Beast Tamer

Beast Tamers

Beast Tamer〈調教師〉is a sub-class that 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.

Unlike a summoner’s 〈召喚術師〉servant, a Beast Tamer’s pet may accompany its master or be kept in a barn. This limitation cannot be removed until the Beast Tamer’s level raises high enough for the pet to be summoned with a summoning flute. However, as the Beast Tamer’s pet does not have a time limit for travel or consume MP, they can be a reliable partner to an adventurer.

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

A peculiar sub-class that allows understanding and communication with supposedly ‘enemy’ monsters. That is the Beast Tamer.

 

Beast Tamers in Celdesia

For People of the Earth, Beast Tamers 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 a Beast Tamer 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. Therefore, these types of entertainers are valuable and welcomed in every community.

 

Game-era Beast Tamers

When Elder Tale was a game, Beast Tamer was a sub-class held by only a core group of fans. Unlike summons available for certain main class techniques, Beast Tamer pets were unable to join in battles. For this reason, players looking for a numerical advantage did not rate this sub-class highly, and because it allowed the accompaniment of many animals and monsters, similar to classes like Summoner〈召喚術師〉 it was popular with players who liked pets.

The job changing quest entailed weakening but not defeating a number of enemies and capturing them and was known to be quite difficult, but people who did not mind that became Beast Tamers.

Within the possible monster to tame, the most popular was the Giant Owl 〈巨大梟〉 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. Particularly the Steel Tailed Pterosaur〈鋼尾翼竜〉was known for its training difficulty, being the most expensive large-size flying mount, and was a status item of high class Beast Tamers.

Once Beast Tamers had trained an animal or monster the appropriate amount, using a specific procedure they could make them into summoning flute mounts, and transfer them to other people. For this reason, many Beast Tamers did business selling tamed horses to beginner players. However, most Beast Tamers were players who loved pets and chose this sub-class to fulfill their hobby.

 

Beast Tamers after the Apocalypse

The ability of Beast Tamers stayed after the Apocalypse. However, as training now required touching, talking to, and feeding the target animal or monster, the difficulty of taming increased substantially.

Also, the mental stress was higher for having to be in close physical contact with animals and monsters to be tamed, and some adventurers quit the sub-class for this reason.

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

Beast Tamers were one sub-class that basked in the limelight during the planning and execution of the Zantleaf campaign.〈ザントリーフ戦役〉The adventurers had a hard fight against goblins mounted on crazed wolves 〈魔狂狼〉and owl-bears〈梟熊〉. What brought the best results against these enemies was a unit of Beast Tamers lead by Grandale’s Woodstock.

There was also a unit of flying mount Beast Tamers to deliver supplies and transportation to the war front, which became the lifeline of the whole army.

Also, taking a hint from items dropped from Beast Taming Goblins and the beasts they used,〈緑小鬼の調教師〉Adventurers began testing training new types of monsters and animals, and succeeded many times, so new pets were announced everyday in Akiba. Recently, Briar Weasels 〈茨棘イタチ〉 and Goat Slimes〈山羊スライム〉 have been announced trainable.