We'll be a bother about it and refrain from mentioning the identity of the Royal Summoner's Hero just yet — the second section of this guide will be more forthcoming by necessity — but those of you who are familiar with the answer to that query should recognize that this class is pretty much custom-built from t♔he ground up to suit that character.

The crux of the Royal Summoner's strategy revolves around using 'Summon Element', an area-of-effect Ether-based spell, followed by 'Elemental Discharge', which ramps up Ether-based damage going forward. This combines with the Class Skill, 'Elemental Boost', which cranks each 'Elemental Discharge up even higher.

You're turning your unit into a god over time, really, and you've got fantastic supplemental fare like 'Starfall' to take advantage of it as well.

The Royal Summoner is also superb at hitting enemies with a few choice debuffs. All told, this class earns its Attacker category through and through, with even further perks like an 'S' rank in HP that'll help keep you alive should the strength of your actions yank too much aggro off the Defenders.

For a decade, Melia's fans mourned her lack of finality in Xenoblade Chronicles, not to mention the fate of her potential love life. When Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition arrived in 2020, the Future Connected epilogue mission patched things up nicely. And then Xenoblade Chronicles 3 happened, and we'd be hard-pressed to argue Melia hasn't gotten a ton of love.

Melia's role in the main story is intentionally cryptic (until it isn't), of course. Given its ramifications, it's a delight that we're able to bring her to our side in the postgame at all. And how, pray tell, do we do that?

Return to Castle with a save file with game clear data. That's the long and short of it. Oh, and look for the '?' quest icon. That's where you need to go. As with the other postgame class, Lifesage, a rad cutscene will play out and Melia and her Royal Summoner class are all yours.