Dragon Quest IX / Characters

Dragon Quest IX: Characters, custom companions and Stornway services

Identify the main story figures and the people who manage your party.

Edition covered

Guides cover Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies on Nintendo DS, using English item and quest names. Pictures come from Nintendo’s original Japanese release and therefore show Japanese interface text. Core offline play is the focus; discontinued official online services are distinguished from local wireless features.

6 characters · one picture per entry · open a picture for full size.

Characters

Customizable former Celestrian guardian

Hero

Leads the main adventure and party.

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Fairy traveling companion

Stella

Provides guidance and commentary.

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Celestrian mentor

Aquila

Important to the hero’s history and story.

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Innkeeper

Erinn

Central to Stornway’s Quester’s Rest.

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Party organizer

Patty

Recruits and manages companions.

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Alchemy service

Krak Pot

Combines ingredients into new items.

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Quick notes

Separate your party from named story characters. The hero and the companions you recruit at Patty’s are customizable.
Use Stornway as a service hub. The Quester’s Rest brings together recruiting, alchemy and multiplayer-related services.
Plan roles before assigning appearance. A custom companion’s look does not determine whether they must remain a Warrior, Priest or Mage.
Distinguish local features from discontinued online services. The game includes local wireless multiplayer and map sharing alongside features that originally used Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Use Stornway as a service hub

Party-building responsibilities
Need	Where to look	Important distinction
New companion	Patty	Creates a recruit, not a new story protagonist.
Different vocation	Alltrades service	Changes class while preserving old vocation progress.
Better equipment	Shops and alchemy	Current vocation determines what can be equipped.
Recovery supplies	Personal inventories	Items in the shared bag are not freely usable in combat.
Additional human players	Local wireless services	Different from ordinary AI companion recruitment.

Useful tip

Main-campaign companions are custom recruits; do not confuse their class roles with named service characters.

References

Guide references
Reference	Website
Nintendo: Dragon Quest IX overview	www.nintendo.co.jp
Dragon’s Den: vocations and unlock quests	www.woodus.com
DQIX Wiki: skill and vocation mechanics	dqix.wikidot.com
Dragon Quest Wiki: item alchemy recipes	dragon-quest.org