Marriage and Adoption

Marriage seals a bond between two characters, whether as a couple or just for fun between friends, so both players should be sure before going ahead. Both must be over Base Level 45, and neither may be an adopted Baby character.

• Players without VIP status need a Marriage Covenant each instead of the zeny fee. Besides the Kafra Shop, the Wedding Present NPC inside a Prontera shop sells it for zeny.
• Wedding Dresses, Tuxedos and Diamond Rings come from the Wedding Shop Dealers in Prontera and Lighthalzen.

With everything ready, go to Prontera Church in the northeast of the city and talk to the marriage NPC. Either partner may register first; the other must talk to the same NPC within one minute or the application expires. Then both walk to the front of the church, where the priest asks one last time. If both agree, the wedding is done.

Same-gender and inter-species weddings are held in Lasagna through its wedding guide. A couple that registered in Prontera by mistake can sign up again in Lasagna without paying a second time. For a same-gender wedding each partner buys the outfit for their own gender.

After the ceremony both wear formal clothes and cannot attack or use skills for one in-game hour. Many couples then visit the honeymoon town of Jawaii, reached through an NPC near the docks of Izlude. Divorce is also possible.

The Diamond Rings turn into Wedding Rings, which must be identified with a Magnifier first. Only a spouse wearing the ring can use these skills, though it works even if just one of the two has it on. The same NPC that sells the Marriage Covenant can engrave the partner's name on a ring, but this wipes any enchantments on it; Wedding Rings can be enchanted with materials from the Friday instance.

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Romantic Rendezvous	Calls your spouse to you after a 15-second cast. Does not work on maps where a Warp Portal memo is not allowed, such as dungeons and guild war zones.
	Loving Touch	Spend 10% of your HP to restore 10% of your partner's HP.
	Undying Love	Spend 10% of your SP to restore 10% of your partner's SP.
	Love Conquers Death	Revives a fallen family member with 30% HP (not if they have the Undead element).
	Let's Go Family!	Brings family members on the same map and in your party to you. Not usable in instances, but works on maps where Romantic Rendezvous does not.

A married couple can adopt one character, who becomes a Baby class. The child must be a Novice or a first class, and both parents must be level 70 or higher. Invite the child into your party, make sure both parents wear their wedding rings, then one parent right-clicks the child and chooses the adopt option. The child confirms, and the family is formed.

Icon	Family skill	User	Effect
	Mom, Dad, I love you!	Child	Parents lose no EXP on death for 2 minutes; costs 10% of the child's max SP.
	Mom, Dad, I miss you!	Child	Calls the parents to the child.
	Go! Parents Go!	Child	+3 to all of the parents' stats for 60 seconds within 7x7 cells.
	Come to me, honey~	Parent	Calls the child to the parent.

• Perk: the child counts as Small size (so the Knight skill Pierce hits it only once).
• Old perk: the child could share EXP with both parents at any level while all three were in one party on the same map. This was turned off with the level 200 expansion.
• Limit: 75% of normal max HP and SP, and 1200 less carrying capacity.
• Limit: no stat can go above 80 (117 for a third class); stats above 80 turn back into status points on adoption.
• Limit: a Baby cannot rebirth and cannot become a fourth class.
• Limit: adopted Blacksmiths and Alchemists have 50% lower forging and brewing rates.