Just a thought, but what if it was? And not something like a full four man or more party trust system, but just a singular Trust you can optionally travel around with based off of battle capable friends and allies you've met through FFXIV's main and various side stories.

Personally, I'd love to travel with the Deftarm of the Gnath. He's one of my favorite NPCs and it made me really happy to see him pop up in the Firmament in Ishgard. Would love to go traveling with him as my Trust.

Also this simple Trust feature could still retain the Barding Feature usable by our Chocobo. So you can essentially change the way your Trust looks through that system or the existing glamour system we can use on Gathering/crafting delivery related NPCs.

This system wouldn't mean you wouldn't be able to summon your Chocobo either. They would just be referred to as Trusts instead of Chocobo Companion. :3

Thoughts?