network of pawns that you'd feel would best fit your party. These pawns are all Main pawns that were created by other players and can be hired for a varied amount of rift crystals (currency needed to hire a pawn). Just the same you can meet pawns in towns, in open fields or midway through a quest and hire them as long that you have enough room in your party and the rift crystals needed to hire them. Before hiring a pawn you can investigate its stats, skills and equipment to see it’d fit into your party dynamic, this is important since you won’t be able to make any changes to its skills, equipment or core AI like you can with your Main pawn. The equipment that came with the pawn upon hiring it cannot be removed though you’ll be able to equip the pawn you hire with different weapons, armor and items if you have better items to equip with. Once your done with the pawn you’ll be able removed whatever you gave it once your ready to send it back into the rift or leave it with the pawn so it can be given as a gift that would be handed to the Arisen that pawn came from. It is recommended to switch pawns every so often since in your world only your Arisen and your main pawn will level up and gain new skills as you journey.

As pawns go on journey’s and preform quest with different Arisens they gain knowledge of the terrain, dungeons, multiple ways to complete a quest, different types of monster, their weak points and locations of secret paths which they will all take back to the Arisen that created them. Once sent back your pawn will be rated. The rating given would be decided by the player that used your pawn. They’ll be able to rate it based on its appearance and usefulness in combat. You can save the names of the pawns you’ve acquired in the rift directory so you can always re-hire pawns you’ve enjoyed questing with.