Experience Points

Experience points are the measure unit used to determinate what level is your character or any pawn, and how close that character is to leveling up. It can be earned by killing monsters and completing quests, though there may be other ways to earn it as well.

Additionnally, it seems that any gain of experience points is shared between all characters present. For instance, a gain of 1000 exp would see each member of a party of 4 gain 250 exp each. I have come to this conclusion because I've just completed the demo's prologue quest without recruiting the two pawns from the Rift Stone, and my character leveled up after killing the chimera, while It never leveled up while every pawn was there in previous playthroughs. Also of note in this playthrough is that I used explosive barrels to kill the goblins in the room where they are followed by harpies, which may or may not grant bonus experience. If anyone wants to confirm this, I believe the exp gained from slaying the chimera with one pawn was 11088 points, and that leveled up Savan (the player) but not the pawn.