Recruiting Princesses

It is possible to recruit many of the princesses in the game, with which they can travel, fight, and camp with the Knight. Spending time with them at a campsite may cause new, otherwise unavailable scenes to play or allow the Knight to have sex with them. Kobold Princess is automatically recruited during the intro (or at the game's start if the intro is skipped,) but the others must be recruited by the Knight in other ways.

## Reign Princesses

There are 3 main routes for recruiting princesses. Two of these routes have a couple methods.

1. **Stealthy**
	1. Eloping
	2. Contract
2. **Siege**
	1. Rescue
	2. Slavery
3. **Post-siege**
	1. Clone

### Stealthy

#### Step 1: Preparation

Sometimes you can find guards sleeping at their posts. But that's not always a reliable method to get inside their chambers. Here's how to do it yourself:

**Note:** Mouse Princess can't go to war with anyone.

**Items and Equipment:**

1. Sleeping Powder: Trevor (Faun's Tavern at Night)
2. Moonlight Glass Cloak: Must be a non-rainy night.
3. Shadow Scarf: Only on a companion.

**Companions and Skills:**

1. Moth Princess
2. Slime Princess
3. Moss Princess

#### Step 2: Time of Day

All Princess' can be met during the night when they're sleeping. There are exceptions:

* Cat: Must be a rainy night.
* Ghost: Day time
* Golem: Random.
	+ **Note**: Reload just her area until you're notified it's silent.
* Moth: Day time
* Skeleton: Does not sleep regularly. She does sleep when...
	+ Moonlight Glass Cloak is the easiest way to put Princess to sleep
	+ Losing battles.

#### Step 3: Infiltrating

Most princess' have guard(s) that patrol the area. Here's some tips:

* Guards inside the chambers can't be slept.
* Use Moonlight Glass Cloak, Shadow Scarf, Slime or Moss to stay hidden
* Rabbit has a backdoor that's unlocked at night.
* If caught your Reign Affinity may drop.

From here the two routes mostly split.

1. Eloping
2. Contract

### Eloping

**Requirements**:

* Princess Affinity
* Birthed an Heir

**Princess Affinity:**

All Princess' need a Princess Affinity of 3. *Except*:

* Desert: 2 Affinity
* Goblin: 1 Affinity

After both conditions are met, wake up the Princess and ask to elope.

**Heir:**

See main article: Pregnancy.

All Princesses except Mouse must have an heir to take their place. Using the Princess Affinity, you'll need to extreme cuddle. You'll need to select vaginal penetration animations as well.

**Note:** Princess' have periods where they're fertile where she'll have the ability to become pregnant.

There's a few workarounds:

1. Shorty Special
2. Purple Lump

#### Contract

**Requirements**:

1. Red Thread Rings
2. Breeding Contract (Goblin)

**The Red Thread Rings:**

Behind the Human Princess' throne. It's in the chest. You'll need to infiltrate at night, enter the left window and walk around the outside to the chest's window.

How to use the Red Thread RIngs

**Breeding Contract (Goblin)**

Use Pruna's spies at the Goblin Reign to give Pruna the ability to sell Breeding Contracts. Redeeming this breeding contract may reduce your affinity with some reigns.

She only becomes a merchant in the Kingdom Below.

### Siege

#### **Rescue**

You'll need Princess affinity of 4.

Head straight for the princess and you'll be given the option to save her.

#### **Slavery**

If a siege is successful, there's a chance (not guaranteed) that she'll end up as a slave to be sold by the Goblins.

### Post-siege

If after a successful siege the princess is imprisoned in her chambers, you can visit her with enough affinity with the conquering realm. Once there, use a Cinder Ribbon to make a clone of the princess and escape with the original.

## Princesses via Routes

Some princesses can only be recruited by doing their Routes. They may not always be available as party members during their Routes, and in some cases the player may not have the option to explore the world and interact with them freely at any point. These princesses are:

* Dog Princess
	+ Dog Princess will make it difficult or impossible to recruit other princesses while she is in your party. This can be bypassed by equipping the Beast Choker obtained from Wyvern Princess Route.
* Dragon Princess I
	+ Dragon Princess I is only available during the final quest of her route, and only for two battle events. Does not join party permanently, nor does the Ribbon work to clone her.
* Dragon Princess II
	+ Dragon Princess II is only available during the final quest of her route, and only for two battle events. Does not join party permanently, nor does the Ribbon work to clone her.
* Wyvern Princess
	+ Can be cloned via the Ribbon.

## Other Princesses

Some princesses without their own reigns can be recruited without locking into a particular route. They are treated as progeny so they can be left with Dear and will carry over into a New Game+. Recruiting these princesses a second time on New Game+ may cause glitches.

These princesses are:

* Crusader Princess
* Crystal Princess
* Mimic Princess
* Moss Princess
* Scarecrow Princess
* Wendigo Princess
* Eldritch Princess

### Non-Princesses

Some characters, although not princesses, are still unique playable characters the knight can have join his party. Hero Banner must be equipped. These characters include:

* Amelie (Only possible if she is in your game as a roaming NPC)
* Dokuro (The very rare undead form of Goblin Princess. Treated as a Progeny. Goblin Princess must be dead, and possibly other requirements. Follow the guide on her page for more details on how to receive her the quickest)
* Dahlia (A unique golem covered in flowers. Requires you to give her a Spring Princess Water to water her flowers with)
* Faint (A dragon-serpent hybrid that hangs out at the moon festival grounds)
* Mialee (The dog girl in the Slums. Sometimes transforms into a dog! Cannot be recruited while she is in dog form)
* Rose (A drakebold squire working under DragonP I. If you want her to join, you need to get all the Drgaonforged equipment. It only can be done in DragonP I Route)
* Hunie (A human, Sometimes spawns in the jungle tunnel)
* Tsukimi (A cat, sometimes appears in Hunter's Terrace. Is found leaning against a wall on the lower level and does not move)
* Gadget (A mouse, appears outside of Harvest Princess home at night, requires you to progress through Harvet Princess' quest until you learn she is a male.)
* Sakari (A "Cat" (is labeled as a cat heir, but looks more like a wolf. Also doesn't count as a cat for the purposes of Cat Princess Route.), appears in the only house you can enter in Frozen Stick Village. Requires talking to several times and to have a princess in your party along with the Hero Banner equipped)

### Pets

Although not playable, in-game there are characters that can be convinced to join the knight and act as accessories, helping the knight by letting him use their abilities. They will also appear beside the knight on his level up screen and will join the party whenever they go camping. These characters include

* Old Nick (Uses his tentacles to extend the reach of all your weapons and increases Endurance by 1)
* Dur (Drains your intelligence to 0 when equipped but gives you a special attack 'Fetch!')
* Keaton (Increases Maximum MPS by 25% and grants the special attack 'WAAAH!')
* Gazzetta (Grants the skill 'Blink')
* Drusy (Small chance to allure and fear enemies for 1% MHP/s)

See Pets for instructions on how to obtain them.

## Other

### Strategy for Harvest Princess

1. First and foremost, Cardinal Bell. You need to have it in your inventory to change their gender, that means not giving it back to them yet before you change their gender after defeating Pumpking or you have the bell already on NG+
2. Next up, walk up to them and change their gender (Make sure that you didn't pull your hand away in the 4th conversation)
3. As of the latest version, Red Thread Rings is no longer needed as the female version of Harvest Princess has a vaginal animation now.
4. Sex the princess. Shorty Special is optional but highly recommended. It's obtainable via the Greenkin Brewery in Goblin Kingdom once everyday after paying a one time fee of 20,000 swirlies to the bouncer in the upper right hand corner of the brewery.

## Strategy for HarverstP + ScarecrowP

If you reach 4 affinity with HarvestP and ask her to step down she will ask you to take responsability and joins your party. This option also enables ScarecrowP. To reach affinity 4 give her the Cardinal Bell as a gift or have the Princess Knight skill. You can get the extra Cardinal Bell from Pruna or from using a Magic Silk. Note: Pregnancy is not needed for her to abdicate and join the knight.

## Trivia

* Recruiting a princess by buying her in a slave auction will allow the player to change her name.