Companion

A **Companion** is a partner for your character. Your partner can be someone from your Friends List and/or the NPC Lady Ann.

Sect Abode with a Companion

## Unlocking Companion System

To unlock the Companion system, you must reach the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Your desired partner must also reach the required realm and stage to unlock their own companion system to qualify as a potential companion.

## Companion Acquisition

### Intimacy

To make a friend become your companion you must first reach 1,000 Intimacy with that friend. You can do so by exchanging private messages to them as well as sending gifts such as the Intimacy Jade.

### Invite

After you and your desired partner have both reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage AND obtained 1,000 Intimacy with each other, you can send them an invite to become your partner. The player initiating the proposal must also pay 500 Fateum. Once your intended partner accepts, you become companions. Both partners must be online as the same time to complete this process.

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## Lady Ann

    Whether you have a player companion or not, you can also make Lady Ann your companion. As you level up your relationship with your player companion, your relationship with Lady Ann also levels up. You gain the same companion level up rewards from both your player companion and from Lady Ann, which you collect from Lady Ann.

### Companionless Rules

1. If you don't have a partner or a companion, you can interact with Lady Ann. Send gifts, complete trails, and talk to her after reaching 100 Daily Activeness to obtain Intimacy or Affinity.
2. If you never had a partner or a companion before, you must accumulate Intimacy first before interacting with Lady Ann.
3. Upon Reaching 1,000 Intimacy, you can form a relationship with Lady Ann.
4. If you have or had a partner or companion, you can directly form a relationship with Lady Ann.
5. Once the relationship is formed, Lady Ann will record your Vow EXP obtained from all partnerships/companionships.
6. Your Affinity with Lady Ann will also be accumulated as Vow EXP. You can upgrade Lady Ann's Relationship Level to claim rewards.
7. You can only claim either Lady Ann Level Rewards or Partner/Companion Level Rewards: their contents are the same.
8. If you have a partner or a companion, Lady Ann will still continue to gain Lady Ann EXP and Levels and give you rewards. But the dialogue, trials, and gifts will not be available.

## Companion Bonds

After gaining a Companion, you can then level up your Companion Bond to obtain Rewards and increase your Privileges.

### Leveling Companion Bonds:

#### Gifting

Similar to the initial bonding stage required before a friend can become a companion, a companion's Bond Level can continue to increase with Intimacy Jades.

Companion Gifting
#### Weekly Trials

Three Trials a week can also increase your Intimacy. Each Trial can be refreshed for 20 Fateum, allowing you to find one you feel you can complete more easily.

Weekly Trials
### Companion Bond Rewards:

Whether you have a player companion or not, you can find your Bond Rewards on Lady Ann's tab of the Companion Page.

Companion Bond Level Rewards
### Companion Bond Privileges

* Level 2: Unlock Privileges: Teleport
	+ Details: You can teleport to your companion's autoplay map. The feature is not available when your companion is in the Otherworld or has used autoplay for more than 13 hours.

* Level 3: Unlock Privileges: Cultivate Together, Spiritual Vein Protection
	+ Details: Tribulation is available for Dual Cultivation. Your companion will defend you for one round if you're under attack when gathering from a Spiritual Vein.
* Level 7: Unlock Privileges: Title
* Level 14: Unlock Privileges: Primordial Soul Protection
* Level 17: Dual Cultivation Bonus: Primordial Soul's recovery time -10%
* Level 20: Dual Cultivation Bonus: Primordial Soul's recovery time -15%
* Level 21: Relationship Improved: Special Bond changed to Best Friends Forever
* Level 22: Dual Cultivation Bonus: Primordial Soul's recovery time -20%
* Level 41: Relationship Improved: Best Friends Forever changed to Intimate
* Level 61: Relationship Improved: Intimate changed to Confidant
* Level 81: Relationship Improved: Confidant changed to Heart to Heart

## Curio Syncing

Both Companions present a Curio to sync. A successful sync activates the bond. Memories can be collected once enough bonds are formed. Complete the bonds to increase memory progress. After collecting all memories and enough bonds, sync key Curios to reveal their untold story and be rewarded.

Check out Companion Curio Bonds for a detailed list of Curios that can be synchronized/bonded.

Curio Bond ListCurio Syncing

## Vow Shop

At the Vow Shop you can exchange Karma, a currency obtained from activities with your companion, to exchange for items.

Vow ShopKarma
## Dual Cultivation

Dual Cultivation is when two **Companions** cultivate together in the Cultivation Room. Doing so gives a boost to cultivation XP gained while Dual Cultivation is active. Companion level 3 is required before Dual Cultivation can be preformed. Dual Cultivation can only be done once every 7 days.

Dual CultivationDual Cultivation Step 1: Click on your partner and then select 'Cultivate Together'
### Techniques

To Dual Cultivate each partner must chose a Technique they have learned that either, their partner doesn't have, or that is superior in level to their partner's copy of it. While Dual Cultivation has a 7 day cool down period, each Technique has a 30 day cool down period before it can be used again. If done efficiently, this means each companion only needs 5 Techniques that their partner is missing, because by the time the fifth technique's 7 day Dual Cultivation period has ended, the first technique's 30 day cool down period would have completed and is ready to use again.

For this reason, it is highly suggested that companions discuss this together to plan ahead which techniques each of them will get, and which they will temporarily skip and let their partner take first. Note that later on, after you unlock more powerful tiered Techniques to learn, you can choose new ones to temporarily skip, and learn the weaker ones you previously skipped.