There are several NPCs in the world that can be recruited. These NPCs offer useful services once recruited. Once recruited, they can be found at the Headquarters. In terms of game function, recruited NPCs serve interface functions

The Blacksmith 🛠

• Crafts weapons and armor
• Can be upgraded into 'The Engineer' who can build machines

The Summoner

• Used for multiplayer
• Allow oneself to be summoned
• Join another player's world
• Invite another player to your world

The Gladiator ⚔

• AKA: The Warlord
• Used for the Arena
• Practice boss fights (maybe requires recruiting the Summoner as well?)
• Practice fighting enemies
• Summon players for PvP Duels

The Stylist ✄

• Used for changing one's appearance - hair, body, armor transmogrification, colors & dyes.

The Priestess ☥

• Allows one to be resurrected, reappearing at the Guild Hall after death, losing progress, but continuing play.
• Choosing to not recruit this NPC creates a “one-life run” in which the first death ends the game.
• After a quest, offers the 'Life Ankh' item, which allows one to resurrect at the entrance to a dungeon or the nearest campsite during an adventure. This item can be replaced with better version of the Life Ankh with further questing for the Priestess.

The Paladin

• Allows one to 'consecrate' a dungeon floor, preventing monster spawns, and facilitating easier revisits of long dungeons.

The Chronicler 🕮

• Allows the player to find quests and track quest completion.
• Unlocks the 'Journal' option in the menu, allowing the player to take notes on their game.

The Hacker 🖳

• Allows the player to cheat.
• Unlocks the use of the terminal, into which console commands may be entered.

The Trailblazer / Ranger

• Unlocks the use a fast-travel system using trails and roads - unlocking fast-travel over land.

The Captain ⛵

• Unlocks the use a fast-travel system using boats - unlocking fast-travel over rivers and oceans.

The Balloonist

• Unlocks the use a fast-travel system using hot-air balloons and dirigibles - unlocking fast-travel anywhere in the world.

The Aethernaut 🚀

• Unlocks the use a fast-travel system using rockets - unlocking fast-travel to other worlds.

The numbers associated with resources are more like character levels than an expendable number of units in stock. Resources don't represent how much of that resource you have in stock, instead they represent the degree of quality of item that can be crafted. For example, if one had 10 wood, one could craft basic, starting gear - wooden sword, short bow, stick arrows, and any quantity they wanted. But, if one had 1,000 wood and 1,000 metal, one could craft a greater variety of equipment and at a higher quality. In either case, the numbers representing resources don't go down.

Resource name ideas: Arowood (arrow), Amowood (ammunition, ammo), Tolwood (tools), Heftwood (handles, haft), Magewood