Free time: weekly activities, Motivation, and opening hours

Leave for quests and exploration, returning on Sunday for weekly activities by default. ::: Fixing limited-use activities into a routine lets you focus on destinations and deadlines outside town, instead of reconsidering every system on every tile. Make Sunday your default return day, while prioritizing quests and paralogues that actually expire. Outside town you can expand the map and fight encounters and dungeons; if you return early, use inn automatic activities to adjust the date. Add gifts for recruitment targets, then theater and Thermae when available. Optimize one activity at a time; you need not maximize every activity from the start.

Schedule weekly gifts and meals early if you have a recruitment target. Check their bond and negotiation conditions, then group quests, purchases, and exploration in the same direction. Plan half-price training for Saturday or Sunday, and check bond requirements per target.

Even with plenty of time left, do not automate straight to the main battle. Stop automatic activities at next Sunday’s midnight, check available activities, then continue. If training is closed at midnight, use a short automatic activity to advance to daytime. Sunday is the checkpoint for refreshed opportunities; daytime is when some facilities open. Saving one menu operation is not worth skipping later weeks’ training and recruitment bond opportunities.

What exactly does each weekly allowance count?#

Allowances reset Sunday at 0:00. Gifting one character does not stop you gifting another, and finishing one training menu does not exhaust the others. Divine Service shares one use across all temples; watching and performing at the theater share one use. Mounts can be fed once daily; see mounts. Spectating follows the calendar’s specific events.

Save Motivation recovery for those who need it#

Each character has three segments, and cannot train or perform Divine Service without Motivation. If only one character needs it, use a liked gift. After several spend it, use dining or lodging. Lodging costs one turn but restores everyone’s HP, spells, and Motivation together. Activity order:

Main-story progression fully restores Motivation. Do not pay solely to fill it immediately before entering a main battle, but finish any remaining weekly training first. Good Divine Service or training results may refund Motivation. Check the result before planning the next meal rather than relying only on your pre-activity estimate. See skill ranks for detailed training rules and bonds for food preferences and relationship development.

Feast unlocks and costs#

Feasts use ingredients on the world map to restore participants’ HP and spell uses and improve their bonds. They unlock at Renown 2 and cost 1 turn each. Hold them at pot icons during expeditions. Recovery varies with ingredient type and quantity. You cannot hold another Feast when HP and spell uses are both full. Any remaining missing spell use allows another, even at full HP. Choose different ingredients for resupply and bond farming.

Ingredients determine HP and spell recovery#

Ingredient, per portion	HP restored per participant	Spell uses restored
Sand-Boar Meat	5	0
Yarc Meat	5	0
Kusarik Meat	10	0
Louse Meat	5	0
Sandbael Meat	10	0
Sandworm Meat	15	0
Sea-Beast Meat	15	0
Wolf Meat	5	0
Rukh Meat	15	0
Paradise Fish	20	5

For example, one portion each of Sand-Boar Meat, Kusarik Meat, and Yarc Meat restores 20 HP per person and 0 spell uses. Adding more of these meats cannot restore spells during long expeditions. Choose an ingredient with spell recovery instead. For HP alone, combine quantities to cover the deficit without wasting excess materials. Paradise Fish is also required to recruit Ninae. Reserve the delivery quantity before using surplus for recovery. Choose ingredients according to whether you need HP or spell uses this time.

Keep one spell use missing for repeated Feasts#

For continued exploration, restore the HP and spells needed for combat. For focused bond farming among recruited companions, use only ingredients that do not restore spells. During a long expedition, replenish at a nearby Feast point when HP or spells run low, then continue. For focused bond farming:

If you replay, bonds remain, while gold, items, experience, and other chapter progress return to the start. Schedule a dedicated bond-building round before the run in which you advance the main story. ::: Wait until your desired companions are recruited so one investment covers more participants. With multiple forces in Part 3, gather the participating forces on the same Feast tile before starting.

Feasts and the other two dining activities#

Activity	Participants and relationships	Main costs and limits	Best use
World-map Feast	Participating recruited companions with one another	Ingredients + 1 turn each; unavailable when HP and spells are full	Expedition supplies, or focused team bonds with one spell use left missing
Town inn dining	3 per table; unrecruited targets can join after a first gift; develops all three pairs	Gold; each dish once per week; dining itself costs no turns	Build protagonist–target bonds before recruitment and recover based on dish preferences
Pale Raven perch interaction	One character builds a relationship with Eshmel	1 ingredient; once per week, responding to three lines	Specifically raise the chosen character’s bond with Eshmel

See inn dining for seating and menus before recruitment, and Pale Raven answers for responses. Both have their own weekly allowances; repeated Feast eligibility does not replace those limits.

Temple auspicious days and opening hours are separate#

Auspicious days affect Divine Service rewards; opening hours determine facility access. Sunday's 0:00 reset only refreshes allowances; wait for facilities to open.

Reserve daytime for training. If trying to fit in a late-night visit, check the current facility menu first. Without a particular auspicious day to catch, concentrating activities on Sunday is easy to remember. See temples and Blessings for choices.

Check what you will lose before replaying a chapter#

“Replay chapter” returns you to chapter start: turns, money, inventory, levels, and other chapter progress roll back, while bond values remain. Dining and replaying can keep accumulating bonds. See bonds for the steps. If you only want to wait for Sunday, spend an appropriate number of turns on inn automatic activities. You need not replay a whole chapter for an ordinary weekly reset. See the world map for map time and countdown-zero conditions.

Track weekly allowances, Motivation, and turns separately#

Missing one ordinary weekly activity does not require replaying the chapter. Protect timed quests first, then choose activities for your team’s needs. :::