Basic Information | Caravan The Banner Saga Guide

Making a good decision may result in increasing the number of units in caravan.

All the gameplay in The Banner Saga is centered around watching caravans travelling around the game world and visiting locations. In the beginning you'll watch two caravans, later on they will merge into one. Each caravan consists of:

• Heroes - only these characters may actively appear in battles;
• Clansmen;
• Fighters;
• Varl.

Of course people from the caravan who aren't in the active party also matter. Maybe except Clansmen, because taking more of them with you does not give you more profits. In case of Fighters and Varl, having more of them improves general strength of the caravan. It affects its effectiveness in warfare (described at the end of this chapter).

Make-up of the caravan changes quite often and usually you decide about it. You can get new heroes, clansmen, fighters and Varl mainly as a result of conversations and decisions made in some events (the walkthrough describes all of them). It works both ways, making wrong decisions, spending all supplies or being defeated in a battle may reduce the caravan, sometimes you may even lose few dozen people.