Quest Units

Endorsi is the only named dungeon NPC you can recruit in the current build. She is a monster hunter working The Veil of Silence and doubles as a travelling merchant (her later talks open a trade stock). Her chain is a series of hunt quests - Hunt Mawmurk → Hunt White Mawmurk → Hunt AlphaAcidSlogel → Hunt Elder Gloth - each followed by a report-back talk with item rewards. Reporting the final hunt (Elder Gloth Hunt Complete) runs SpawnUnitPresetBase_Endrossi (choice ChoiceN22000) - she moves to your base as a recruit candidate. Recruit her there via Talk to Endorsi to finish the chain.

Where she spawns: she waits in her own event room (Common_Event_Endrossi) and only offers new hunts while you are inside The Veil of Silence. Once the Giant Stone Golem is killed her dungeon spawn is blocked and she relocates to the Festering Burrow safe floor (reward / trade / recruit dialogue only).

Full step-by-step walkthrough: Endorsi - Recruitment card.

The base random event Request to Join can grant a free random settler: accepting the request runs the RandomRecruit action (choice ChoiceR3000), which generates one new recruit exactly like a normal candidate roll - race, background and traits all random.

Conditions: fires at your base (not in the dungeon); requires at least one living settler; repeatable with an event cooldown of 4320. CurrentMap_Base && HasPopulation && Cooldown_Random3_4320

“A raven quietly flies through the thorned vines and lands upon your forearm.
Its eyes slowly begin to glow with a faint blue light. “There is someone who insists on joining your expedition, no matter what. I warned the…”

A prodigy blessed with extraordinary talent from a young age, burdened by the expectations of others.

What others spend a lifetime achieving came naturally to him.

A fully authored Background trait (Common, recruit clan-rank requirement 1) that is absent from every race's background pool - none of the 7 race rows list it in AvailableBackgroundTraits, so no generated recruit can ever roll it. A future tri-element mage/archer background waiting to be switched on.

Trait page: AFFECTER_Prodigy

The Early-Access roadmap - the in-game Developer’s Letter event, opened by using the Developer's Letter item - names exactly one character: “Balance adjustments, including the starting traits of 'Lowell'”.

Who is Lowell? He is not a new character waiting in the files - he is the campaign's default starting warrior: every campaign scenario starts you with the “Basic Warrior” candidate preset named Lowell (CADIDATEPRESET_BuildWarrior, CADIDATEPRESET_BasicWarrior), and he is the companion who wakes you in the intro. What is future here is his announced starting-trait rework: no reworked traits or stats exist in the DS_B.0.3.26 data yet.

Loading-screen lore: “When Lowell worked as a guard, he would often run up tabs at taverns. The last one he left before coming to the Barren Land will likely remain unpaid for a long time-perhaps forever.”

Korean sources write him as 로월; the official English localization uses “Lowell” (sometimes romanized “Rowell”).

Each race row pairs its AvailableBackgroundTraits list with parallel BackgroundTraitWeights. A weight of 0 means the background sits in the pool but is never rolled - generated recruits can't get it, and no authored recruit preset uses these either, so in DS_B.0.3.26 they are effectively unobtainable. The 10 backgrounds below are fully authored (names, effects, skill-tree affinities) and just need a non-zero weight to go live.

Background	Pooled with weight 0 by	Effects
MessengerAFFECTER_Messenger	Human · Lizardman · Elf · Lycan (unreleased race)	+10 Movement Speed-20% Max Weight
MinerAFFECTER_Miner	Human · Lizardman · Elf · Lycan (unreleased race)	+20% Mining Capability-20% Research Capability
UndertakerAFFECTER_Undertaker	Human · Lizardman · Elf · Lycan (unreleased race)	+10 Magic Resistance-10 Physical Resistance
BlacksmithAFFECTER_Blacksmith	Human · Lizardman · Elf	+20% Crafting Capability-20% Cooking Capability
CarpenterAFFECTER_Carpenter	Human · Lizardman · Elf	+20% Logging Capability-20% Mining Capability
DeserterAFFECTER_Deserter	Human · Lizardman · Elf	+10% Critical Chance-20% Critical Damage Bonus
MageAFFECTER_Mage	Human · Lizardman · Elf	+10% Magic Damage Dealt-10% Physical Damage Dealt
DruidAFFECTER_Druid	Elf	+1 Nature Magic Skill Aptitude-1 Fire Magic Skill Aptitude
GardenerAFFECTER_Gardener	Elf	+15 Magic Resistance-50% Exp Gained Bonus
ScoutAFFECTER_Scout	Elf	+1 Bow Skill Aptitude-1 Blunt Skill Aptitude

The TraitTable defines exactly 3 traits with TypeName == "Soul" - the working monster Soul Stones. The dev roadmap flags monster capturing/ranching as a fast-follow Early-Access feature, and these soul traits are the visible groundwork toward tamed monster units: today each grants a single settler effect (one Soul trait per character), while the other soul stones remain inert collectibles.

Red Monster Rat Soul Uncommon (from Red Monster Rat, via Red Monster Rat Soul Stone)

Learns the skill Bloody Scratch.

Each character can equip only 1 Soul Trait.
If already owned, it will be overwritten.

Alpha Acid Slogel Soul Uncommon (from Alpha Acid Slogel, via Alpha Acid Slogel Soul Stone)

Gain 10 Shell when HP falls below 30%. This effect triggers only once per floor.

Each character can equip only 1 Soul Trait.
If already owned, it will be overwritten.

Giant Stone Golem Soul Rare (from Giant Stone Golem, via Giant Stone Golem Soul Stone)

Each time you take damage, stacks increase.
For each stack, Damage Dealt increases by 2% and Damage Taken decreases by 2%.
Stacks reset after combat ends.

Each character can equip only 1 Soul Trait.
If already owned, it will be overwritten.

Full soul-stone catalog and taming status: Gated Content - Soul-Stone Taming.