Quote Originally Posted by Andromeda View Post
I'd like to know what a retainer is though, because that is a $1 while additional characters are $3 per. I'm guessing that a retainer is something like a mule and that SE realizes that most people keep one main and just have storage problems and want bazaars in multiple towns. So they have extra characters not used for actual play. So I thinking that retainers are their solution to giving you the storage and non-main for the same thing. I'd bet that what they can do is going to be limited, but hopefully if it is what I'm saying the retainers will be linked to your main character so you don't have to do a lot of trading. You can just grab out from what you need and they just have a shared money pool or something.
A retainer has two functions. He/she can act as a sort of bank by storing some of your items, similar to the moogle in the mog house. You can also summon your retainer to the market ward and place some items on sale so that players will be able to buy your items while you're offline. You can also set your retainer to buy specific items. In other words he/she will act like a normal vendor.