Everwind NPC Guide: Merchants, Settlers, and Guards

Everwind's world is populated by three types of friendly NPCs: Settlers who inhabit the various island communities, Merchants who buy and sell items, and Guards who protect settlements from enemy incursions. Understanding how to interact with each NPC type maximizes your economic efficiency and opens up quest opportunities.

Settlers

Settlers are the ordinary inhabitants of Everwind's scattered island communities. They serve as the backbone of the game's social world, giving the floating islands a sense of inhabited life beyond the player's own base. Interacting with Settlers may trigger tutorial prompts, provide contextual lore about the world, or open minor quest options related to local needs and problems.

Merchants

The Merchant NPC is among the most important characters in the game. Merchants buy unwanted items for coin and sell a rotating selection of goods that complement what you can craft yourself. Key merchant purchases include rare food ingredients, specific crafting components that are difficult to farm, high-tier key variants, and occasionally unique items not obtainable through normal crafting.

Regularly visiting merchants and selling excess loot is important for building up currency, which in turn enables purchasing the most expensive merchant-exclusive items. Skull trophies from Mortivar enemies are reliable merchant trade goods that maintain consistent value throughout the game.

Guards

Guards protect the settlements of Everwind from enemy faction attacks, particularly from Mortivar raids. They serve as an indicator of a settlement's current safety status: a settlement with active guards is secure, while one whose guards have been defeated may soon face enemy occupation. Players can support guards during attacks for additional reputation and potential reward.

Quest System Basics

The game's four tutorial quests introduce the core gameplay loops: learning to fly an airship, smelting metals at the Furnace, repairing equipment, and cooking food. These quests provide practical hands-on training for the mechanics that underpin all of Everwind's progression systems, and completing them unlocks access to more advanced NPC interactions.