Allegiance

Patrons and vassals

Swear allegiance to another traveller and you become their vassal. Open the Allegiance panel with L and name a traveller on your island, or click their name in the chat. The offer stands for 2 minutes. A patron must be at least your level and can take 12 vassals. The traveller at the top of the chain is its monarch.

Members of one allegiance share a chat and cannot hurt each other. You can leave at any time, and a new bond starts over.

Experience passed up

You keep everything you earn. Your patron gains a share on top of it, made from nothing, and each patron above them gains a share of that in turn, up to the monarch. What a patron is owed while away waits for them.

The share begins at 25% and grows to 90%. It grows with the age of the bond, to its full after 730 days, with the hours each of you has played since it was sworn, to 720 hours each, and with the patron's vassals, up to 4.

Ranks

Your rank comes from your vassals. One vassal makes rank 1. Each rank after that needs two vassals of the rank below, or one vassal who already holds the rank. A monarch can rename the ranks; until then they are called, lowest first:

0. Oathsworn
1. Bannerhand
2. Reeve
3. Warden
4. Thane
5. Castellan
6. Marshal
7. Steward
8. High Warden
9. High Steward
10. Sovereign

What a monarch can do

A monarch names the allegiance, in up to 24 letters, renames its ranks, and can silence a member in allegiance chat. The Allegiance panel lists the largest allegiances in the realm.

When the game opens to everyone, an account will need 20 hours of play before it can swear or be sworn to. The closed beta does not ask for it.