Elin:Negotiation

Negotiation affects how easy it is to make NPCs like you, which lowers shop prices and increases affinity gain.

Overview

The negotiation skill can be learned from the trainer in the Merchants Guild.

Raising it will affect the prices of items bought and sold by the player, as well as Affinity gains and losses, allowing the player to befriend NPCs more easily. Befriending NPCs can allow the player to recruit useful or interesting people and creatures to their homes as residents. For more details, see the Ally page.

Shop Discounts

Increasing your negotiation level will grant an automatic discount to shop prices.

Negotiation level	Discount %
6	5%
25	10%
56	15%
100	20%
156	25%
225	30%
306	35%
400	40%
506	45%
625	50%

Affinity Levels

Raising your negotiation will affect how many points an NPCs affinity raises during talking or brushing. For more details, please see the Affinity page.

Training Negotiation

Negotiation can be raised by speaking with NPCs and choosing the option 'Let's talk.', which raises or lowers their affinity level depending on your success. A higher charisma attribute or negotiation level is more likely to result in a positive result. Brushing an NPC does not grant negotiation experience (instead granting taming experience and the possibility of them attacking you), but a player's negotiation level will increase the affinity gain. Taking the feat 'Animal Lover' will allow the player to speak with animals as well as human NPCs.

Buying items from a shopkeeper also increases negotiation experience. The amount gained is affected by the price and quantity of items sold.

Training negotiation will also raise a player's charisma stat.