Mercenary

 is a Role-playing subclass in Elder Tale.

Overview
The Mercenary is a professional warrior hired by a client to provide their services, most of the time armed.

In Yamato, where war between Earthling factions aren’t the majority, Mercenaries are employed to slay monsters, including Demi-humans. While Adventurers are far stronger than Landers, they are expensive to hire and only stay for the duration of one quest before quickly leaving. The strength of Earthling Mercenaries is that they can be employed for a continuous period with a lower paycheck, making them far more affordable. With this in mind, Mercenaries in Yamato have a wide range of jobs, from escorts, guards, gatekeepers hired by tavern bouncers and merchants to large vigilante groups defending entire villages. In some cases, nobles and lords hire them as backup or temporary reinforcements when their own knights lack military strength.

In Elder Tale, Mercenary is, like the Knight, among the oldest and most popular subclasses of the game. It initially just gave some small bonuses but further updates and expansion packs added story-driven quests and gave it a new role-playing side. Its massive number of dedicated quests equals those of the Knights and was well received by the story-oriented and lore-seeking players who wanted more details about the world of Theldesia. Moreover, many of these quests are simple “fight and get the reward” quests, which is a good way of earning money. Also like Knights, Mercenaries can ride wild mounts like wolves after the implementation of the riding system.

Adventurers can easily get the subclass by visiting mercenary groups around the world and completing quests to join them, or by completing a certain number of defeat quests and building up a battle record.

A detailed article was written about it in the Theldesia Gazette Vol.21.

Related Subclasses

 * Knight
 * Scout