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== Party Members in ''Baldur's Gate'' ==
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'''Voiced by:''' Jim Meskimen
Jaheira's husband and one of CHARNAME's canonical companions in
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* [[Adventure Duo]]
* [[Battle Couple]]:
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[The Generic Guy]]
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Like Jaheira, a half-elf.
* [[Happily Married]]: Despite their differences, he and Jaheira are portrayed as having had quite a loving marriage.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]:
** "If at first I don't succeed... the wife won't let me forget."
** Subverted if you read his biography. Khalid was always very insecure due to family issues, and actually appreciates Jaheira's take-charge attitude because he knows he'll never be able to speak up for himself either way.
** If Khalid dies in
* [[Neutral Good]]:
** More like like husband, like wife. Jaheira should act [[True Neutral]], but acts [[Neutral Good]] instead: helping out in the Nashkel mines would not interest a woman raised as a Druid.
* [[Porky Pig Pronunciation]]: All the time.
* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: It wouldn't be possible to romance Jaheira in ''Baldur's Gate II'' if he were still around, would it?
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'''Voiced by:''' Jennifer Hale
Dynaheir was a witch from Rasheman and Minsc's companion, and in CHARNAME's canonical party in
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* [[Adventure Duo]]
* [[Black Dude Dies First|Black Girl Dies First]]
* [[Black Magician Girl]]
* [[
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[The Generic Guy]]
* [[Lawful Good]]: For her, it's important to do right in the right way.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Her gimmick is misapplyingeth a lot of doths and dosts and so forth whenever she speaks.
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'''Voiced by:''' Frank Welker
Xzar is the official crazy guy of the playable NPCs, and he fills the role well. He can act normal for long enough to work in civilized society, but only just barely. He doesn't join in
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* [[Arch Enemy]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Xzar is ''delighted'' when the party's reputation gets pulled down by gratuitous acts of violence.
* [[Bad Boss]]: In the second game, you overhear a couple his apprentices talk about how cruel their master is. Xzar punished one apprentice for miscasting a spell by ''pulling out three of his toenails!''
* [[Chaotic Evil]]:
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]
* [[Informal Eulogy]]
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Odd Friendship]]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]
* [[Shout
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** Also:
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* [[Stop Poking Me]]:
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* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]
* [[Whatevermancy]]
* [[With Friends Like These...]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Earl Boen
Montaron is the counterpart of Xzar, and hates him dearly. A halfling fighter/thief, Montaron is an intentional subversion of the happy-go-lucky halflings everywhere else in fantasy, being a person interested only in doing his job in the bloodiest way possible. He dies off-screen in
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* [[Arch Enemy]]
* [[Back Stab]]
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Expy]]
* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]: Without the 'heroes' part. He and Xzar are likely the earliest two party members the party will encounter after Imoen, on the road to the Friendly Arm.
* [[Hobbits]]
* [[Neutral Evil]]: Psychotic and bloodthirsty, but uninterested in
* [[Odd Friendship]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Him and Xzar.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Bennett
Xan is an elven enchanter who has had the misfortune of being kidnapped by bandits. If you rescue him, he can join your party. He comes with a Moonblade, a [[Empathic Weapon|sword who is bonded to its owner and gives him strength
Xan only appears in the first ''Baldur's Gate'', but has appeared in the tutorial mode for ''Baldur's Gate
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* [[Blessed
* [[Can't Argue
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Determined Defeatist]]
* [[The Eeyore]]
* [[Empathic Weapon]]
* [[The Fatalist]]
* [[Got Me Doing It]]
* [[Lawful Neutral]]: He follows a personal code of ethics, but his main goal is to survive.
* [[The Mean Brit]]: Or 'the suicidally depressed brit'.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: A subversion in that Xan doesn't care and thinks every race is equal in the extent of how doomed they are.
* [[Shout-Out]]: There's an offhand mention to Xan, and through him ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', in Erevain's journal in ''[[Icewind Dale]]''.
* [[Sour Supporter]]: All the way.
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'''Voiced by:''' Bernadette Sullivan (''Baldur's Gate''), Jane Singer (''Baldur's Gate
Branwen is a self-exiled cleric of Tempus, the god of war. She felt that her people wouldn't accept a priestess of the war god, and being right, she up and left. She bears no resentment, however, reasoning that faith must be tested or be worthless. At some point, she was transformed into stone by a mage named Tranzig and sold to a halfling who uses her as a sideshow to be gawked at in a fair. Once she's rescued, she joins the party. She's in ''Baldur's Gate II'''s tutorial mode, but not in the game proper.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Despite what her people wanted from her.
* [[Church Militant]]: It comes with being a cleric of the god of war.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: She ''would'' favour axes if she could (since axes are Tempus' favoured weapon), but she was one edition too late for cleric to get full use of martial weapons, so she uses hammers as the closest approximation.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: She's from the setting's equivalent of medieval Scandinavia, which is quite apparent in everything from her name to her way of speaking to her choice of deity.
* [[The Generic Guy|The Generic Girl]] - She's even average by the standards of healers: Viconia and Jaheira are flatly superior to her, Faldorn and Yeslick are equal to her, and Quayle and Tiax are worse. And just to rub it in, she was the very last playable character added to this page, having been forgotten about entirely.
* [[Give Me Your Inventory Item]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy
* [[Put
** Though she does at least get a [[The Cameo|cameo]] in the tutorial.
** By the power of mods, she is now in ''Baldur's Gate II'' and might even be romanceable.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Though not permanently.
* [[True Neutral]]: In-universe. She's mainly interested in finding enjoyable fights, but she sometimes displays typical warrior code honour in her quotations.
* [[Valkyries]]: Maybe it's just me, but her long golden hair, large frame (at least in her portrait), Northern European accent, and worship of the war god gives this impression. Doubtless that if second edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' didn't forbid it, she'd be wielding an axe.
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'''Voiced by:''' Rob Paulsen
Kivan is an elven ranger with a dark past. The love of his life, Deherianna, was slain, in a rather horrific manner, by an ogre bandit named [[Complete Monster|Tazok
Kivan only appears in the first ''Baldur's Gate'', but has enough of a following to warrant fan-created mods so you can use him in ''Baldur's Gate
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* [[The Archer]]: Starts with bow skills and the attitude. NPC mods for Tutu tend to have the option of turning him into a kitted archer. Chances are good this is why he's remembered from the first game at all, and is generally why he's recruited into parties in the first place, his skills being unvaluable at the beginning of the game (not to mention he joins at level 2 right off the bat).
* [[Best Served Cold]]
* [[Chaotic Good]]: He's basically goodhearted and admires the player for performing good deeds, but goodness comes before obedience any day with him. Meanwhile, [[Revenge]] can't be said to be the most Lawful act, or even a particularly Neutral one either.
* [[Crusading Widower]]
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Wife]]
* [[Facial Markings]]: In his default portrait, and unexplained as with most characters in the first game.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]
** Against Viconia, but to be fair, she ''is'' evil.
** Surface elves and Drow have a very antagonistic relationship, as seen in ''Baldur's Gate II''.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]
* [[Put
** Unlike most of the companions who don't appear in the second game, Kivan's character files and data are in
** He puts himself on a bus at ''Siege of Dragonspear'', seeing no purpose to fight after Tazok has been killed and his revenge fulfilled. Little did he know that Tazok would return in ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn''.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Kivan's sole reason for being in the game.
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'''Voiced by:''' Brian George
Coran is a happy-go-lucky elven adventurer and serial womanizer who's encountered in Cloakwood forest. At first, he's insistent on hunting wyverns, but after that subquest is complete he will join the party permanently. He will flirt shamelessly with female party members, particularly Safana, and in addition has a lovechild in ''Baldur's Gate'' that he may or may not know about... depending on player actions.
He can't be recruited until fairly late in the game, but his combination of archery and thieving skills and his excellent statistics make him a fairly popular character nonetheless.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]
* [[The Archer]]
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]
** He is hardly useless though. Even if he is gotten too late to adequately fill the party's needs for a thief, he handles the "Fighter" part of his Fighter/Thief multiclass very well. While his relatively low Strength (for a Fighter) means his decent sword skills will pretty much go to waste, his anomalistically high Dexterity and his bow skills make him the best archer in the game and he's still fairly useful all-around.
* [[Casanova]]
* [[Chaotic Good]]: He's a [[For Happiness]] kind of guy, and actively opposes any attempts by anyone to restrict his lifestyle.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: A pseudo-villainous one.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Though it's not clear he knows about the child.
** He does if you take him into Baldur's Gate with you. {{spoiler|Brielbara, the mother of the child, is near the Splurging Sturgeon and will ask the party to save her child from a curse her husband put on the baby. She will specifically talk to Coran and tell him it's his child if he's in the party. Once she is done explaining her situation, Coran will ask the party members to help him. If you refuse, he leaves. If you agree and bring back Yago's spellbook so the curse can be broken, Brielbara will ask Coran to join her in raising their daughter together. He refuses}}.
* [[Facial Markings]]: A bandit mask-like stripe across his eyes. Seldom mentioned and never explained.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: It gets him in trouble eventually.
* [[Her Child, but Not His]]: His former lover is human, as is her husband. The fact that her child was a half-elf is what tipped him off that she was playing away from home.
* [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It]]: To his eventual sorrow.
* [[Lovable Traitor]]: In ''Baldur's Gate II'', there's a subplot in which he turns into one.
* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]]: Even with his unnatural dexterity aside, Coran is given some incorrect bonuses. He has three proficiency points in bows, even though multiclasses shouldn't be able to have higher than two. His base THAC0 and attacks per round are also higher than what a normal Fighter would have, let alone a multiclass.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: Like many characters in these games, he's a subversion of a fantasy stereotype; in this case, the severe, humorless elf warrior.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: While having an affair with a mage in Baldur's Gate, he was caught by her seducing another woman, which is what forced him to flee into the woods.
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'''Voiced by:''' Diane Pershing
Safana is a sultry female thief first encountered in the Seawatcher Ruins area, where she is searching for lost treasure. She has a bit of a dark past, and is skilled at using her looks to manipulate men and get what she wants. As a result, Coran will take quite a shine to her if they're in the same party.
She can be obtained relatively early in the game and has some amusing dialogue, so she was fairly popular among players, but nevertheless, she did not make it to the sequel as a playable character. She does, however, show up as a minor NPC at one point late in the game.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Lives a life of swashbuckling action and romance, and luxury when she can get it.
* [[Back Stab]]
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]: Cares only about herself, mostly, and Coran too to an extent. Not ruthless or destable enough to be evil, however.
* [[Charm Person]]
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Double Entendre]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Karmic Death]]:
* [[The Munchausen]]: A female version, though her stories aren't quite as outlandish as Jan Jansen's.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: How she ultimately meets her downfall.
* [[Neutral Evil]]: In-universe.
* [[Pirate Booty]]: What she's looking for when you meet her.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: She claims as much.
* [[
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'''Voiced by:''' John Mariano
Tiax is the utterly insane gnomish cleric/thief of Cyric (the utterly insane god of lying and evil). Tiax is, possibly, the single most insane character in the entire series, and that is honestly saying something. He believes Cyric has proclaimed him to rule Toril (the world you're on) and that though he hasn't ''quite'' taken over yet, his time will soon come. He has what's slightly more than a cameo in
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: More like [[Boisterous Weakling]], but he can be quite tough if you know how to do it.
* [[The Caligula]]
* [[Chaotic Evil]]: Like Xzar, of the batshit insane [[Ax Crazy|Ax-Crazy]] kind. Unlike Xzar, however, he's not sufficiently high-functioning to keep himself out of trouble or to rise up the ranks of an organization, much less establish the kind of empire he wants for himself.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Epic Flail]]
* [[Incoming Ham]]
* [[Joke Character]]
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[The Napoleon]]: A particularly mad example.
** If you put him in a party with Quayle, the latter's snarky comments will eventually end in bloodshed.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: "The day will come when TIAX will point and click."
* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: They worship gods of evil and want to take over the world! Or at least this one does, anyway.
* [[Religion of Evil]]: In his case, the religion of [[Ax Crazy]], [[Cloudcuckoolander|mentally unhinged]] evil.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: It doesn't get much bigger than believing you're destined to rule to world.
* [[Take Over the World]]: Of course!
* [[Third Person Person]]: Practically every time he speaks.
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'''Voiced by:''' Jennifer Darling
A female warrior who's encountered in the wilds between Candlekeep and Baldur's Gate. She enjoys humiliating male adventurers by challenging them to duels and soundly thrashing them. She'll challenge a male member of the
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* [[Action Girl]]: One of the most violent and bloodthirsty warriors in the first game, even.
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]
* [[Blood Knight]]: With a gender-specific twist.
* [[Chaotic Evil]]: She's a type 1, due to being more interested in her freedom to murder and/or humiliate men with abandon than going on an active rampage through the countryside.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Subverted. She offers to join the party if you defeat her, but she never warms up to you even if you accept.
* [[Defeat Means
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: To say the least.
* [[Facial Markings]]: In her portrait, but the game doesn't explain any character's facial markings apart from Minsc and Faldorn, leading most people to believe they're either tattoos or war paint. Also because if during character creation you pick the portrait that is canonically assigned to them, the game will assign them another one instead.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In addition to her dislike of men, Shar-Teel's biography says that she also hates Flaming Fist mercenaries and that "...likely her childhood was not of storybook quality." Fast forward to Chapter Seven, and you meet her father. Briefly: he's a member of the Flaming Fist, and he is a horrible, horrible person. All of sudden, her behaviour makes a bit more sense.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Not that you can blame them in Shar-Teel's case.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Disappears between games.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|She's actually the daughter of Angelo Dosan, an officer in the Flaming Fist and one of Sarevok's lieutenants}}.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Of sorts. She praises an all-female party. But you need to have at least one male to recruit her. Go figure.
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'''Voiced by:''' Neil Ross
A sleazy bard first encountered in Cloakwood forest, Eldoth wants the party's help in "rescuing" Skie, a young noblewoman from Baldur's Gate with whom he's involved. Suffice it to say, he doesn't have her best interests at heart and intends to use her as he has all his previous lovers, which earns him the enmity of a few of the other characters.
Like all bards in
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* [[Battle Couple]]:
* [[Blackmail]]
* [[Casanova]]
* [[Gold Digger]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Love Triangle]]:
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Neutral Evil]]
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]
* [[Put
* [[The Rival]]
* [[Spoony Bard]]
* [[Stay in
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'''Voiced by:''' Grey Delisle
A naive young noblewoman who enjoys sneaking out of her family's estate, she dreams about becoming an adventurer, but has rather unrealistic ideas of what that entails. She's involved with Eldoth and will call the guards when confronted by the party unless he is with them.
She's one of the last characters in the game to become available for use and is always accompanied by [[Spoony Bard
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* [[Battle Couple]]
* [[Can't Catch Up]]
* [[City Mouse]]
* [[The Ditz]]: Not really. She has an INT score of 16 and a WIS score of 8, making her extremely intelligent, but clueless, foolish and naive.
* [[Fallen Princess]]: If you actually do break her out of her family's estate, all she does is complain about how dirty and uncomfortable the road is.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: She doesn't seem to realize just how big a scumbag Eldoth is.
* [[I Broke a Nail]]: As quoted above.
* [[The Ingenue]]: A fact which Eldoth uses to extort her.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Eldoth and Garrick both pursue her.
* [[
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Similar to Nalia in ''Baldur's Gate II'', she's a noblewoman rather than a princess. Her rebelliousness isn't motivated as much by idealism as Nalia's is.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
* [[True Neutral]]: The girl is mostly interested in having a fun time with her friends, whoever they happen to be at the time. That said, she's nowhere near as selfish and self-obsessed as Eldoth.
* [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Heidi Shannon (''Baldur's Gate''), B.J. Ward (''Baldur's Gate
Faldorn is a member of the Shadow Druids, a militant sect of druids that believe that civilization is incompatible with nature and must be opposed with violence if necessary, something about which she and Jaheira vehemently disagree. In ''Baldur's Gate'', she's surprisingly laid-back despite these beliefs, but in the sequel, she shows up as a non-playable character with a much more antagonistic attitude.
Most players, if they want a Druid, elect to use Jaheira instead, as she can be recruited earlier and as a multi-class fighter is much sturdier and more effective in combat.
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* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]
* [[Blood Knight]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]
* [[
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: One of only a few characters to go from a playable character in the first game to a villain in the second.
* [[
* [[Green Thumb]]
* [[Humans Are
* [[In Harmony
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Misanthrope Supreme]]
* [[Nature Hero]]
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]
* [[True Neutral]]: She was a better example of the balance-serving trope than Jaheira, even if she was a member of the Shadow Druids. In the sequel, she acts more like [[Neutral Evil]].
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Bennett
An annoying gnome just ouside of Baldur's Gate, Quayle can join for reasons vague even as he explains them. He's of no importance in
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* [[The Cameo]]
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]: He obviously cares first and foremost about rubbing his brain in everyone else's faces, but he's too self-obsessed to be evil.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: What makes him truly insufferable is the fact that he's far from being the game's smartest character and comes off more as just a jerk.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Joke Character]]: About as close as any character in these games get. You get him late in the game, and with poor ability scores and low HP, he's one of the weakest spellcasters in the game.
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: They're definitely more annoying.
* [[Retcon]]
* [[The Rival]]
* [[Shout
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Bill Farmer
Yeslick is a good-hearted dwarven fighter/cleric, and one of few surviving members of his clan when their ancestral mines were accidentally flooded. He ended up befriending the wrong human, was doublecrossed and forced to reveal the location of his clan's mine and help reclaim it. If you rescue him, he helps you in re-flooding the mine (which is a major blow to the villains' operations) and can join your party. He doesn't get along with fellow dwarf Kagain whom he finds very much to be a disgrace to dwarves due to his money-grubbing personality (and vice versa).
Like Tiax and Quayle, you can only get Yeslick fairly late in the game, which makes him unpopular with many players since you normally already have a well-developed party at that point (however, they were pretty okay with his personality). A fan-made mod exists which makes him available sooner.
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* [[Drop the Hammer]]
* [[Dug Too Deep]]
* [[Idiot Ball]]
** Intelligence is more "book learning"; Wisdom is considered the common sense stat. You would think someone with a Wisdom of 16 wouldn't be such an idiot, but he was. Maybe it was lower before you met him and freed him?
* [[Kill It
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Well, not quite the last of his clan, but you never encounter any of the other survivors.
* [[Lawful Good]]: He's basically a dwarven paladin (fighter/cleric), except that the second edition rules did not allow non-humans to be paladins.
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Compared to Korgan and Kagain, he's really different, but Yeslick is probably the closest one you can get to classic Tolkien-style dwarves.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Yeslick is not encountered, or even mentioned at all in ''Baldur's Gate II'', so his fate after the first game is unknown.
* [[
* [[Shout-Out]]: One of his annoyed quotes is him singing 'Lali Ho!' from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]''.
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'''Voiced by:''' Jason Marsden
Ajantis is a Paladin who serves Helm and is under the Order of Radiant Heart. His superior is Keldorn (which is probably why they get along even when they worship different Gods). He's joining the Bhaalspawn's group to spread the teaching of Helm and just generally do good like how a Paladin should do.
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There's also a mod in progress that makes Ajantis savable and allows him to join your party.
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* [[Black and White Morality]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Healing Hands]]: Like all Paladins in the setting.
* [[Justice Will Prevail]]: He does NOT tolerate evil.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Probably the straightest example who can join your party.
* [[Large Ham]]: "This [forest/city/dungeon] reeks of EVIL" is his standard line whenever you enter a new place.
* [[Lawful Good]]: Being a Paladin and all. He's much closer to [[Lawful Stupid]] than the other Paladin or pseudo-Paladin characters (Keldorn, Mazzy, Yeslick, etc). His black and white morality is actually sort of explained in game, as he's much younger than the rest of the paladin characters of the series, so he's probably still a bit naive in that regard.
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'''Voiced by:''' Dee Bradley Baker
Garrick is a traveling Bard who held a free-will life and just joins the Bhaalspawn for fun. He later tried to woo the noblewoman Skie, even though she's all heels to Eldoth, whom he despises not just because he's his competition, but because Eldoth is... well... an evil sleazeball.
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Later, Garrick is no longer involved with the Bhaalspawn, but tried to woo a Female Paladin of the Order of the Radiant Heart. However, he's too shy and asks a gnome (named [[Cyrano De Bergerac|Cyrando]] to help him woo her. The Paladin in question ends up marrying the gnome, while Garrick ends up with someone else.
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* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]
* [[The Ditz]]: When encountered and spoken to in the second game, he has ''no idea'' who the player is, nor does he remember Silke, the evil sorceress who hired him. If present, Jaheira will comment on this.
* [[
* [[Love Triangle]]: He tries to create one with Eldoth and Skie.
* [[Playing Cyrano]]: The aptly-named Cyrando is this to Garrick.
* [[The Rival]]: To Eldoth, whom he HATES.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** To [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|Brave Sir Robin!]]
** Not to mention the whole bit with the paladin and the gnome is a clear take on ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]''.
** When in a city, he may also spontaneously sing, "'Tis a beautiful day in the neighborhood!", similar to the opening song of ''Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood''. He will also recite part of ''Trees'' by Joyce Kilmer ("I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree") when he's in the woods with your party. His voice is really low
* [[Spoony Bard]]: He's not all that useful a character. Lampshaded in the sequel, where he can admit that he's not a very good bard.
* [[Tenor Boy]]: A standard example. Actually, he and everybody related to him could easily be stock characters in a comic opera, including their voice types, so it was probably intentional.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: His approach to the adventuring life.
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'''Voiced by:''' Amber Hood
Alora is a halfling thief, notable mostly for being quite literally the last available character in the game. Because thieves need to be gotten earlier than other characters (they tend to waste their thieving skills on useless garbage like Pickpocket instead of Detect Traps), Alora ends being possibly the worst character in the game.
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* [[Back Stab]]
* [[Can't Catch Up]]
* [[Chaotic Good]]: Doubters be damned, she's going to make the entire party play nice and do good things.
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Hobbits]]
* [[Lovable Rogue]]
* [[Put
** Her character files appear in the sequel, and she can be summoned with the console, so she was intended to be in the game at some point. That would have made her the only pure thief in the game besides Yoshimo.
* [[Shout
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'''Voiced by:''' John Mariano
Yet another dwarven fighter, Kagain runs a mercenary company that provide protection for caravans, but is very obsessed with gold. In contrast to other evil characters, he tends to be rather quiet. However, he is always at odds with Yeslick, who continually chastises his gold-obsession, and Kagain hates him for being too 'goody-goody' and stupid. Sometimes this can come to blows. He has a constitution of twenty, which grants him regeneration.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: His favored weapons are axes.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: He runs a rather shady mercenary company.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]
* [[Gold Fever]]
* [[Healing Factor]]: His constitution of 20 (which is pretty much unheard of) allows him to slowly regenerate over time.
* [[Lawful Evil]]: Kagain is basically on a lifetime search for more money and is a born miser, but he's happy to earn his money by making an honest living as a mercenary defending caravans from bandits. He also hires you to help him with salvaging a ruined caravan, offering to pay you a small but tidy sum of money in return.
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]
* [[Put
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'''Voiced by:''' Rob Paulsen
In
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: His very reason for existence.
* [[Joke Character]]: He's effectively useless in combat, if he joins your group.
== Party Members in ''Baldur's Gate II'' ==
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'''Voiced by:''' Maurice Lamarche
Yoshimo is an adventurer and swashbuckler from [[Far East|Kara-Tur]], who joins your party in the first dungeon in the second game after having escaped a fate as experimental subject by whoever runs the place. Being the game's only single-class thief, and a generally easygoing character on top of it, Yoshimo fits into pretty much every party. {{spoiler|As it turns out, he is actually a mole planted by Irenicus in the party. He is not at all very fond of his employer, but a Geas is put on him to force him to obey
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Back Stab]]
* {{spoiler|[[Becoming the Mask]]
* [[Booby Trap]]
* [[The Charmer]]
* [[Crutch Character]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Empathic Weapon]]
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Almost all his dialogue is in (perfect) English, but he does speak a few phrases of [[Gratuitous Japanese]]. They [[Bilingual Bonus|actually make sense in context]], though they don't suit his rather carefree and informal personality. Which makes sense, in a way, given {{spoiler|his cheerful persona is partly an act to disguise his [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|true intentions]]}}.
* [[Humans Are White]]: There are plenty of black people in Amn, but he's from Kara-Tur, the setting's [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Asia analogue]], and given his fondness for katanas and [[Gratuitous Japanese|Japanese]] almost certainly the Japan-analogue. Along with Tamoko, he's one of only two Kara-Turans in the games.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]
* [[Kiai]]
*
*
* [[Lovable Rogue]]
* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]: Planted by Irenicus to ensure you could not fight him when you came to Spellhold}}.
* [[Noodle Incident]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]
* {{spoiler|[[Plotline Death]]
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]
* {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Of those who escape Irenicus's dungeon, he is the last to join, and he is also a mole planted by Irenicus}}.
* [[True Neutral]]
* {{spoiler|[[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]}}
* [[Word of God]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Kath Soucie
Aerie is another romanceable character
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Aborted Arc]]
* [[Action Mom]]
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]
* [[Babies Ever After]]
* [[Battle Couple]]
* [[Betty and Veronica]]
* [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]]
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]
* [[Hair of Gold]]
*
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]
* [[The Ingenue]]: At first.
* [[Last Girl Wins]]: If you choose her over Jaheira and Viconia, who are both met during the events of the first game.
* [[Lawful Good]]: An interesting contrast to Keldorn's [[Lawful Good]]ness too.
* [[Love Triangle]]: If the [[Player Character]] romances her with Haer'Dalis in the party, this will result.
* [[
* [[Pregnant Badass]]:
*
** It gets better. There's a good chance that she'll go into labor in the middle of a dungeon. After delivering the child, she takes a few moments to patch herself up with a few healing spells, then jumps right back to fighting/traveling alongside you with baby in tow.
* [[Sex
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
* [[Squishy Wizard]]
* [[Technical Pacifist]]
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]
* [[White Magician Girl]]
* [[Wide
* [[Winged Humanoid]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Rob Paulsen
Ah, Anomen. Squire of The Order of the Radiant Heart. [[Jerkass]] extraordinaire. Pompous, arrogant, insufferable and vain. He's on a quest to [[I Want to Be
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]
* [[The Alcoholic]]
* [[Badass Boast]]
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: Anomen's family is a noble one quite possibly of this type, based on the things his father says.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: At first. Part of his character development is learning to look at the world with more nuance.
* [[Black Sheep]]: Anomen becomes this if he refuses to avenge his sister's death; ironically, becoming a ''better'' person is what causes his alienation.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: He does so practically every time he talks to his father.
* [[Character Alignment]]: Anomen starts out as [[Lawful Neutral]]. Succeed the test and he becomes [[Lawful Good]]. Fail the test, and he becomes [[Chaotic Neutral]].
* [[Character Development]]
* [[Church Militant]]
* [[The Comically Serious]]
** Of course, this doesn't stop a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when he taunts Edwin{{spoiler|a}} about the {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]] by asking to champion "her"}}.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]
* [[Fake Brit]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Particularly aggravating when directed at Mazzy, who is far nearer to the Paladin ideal than he could ever be, race restrictions or not.
* [[Feuding Families]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Several instances:
** Anomen is deeply concerned with honor and the law, and wants to be a noble paladin. But because his alignment starts out as a variation of Neutral, the game engine will make him start complaining if you do too many good deeds.
** There's also the fact that he's a Fighter/Cleric dual-classed character with a WIS score of 12. It suits his character, but under the rules of the game it shouldn't be allowed. Furthermore, he has lines like "Point the sword and I shall strike!", but as a fighter/cleric, he can't use any type of sword. [[Painting the Medium|It's because the mouse cursor becomes a sword when you hover over the enemy]].
* [[I Have No Son]]: If he refuses to take revenge for his sister's death, his father disowns him.
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: Not quite, as his family still has a rather posh estate in Athkatla, but his father is in financial trouble, and they seem to be on their way to this.
* [[I Want to Be a Real Man]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He's proud, egotistical, vain and quite loud in his expression of those traits. He's also a basically good-hearted, idealistic guy with the best of intentions. He becomes less of a jerk if he's knighted, and/or being romanced by the [[Player Character]].
* [[Karma Houdini]]: In order to pass his test of knighthood, he has to {{spoiler|let the murderer of his sister go unpunished}}. {{spoiler|Or, at least, the man he ''thinks'' is her murderer. Part of the test is learning to control his look-before-you-leap tendencies and rage}}.
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: He likes to present himself as such; if you guide him in the right way through his personal crises, he can actually become one for real.
* [[Knight Templar]]: At first, it's what he thinks the ideal knight should be. He only actually becomes a knight if you convince him otherwise.
* [[
* [[Lord Error-Prone]]: At first. He either grows out of it, or abandons it, depending on the player's actions.
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: He's prone to bragging about things he couldn't possibly have done, but in his defense, he IS pretty powerful and only rarely are his "exploits" truly unbelievable.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: He wants to go on one after Saerk murders his sister. You can convince him not to, however. {{spoiler|Saerk isn't guilty either, which will only torment the poor guy more if Saerk's been murdered when he finds out}}. It's kinda worse than that. {{spoiler|Initially, there's not enough evidence to determine whether Saerk killed Anomen's sister or not. If Anomen murders Saerk, later it turns out Saerk isn't guilty. But if Anomen doesn't go after Saerk... guess what, it turns out Saerk hired the men who killed her}}.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: He boasts incessantly about both his status as a member of the Order of the Radiant Heart and the many battles in which he's fought, but he's still a squire and hasn't even been knighted at the time he's encountered.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Anomen has daddy issues up the ass.
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'''Voiced by:''' Bill Martin
A bloodthirsty dwarven berserker, essentially the evil [[Foil]] to Minsc. He can be first recruited as a mercernary in
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[An Axe to Grind]]
* [[The Berserker]]
* [[Blood Knight]]
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]
* [[Cain and Abel]]
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]
* [[Chaotic Evil]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Was born via [[Traumatic C-Section]] as his mother tied, witnessed his father's death/had to build his funeral pyre alone and to his disgust both happened for incredibly stupid reasons.
* [[Double Entendre]]: He drops a few of them, particularly if Mazzy's around.
{{quote|Just so's ye know, I have somethin' long, hard, and low to the ground yer free to touch and fondle if ye wish. No need to glare, girlie: I was talkin' about me axe!}}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: One of the ''very'' few decent things you ever hear him say only occurs if you pursue Jan Jansen's personal quest to help his friend's child. When it comes to light that the little girl's catatonia stems from being physically abused by her father, Korgan—who we must remind you is an [[Ax Crazy]] murdering bastard—condemns the actions leading to her condition:
{{quote|'''Korgan:''' Ehhh, there be many things I would do gladly. Harming children be not one of them. Her man be a cur and not worthy of the spittle on me boot.}}
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Minsc.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Hates us Longlimbs, especially Drow.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Lost both his parents to inter-clan warfare and claims to have been negatively influenced by spending too much time amongst humans. Mazzy is less than convinced.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Or in Korgan's case, Psychotic [[Blood Knight]] wants red-headed halflings.
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: His brutishness and sociopath personality is mostly [[Played for Laughs]], barring a few banters with Mazzy.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Surprisingly adept at poetry.
* [[Large Ham]]: Of the [[Ax Crazy]] sort.
{{quote|''on a [[Critical Hit]]''
'''A SKULLBREAKER!'''}}
* [[Licensed Sexist]]: As the quote above illustrates, he's quite boorish to women.
* [[Luke Nounverber]]: Korgan Bloodaxe.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Korgan [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Bloodaxe]].
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Bloodaxe is definitely not the sort of surname you take unless you want people to be afraid of you, although there's no indication that it isn't his ''given'' surname, which raises questions about his ancestors' taste in names.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Played straight.
* [[
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: All except his insanity.
* {{spoiler|[[Parental Abandonment]]: It's revealed in his dialogs with Mazzy that he witnessed the murder of both his parents}}.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Does, believe it or not, genuinely feel something for Mazzy, in his own screwed-up way.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: He makes his living this way before you encounter him. If you kick him out of the party after completing his personal quest, you have to pay him off to convince him to rejoin.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: If he's in the same party as Aerie, he will relentlessly insult and belittle her. In the original release of ''Baldur's Gate II'', this would cause her to leave the party after awhile, but if the expansion is installed, she will eventually snap and insult him right back. At this point, he announces that his abuse was a [[Secret Test of Character]] and now that she's proven she will stick up for herself, he's got no problem with her.
** Usually insults characters after meeting them, and befriends those that insult him right back. Including [[Neutral Good|Imoen]].
* [[The Starscream]]: One of his in-game lines is a threat to disembowel you. In his epilogue, {{spoiler|he pulls off a Starscream gambit for real}}.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Sometimes.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: After the events of the game, {{spoiler|Korgan goes down in history for leading a doomed crusade against the drow. This wasn't because he disliked the drow, he just wanted to kill as many sentient beings as possible. Oh, and did I mention that he got a hold of the forces he used to support his bloodlust by killing their leader and sticking the blame to "a target of his choosing"}}? Rare that someone so nuts can get such a wonderful reputation.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: Since [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]], Korgan has an accent somewhere between Scottish and Welsh. Oddly, he is voiced by Bill Martin, who used to be a producer for [[The Monkees]].
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'''Voiced by:''' Jack Roth
Jan Jansen is a gnomish peddler of turnips and illegal weaponry (but he's really more interested in the turnips). Much beloved by the fandom for his many quotes as well as his interactions with the other fan favorite character
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]
** And with a certain mod installed, he eventually gains the ability to fire bolts loaded with ''insect swarms''.
** Given how ridiculously
* [[Aerith and Bob]]
* [[Blatant Lies]]
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Vies with Minsc for nuttiest member of the party, though it's uncertain just how much is actual lunacy and how much is an act. They have a lot of banter, including Jan's bizarre attempts at stealing Boo.
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: In his ending, he manages to control a pack of knife-wielding gibbons to kill [[Asshole Victim|Vaelag]]. Anything is possible with that many knife-wielding gibbons.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: He's managed to invent a high tech explosive crossbow, vision-enhancing goggles, and an energy absorbent suit. Not bad for a pseudo-Renaissance setting.
** With the Banter pack mod installed, Jan will invent a number of other things, like a monstrously overengineered crossbow for Valygar which he dubs 'the permanent solution to his wizard problem'. Valygar, in a rare moment of [[Genre Savvy]], asks if this will be one of those weapons that shoots the bolt around the world and hits the firer in the back. Jan replies that it's 100% guaranteed. Try to use it in-game and you'll find this is entirely accurate.
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]
* [[It Runs in The Family]]
* [[I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before]]: Only once: when Jan and the party literally go to Hell.
{{quote|''Whoa! This place looks just like... it reminds me of... this is just like that time I... hmm. I don't think anything like this has ever happened to me before...''}}
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Jan's personal quest will eventually end like this if you get the best result: the love of his life runs off with an evil, wife-beating businessman who can support her child.
** Subverted in his ''Throne of Bhaal'' ending: it's heavily implied that he trained a horde of monkeys to attack Vaelag's estate. In the end, he ends up with his lover.
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]
** He also gets quite lethal in ''Throne of Bhaal'' since he's the only one of two NPCs who can get thief High-Level Abilities, and has illusionist magic and mage HLAs on top of it.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]
* [[Motor Mouth]]
* [[The Munchausen]]
** Don't you mean the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|MunchJansen?]] DOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!
* [[Name's the Same]]
** Nor does he work in a lumber mill there
* [[Noodle Incident]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Don't take Jan's turnip fixation, bizzare inventions and tendency to tell random stories for idiocy. During his somewhat more lucid moments, mostly during Jan's sidequest with his old girlfriend, Jan puts the (hilarious) storytelling aside and reveals that he is actually very, very much aware of what is happening around, knows how to fix it, and is [[Beware the Nice Ones|totally pissed]] that Vaelag is trying to interfere with his girl, even if she isn't really his girl anymore. Furthermore, I think we all know that Jan would have been perfectly capable of turning Vaelag and his goons in to charred, bite-sized Chunks'O'Gnome, and that the only thing that stopped him was [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|the lady's protest]]. Jan Jansen knows where you live.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Korgan, bizarrely. Most characters find Jan's stories to be annoying, but Korgan enjoys the bloodier ones.
* [[Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|This exchange]]:
{{quote|'''Minsc''': You! The tiny, tricky gnome! Minsc knows it was you who stole Boo! You cannot fool Minsc! What is that bulge moving about within your trousers?
'''Jan''': This bulge here? Why that's (ha-ha) that's nothing. I'm just happy to see you, Minscy. (giggle)}}
* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: INDEED.
* [[Painting the Medium]]: Jan is a gnome. Gnomes get infravision at night and underground, which highlights creatures with a red glow.
{{quote|'''Jan:''' [after sunset] I've had this little problem ever since I was a wee gnome. When it gets dark, everybody glows red. Frightens a child something fierce...}}
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Along with Minsc, he's the primary source of it in ''Baldur's Gate II''.
* [[
** This is subverted in one of his banters with Mazzy, which starts out on the subject of potatoes and ends on a note of how Mazzy reminds him of a halfling potato farmer living near his family's homestead who had been captured, enslaved and abused by bandits at a young age before escaping, whose work ethic, optimism and appreciation of good honest toil had always inspired him.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]
** Note that he ''claims'' it has medicinal properties
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'''Voiced by:''' Michael Bell
Haer'Dalis is a Doomguard: essentially, he knows the universe is going to end no matter what he does, so he's just enjoying himself until that happens. He's a bard in a traveling play who joins you after you rescue him, perhaps sensing there are tales to be had following in your footsteps.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Aborted Arc]]
* [[Battle Couple]]: With Aerie, potentially.
* [[Bi the Way]]: He's the only male character able to have (off-screen) sex with a male drow slave. [[Word of God]] says it's intentional.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: He's trained for it and has two special starting weapons to make it happen.
* [[Expy]]: Exotic, tattooed, bisexual, dual-wielding, rogue-esque elf with fatalist views and associated with birds? Are we talking about Haer'Dalis or [[Dragon Age|Zevran]] here? That should be the other way around- Our lovable Blade can't be the expy if he came 10-odd years before Zevran. Aside from aesthetics, they're actually quite different characters.
* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: Bards were basically this in second edition.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Averted as Haer'Dalis is a Blade, a specific type of Bard that specializes in theatrical, balletic fighting. By profession he's an actor who apparently specializes in action-oriented leading man roles.
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: He presents himself as such when first encountered. He becomes available after being rescued from a powerful wizard, who had caught Haer'Dalis in the act of burglarizing his home to steal a gem, and magically enslaved him. When you free him from this condition, Haer'Dalis admits that he'd come to acquire the gem but takes offense if you call him a thief.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Strength? 17 (on a scale of 2-19). Dexterity? 17. Constitution? ...9.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Elf Hybrid]]: Haer'Dalis' race is stated as 'tiefling' (a human with demonic ancestry); according to himself his father was an elf and his mother "no human". Probably some type of cambion.
* [[Large Ham]]: Though, he is a stage actor.
* [[Love Triangle]]: With the [[Player Character]] and Aerie, possibly.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: If both you and Haer'Dalis love Aerie, and she hasn't yet pledged her love to you, Haer'Dalis will challenge you to a duel for her love.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Haer'Dalis will call most people by their real names. Some, though, he'll create a nickname for: CHARNAME is "Raven", Aerie is "Dove", Sarevok is "Hawk", and Haer'dalis himself is "Sparrow". Breaking the bird themed names, Minsc and Boo are "hound and hamster".
** He does, in fact, have nicknames for all the main party members (modders carried on this trait too). Spellhold Studios has a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923030700/http://www.shsforums.net/topic/25526-haerdalis-bird-names/ complete list].
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Haer'Dalis is one of the Doomguard, a faction in the ''Planescape'' setting that practically revels in the idea of entropy.
* [[Perky Goth]]: Rare male example.
* [[The Philosopher]]: Haer'Dalis ''tries'' to be this, but most of his deep speeches are nonsense, and the cleverer characters tell him to just shut up. Jaheira's not really cleverer, she's just as witty as he is, which makes for hysterical character banter, like him offering to ''sell her'' at the market.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Added by the Banter Pack, Haer'Dalis ships ''Jaheira and Edwin'' into a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] relationship... Though it ''might'' have been just for the sake of screwing with them. Naturally, neither of them are amused.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Or "Show Within A Video Game". He was set to play the lead in Raelis Shai's play, before his abduction.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: His name is variously given as Haer'Dalis, Haer Dalis', HaerDalis', Haer-Dalis'...
* [[Spoony Bard]]: He is a Blade, which gives him some special abilities, but is often considered to downplay the only aspects that could even make a bard worthwhile such as high lore.
** It does, however, allow use of the ring of free action bug, which regardless of the fact that he is a numerically poor character makes him very powerful in defensive stance.
* [[Stone Wall]]: As [[Glass Cannon|weak as he normally is]], his "Defensive Stance" ability can turn him into this. They made it so you couldn't move while in that stance for a reason.
* [[Warrior Poet]]: All bards are to some extent, but he even mores.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: He was originally intended to be a second romance option for female [[Player Character]]s, but it was cut due to time constraints.
* [[Word of God]]: He's got a forked tongue.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Osterhage
Valygar is from a long line of mages, started by his insane evil dimension-traveling necromancer ancestor Lavok. Magic destroyed every single member of his family except himself, and as a result he became a ranger to put an end to his immortal evil ancestor.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Aborted Arc]]
* [[Angry Black Man]]
* [[Black Magic]]: Valygar believes this stains his soul, but it really doesn't.
* [[
* [[Can't Argue with Elves]]: Averted in that, well, he can. Although Valygar will argue with anyone with whom he disagrees.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Let's see... black, taciturn, uses a katana, killed his mother, sworn to hunt down others who share his lineage/curse... [[Blade|Hmmm...]]
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Especially against Jan, Imoen and Haer'Dalis.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: With emphasis on the 'deadpan' and not so much on the snarker, but surprisingly witty when he wants to be.
* [[Does Not Like Magic]]: And then some, which may be a bit hypocritical given that ''he'' can use that same magic he complains about so much.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Averted in how Valygar comes from a family of mages and had training as a child even before he became a ranger. His class Stalker gains some mage spells in addition to the druid spells all other ranger kits get.
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: {{spoiler|In ''Unfinished Business'', after Irenicus kills his lover}}.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Surprisingly adept at punning.
* [[Humans Are White]]: Not so uncommon in these games, as he's one of three black NPCs (that's counting Viconia, who is a wholly different kind of black) you can recruit throughout the story, but as one of the only playable characters in the second game who's a native of Amn, which is a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] of medieval Spain, it's a bit odd. He could be a moor-equivalent.
* [[The Hunter]]: Due to his background, he's dedicated his life to hunting down and destroying practioners of evil magic.
* [[In the Blood]]: The way he feels about his family's legacy of magical power/insanity.
* [[It's Personal]]: {{spoiler|After his lover's death in ''Unfinished Business'', he becomes one of the many people who want Irenicus' head}}.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: He starts with one, an ancestral weapon of his family.
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Valygar believes his family is cursed to become mages: after Lavok became a necromancer, his entire family line was made up of wizards until he decided to become a ranger.
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Well, ancestor, but yeah, this is what Valygar tells Lavok.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Bizarrely, it happens to him a few times.
* [[Nay Theist]]: He lives in a world where the gods are an inarguable fact of life; heck, he's travelling around with the son of a dead god! But he also notes that many gods are psychotic [[Jerkass]]es, so he needs a better reason than their existence to worship them. Which is a pretty gutsy stance, considering the atheist afterlife in the Realms is to be shoved into a teeming wall of slowly-decaying souls for all eternity.
* [[Neutral Good]]: Valygar is a type 1, mostly wanting to move through the game's story at a regular, even pace but happy to pitch in and do the right thing when possible; he doesn't feel strongly about the rule of law or the defiance of it either.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Valygar will, against his will, become Mazzy Fentan's squire, though he doesn't really resist and comes to enjoy it.
* [[The Quiet One]]: He'll talk, but usually only when other characters talk to him first.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Not that his parents gave him much of a choice.
* [[The Stoic]]: Valygar would prefer to be this, but he always has to voice his opinion.
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'''Voiced by:''' Jennifer Hale
Mazzy is a halfling fighter who would be a paladin if 2nd edition allowed it. As it is, she's the closest thing to a halfling paladin possible. She's beyond good, among the goodest of [[NPC
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[The Archer]]
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[Berserk Button]]
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]
* [[The Comically Serious]]
* [[Cute Bruiser]]
* [[David Versus Goliath]]
* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]
* [[Fake Brit]]
* [[For Great Justice]]
* [[Healing Hands]]
* [[Hobbits]]: And a nice variation from the typical good-hearted-but-mischievous-rogue type.
* [[Hope Bringer]]: One of her unique special powers is the ability to inspire courage in allies.
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Moreso than any other character in the series, with the possible exception of Keldorn.
* [[Lady of War]]: She's got the personality and the ass-kicking ability in spades, but because of her stature, other characters don't seem to take her so seriously.
* [[Lawful Good]]: The most upright kind imaginable, without being [[Lawful Stupid]].
* [[Love Potion]]
* [[The Napoleon]]
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Odd Friendship]]
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Even after suffering the loss of her entire party and her lover, she picks herself up, exacts righteous justice on the abominations that killed her friends, and keeps adventuring with a new set of (ideally) noble companions.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[Tragic Monster]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Roger Jackson
Keldorn Firecam is ''the'' paladin of the ''Baldur's Gate'' series. The classical [[Knight in Shining Armor]], Keldorn strives for good but when the law directly affects him and his family he gets slightly hesistant to act.
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Sort of. He's the only non-playable character from ''Baldur's Gate'' who becomes playable in ''Baldur's Gate II''; he doesn't actually appear in the first game, but he's mentioned in Ajantis' background.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: He isn't technically a grandpa yet, but as a gray-haired fiftysomething with a late teenage daughter, he's not far off. He's also one of the highest-ranking paladins in Amn, swings a [[Big Freaking Sword|mean greatsword]], smites evil left and right with extreme prejudice, and, in his character epilogue, {{spoiler|dies heroically after single-handedly fighting off an army of giants}}. So he's definitely [[Badass]]. {{spoiler|So [[Badass]], in fact, that his patron deity (that of protection and strength, among others) ''personally claimed him'' upon his death}}. That can't happen too often.
* [[Big Freaking Sword]]
* {{spoiler|[[But Now I Must Go]]: In the good ending to his personal quest, he leaves the party in order to stay with and reconcile with his formerly estranged family. That said, you have the option of subverting this by returning to his mansion the next day. He and his family will happily tell you that their problems are now cleared up, leaving him free to join your party again}}.
* [[The Comically Serious]]: He's a pretty serious guy and fairly humorless compared to Jan, Imoen, Yoshimo and the like.
** His humour is a lot more subtle and less frequent than the others, but it's most definitely still there. Heck, at one point, Yoshimo starts singing a... Rather ribald verse he claims to have found scribbled in the margins of a holy text, then halfway through stops and apologises to Keldorn for his language. Keldorn promptly finishes the verse, much to Yoshimo's astonishment, and implies he was the one who scribbled it in the book while an initiate several decades earlier.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Just radiates warmth and dependability. Look at that portrait.
** For a veteran paladin, he's also surprisingly fine with having a twenty-one-year-old order him around. This is especially the case if Charname is a paladin of the Order themselves, as Keldorn technically outranks them.
* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: His [[One-Man Army]] ending earns him a place at the right hand of the freaking ''god of justice''}}.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The one chink in his otherwise impeccable morality: he is utterly unable to abide the Drow Viconia and will actually try to kill her if you keep them together in the party for too long. Granted, she ''is'' evil, but it's not like she does anything particularly death-worthy in front of him. Unless you ''tell'' her to.
** And even then, the way he fanboys over Drizzt Do'Urden suggests he might have eventually been able to look past her race if it weren't for her attitude and [[Religion of Evil|choice of deity]].
** He has a similarly dim view of sahuagin, suggesting that you simply [[Kill'Em All]] rather then take a side in their civil war.
* [[For Great Justice]]
* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]: His wife's cheating on him, and the "good" way to handle it is to suggest that there's a distinction between the two. He eventually forgives her and they move past it as a couple.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He's literally and figuratively scarred from a lifetime of battling evil.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: He's the only recruitable character capable of wielding the Carsomyr, the Holy Avenger.
* [[Justice Will Prevail]]
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
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** Except if Viconia is around, Keldorn might come to blows on her due to being Drow.
* [[Lawful Good]]: And a spectacular example of a paladin who isn't [[Lawful Stupid]].
* [[Lawful Stupid]]
** In fact, his conversations with Anomen seem like a direct [[Take That]] to the [[Lawful Stupid]] trend.
* [[Married to
* [[Odd Friendship]]
* [[One-Man Army]]
* [[Retirony]]: In his character epilogue. Not entirely though, since he was ''already'' retired at the time and had been for a good five years, but was press-ganged into fighting anyway due to the urgent need for skilled fighters.
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Still fighting hard though.
* [[Team Dad]]: He acts this way toward Anomen, Mazzy, the [[Player Character]], and several other characters.
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Evil-aligned players sometimes try to keep him around for his anti-mage tanking capabilities and his ability to wield the game's [[Infinity+1 Sword]], but it's hard to pull off since he is liable to [[What the Hell, Hero?|protest when the protagonist does something wrong]] and [[Fantastic Racism|doesn't like Viconia]].
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: In the subplot with his wife, who has [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery|taken a lover because she's lonely]], it's possible for the [[Player Character]] to get his wife put in jail and her lover executed. This causes Keldorn's children to hate him forever.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: As is [[Justified Trope|suitable for]] [[Lawful Good|a]] [[Knight in Shining Armor|Paladin]], he will complain vociferously and/or leave the party forever if you don't behave uprightly.
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'''Voiced by:''' Jason Marsden
Cernd is a druid who intentionally inflicted himself with lycanthropy for... some reason. Despite being an okay guy, his lack of personality quirks and defining traits beyond lots of nature similes makes him quite... hmm... wait, whom were we talking about again?
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* [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]]
* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]
* [[Disappeared Dad]]
* [[The Generic Guy]]
* [[Glorified Sperm Donor]]
* [[Green Thumb]]
* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Cernd speaks almost entirely in [[koan]]s, some of which are meaningful, some of which are meaningful but pointlessly elaborate, and some of which are [[Ice Cream Koan|just plain gibberish]].
** Sometimes he is called on it...
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Protagonist: Oh shut up.
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* [[In Harmony
* [[Malaproper]]
* [[Married to
* [[Nature Hero]]:
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Cernd was the one doing the abandoning, though he didn't know it at the time.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]
* [[Promotion to Parent]]
* [[Simple Staff]]: The Staff of the High Forest, which grew from an oak sapling planted beside Cernd during one of his meditation sessions. Like his cloak, a gift from Nature.
* [[Stealth Insult]]
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'''Cernd:''' Why does the King protest? His forests are pilfered, leaving just hills and scrub, but what loss is it? How can it be of value when it was never put to use?
'''Edwina:''' (There is an insult in there somewhere, I am certain. Would that I could stop time and kill them ALL first.)
* [[True Neutral]]
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
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'''Voiced by:''' Grey Delisle
A runaway noblewoman who hates her arranged marriage and wants to support the peasantry, she nevertheless tends to unintentionally think of herself as above them. Nalia doesn't get a lot of attention because as a female human thief/mage dual-class with red hair who specialized in short swords and bows, she's solidly inferior to Imoen, the ''other'' female human thief/mage dual-class with red hair (well, pink actually) who specializes in short swords and bows.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Her family's estate has been taken over by a pack of trolls. {{spoiler|It's later intimated that this was the doing of Isaea}}.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Nalia herself is an aversion, but her fiance and [[Arch Enemy]] Isaea plays the trope straight.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Part of what she's rebelling against. Of course, given the [[Smug Snake|kind]] [[Aristocrats Are Evil|of]] [[Neutral Evil|person]] [[Villain with Good Publicity|her]] [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|fiance]] is, her reluctance to marry him is perfectly justified.
* [[Black Magician Girl]]: And in ''Throne of Bhaal'', she won't let you forget it.
* [[Blue Blood]]: Despite her altruism and favorable disposition toward the common people, she still displays some aristocratic attitudes at times.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: In ''Throne of Bhaal'', she realizes that rushing into the world to do generic goodness won't really accomplish much, and though she remains a good person, she gets more vindictive and sarcastic.
* [[Chaotic Good]]: A classic case, at least at first.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: She greatly admires her father, but rarely even mentions her mother.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Her subplot ends up with the [[Player Character]] having to rescue her after she's abducted by her fiance Isaea.
* [[Expy]]: She started out as a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] for Imoen, whom the developers originally planned to have Irenicus kill off/drive permanently insane. When Imoen's popularity among players convinced them to reconsider, they didn't change the "red-haired do-gooder thief/mage" thing much.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Not always, but she is one of the more passionate characters in terms of personality.
* [[
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Averted. Of the female NPCs who aren't either halflings or related to the main character by blood, she's the only one who can't be romanced.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Because she isn't a (half) elven divine caster!
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Shows shades of it in ''Throne of Bhaal''.
* [[Insult to Rocks]]: In reference to Isaea:
{{quote|"He is a complete and total ''bastard'', and calling him that insults bastards everywhere!"}}
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: [[Lampshade]]d by her quote above, not that we actually see her do much stealing.
* [[Neutral Good]]: In ''Throne of Bhaal'', she mellows out and becomes [[Neutral Good]].
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: She's a noblewoman, not a princess, but yeah.
* [[
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: She's a bit naive about and obliviously condescending towards the common people at times, but she is nevertheless a genuinely good person and does care about them.
* [[Strawman Political]]: She can be interpreted as a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|fantasy counterpart]] to your typical "limousine liberal", ineffectual good intentions and all.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Originally, she was created as such for Imoen, whom the developers planned to [[Killed Off for Real|kill]] [[Player Punch|off]] in ''Baldur's Gate II''; she can still function as one during the part of the game that Imoen isn't around.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In ''Throne of Bhaal''.
* [[We Help the Helpless]]: Because this is her attitude, she'll draw some flak from more cynical characters. While she can arguably do more by acting from the top down, there's something to be said for those in need directly.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: In ''Baldur's Gate II'', not ''Throne of Bhaal''.
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'''Voiced by:''' Jason Marsden
A sword imbued with the soul of a dimwitted warrior named Lawrence "Larry" Lilarcor. His favorite hobbies are killing things, mouthing off to his owner, killing things, complaing about ''not'' killing things, and, oh yeah, ''killing things''.
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* [[Blood Knight]]: ... Sword... Errr..
* [[Catch Phrase]]
* [[The Ditz]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: If the player character talks to him, he will point out how odd it is that someone would actually initiate a conversation with a freaking weapon. Granted, he's a [[Talking Weapon]], but still...
* [[Large Ham]]: So much that you'll have no chance of ignoring his presence, no matter how hard you try.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: What? Talk like a normal person? Never!
* [[
*
** "My brother's a +12 [[Hackmaster]]!"
* [[Talking Weapon]]
* [[Was Once a Man]]
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]
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* [[Word of Dante]]
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'''Lilarcor:''' Because you've got the grip and I've got the rip! [[Evil Laugh|Mwahahahahahahahaha!]]
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