Elder Maid

Elder Maid is one of the roleplaying Subclasses in Elder Tale. Having the Maid subclass is a prerequisite for obtaining this subclass.

Overview
Elder Maids are an advanced form of the Maid subclass and can handle more tasks. They are also better at serving food and taking care of housekeeping. While a Maid is an employee, an Elder Maid is more like the head of servants, a chief officer or the follower of a nobleman or a lady. To get this subclass, an Adventurer must raise their Maid subclass level and complete a subclass-changing quest.

Originally, the Maid was developed and implemented at the same time on both the Japanese and Western European servers, but Japan implemented it as a cosplay subclass. Later, Japan decided to port and implement the overseas version of the Maid, which was developed by the Western European server as an orthodox version of the Victorian maid. As to not delete the japanese Maid subclass, the overseas version was implemented as Elder Maid, an advanced version of the former.

As for the actual skills, it is basically the same set as the Maid. The difference lies in the existence of dozens of special motions, such as greetings that change according to the status of the interlocutor, multiple gestures to help a mistress change clothes, serving tea, making the bed, cleaning, straightening out clothes in disarray... which were all faithfully reproduced with motion capture. There are also dedicated quests that can be received by leveling, unusual in its content: players can be asked to clean a nobleman's mansion or serve customers in a polite manner (in a multiple choice quizz manner). The rewards are mostly expensive cutlery, rare books, and costume items such as special maid uniforms unlike the hodgepodge cosplay of the Maids.

In Yamato, the number of Elder Maids is logically much smaller than the number of Maids because of the role they play in Yamato. They usually coordinate employees in nobleman's mansions and serve as lady-in-waiting in castles.

A detailed article was written about this subclass in the 29th volume of the Theldesia Gazette.

Known Elder Maids

 * Indicus
 * Elissa

Related Subclasses

 * Maid

Trivia

 * Although Elder Maid was originally cited as a Earthling-only subclass, this was later changed.