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You maintain continuity by activating a ready-to-activate protégé backup, which steps in when a main character dies or retires, preserving narrative stakes and player investment while allowing the story to continue with a new hero.

A protégé backup is a secondary character created when your main character reaches level 3, starting two levels behind. The protégé gains experience from adventures to stay relevant and can be flexibly woven into the storyline as an apprentice, clone, AI backup, family member, or trusted crewmate.

Switching to your backup character is restricted to post-death or retirement moments. This limitation preserves game balance by preventing mid-adventure character swapping while allowing equipment and resource inheritance upon the narrative transition.

To set up a protégé, create one when your main character reaches level 3 and define its progression and inheritance rules. Choose a relationship model like apprentice, clone, AI backup, or family member to integrate the protégé into the storyline.

Your backup character inherits equipment and resources upon transition when the main character dies or retires, ensuring the new hero is adequately equipped to continue the campaign without losing progress.

Your protégé starts two levels behind your main character. Creation is triggered when the main character reaches level 3, and the protégé subsequently gains experience from adventures to stay relevant throughout the campaign.