Contract

A contract is an item used to summon a vendor, guard, or other non-playing character personnel in a city. Contracts may be found for guards, weaponsmiths, armorsmiths, tailors, sages, votaries, bankers, runemasters, senechals, artillery captains, and merchants. Some contracts are considered extremely rare and valuable due to the high quality of items they can produce, for example, a Vampire Tailor is possibly the single item of highest value in Shadowbane due to its ability to create items with double Constitution effects.

List of Available Racial NPC Contracts

These racial NPCs are available to all would-be city builders to place in their buildings.

• Amazon, available from random mob drops in bog or swamp areas such as Phaedra's Prize.
• Centaur, available from random mob drops in plains macrozones such as Derros Plains.
• Dwarf, available from random mob drops in northlands areas such as Doomhorn Skrae.
• Elf, available from random mob drops in forest areas (with Elvish ruins) such as Holloch Forest. Elvish stewards are available from certain epic mob drops.
• Gwendannen, available from random mob drops in woodland areas such as Fellgrim Forest.
• Human, available from human stewards (considered non-racial).
• Invorri, available from random mob drops in mountains areas such as Ymur's Crown.
• Irekei, available from random mob drops in desert areas such as Kharsoom.
• Lizardman, available from random mob drops in bog or swamp areas such as Xektis Bog.
• Minotaur stewards are available from certain epic mob drops.
• Nephilim, available from random mob drops in Maelstrom, and Tainted Swamp macrozones.
• Shade, available from random mob drops in Undead macrozones such as Barrowlands.
• Undead guard captains are available from certain epic mob drops.
• Vampire, available from random mob drops in Oblivion macrozones.

List of Unvailable Racial NPC Contracts

These types of NPCs are rarely seen as they have only been given out in special events.

• Temple guards, which seem to fit the theme of the Temple of the Cleansing Flame; archers and swordsmen in Templar Plate armor and magisters wearing Confessor Armor.
• Forest Guardian guards, which seem to fit the theme of the Ranger's Brotherhood; archers and swordsmen in Hunting Leather and magisters wearing Arch-Druid cloth.
• Aracoix guards, which fit the theme of the Aracoix Kh'ree: Aracoix swordsmen and archers, and Aracoix magisters wearing Warlock cloth.
• Shroud guards, which seem to fit the theme of the Unholy Legion. Their swordsmen and archers are Shades dressed in Assassin Leather armor and their magisters are wearing Necromancer cloth.