In Metaphor: ReFantazio, Archetypes serve as the class of each of your party members. You can swap Archetypes freely, but learning new base-level Archetypes and their advanced versions will occasionally require you to have leveled other Archetypes. Sometimes it’s from the same tree, and sometimes you must achieve levels in entirely different trees. To help you plan ahead, we have collected every Archetype and listed their requirements, so you can focus on unlocking these advanced Archetypes.
Having each member of the party master multiple Archetypes is incredibly important to combat strategy, since you can have up to four learned abilities from other Archetypes, depending on how far you’ve advanced your Follower rank with the relevant person. The starting Archetype for each tree is unlocked upon achieving the first rank of the corresponding Follower and doesn’t have any prerequisites, with three exceptions, which are noted.
If an Archetype requires another Archetype to be at a certain level, this requirement must be met with the party member you want to learn that Archetype. Unlocking an Advanced Archetype with one party member does not unlock it for other party members.