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Description

Oath: Contractor is one of the 16 obtainable Oaths in Deepwoken. This Oath offers varying combat abilities ranging from gap closers, counters and ranged grabs allowing for a versatile and offensive playstyle. Together with Oathless, Linkstrider, Fadetrimmer and Dawnwalker, it is one of 5 Oaths that have no direct stat requirements.

“ Then you are bound to me. As one of my strings, you are to descend into the depths and extinguish the souls of those who have given their oaths to others. These heathens are to be dealt with promptly. ”

― Zi'eer

The Oath allows you to manipulate the Puppet Strings of Zi'eer. You Vow yourself with the malevolent King of Etrea, and to The Ministry by extension, as a Contractor in order to assist Zi'eer in his plan to eventually sink Etrea into The Depths, causing another Great Drowning in the process. You become a puppet to The Ministry, literally and figuratively.

Obtainment

1. Get neutral or positive reputation with The Ministry. You can check your reputation at a campfire. Go more towards positive to be safe. - This can be done after killing Duke Erisia.
   • You can either get this through Emel, Imel, and Rimil's bounties if you choose, but you can also help the Ministry out in Summer Isle. A good way to do this is to knock and carry one Ministry Scout, waiting for the nomads to kill the other, and then assassinate them. This is far less efficient than doing bounties, only giving around half the reputation each completion.
   • You must help the Ministry 5 times (assuming you are starting with base Ministry reputation) at Summer Isle for them to not see worth fighting you anymore.
   • The Bounty version of the Ministry takes about 4-5 kills. You need to deal approximately 60% of the dmg to the target and deaths caused by environmental causes such as Blood Loss or Starvation will not count.
   • You can also get this by trading knowledge with Soothsayer (require atleast 10 knowledge to have neutral reputation with The Ministry).
   • It is also advised to avoid killing Ministry Scouts if you're looking to acquire this Oath, in order to keep your rep with ministry as neutral as possible.
2. Start the Duke Erisia questline. Proceed to get kill credit for the Duke. (Do note that abandoning the quest locks you out of contractor [needs more testing) (Second dialogue is NOT required for the Duke Erisia questline)
3. Go to the Lord Regent and choose the special dialogue “Bite your tongue". (This step is not required; it is safer to simply never talk to the Lord Regent until you have done everything listed below instead.)
4. Make a deal with 4 different Deep Shrines. Any Shrine except the Shrine of Solitude, Shrine of Mastery and Shrine of Order (stat allocation) works, including those in the Temple of Hearts. (As of right now using the Shrine of Mastery to re-evaluate your stats doesn't work.)
5. Unlock your Resonance.
6. Go to the Depths and talk to Yun'Shul's shrine. Ask it "What happened to this place?" (NOTE THAT THIS REQUIRES THE 4 DEEP SHRINE DEALS FIRST , NO YUNSHUL WISHES MADE BEFORE ON THE SLOT)
7. Go back to Regent and select "No, but I know of your true nature. I know you intend to repeat what happened in Celtor by drowning Etris." When he asks "...are you here to stop me?...", afterwards select "No, I came to join you.". If you click the option that says you want to stop him, you WILL NOT be softlocked from obtaining Contractor but he will kill you upon choosing that dialogue. You are allowed to go back to him to click the option to join him should you change your mind.

For a more in-depth walkthrough, consider watching this video or consider using this guide.

Contractor is not reobtainable if you Oathbreak it, as Lord Regent will instantly kill you if you enter his room.

Progression

As tasked by The Lord Regent, to obtain the Talents and mantras, you must grip players with Oaths in Layer 1, Scyphozia. (Works on Friends and Guildmates and works with people with oathless) This will send them to Layer 2 (note this will not happen to pathfinders). Pack tactics cannot be used: you must be the sole contributor of damage or they will not count.

• 1st Grip - Hidden Tendril and Lords Slice
• 2nd Grip - Equalizer
• 3rd Grip - String Trick and Judgement

Alternatively you may spend 10 knowledge to immediately max out the Oath. This is only possible if you have already completed the Oath progression normally at least once after the 26/04/2024 update, or you have logged in on an already progressed Contractor slot after that date.