Worker

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Foresight, a well-known worker group

Worker (請負人 (ワーカー) Wākā) is a job similar to an adventurer. However, they receive and complete requests on their own without going through the Adventurer's Guild. In a way, their job is mainly aligned with illegal business practices.

Introduction

Workers were people who couldn't make it as proper adventurers and thus were faced with both derision and caution from others. Though not all workers were shady characters. Among the workers, a certain number of people had first become adventurers because they admired the heroes in fairy tales. Though eventually they discovered that payments were the only things they should have absolute faith in.

Although most of the workers selected this job to just earn more money than normal adventurers, a few of them became workers to help the people or to satisfy their own passion for dangerous explorations. This is through using illegal means such as without being strictly bound by the rules of the Adventurer's Guild or a respective country.

On the other hand, workers do not receive informational or administrative support from the Adventurer's Guild. Therefore, they must not only investigate the difficulty of a quest but also analyze the risk and reward involved by themselves. This independence from a recognized body, makes the risk quite high, so much so that it bolsters the career of a worker, proving their strength and discernment. Because of this, there were cases where a lack of intel led to deaths, and there were many cases of former adventurers dying within a year of becoming a worker.

Workers sometimes had to fight against adventurers in their line of occupation.

Chronology

The Dark Warrior Arc

Main article: The Dark Warrior Arc

In E-Rantel, Clementine hired some workers to survey the house of the Bareare workshop. However, after they complete their task, she kills the three she hired out of bloodlust. She then uses a mind-control skill on the last one to have him obey her and help bring the corpses to the cemetery for Khajiit Dale Badantel to reanimate as zombies.

The Invaders of the Large Tomb Arc

Main article: The Invaders of the Large Tomb Arc

Workers investigating a tomb

From the Baharuth Empire, four worker groups: Foresight, Dragon Hunt, Heavy Masher, and Tenmu volunteered to explore and investigate the mysterious Large Tomb. Fighting battles against the inhabitants of Nazarick, they were used as test subjects for the security system whether it is working properly or not. However, they were not strong enough and were all easily eliminated by the monsters dwelling in Nazarick. A few of the survivors were captured and suffered fates worse than death.

The Ruler of Conspiracy Arc

Main article: The Ruler of Conspiracy Arc

The demise of Six Arms had reached the attention of several low ranking workers of the security department. Seeing this as an opportunity, the workers attempted to overthrow the Executive Council of Eight Fingers. In response, the Executive Council sent in one of their newest assets, an undead warrior from the Sorcerer Kingdom. The undead violently suppressed the uprising killing all forty conspirators and ended the uprising as soon as it started.

The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains Arc

Main article: The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains I and The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains II Arc

At the Free City of Vadis, the worker team Fist headed out to the Katze Plains on a routine undead subjugation. Accompanying them was a inspector who would tally the kills of the team, along with four porters. The team's destination was Broken Tower 1, but on the way they were confronted by six Grave Dead at the edge of the plains. The undead though were defeated and the party resumed their course towards the Broken Tower.

The workers arrived in the vicinity of the Broken Tower, but noticing the lack of signal flags of it being occupied, and aware that two previous teams went ahead of them, the team suspected that there was something wrong.

Upon entering the area of the Broken Tower, they saw that it had been attacked. From the bodies they determined that what attacked the deceased was a Skeletal Dragon, possibly pursuing its victims from the depths of the plains. As the workers busied burying the dead and giving them Rites of Vigil, the same Skeletal Dragon appeared and attacked the workers.

The workers believed that they could fight just one Skeletal Dragon and planned a coordinated attack and defense. But it became a different matter, when two more Skeletal Dragons appeared. Before the undead dragons could destroy Fist, the adventurer team of Darkness appeared and rescued the workers.

After the rescue, the workers of Fist thanks Momon and his comrades. After learning of his mission to located the Ghost Ship of Katze Plains, they wished him luck, retreating back to Vadis to inform the authorities of the anomalous appearances of the three Skeletal Dragons.

Later while atop the walls of Vadis, Fist concluded that there was something nefarious happening in the Katze Plains and that the Sorcerer Kingdom was in the center of it. And suspected that the mission Momon and his team were given was just a ploy to execute him within the Katze Plains. However imagine there shock when they saw the Ghost Ship, emerge from the fog and head towards the Sorcerer Kingdom, with Momon and Nabe riding onboard.

To the workers they believed that they just witnessed a heroic tale, seeing the adventurer succeed in overcoming a ploy of the Sorcerer Kingdom. Although they expressed confusion on the presence of the giant crab onboard.

Known Worker Groups 

• Foresight (Dissolved)
• Dragon Hunt (Dissolved)
• Heavy Masher (Dissolved)
• Tenmu (Dissolved)
• Blazing Crimson
• New Six Arms (Mass for the Dead Only)
• Fist

Trivia

• Workers were different from adventurers; they formed parties based on the power of money and useful relationships.
• They are called "dropouts" among the adventurers. If adventurers are unable to obey the rules, then their only alternative is to become a worker.
• Unlike workers, the adventurers are forbidden from using healing magic on common people unless a certain fee is paid to the Adventurer's Guild.
• The existence of workers can be described as working only for the money. As a result, they are willing to ignore regulations and often make a mess of things for that reason alone. However, there are also other known cases, where they have brought benefits to people's welfare, such as the creation of cheaper medicines.