Top Gifts and Hangouts for Clarice in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

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When you dive into Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, the narrative may feel brief at first since your primary goal is to locate the gods and restore their powers. Yet, once you accomplish this feat, you’ll find there’s a wealth of story left to explore, as you’ll meet the major antagonists.

Overview of Clarice and Where to Find Her

Clarice plays a crucial role in the storyline, making her one of the toughest characters to unlock. Even after she becomes available, establishing a romantic connection with her can be challenging, but her unique personality makes the effort worthwhile.

At the start, you’ll notice that the profiles in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma are mostly filled with question marks. As you unlock various villages and advance the plot, these marks become identifiable characters. However, Clarice’s mark will remain hidden for quite some time.

As the game progresses, she’ll emerge as the final boss. You’ll need to activate specific shrines that bear the weight of the gods to receive their assistance in battles. After activating these shrines, you’ll traverse the Dragon’s Tomb and face several bosses, many of whom are loyal allies of Clarice.

These bosses include loyal companions of Clarice that you’ll encounter throughout your journey, with at least one being quite significant.

Once you’ve defeated these companions and reached the end of your journey, you will confront Clarice herself. Following this battle, a lengthy dialogue will unfold, leading to the villagers accepting Clarice as one of their own, thus unlocking her. Afterward, you can find her house in the bottom right corner of the Winter Village, next to Zaza’s smithy.

If you rest in the Winter Village, you can spot her leaving her home every morning, making it easier to hang out and strengthen your bond with her. Later in the day, Clarice often visits both Spring and Winter Villages, and you might catch her in other areas too.

Look for her icon in the top right corner of a village to see her current location.

Top Gifts and Hangouts for Clarice

However, these methods provide minimal bonding progress. The best way to build your connection is by spending time together each day, either by giving her a gift or participating in specific hangout events. Keep in mind that engaging in these activities will consume part of your day.

Gifting her takes 30 minutes, while other hangouts can range from 10 to 60 minutes.

Each character has their preferences, which affects the bond value you’ll gain. For instance, gifting Clarice a regular present may earn you a bond value of 8 or 13, but her favorite gifts can offer you 16 or 24 points. Similarly, the bond value from other hangouts can vary, and some activities could decrease your bond if she doesn’t enjoy them.

Best Gifts for Clarice

Type	Name	How to Acquire
Loves	Fur (L)	This is Clarice’s top gift, easy to find once you know how. You can get it by taming a high-level Woolby and having a villager who loves animals assigned to its barn.
	Wooly Pancakes	To get this unique recipe, bond with Clarice until level six, then cook Pancakes together.
	Spring Herald	Another special recipe, which requires cooking with Ulalaka to make Red Beans and Fruit Soup.
	Felicity Cake	This unique recipe can be obtained while making Zwiebelkuchen with Clarice.
Likes	Fur (S)	You can obtain these by defeating Woolbies or taming them; they make great gifts after the large Fur.
	Fur (M)
	Potato Salad	The recipe for this dish can be found from a Frog Statue in Spring Village.
	Meat ‘n Potatoes	This recipe is also acquired in Spring Village, but you’ll need the Sacred Parasol, which is located on the Isolated Islet to the southeast.
	Marinated Sardines	All marinated recipes can be sourced from various frog statues or as rewards from the Frog Statue quest-giver. To create them, you’ll need Olive Oil and Vinegar along with the item you want to marinate.
	Marinated Squid
	Marinated Octopus
	Marinated Turnips
	Marinated Mushrooms
	Zwiebelkuchen	This recipe can be obtained later from the Frog Statue quest-giver after interacting with nearly all the frog statues.

Best Hangouts with Clarice

Generally, it’s wise to avoid most hangouts with Clarice since she feels indifferent about them. However, if you have the chance to “Gush about the latest fixation,” go for it; it’s quick and she enjoys it. On the other hand, steer clear of “Discuss combat” or “Tell a joke” hangouts.

Clarice in Combat

Once you reach bond level one, you can add Clarice to your party and take her into battle. This is a key reason to focus on a character’s bond beyond just romance, as Clarice is primarily an attack-type character. As her bond level increases, she unlocks various abilities and recipes:

Bond Level	Effect Unlocked
1	Unlocks the Rising Dragon skill, dealing significant damage.
2	Unlocks the Light Blade skill for high light damage.
3	Unlocks Homing Swords, letting her target enemies directly.
4	Unlocks Light Pillars, allowing her to shoot light beams in a straight line.
5	Grants the recipe for the Commander’s Cap.
6	Grants the recipe for Clarice’s Saber.
7	Unlocks the Armor Crusher skill, reducing enemy DEF by 15%.
8	Unlocks Focus Stance, boosting her Crit Rate by 40%.
9	Unlocks Spinning Swords, creating a damaging circle of swords around her.
10	Unlocks the Ultimate Godslayer skill, allowing her to unleash the Art of Despair for heavy AoE damage.

As the final unlocked character, Clarice can deliver severe damage to foes while also enhancing your offensive capabilities.

Guide to Marrying Clarice

If you’re considering a romantic partnership with Clarice in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, you must first achieve bond level ten with her and complete all her bond quests up to level nine. Then, cultivate the Plum Branch and create Divine Spirits to invite her to the Fateweaver Shrine.

Once you do this, you will be married the next time you sleep, and she’ll ask if you want children five days later. If you agree, your first child will arrive in ten days, and you can continue with the main story. If you decline, she’ll ask again in another five days.