Maid

 is a Role-Playing subclass in Elder Tale.

Overview
The Maid is a subclass that allows someone working for an employer to cover diverse household chores like housekeeping, cleaning and cooking. It is considered as an in-between of the Chef and the Housekeeper. However, like all combined subclasses that regroup skills from multiple subclasses, the skills are balanced at some fraction (from 1/4 to 1/6) of the actual level of the original subclasses. Those levels can be reverted to the individual subclass at 1/6 of their value, so a Maid with level 60 cooking skills can revert to a Chef with ten levels already on their belt.

The main feature of this subclass is its wide array of costumes and maid uniforms, which are, of course, not inspired by historical outfits but modern cosplays. Among them, we have traditional long skirts, mini-skirts and modern Taisho dresses for the milder side. For those who prefer bolder clothes, breast-enhancing maid uniforms, open-back corsets, gothic lolita arrangements, Christmas clothing and beach get-ups also exist. The designs have the option of frills and colour variations for each of them. With such an amount of costumes, people choose it not for its skills but as a cosplay subclass. Being easy to get, the Maid has always boasted a certain degree of popularity and demand.

In Theldesia, a large part of Earthlings has a job related to daily life business, most of them situated in urban areas. Most of the employees hired by the nobility are Maids, whose presence in villages is rare but whose numbers can exceed dozens in cities. Children of noble families and wealthy merchants sometimes are sent to serve as Maids for a certain period as part of their apprenticeship.

Unlike in the other regions, a Maid in Yamato is not a mere servant of the nobility but treated as an integral part of the aristocratic society, similar to a lady-in-waiting or a samurai in Earth’s ancient Japan. Some have the status and authority to act as an agent of the family’s head, tasked with sending letters to other families like an envoy or hosting noble guests.

There is a detailed article about the Maid in the Theldesia Gazette Vol.29.

Known Skills

 * Cooking
 * Housekeeping

Known s

 * Ukiyo

Related Subclasses

 * Elder Maid