This article is about NPC followers. For the faction, see Companions faction. For quest-related followers, see Followers. You can build a relationship with them to unlock their questline. Fighting alongside your Companion will improve their effectiveness and taking actions they approve of will allow you to build rapport. As you earn their trust and strengthen your bonds of fellowship, your Companion may share personal quests with you.
You may also give them Companion-specific gear and customize them in a wide variety of ways, including setting their abilities, mounts, costumes, outfits and more. If you have access to the respective chapter or DLC except if you only have access due to an ESO Plus free trial , you can meet a Companion during the first quest of their questline. Once the first quest is completed, that Companion collectible will be added to your account, but may only be summoned when logged in as a character who has completed the quest - other characters attempting to use the collectible will be given the quest instead.
A player may have only one Companion or Assistant active at a time; summoning a Companion will also unsummon any active Assistant and vice versa. Summoning a Companion takes several seconds for them to appear, during which no other Companion or Assistant may be summoned. In population-limited instances such as dungeons, group arenas and trials, each Companion present counts toward the population cap as if they were a player.
Players will always take priority and Companions will be auto-dismissed as players zone in. Companions cannot be summoned in PvP areas, solo arenas or in housing instances.
They also cannot be summoned while if the summoning character has not yet completed the associated introductory quest, even if the collectible has been unlocked by another character. Companions cannot normally be summoned while you are in combat, but if you summon a non-Companion assistant such as a banker or merchant , they will replace your current Companion, and when you put the assistant away, the Companion will return, even if you are in combat.
