NPC allegiance

Allegiance gives a player command access to a common NPC independently of favour. It does not raise affection, establish a marriage or grant combat abilities to a civilian.

Contract terms

Establish allegiance

Use an Allegiance Collar on an eligible NPC who trusts you, or a Dark-Magic Allegiance Collar on an eligible weakened NPC. The collar is consumed on success. An NPC following another player cannot be bound. A new retainer waits in place; ask them to follow when there is room in your squad.

The Allegiance Broker uses its authored isekaiexpansion:allegiance_broker catalogue. The bundled stock offers citizen and combat-adventurer contracts for base races and excludes evolved races such as isekaiorigins:raevyx. Auction rotation separately selects loaded, choosable races. The tooltip identifies both race and role. Redeeming one creates that role at a safe nearby location and consumes the contract. Adventurers start with an iron sword and can fight; citizens retain their civilian behaviour. Each race, role and bond type has one purchase per broker per world day.

Commands and transfer

The owner’s dialogue menu provides conversation, time together, movement orders, equipment and release. The command wheel uses allegiance-specific responses. Command permissions include every follower order, but squad capacity, pathfinding and the NPC’s combat capabilities still apply. Other players cannot take control through dialogue or a transport scroll.

Use an empty contract of the matching bond type on your retainer to prepare a transfer. The NPC leaves the world and the filled contract carries a one-use claim. Redemption preserves the NPC’s role, identity, appearance and equipment. Whoever redeems that claim becomes the new owner. A copy of an already-redeemed claim fails. An ordinary transport scroll preserves the existing owner and cannot transfer allegiance.

Choose release and confirm it to end allegiance. Following stops and ordinary relationship permissions return. Favour is preserved. Release returns neither a collar nor a contract; a transferred or lost contract must be recovered to retrieve an NPC held by it.

Auction and refunds

The broker offers one shared lot, identifying its race and citizen or combat role. The winning contract retains that role. Bidding removes the quoted emeralds from inventory and stores them with the lot. A higher bid credits the previous bidder’s refund balance. The same player cannot raise their own leading bid. Stale quotes are rejected and refreshed.

After closing, the winner collects the contract from that broker. A winning lot remains available across reloads and waits for collection before the next lot appears. Outbid players can collect refunds at any broker, up to 64 emeralds per collection. Full inventories drop delivered items nearby. An expired lot without a bidder rotates when viewed again.

Interaction with relationships

Dialogue data

Race dialogue resources live under data/isekaiexpansion/blabber/blabber_dialogues/npc/allegiance/. Their fields follow Dialogue data. Developers can extend the rules through the allegiance runtime.