Let the companions with low smithing do the smelting. They will quickly get to 25 where they can become your charcoal or iron ore refiners. Have them melt all that junk you get from looters. A companion with smithing skill has a greater than 50% chance of having the wrong Perks. Here’s how to recruit a companion in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord: Go to a major settlement – a town/city, not a small village. Choose “Go to the tavern district”. Choose “Visit the tavern” to walk into the tavern. More likely than not, a companion will be there, sometimes leaning against the wall Theoretically, once you made a vassal out of a companion, he is not anymore a companion, so I guess you should be able to create an infinite number of vassals - as long as you have fief to give them. In my last sandbox game I made a vassal-clan from a companion usually every two castles I conquered (kept all towns for my own clan), so at I just found out : focus points are gained every level, but attribute points are every 3 levels. It is written in the tooltip when you hover over your number of points, on the top left corner. You get companions pre levelled to a certain point, but you should be able to pick focus and perks from there on as they level. How to Raise Your Companion Limit. The first clan tier starts with a limit of up to four companions. The only way to raise your limit is by upgrading your clan tier. Each upgrade comes with an To hire a companion, you will need to find a town large enough to have a Tavern. These will be denoted on the map as large castles with some outer walls. Double click on the town to enter, then Daikyu are well over two meters, and the asymmetry reportedly makes them quite manageable on a horse, able to be taken from side to side and so on. Fascinating stuff. The idea of using a 6 foot bow on horseback makes me chuckle. Other cultures have used the equivalent of longbows on horseback, look at my samurai post. Where to Find Companions. You can quickly find Bannerlord companions by going into a town, pressing the N key to open the Encyclopedia, going into the Heroes tab, and checking the Wanderer option. All the possible wanderer companions in the game will now appear before you, and you can just click on them to see exactly where they are located. Other times (more common), you'll need to pay anywhere from 100k to over 2 million. This can be circumvented by recruiting lords with the Honor trait or by recruiting lords with which you have >30 relation (as of 1.4.0). These lords will join you for free. Stop chopping heads off, release nobels when you capture it. The only thing I could think of was to get her father to marry her off. Took me 26k gold and I'm married now. Never tried it again after that but it seems they can be married off like that. If your relation is much better, it will be cheaper. Save the clan leader from prison, and you can get a young thing on the cheap. DmMegIo.