that's affinity for you

Affinity. The mystical, even mythical golden bonds that linked these travelers of the golden country together.

Minoth wondered after them all the time. What could these bonds be? Not obligation, nor any real intrinsic tie to your awakener - not a positive one, at least. Strengthened through time, and only when you were least expecting it.

The answer was all too simple, and almost too good to be true.

Love and loyalty. That's what made up their party and kept it together.

These twisting golden threads proclaimed that love was real and crucial, that loyalty was the strongest force of all.