How to Recruit Honorary Greymanes in Crimson Desert Charting the Unknown

To recruit Honorary Greymanes in Crimson Desert’s Charting the Unknown DLC, build trust with eligible NPCs, hold a festival at your Greymane camp and speak to the visitors who offer the Recruit interaction.

These additional workers can take suitable dispatch assignments and staff facilities, helping you keep more activities running at once. They are particularly useful when a large ship occupies much of your regular roster.

If you are preparing a larger vessel, our Crimson Desert ship guide explains ship construction, upgrades and crew management.

Build relationships with several NPCs before paying for a festival. Trusted NPCs form your pool of potential visitors, so preparing those relationships first gives you more opportunities to recruit during the event.

Give each NPC gifts they like. Small copper money pouches are a useful option for many human NPCs, although you should check their preferences rather than assuming everyone wants the same gift.

Aim for 100 Trust with the NPCs you want to invite. Treat this as a preparation target, rather than a guarantee that every NPC will become recruitable.

Equipment with Trust bonuses can help speed up the process. The Soulmate Ring and suitable Abyss Gear are options if you already have them, but they are not required to begin building relationships.

Work on several potential recruits before returning to camp. Spending the festival resources after befriending only one or two NPCs gives you fewer visitors to recruit.

Open your camp’s dispatch menu and check the construction missions for festival preparation. The festival is available at Howling Hill or the Pailune camp, depending on where you are based and your camp progression.

Budget for the following preparation costs, and confirm the requirements in your mission panel:

• 13,000 Wood
• 43,000 Food
• 35,000 Camp Funds
• An 18-hour preparation timer

Start the dispatch and return when preparation finishes. A notification and short cinematic introduce the celebration, with decorations, music and visiting NPCs appearing around the festival area.

If the mission is unavailable, check your remaining camp development quests. The Pailune camp may require further progression before its festival becomes available.

Our Charting the Unknown preparation guide covers camp development and other useful preparations.

Walk around the festival and speak to the visiting NPCs. Eligible guests offer a Recruit interaction, which adds them to your roster as Honorary Greymanes.

A salute and recruitment notification confirm that the NPC has joined.

Not every visitor can be recruited. Some guests only attend the celebration, so check their available interactions instead of assuming everyone in a group can become a worker.

The festival lasts for a limited time. Attend while it is active and recruit the available NPCs before moving on to other activities.

Once you have recruited the eligible members of the current group, refresh the visitors to give other trusted NPCs a chance to appear.

You can do this by teleporting back to the festival or saving your game and reloading that save. Check the new group, recruit anyone eligible and repeat while the festival remains active.

Group sizes vary, and refreshing does not guarantee a new recruit each time. Your results still depend on the NPCs you have befriended and whether they are available to visit.

This makes preparation especially valuable. A larger pool of trusted NPCs gives you more potential recruits to encounter during the same festival.

Check each recruit’s skills before assigning them to a facility or dispatch mission. Some Honorary Greymanes have level two or three skills, making them useful additions for jobs that need more experienced workers.

Merchants can be valuable for accounting assignments, while other recruits have skills suited to crafting and production. Match their abilities to the work you need completed.

Honorary Greymanes do not have access to every feature available to regular comrades. Check the assignments each recruit can take before relying on them for a particular role.

For business staffing, production and pricing, our Crimson Desert facilities guide explains how to put your workforce to use.

With your recruits handling suitable work on land, you can free up regular Greymanes for your ship and other demanding assignments.