Animal Trainer

Animal Trainer (also translated as Beast Tamer, Trainer or Tamer) is one of the many role-playing subclasses in Elder Tale. They can tame animals and make them pets. As their level rises, the type of animal they can tame increases, from domesticated animals to eventually ferocious monsters.

Overview
Animal Trainers can tame, domesticate, and take care of various monsters. However, unlike Summoners, the monsters they tame will die when they are killed, and is always by the owner's side. The latter limitation cannot be removed until the Animal Trainer's level raises high enough for the pet to be summoned with a summoning flute.

In situations where training isn't possible, when facing a tamable monster type, there is a small chance to make the opposing monster falter and lower its fighting spirit.

Before the Catastrophe
During the game era, Animal Trainer was a subclass held by only a core group of fans. Unlike summons available for certain main class skills, most Animal Trainer pets were unable to join in battles. For this reason, min-maxing players did not rate this subclass highly, and it was mostly relegated to players who liked the idea of making pets out of animals and monsters.

The subclass-changing quest entailed weakening&mdash;but not defeating&mdash;a number of enemies and capturing them. It was known to be quite difficult, but people who did not mind that became Animal Trainers.

Among tamable monsters, the most popular were the Giant Owl and other ridable flying-type monsters. A high level was necessary to tame and train these monsters, and because they had to be weakened to train, a certain level of fighting capability was also needed to tame them. The Steel-Tailed Pterosaur was particularly known for its training difficulty, being the most expensive large-size flying mount, and was a symbol of a high-class Animal Trainer.

Upon training an animal or monster enough, they could be made into summoning flute mounts and transferred to other people. For this reason, many Animal Trainers did business selling tamed horses to beginner players. However, most Animal Trainers were players who loved pets and chose this subclass to fulfill their hobby.

After the Catastrophe
The ability of Animal Trainers stayed after the Catastrophe. However, as training now required touching, talking to, and feeding the target animal or monster, the difficulty of taming increased substantially. Furthermore, the mental stress was higher as you had to physically approach the animals and monsters you wanted to tame, and some Adventurers switched away from this subclass for this reason.

On the other hand, there were a good deal of Animal Trainers delighted to find that their pets were no longer just data, but could physically exist by their sides. Those Animal Trainers came to love their partners even more than during the game era, and formed deep bonds.

Animal Trainers were one subclass that basked in the limelight during the planning and execution of the Zantleaf campaign. The Adventurers struggled against goblins mounted on Dire Wolves and Owl-Bears. Grandale's Woodstock W and his unit of Animal Trainers had the best results against these enemies. There was also a unit of flying mount Animal Trainers to deliver supplies and transportation to the war front, which became the lifeline of the whole army.

Inspired by items dropped from beast-taming goblins and their beasts, Adventurers began testing training new types of monsters and animals. It has met great success and new pets are being announced everyday in Akiba. Recently, Brier Weasels and Goat Slimes have been pronounced trainable.

Animal Trainers in Theldesia
For People of the Earth, Animal Trainers usually tame horses or cows for hard labor, and then sell them. In rural areas with many farms, there is often at least one person doing this kind of work. If they are an Animal Trainer of particular skill, they may work under a noble and tend horses or train war horses.

Also, for a change, they could work as travelling entertainers and teach animals to do tricks for money. For this purpose, the often used animals are bears or tigers, which look more unusual. These types of animals have harder temperaments to train, so the Beast Trainer has to be of a higher level. As a result, these types of entertainers are valuable and welcomed in every community.

Known Animal Trainers

 * Woodstock W
 * Kirin-chan

Related Subclasses

 * Coachman
 * Necromancer
 * Puppeteer
 * Demon Beast Tamer
 * Bug Tamer
 * Animal Trainer &rarr; Dragon Tamer