New units are hired from a pool of candidates that refreshes every 480 in-game minutes. The number and level of candidates scale with clan rank. You can inspect a candidate to reveal hidden talents before you commit.
At a glance
Candidate price
A candidate's price is built from two parts. The level component climbs from about 
120 gold at level 1 to roughly 4'200 at level 12, with a random swing of -30% / +30% on top.
The second part is a handling surcharge for each inscription the candidate already carries, priced by rarity:
- Common inscription: +50 gold
- Uncommon inscription: +100 gold
- Rare inscription: +300 gold
- Legendary inscription: +500 gold
Starting inscriptions and talents
The inscriptions a candidate is born with use the same rarity weights as level-up rolls (807 / 170 / 20 / 3 out of 1000).
A candidate also comes with a talent spread whose tiers sum to roughly 2-5 across the 6 stats.
Race and clan rank
The race that appears depends on clan rank. Every race has a recruit weight per rank in the Clan Ranks table.
Manual rerolls
RecruitRerollAdditionalCost in the same table).Candidate level odds
Each candidate on the board rolls its level and its race separately. A level's chance at a rank is its weight divided by the sum of that rank's level weights (the raw weights are in the Expedition Rank table). A blank cell means that level never appears at that rank. Read from the game code of build 25846389.
| Rank | Candidates per refresh | Lv 1 | Lv 2 | Lv 3 | Lv 4 | Lv 5 | Lv 6 | Lv 7 | Lv 8 | Lv 9 | Lv 10 | Lv 11 | Lv 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Trival | 6 to 7 | 76.9% | 23.1% | ||||||||||
 Insignificant | 7 to 8 | 65.8% | 26.3% | 7.89% | |||||||||
 Common | 8 to 9 | 57.7% | 12.8% | 12.8% | 12.8% | 3.85% | |||||||
 Slightly Known (locked) | 9 to 10 | 61.9% | 9.52% | 9.52% | 9.52% | 9.52% | |||||||
 Reputable (locked) | 10 to 11 | 53.8% | 6.33% | 6.33% | 6.33% | 6.33% | 6.33% | 6.33% | 6.33% | 1.90% | |||
 Wellknown (locked) | 11 to 12 | 53.0% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 5.05% | 1.52% | |
 Legendary (locked) | 12 to 13 | 54.8% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 4.39% | 1.32% |
Early Access (DS_B.0.4.11) raised the level 1 weight at 6 of 7 ranks: rank 2 from 100 to 250, rank 3 from 100 to 450, rank 4 from 100 to 650, rank 5 from 100 to 850, rank 6 from 100 to 1050, rank 7 from 100 to 1250. Unchanged: rank 1 (100).
Races by rank
| Rank | Races that can appear: chance per candidate (weight) |
|---|---|
| Trival |  Human 74.1% (100),  Lizardman 25.9% (35) |
| Insignificant | Human 62.5% (100), Lizardman 21.9% (35),  Elf 15.6% (25) |
| Common | Human 54.1% (100), Lizardman 18.9% (35), Elf 13.5% (25),  Lycan 13.5% (25) |
| Slightly Known | Human 54.1% (100), Lizardman 18.9% (35), Elf 13.5% (25), Lycan 13.5% (25) |
| Reputable | Human 54.1% (100), Lizardman 18.9% (35), Elf 13.5% (25), Lycan 13.5% (25) |
| Wellknown | Human 54.1% (100), Lizardman 18.9% (35), Elf 13.5% (25), Lycan 13.5% (25) |
| Legendary | Human 54.1% (100), Lizardman 18.9% (35), Elf 13.5% (25), Lycan 13.5% (25) |