History Characters / GoblinSlayerOtherSignificantPlayers

* CowardlyLion: Called "quick to fear" by the narration, but unhesitantly goes on quest well-above her weight class.

* FieryRedhead: Colored illustrations from the manga depict her with scarlet hair, which goes along nicely with the passion she displays for her dream to become a swordswoman of great renown.

* StopBeingStereotypical: Wants to be a Fighter because she doesn't want to live down to expectations that "all rheas are stealth/support/FragileSpeedster."

* YoungerThanTheyLook: She's a year and change younger than Priestess, but taller and more womanly than her and High Elf Archer.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Silver-Haired Scout is at least the minimum age to become an adventurer in ''Daikatana'', but is small and fresh-faced enough to be mistaken for a ten-year-old girl. This becomes far more the case when she's pictured in the main series; twelve or thirteen years have passed since her heyday, and Silver-Haired Attendant is exactly as young-looking as she was before, just with longer hair.

* TheStoic: Silver-Haired Scout is described by Samurai Captain as slight of expression if not emotion, though she loosens up substantially with [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl a cup of wine]].

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Was seen as this by Samurai Captain, who nearly unsheathed his blade in resentment at seeing a celebration break out for the Knight of Diamond discovering a path to the third layer of the Dungeon of the Dead the night his own party just barely limped home from their first group excursion to the front of the first layer.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He was dubbed ''Diamond Knight'' in his adventuring days, likely to signify his royal status. He certainly had the armor and plethora of powerful charms to show for it.

* RedBaron: As an adventurer during the days of the Dungeon of the Dead, he was publicly known as the Knight of Diamonds.

* YoungAndInCharge: Samurai Captain, in his first proper conversation with the "Knight of Diamonds", is shocked to realize the boy is actually younger than him; only fifteen, ''maybe'' just turned sixteen. Which means that he's still in his mid-to-late twenties when seen in the main story, and even back then he was involved with organizing his family's vassals and levies on top of being the head of his own adventuring party.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Even the Great Gods were ''extremely'' interested in his incredible tale of rescuing the Desert Princess, defeating the Prime Minister, restoring the Desert Kingdom to the Forces of Order, and becoming the Desert Princess's personal knight and implied lover '''all off screen in between Volumes'''!

* WeatherManipulation: Reveals herself to be a Rainmaker in volume 11 and conjures a monsoon to boost the speed of the Kelpie one of her teammates summoned to pull a sled.

* CartoonCreature: It is stated in volume 12 that most wizard familiars are magically constructed beasts, with the Familiar Mage's vessels being vaguely cat''like'' but otherwise of indescernible species.

* SymbioticPossession: Familiar Mage's vessels have minds of their own that she doesn't completely suppress when bodyriding them, as seen with a couple of small MyInstinctsAreShowing scenes in volume 12.

* TragicKeepsake: Her spear [[spoiler:is either a gift from her sister or her old weapon when she was still alive.]]

** She also is scared of zombies, [[spoiler:they remind her of how her original party is dead and gone.]]

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Vomits a stream of blood after getting stabbed in his exposed bowels.]]

* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:Gets his abdomen slashed open by the Demon Lord in the ActionPrologue FlashForward.]]

* ArmyScout: Shows up in volume 12 sent to do recon in a Chaos-ruined city alongside Rhea Fighter.
* BattleBoomerang: Illustrations in volume 16 reveal he eventually starts carrying one strapped to his side.

* GuestStarPartyMember: He and Rhea Fighter show up as bag carriers for Chosen Heroine's party in volume 9. No explanation for how they came into this position is provided, and next time they are seen, they have left that party and are doing freelance work for the army.

* GuestStarPartyMember: She and Wizard Boy show up as bag carriers for Chosen Heroine's party in volume 9. No explanation for how they came into this position is provided, and next time they are seen, they have left that party and are doing freelance work for the army.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Gets a decent bit of limelight for a newly-introduced side character in volume 6, shows up alongside Wizard Boy in a couple of important events afterwards, and is eventually depicted as having orange-red hair and bright green eyes in a colored manga illustration.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Forest Princess is this for her sister High Elf Archer; being able to shoot arrows with accuracy into the eyestalks of a Gazer while engaging in intense acrobatics is resentfully stated to be child's play for her. In the VideoGame/MemoriaFreese tie-in event and later volume 10, it is also claimed she once destroyed a human battleship with a single arrow. [[ACupAngst She's also much better endowed up top]].

* AdaptationDyeJob: Just like Chosen heroine, their designs were made for the anime before proper illustrations of them were drawn (in their cases chibi icons shown in light novel Volume 13), which resulted in major discrepancies when they finally got officially colored novel art. Also like Chosen Heroine, when they reappeared in the second season that debuted after those illustrations were made, their designs were changed to reflect the official colors, {{subvert|edTrope}}ing this.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Like Goblin Slayer, she's described as black-haired in text, but never illustrated as such until Volume 11, which shows she also has InnocentBlueEyes. This is in contrast to the anime and then later the manga, which both have designed her with deep red hair and eyes. Also, her armor is pure silver with slight blue and yellow trimmings in the illustrations, but grey with a yellow surcoat and red straps in the anime. However, when she first appeared in the second season of the anime, which released after those illustrations were published, her design was changed to reflect the official colors.

* YourSizeMayVary: Not her, but rather her Holy Sword. In the light novel and manga, the sword is massive, being as large as she is despite her small stature. However, in the anime, the sword is much smaller to the point of being a short one-handed sword compared to her and probably just a step above a long dagger for anyone bigger than her. That said, her appearance in the second season, alongside changing her coloration to that of the illustrations, also buffed up the size of her sword to be much bigger, though still not the absurd size from the source material, being as big as her torso and head instead of her whole body.

* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Sage has blue dark blue hair and purple eyes in the anime, but a chibi icon in light novel Volume 13 depicts her with MysticalWhiteHair and SupernaturalGoldEyes. Her dress was also shades of blue and her cloak grey in the anime, while her chibi has them both pure white with silver trimmings and pale green underside.
** Sword Saint had green eyes, olive-tinted dark hair, and a slight tan compared to her teammates in the anime. Her chibi icon in Volume 13 has red eyes, pure black hair, and is as pale as the other girls. Also, in the anime she had a dark red outfit with a navy blue capelet and gunmetal grey armor bits, while in Volume 13 her armor bits have a black finish with gold edging, her cape is white with pale red underside, and she wears a bright crimson vest.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Survives her experience with the goblins with only the brand on her neck, and rape. [[spoiler:Justified in that since she was powering the Goblin Paladin's magic, he probably wanted her in a good condition so she wouldn't die.]]

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Priestess. [[spoiler:Just like her, she had her entire rookie party killed and was the sole survivor]].

* FatalFlaw: Her {{pride}}. Her failed plan resulted in her party being placed in a dangerous position. Instead of retreating or calling off the quest when things were getting dangerous, she persisted out of fear of becoming a laughing stock for failing to complete a goblin subjection quest.[[spoiler:This ultimately leads to the death of her party members along with her being captured.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:Insists on accompanying the party to find and kill the goblin paladin, which Goblin Slayer and Priestess agree to.]]

* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Incapacitates a garrison of enemy soldiers by hotboxing them in a small room with her drugged perfume as she pretends to be a merchant come to cater on them.]]

* InadequateInheritor: Her principle motivations for running away to become an adventurer was how she nearly cracked under the pressure to live up to her family name and her insecurity over [[WellDoneDaughterGal being in her father's shadow]] and owing her every material possession to his fortune. She hoped starting a legacy all her own from scratch would be easier, make her feel freer, and be more rewarding. [[TraumaCongaLine It wasn't.]]

* JuniorCounterpart: To Sword Maiden, or at least that how the older woman sees it. Sword Maiden certainly knows they share similar experiences, and takes Noble Fencer under her wing in an attempt to guide her away from some of the emotional pitfalls that left her a long-term wreck before.
* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler:Unable to calm herself while seeing a goblin wearing the robes of her dead companion, she attacks one and forces the group to change their plans while in the goblin territory.]]

* TheMillstone: [[spoiler:Her PTSD as a result of what the goblins did to her repeatedly throws wrenches into Goblin Slayer's plans when the party infiltrates the goblin paladin's fortress, and eventually leads to the goblin army spotting them (the agony from the magical brand leeching her lifeforce to power the paladin may also have been to blame to some extent). She does pull her weight later though.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her plan to safely eliminate the goblins involved starving them out, but her failing to perform proper reconnaissance or factor in the amount of supplies needed to maintain her party out in the wilderness over the course of weeks results [[spoiler:in her party being slaughtered and her being used as a sacrifice, which allows the goblin paladin to come into being.]]

* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Initially tried to form one with her fellow party member Half-Elf Warrior, which ended tragically. Afterwards, she does end up forming one with Priestess who acted as her LivingEmotionalCrutch throughout Volume 5 after Noble Fencer's traumatic experience with the goblins. Some of their interactions include frequent hand holding (especially in [[TheMovie Goblin's Crown]]), Priestess often trying to comfort her, and Noble Fencer beating a goblin priest to death after it hurt Priestess.

* RescueRomance: Subverted. While she's immensely grateful for everything Goblin Slayer has done for her, a conversation with Sword Maiden in Volume 6 confirms no underlying feelings for the man... [[ClingyJealousGirl much to Sword Maiden's barely-disguised relief]].

* ShockAndAwe: She has a Lightning spell. [[spoiler:The goblin paladin wanted to enslave her in the first place to make her use this magic to help him in his attempts to learn smithing. Goblin Slayer has her instead blast the top off a mountain to induce an avalanche.]]

* SkewedPriorities: While personally fond enough of Silver Blaze to be happy she's alright, she admits in the denouement of volume 15 to only really caring about her as a contracted member of her new racing team with a lot of bets riding on her that are keeping her enterprise in the black.

* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Though the effect probably isn't meant to be as final as this trope usually comes off as. Come Volume 8 she has shelved any remaining desire or dream to be an adventurer and the narrative rebrands her Female Merchant Leader.]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: [[spoiler:The reason Goblin Slayer and Priestess decide to bring her on their assault on the goblin stronghold is that they can tell that getting back in the saddle right now and confronting her trauma head-on is the only possible way she is ever going to have a chance at reclaiming her self-respect and recovering psychologically.]]

* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Her final Lightning spell in volume 11 is purple.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In the past, he was a powerful warrior whom even veterans respected, during a time when adventuring itself was considered a far more dangerous career prospect compared to its modern iteration. [[spoiler:Volume 8 shows that he has not lost his edge.]]

* CloseToHome: His angst about [[spoiler:his little sister's abandoned twin]] drives him to try to reach out to lost or distressed little girls. [[HeroicSelfDeprecation He wonders if this makes him self-centered.]]

* HolierThanThou: Considers himself and Samurai Captain to be on another level ethically as well as martially over the other adventurers for being the leaders of two of the only parties that are actually trying to put an end to the Dungeon of the Dead instead of keeping the loot train going. Samurai Captain thinks he's a little sanctimonious about it, [[TheHypocrite despite repeatedly thinking almost exactly the same thing in his internal monologue.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Describes his family as poor for nobility. Samurai Captain wonders if relative poverty among the nobles isn't still fabulously wealthy objectively, if the quality of his gear is any indication (which, given that Samurai Captain ''knows'' the Knight of Diamonds is a successful adventurer and has been for a while, he shouldn't be taking as a given.)

* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: [[spoiler:When Princess gets kidnapped by a goblin ambush in Volume 8, he cannot bring himself to simply summon up his forces to go on a search and rescue; considering that he had been hands-off concerning goblin exterminations throughout the series, to suddenly gather his army for a goblin-slaying manhunt simply due to personal involvement would be political suicide, so he's forced to hire a discreet adventuring party.]]

* VigilanteMan: [[spoiler:Recognizing a conspiracy within his court to have the Princess captured and used as a pawn for Chaos, he dons himself in his old armor and promptly slays all of them single-handedly. In fact, he had been cutting down corrupt figures who were otherwise untouchable by law for the past few years.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: The King started out as an adventurer, and wishes he could keep solving every problem as if he still was. Conspirators in his capital city? Let him personally gut them. Royal budget in the red? Let him go slay a dragon for its hoard. Unusual winter storm? Let him take his sword and find the evil wizard obviously responsible! His advisors coach him to refrain from leaping into action [[spoiler:with only partial success.]]

The King's little sister. A major person of interest in Volume 8.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Slightly Averted, [[spoiler:Princess & Priestess are indeed identical in looks, but the defining physical difference aside from hair length is Princess is far more well-endowed than her ''very likely'' (still unconfirmed) long-lost twin sister]].
* BuxomBeautyStandard Priestess is [[ACupAngst quite put out]] when she compares their bust-lines.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:The main action of Volume 8 happens when goblins are sent to kidnap her for a VirginSacrifice when she sneaks out of the capital.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:She tags along with Chosen Heroine, Sword Saint, and Sage in their quest to put down Jupiter's Ghost, helping in the fight by casting Purify on the monster.]]
* HeroWorshipper: [[spoiler:Becomes one to Priestess after being saved from the goblins of the Dungeon of the Dead, to the point of devoting herself to the Earth Mother to be more like her.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Is stated to heavily resemble Priestess, just with shorter hair and larger breasts. [[spoiler:Likely subverted after ''Daikatana'' Volume 2 and Volume 13 of the main story both reveal that Princess actually had a twin sister that disappeared somehow while still a baby...]]. In case you haven't got it, it's all but said (currently still unconfirmed) that [[spoiler:Princess & Priestess are twin sisters]].
* KingIncognito: Comes to Frontier Town in volume 13 by posing as the priestess observing Guild Girl's practice-dungeon festival idea.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Her decision to take Priestess' equipment was obviously done at the spur of the moment, and the girl quickly felt ashamed of herself upon noting the care and attachment given to them. She resolved to return Priestess' belongings after her little adventure, but outside forces conspired otherwise.]]

* RebelliousPrincess: Is infuriated with her brother's rank hypocrisy in denying her the chance to experience life as an adventurer when that was what he built his ascension to royalty on. [[spoiler:In Volume 8, Princess steals Priestess' equipment to try slumming it as a sellsword for a night. Goblins immediately [[TemptingFate get their claws on her the instant she's away from her handlers]].]]

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All of the King's advisors and policymakers, in particular his personal inner circle of: an elderly minister, a red-haired cardinal, a tan-skinned court mage, a royal guardsman in silver armor, a Gold-ranked Padfoot adventurer-turned-advisor, and a silver-haired attendant.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: The court mage is described as tan-skinned. Given how his complexion is not similarily emphasized in ''Daikatana'', it probably is just a tan.

* BodyguardingABadass: For all the royal guard's dismissiveness of his liege's combat ability, the man he is in charge of protecting is a celebrated veteran both in dungeon-delving and wars against demons.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: The cardinal's role as an advisor seems to mainly encompass him exasperately telling the King he can't [[LeeroyJenkins run off to personally kill evildoers and loot dungeons at the slightest problem.]]

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Silver-Haired Attendant, as revealed by a character spotlight picture in volume 15, has limpid grey eyes to go along with her trademark mane.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Several if not all of the advisors are Gold-ranked holdovers of the King's old personal adventuring posse, and while not all of them flex their battle prowess, they all maintain close ties with their old leader and have been granted positions in the highest and closest levels of royal appointment.
* GambitRoulette: Silver-Haired Attendant in Volume 12 [[spoiler:gives the Face and familiar-controlling wizard of the Shadowrunner party a secondary mission to take out the corrupt FantasticRacist city guardswoman trying to murder her half-elven bastard sister, and it is possible the initial contract (a hit placed on the half-elf by drug-runners she was in debt too) was a fake made by them as an excuse to get the party [[KillSteal in conflict with the real killer.]] Of course the other four members of the party were kept completely in the dark on the real objective, with no guarantee or even real incentive that they would go after the guardswoman when the initial assassination fell through, [[DisposableSexWorker to say nothing of keeping the poor, opioid-addicted, discriminated-against prostitute alive on the off-chance they had reached her first]].]]

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Silver Haired Attendant can down two glasses of [[GargleBlaster dwarven fire wine]] in a single quaff each, and is barely affected by them.

* {{Jerkass}}: The royal guard is a mouthy asshole who makes repeated digs at the physical ability of the rest of the court (the majority of whom are spellcasters and retired adventurers) and who mocks the plight of goblin rape victims while saying he doesn't mind "broken goods", in front of two women who suffered exactly that. The King makes excuses for him because he's an old adventuring buddy, but everyone else in the room either completely ignores him or views him with naked contempt.

* NinjaMaid: The attendant is formally part of the service staff, but is also a high-level ex-adventurer. [[spoiler:She also accompanies the King on his VigilanteMan hijinks]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: Silver-Haired Scout is at least the minimum age to become an adventurer in ''Daikatana'', but is small and fresh-faced enough to be mistaken for a ten-year-old girl. This becomes far more the case when she's pictured in the main series; twelve or thirteen years have passed since her heyday, and she is exactly as young-looking as she was before, just with longer hair.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Silver-Haired Scout and Female Warrior at least casually know each other, and Samurai Captain speculates that they grew up in the same orphanage together.

* PlatinumMakesEverythingShinier: The royal guard wears an entire suit of platinum armor.
* PraetorianGuard: The royal guard captain is a powerful former adventurer sporting conspicuous BlingOfWar.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:At the very least, the attendant knows about and participates in the King going out to lynch corrupt nobles and evil cultists he can't reach legally. It's hinted the others know or suspect, but they do nothing to stop it]].
* ShipperOnDeck: Or at least that's what Noble Fencer assumes. Whenever she serves as a personal assistant to the King, most of his other attendants like the red-haired cardinal tend to clear the room and leave them alone together as noted in Volume 14, and the conclusion she leaps to as for why they do so is that they want or expect her to make a move on him to become his mistress or concubine.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: The cardinal who is one of the chief advisors is prominently described as redheaded.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only member of this little coterie that is a girl is Silver-Haired Scout.

* TheStoic: Silver-Haired Attendant is described by Samurai Captain as slight of expression if not emotion, though she loosens up substantially with [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl a cup of wine]].

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Like Goblin Slayer, she's described as black-haired in text, but never illustrated as such until Volume 11, which shows she also has InnocentBlueEyes. This is in contrast to the anime and then later the manga, which both have designed her with deep red hair and eyes. Also, her armor is pure silver with slight blue and yellow trimmings in the illustrations, but grey with a yellow surcoat and red straps in the anime.

* YourSizeMayVary: Not her, but rather her Holy Sword. In the light novel and manga, the sword is massive, being as large as she is despite her small stature. However, in the anime, the sword is much smaller to the point of being a short one-handed sword compared to her and probably just a step above a long dagger for anyone bigger than her.

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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: She wants to help her fellow adventurers and work towards saving the world in whatever small way she can. If She can't be on the frontlines, she provide support or advocate on other's behalf.

* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:While speaking with Noble Fencer in Volume 6 and learning about her being rescued by Goblin Slayer, she immediately casts a spell to read her mind and learn her opinion and intentions toward him. When she visits the Adventurer's Guild to ask Goblin Slayer to be a temporary bodyguard in Volume 8, she uses the opportunity to scope out her competition]].
* ColorCodedEyes: Promo art and the anime show Sword Maiden's eyes to be a washed out blue-grey in color, further paled by her cataracts, and she more than fits their historic connotations of [[NaughtyNuns beauty]], [[BrokenBird cynicism]], and [[BlindSeer altered vision]].

** Both Sword Maiden and Goblin Slayer had their lives forever altered by the machinations of goblins at a young age. [[FreudianExcuse Shackled by intense trauma and mental baggage]], they are a pair of damaged goods who still pushed on and became successful adventurers. However, a closer look into their lives exhibits just how Sword Maiden is everything Goblin Slayer isn’t:
*** Sword Maiden is a stunningly beautiful woman whose looks and grace draws admiration from all, complemented by robes that show off her curves and leave little to the imagination. The only imperfection about her appearance is the blindfold that covers her useless eyes. [[HeroicBuild Goblin Slayer isn’t too bad]] [[BeautifulAllAlong on the looks department either]], but he covers everything behind plated armor and a closed helmet, and his eyes are ''never'' seen by the audience.

*** Gold- and Silver-rank are granted only to the most powerful, skilled, and trustworthy adventurers as proof of their accomplishments. Naturally, Sword Maiden is utterly revered as an unquestioned LivingLegend for defeating the Demon Lord. By contrast, Goblin Slayer’s skill as an adventurer is frequently doubted upon by skeptics, especially since he was only given his rank as the Guild’s sole goblin exterminator.
*** However, it is ''because'' of Sword Maiden's accolades that [[LonelyAtTheTop she ends up finding herself distanced from her peers]], somebody to be admired from afar. Her subjects put too much faith in her abilities when she's the one who needs help the most. Until the events of Volume 2 occurred, she had virtually nothing to show for all the adulation heaped upon her. Goblin Slayer was mostly isolated too, but he’s always had at least ''someone'' willing to reach out to him and give support, be it his childhood friend, his receptionist, or his partners.

-->'''Sword Maiden''': [[spoiler:I... I cherish you...!]]

* MagicalGesture: Performs mudras as well as mantras to cast arcane magic.
* MagicKnight: In ''Daikatana'' it's noted that while Female Bishop is unused to being on the front lines, she is trained in wielding martial weapons, and is at least strong enough to [[spoiler: cave in a brigand's head utterly with the hilt of her sword-staff.]]

* SewerGator: [[spoiler: She keeps a giant albino alligator as a {{Familiar}}, and uses it to patrol the sewers of Water Town. This is why Water Town never has giant rat extermination quests.]]

* TearsOfJoy: After Goblin Slayer [[spoiler: promises to kill all goblins should she call for him, even in her dreams, she breaks down into these tears and declares her LoveConfession for him.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:The entire reason why she hired Goblin Slayer in the first place is because she can never bring herself to confront goblins ever again -- she fears that if the goblin swarm within the sewers ever makes it above ground, she will just fall apart entirely at the seams, leaving Water Town defenseless]]. In ''Daikatana'' [[spoiler: she freezes when confronted by them and feels constant paranoia in the dungeon that they might spread even to parts with stronger monsters that always kill and eat them.]]

* ArcHero: Of Volume 5, as the mission of that volume was to rescue her and later she acts as a GuestStarPartyMember to Goblin Slayer's team in their quest to stop the [[spoiler: Goblin Paladin]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Survives her experience with the goblins with only the brand on her neck, and rape. [[spoiler: Justified in that since she was powering the Goblin Paladin's magic, he probably wanted her in a good condition so she wouldn't die.]]

* CantHoldHerLiquor: Admits quite frankly that she’s not very good with alcohol when offered an ale.

* TheFace: After arranging for her and Goblin Slayer's party to conduct a mission in the Desert Kingdom together, she quickly establishes her niche as a social chameleon, using her status as scion to a high-status merchant as plausible cover for herself and her “bodyguard entourage” to visit the nation, and consistently making use of her wealth and charisma to divert attention from her martial-focused teammates, if not outright bribe or flatter the opposition to let them pass without a fight.

* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Incapacitates a garrison of enemy soldiers by hotboxing them in a small room with her drugged perfume as she pretends to be a merchant come to cater on them.]]

* InadequateInheritor: Her principle motivations for running away to become an adventurer was how she nearly cracked under the pressure to live up to her family name and her insecurity over [[WellDoneDaughterGal being in her father’s shadow]] and owing her every material possession to his fortune. She hoped starting a legacy all her own from scratch would be easier, make her feel freer, and be more rewarding. [[TraumaCongaLine It wasn’t.]]

* MadeASlave: [[spoiler: Goblin Slayer theorized that the goblin paladin kept her alive for this reason after he "breaks her spirit". Once she becomes his subservient slave, he would force her to use her ShockAndAwe magic to forge new weapons for his horde and eventually work her to death. Luckily, Goblin Slayer's party was able to save her before this can happen]].

* PenPals: It’s stated that after returning home to become a merchant she is friends and stays in contact with Priestess (and possibly High Elf Archer) with regular letters.

* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler: After being captured by a goblin horde led by a goblin paladin, she ended up being raped and branded by the monsters. The traumatic experience left her in a very vengeful state after she was saved. She was able to convince Goblin Slayer's party to let her join them on their mission and she was ultimately able to kill most of the goblins that tormented her after causing an avalanche to wipe them out]].

* AbsentmindedProfessor: Spends her days reading and muttering over her tomes in an overflowing shack and doesn’t care enough to answer her door or keep an eye on her visitors.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's as kooky as she is slovenly, and slow to extend a helping hand, but she's a brilliant enough wizard to have worked for the royal court, be trusted with updating adventurer guidebooks, and [[spoiler: discover the secrets of ascension]].
* CardsOfPower: Despite carrying a magic staff, a deck of richly illustrated playing cards is her primary instrument for spell channeling. She makes them herself, basing their portraits on the monsters she studies and filling them with details that don’t make it into the Monster Manual, and in her off time she has a habit of shuffling and arranging them as a meditative or divining practice.

* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler: Locating a corner of the world and stepping off of it was the method by which the sages of old became planeswalkers, a feat she performs with Goblin Slayer's help]].

* TheHedonist: On more than one occasion she goes on a small tirade on how people should make full use of the basic pleasures to make life more worthwhile; eat good food, sleep when you want, and find someone to screw.

* SexForServices: Is prepared, [[GoodBadGirl crossing into eager]], to sleep with Goblin Slayer in exchange for the magic ring he’s trying to get appraised. [[spoiler:Though as it turns out she doesn't actually physically sleep with the boys she propositions.]]

* ACupAngst: She envies Sword Maiden's and Sword Saint's assets, as revealed during their fight against Hecatoncheir in Volume 3 and manga Chapter 40 respectively.

--> '''Sword Saint:''' All it takes is someone in distress to get you involved.

-->'''Hero:''' Well, I knew I could charge in there anytime and be like, 'Bam! I win!' Heck, winning’s my role!

-->'''Hero:''' I guess if anyone was like, 'You sure you can save this world?' I’d be sort of like, 'I dunno!'
--> Hero was supposed to save the world. She wasn’t the hero because she could save the world; it was trying to save the world that made her a hero. What she could do might not amount to much. But she had friends who mattered to her, and there were so many people in this world. So she had to save it, and she was confident it would work out somehow.

-->'''Chosen Heroine:''' I wish we could do ''one'' adventure that doesn’t involve the fate of the world!

* BadassNormal: Sword Saint can’t cast spells, but her natural strength of arms is enough to keep up with the likes of Chosen Heroine.

* MadeOfIndestructium: Sword Saint boasts that her katana can never break or bend, though it has no offensive enhancements beyond that.

* MysticalWhiteHair: Sage’s hair in the light novel is eventually revealed to be a stark white.

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Sage’s eyes in the light novels are eventually revealed to be a bright, gleaming yellow, like certain other veteran magic-users.

* CloseToHome: His angst about [[spoiler: his little sister's abandoned twin]] drives him to try to reach out to lost or distressed little girls. [[HeroicSelfDeprecation He wonders if this makes him self-centered.]]

* RedBaron: As an adventurer during the days of the Dungeon of the Dead, he was publicly known as the Knight of Diamonds.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: The King started out as an adventurer, and wishes he could keep solving every problem as if he still was. Conspirators in his capital city? Let him personally gut them. Royal budget in the red? Let him go slay a dragon for its hoard. Unusual winter storm? Let him take his sword and find the evil wizard obviously responsible! His advisors coach him to refrain from leaping into action [[spoiler: with only partial success.]]
* YoungAndInCharge: Samurai Captain, in his first proper conversation with the "Knight of Diamonds", is shocked to realize the boy is actually younger than him; only fifteen, ''maybe'' just turned sixteen. Which means that he's still in his mid-to-late twenties when seen in the main story, and even back then he was involved with organizing his family's vassals and levies on top of being the head of his own adventuring party.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Slightly Averted, [[spoiler: Princess & Priestess are indeed identical in looks, but the defining physical difference aside from hair length is Princess is far more well-endowed than her ''very likely'' (still unconfirmed) long-lost twin sister]].

* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler: She tags along with Chosen Heroine, Sword Saint, and Sage in their quest to put down Jupiter's Ghost, helping in the fight by casting Purify on the monster.]]

* IdenticalStranger: Is stated to heavily resemble Priestess, just with shorter hair and larger breasts. [[spoiler: Likely subverted after ''Daikatana'' Volume 2 and Volume 13 of the main story both reveal that Princess actually had a twin sister that disappeared somehow while still a baby...]]. In case you haven't got it, it's all but said (currently still unconfirmed) that [[spoiler:Princess & Priestess are twin sisters]].

* ReviveKillsZombie: Attempted this against Jupiter’s Ghost, casting Purify on the seething mass of magically produced and mangled bodies that formed its being. How effective it was is unclear, as the Chosen Heroine immediately launches a follow-up attack and the scene cuts away before the fight can be joined in earnest or the monster can display any reaction.

* GambitRoulette: Silver-Haired Attendant in Volume 12 [[spoiler: gives the Face and familiar-controlling wizard of the Shadowrunner party a secondary mission to take out the corrupt FantasticRacist city guardswoman trying to murder her half-elven bastard sister, and it is possible the initial contract (a hit placed on the half-elf by drug-runners she was in debt too) was a fake made by them as an excuse to get the party [[KillSteal in conflict with the real killer.]] Of course the other four members of the party were kept completely in the dark on the real objective, with no guarantee or even real incentive that they would go after the guardswoman when the initial assassination fell through, [[DisposableSexWorker to say nothing of keeping the poor, opioid-addicted, discriminated-against prostitute alive on the off-chance they had reached her first]].]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Silver-Haired Scout is at least the minimum age to become an adventurer in ''Daikatana'', but is small and fresh-faced enough to be mistaken for a ten-year-old girl. This becomes far more the case when she’s pictured in the main series; twelve or thirteen years have passed since her heyday, and she is exactly as young-looking as she was before, just with longer hair.

* TheHighQueen: Mature and firm in the face evil most depraved, she is poised to grow into a strong queen after being liberated by the Young Knight.

* BreakTheHaughty: The elf is incredibly snooty, and gets an inordinate amount of abuse compared to her rhea friend. [[spoiler: She eventually breaks down to a FarmBoy, kowtowing and weeping for help.]]

* MadeASlave: At one point they get caught by kidnappers with the intent of selling at the market. [[spoiler:They get bought by a farmer and escape with help from his nephew]] .

* NominalHero: The plot relevant Shadowrunners initially come off like good guys only because the missions they take in their SympatheticPOV segments all just so happen to advance the causes of good, even if in incidental or tangential ways. In truth, the Shadowrunners as a whole are violent crooks for hire, and [[NotInThisForYourRevolution openly don’t care if the missions they're given are meant to advance good or evil]] and they admit to committing heinous crimes behind the scenes. Clearest example comes in Volume 12 when the crew accept a job to kill a prostitute that racked up a debt to a drug-running gang, and only [[spoiler:take down her FantasticRacist half-sister instead out of revenge for doing a KillSteal and siccing the city watch on them, which pays out as part of a secret second-mission only their handler and one member of the strike-team was aware of]].

* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: He was a Wizball player that suffered an accident that left him a quadriplegic and also missing an eye. He became an assassin to pay for the replacements, but still loves to watch and gamble on the game for nostalgia and vicarious fun.]]
* CoatHatMask: Wears this getup.

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: [[spoiler:He’ll accept a contract from a violent drug cartel to kill a poor prostitute that got in debt to them with little hesitation, but he'll coldly turn his nose up at her corrupt guardswoman half-sister attempting to recruit him into her FantasticRacist cabal. He wouldn't be able to [[RaceFetish pick up elf women]] if they were all run out of town after all]].
* PragmaticVillainy: Whenever one of his heists goes wrong and the city watch get on his tail, he’ll lay down cover fire but actively try to miss them; after all, a reputation as a guard-killer would only make his life vastly harder.

* BerserkButton: Given what is known about her backstory, it comes as no surprise that she gets murderously angry at the thought of kidnappers or slavers running around with impunity.

* MadeASlave: Speculated by a Shadowrunning crewmate of being one or living under threat of it as a child. [[spoiler: It was the second one, and she intends to avenge the ones who defended her with their lives.]]

* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Became a shadowrunner to avenge her dear childhood friend who was hurt or killed stopping an attempt to kidnap her.]]

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: The Fixer and the Familiar Mage are the only two members to know that the hit put out on the half-elf drug thief is a ruse to get close to her murderous guardswoman half-sister. Likely because they do not actually take part in the heists, and as such would not be at risk of being caught and interrogated into spilling their real contract if something went wrong, unlike the teammates they are leading around by the nose on false premises.]]

* YoungAndInCharge: The Dwarf Leader is noted to still be a young girl by the standards of her race. Probably why she’s the only member of the crew that doesn’t want to settle down just yet.

* ADayInTheLimelight: This group of adventurers will star in the web serialized novel ''Goblin Slayer Side Story 2: Tsubanari no Daikatana'', chronicling how the party reached and defeated the Demon Lord.

* ForegoneConclusion: Readers know going into their story that they all make it through the Dungeon of the Dead together and triumph over the Demon Lord, though the ActionPrologue FlashForward tries to inject some tension by strongly signaling [[spoiler: most of the party besides Sword Maiden die in the final battle.]]

* NoodleIncident: In Volume 4, King spitefully throws in Sword Maiden's face a mention of a time when her party almost got wiped by a slime. [[spoiler: We see the event in ''Daikatana'' and what really happened was that the slime surprised Female Warrior and enveloped her head as the party was making the trip back out of the Dungeon of the Dead after their first excursion, and the party had to scramble to figure out how to get it off before she drowned.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The group doesn't break their various cools (Female Mage's optimism, Myrmidon Monk's aggressive apathy, etc.) unless confronted with something major, like [[spoiler: the Demon Lord's human guise slaughtering a helpless party right in front of them.]]

* SlashedThroat: Nearly dies from an opened neck to a ninja in the Dungeon's third floor.

* CloseToHome: News of rogue adventurers preying on rookies in the Dungeon gets her uncharacteristically upset and eager to go and take care of the issue. [[spoiler: She's been on the receiving end of such scum herself.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Has clear past experience with "scruffy men". [[spoiler: She claims her first party was formed with her friends from an orphanage, and they all died to "newbie hunters." Samurai Captain accuses her of making it up for some hare-brained reason, which rather abruptly shuts down whatever moment she was trying to have with him.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: One of her party members in her first group was apparently her older sister. She dropped everything to get her out of the Dungeon alive, and was still too late to get her a Preservation miracle.]]

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Samurai Captain keeps making fun of her fear of slimes. In fairness to him, it seems to help her make light of the past trauma and she does sometimes encourage or partake in it.

* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Gets sliced through the neck by the Demon Lord in the ActionPrologue FlashForward.]]

* SoleSurvivor: Female Warrior is introduced barely surviving a goblin ambush only to find the corpses of the rest of her party in a heap. She comments to herself that this is not the first time that's happened. [[spoiler: It's how she lost her sister and friends when she first became an adventurer.]]

* TooInjuredToSave: [[spoiler: Her disastrous debut dungeon crawl with her original party of friends from the orphanage saw her as the last one standing after an ambush and only able to drag her big sister out of the pit back into town, but by the time she made it back to the Trade God chapel her sister was too far gone for even [[SuspendedAnimation Preservation]] to do any good.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Her spear [[spoiler: is either a gift from her sister or her old weapon when she was still alive.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:

** She also is scared of zombies, [[spoiler: they remind her of how her original party is dead and gone.]]

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: Vomits a stream of blood after getting stabbed in his exposed bowels.]]

* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: Gets his abdomen slashed open by the Demon Lord in the ActionPrologue FlashForward.]]

* CallForward: While playing a cardgame with her team, she plays a hand that constitutes a "Fusion Blast" combo. [[spoiler: Fusion Blast is also her ultimate CombinationAttack against the Demon Lord in the FlashForward.]]

* HeroicRROD: Overcasts a Lightning spell to the point of charring her fingers in an effort to down a dragon.

* TheStrategist: Described as this to his party in the ''Daikatana'' character bios.

* HiddenBuxom: The light novels consistently call her well-endowed, but she has fairly small breasts even for her size in both the illustrations and manga adaptation, until Chapter 65 of the manga has her take off her breastplate and reveal she’s been pressing down a pair of breasts each nearly the size of her head this entire time.

-->'''Rhea Fighter:''' I'm gonna be big! So big, no one will care that I’m little!

* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: The lower half of Half-Elf Fighter's body is missing by the time Goblin Slayer's party finds her corpse.

* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard is who drove the party to gain experience by ganking other adventurers.]]

* EasilyForgiven: The original team of four are accepted by the Golden Party as friends after losing their duel and accepting Female Bishop’s decision to switch groups, completely sidestepping how they were willing to kill the protagonists to force their old teammate back into their circle [[spoiler:and murdered dozens of adventurers as part of their "training"]]. To be absolutely fair, all that was done under the heavy influence of [[spoiler:the Demon Lord in disguise as Black Hat Wizard, who summarily kills them]].

* EeriepaleSkinnedBrunette: Black Hat Wizard is sickly pale and midnight-haired under his voluminous robes.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: If Female Bishop won’t rejoin the party because she prefers her new friends, they’ll just have to beat those interlopers until they won’t or can’t keep adventuring so she’ll reenter the fold.

* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Gets drenched in the gore of the Immortal Sorcerer after cutting him down. [[spoiler: It was the worst thing she could have done, seeing as his blood is the catalyst of a life-draining curse.]]

* KillingInSelfDefense: [[spoiler: Her personal trainer wasn't killed by her kidnappers, but by her own hooves when he tried to cripple her leg so that he could cash in on bets made against her in her next race]].

* BookDumb: Has tried to study history and magic seriously, but it's all too dry for her to stick with.

-->'''Chosen Heroine:''' (Literal seconds after waking up) All Right! Time for another day of trying hard and doing my best!\\

* WorldsStrongestMan: Her goal since she was a girl has been to become "the strongest in the world". The near-entire rest of her village laughing at her ambition didn't dissuade her, and her ex-adventurer grandfather's summer of training her just before his death gave her the resolve to pack up and leave to make a go at it.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Averted}} in all forms of media - the right side of her body was shown to be covered in numerous deep gashes, bruises, and burns. [[spoiler:The AnimatedAdaptation subverts this by having her physically and mentally better off than her light novel and manga; even her right eye, [[HidingBehindYourBangs which is initially covered up by her bangs]], was shown to be working properly]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in all forms of media. The right side of her body was shown to be covered in numerous deep gashes, bruises, and burns. [[spoiler:The anime would later subvert this by having her physically and mentally better off than her manga and LN counterparts, even her right eye [[HidingBehindYourBangs which is initially covered up by her bangs]], is shown to be working properly.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Shows up in Volume 7 when the party arrive at the site for Forest Princess' wedding, still baring the scars of her captivity, blind in one eye, and reportedly largely unresponsive. Goblin Slayer goes to her and assures her that all the goblins from the tower are dead, to which she lets tears fall]].

* GodivaHair: In the anime.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: After seeing what the goblins have done to her, this apparently made the Silver-ranked trio, especially High Elf Archer, realize how truly diabolical goblins are, and makes them going on more goblin-slaying quests with Goblin Slayer even after their mission with him was finished.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in all forms of media. The right side of her body was shown to be covered in numerous deep gashes, bruises, and burns. [[spoiler:The anime would later subvert this by having her physically and mentally better off than her manga and LN counterparts, though her right eye [[HidingBehindYourBangs is covered up by her bangs]], potentially alluding to the fact that her right eye was still blinded.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in all forms of media. The right side of her body was shown to be covered in numerous deep gashes, bruises, and burns.

'''Other Characters:''' '''Other Significant Players''' | [[Characters/GoblinSlayerTheGods The Gods]] | [[Characters/GoblinSlayerAntagonists Antagonists]]]]-]

!Villagers
[[folder:Cow Girl's Uncle]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daichi Hayashi (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
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A dairy farmer and Cow Girl's current guardian after her parents death.
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* AccidentalHero: When he took Cow Girl into the city on the fateful night that goblins attacked her village. He didn't realize it at the time, but this action saved his niece's life.
* BlatantLies: When Goblin Slayer comes home late and asks about the Wine Merchant's carriage driving out from the farm, Uncle denies awareness of it and claims he was only outside to check on the cows. It's abundantly clear to Goblin Slayer, let alone the reader, that he's trying to avoid the topic for a while longer.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Thinks all adventurers are thugs and not good enough for his niece. That includes Goblin Slayer.
* CoolUncle: To Cow Girl - he is willing to let Goblin Slayer live on his farm at her request, even though he clearly disapproves of the goblin-obsessed adventurer that his niece's childhood friend has become.
* CreatureOfHabit: When discussing the Wine Merchant's offer to buy his farm from him and turn his mixed farming cattle ranch into an industrial barley plantation for beer-brewing, he admits his main problem is that he's so used to the way he's lived and operated that to switch to a new production is almost unthinkable for him.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: In the anime, he has brown eyes and brown hair.
* CynicismCatalyst: Losing his sister and old home has hurt him terribly, and is why he's so standoffish.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Although Cow Girl and Goblin Slayer aren't dating, he is aware that his niece is in love with Goblin Slayer and has voiced his disapproval of him to Cow Girl many times. He even outright tells his niece that he believes Goblin Slayer has lost his mind after witnessing his sister's death. In ''Year One'', he tells Goblin Slayer that he was willing to marry Cow Girl off to the boy she grew up with, but not to the adventurer he has become.
* DotingParent: He tries his hardest to support and accommodate his niece after taking her in. Despite all his misgivings about adventurers, he still allows Goblin Slayer to stay mostly because doing so was the first request Cow Girl ever made of him.
* FeelingTheirAge: In Volume 14, even Goblin Slayer notes how he looks perpetually fatigued nowadays, the specter of senescence hovering over him and ready to sap all his strength.
* GoGetterGirl: A RareMaleExample - Cow Girl's Uncle may own his own land and make a decent living as a dairy farmer, but he's not one to just let a good, honest deal by to further his income. Twice thanks to Goblin Slayer he's found ways to use his farm to make further products.
** After Goblin Slayer returned from Water Town with tools to make ice cream, Cow Girl's Uncle jumped at the chance to borrow Goblin Slayer's tool (with his permission) to sell Ice Cream in the Frontier Town during Spring and Summer to good fiscal success.
** When Goblin Slayer went to the Desert Kingdom, he sent back a female Camel to the farm as a souvenir for Cow Girl; her uncle has since been collecting itsmilk to see if he can make some cheese (Camel cheese is indeed real) and sell it as a rare exotic good.
* HiddenDepths: He is a highly introspective man, he sometimes gets absorbed in his thoughts about if he is doing the best for his niece, or agonizing about the fact that maybe he is overstepping, not wanting to replace her parents. He is also a former mercenary, so he is well aware how Adventurers can be. He is also willing to offer Goblin Slayer advice about how to live a more normal life.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Has this talk twice with Goblin Slayer.
** The first time, in ''Year One'', he prejudged Goblin Slayer to be a typical roughneck, saw his orphaned niece [[NotWhatItLooksLike visit the barn he was spending the night in and leave the next morning distraught]], and confronted Goblin Slayer with a pitchfork in hand before figuring out the truth of Cow Girl's visit and reaction to Goblin Slayer's personality change.
** The second time, in Volume 3 of the main story, it's a defeated and chagrined plea for Goblin Slayer to realize how much their upcoming date means to Cow Girl and not lead her on. He gives up when he sees the boy [[ObliviousToLove isn't getting it]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Early in ''Year One'' Volume 2, he makes numerous flippant remarks to Cow Girl about how Goblin Slayer might have a lover or be seeing prostitutes. It takes her running off for him to realize that her crush on the boy would have made such gossip hurt, and that bringing up hookers to his 13-year-old niece was inappropriate.
* MinorMajorCharacter: After the events of Volume 1, his farm is considered an ''extremely'' important asset and Branch Castle or "fallback position" for the Frontier Town; in short, he's kind of a big deal, just not to the story. Because of this, he's not only part of the town's leadership and attends their meetings regularly, but the threat of his farm falling to Goblins was enough for the Guild to put a special incentive on Goblin bounties in order to convince higher ranked adventurers to protect his farm.
* NoSympathy: Knows that Goblin Slayer has every reason to hunt down goblins, but still believes that this same trauma will prevent his niece from finding happiness with the adventurer.
* PapaWolf: To Cow Girl since she is the only family that he has left.
* ParentalSubstitute: Is this to Cow Girl, and feels guilty for taking the place of his sister and her husband.
* ParentsAsPeople: In Chapter 57 of the ''Year One'' manga, he reflects on his time looking after Cow Girl so far. He acknowledges in detail their occasional arguments, mutual hangups, and how he still doesn’t fully understand her, but he cares for her the best he can and their are slowly making it work.
* RetiredBadass: Not something he usually talks about, but as a young man he fought his good share of wars.
* SelfMadeMan: Proudly describes himself as a yeoman or freeholder. He's personally earned his land and cultivated his farm, and he's not about to sell out to anyone. He doesn't even want any farmhands beyond his niece yet, even as he acknowledges that he's a few years away from the age when his body can't keep up with farm labor anymore.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He earned the right to own his own land by serving as a yeoman in a noble’s retinue. He saw “more than his share of death” while fighting for his prize, and to this day has a deep-set dislike of career warriors beyond the typical mistrust of parochial homesteaders.
* ShipperOnDeck: He likes the idea of Cow Girl settling down with a "good man" when she reaches marriage age, and not averse for that man to be her [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood crush]]... but not the Goblin Slayer said childhood crush has become. Therefore many of his private conversations with Goblin Slayer are attempts to plant the seed of giving up his genocidal quest and become a normal villager again with Cow Girl.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Goblin Slayer, though he's the one with the problem. Goblin Slayer's presence brings up bad memories, causes his beloved niece emotional turbulence, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking comes with numerous quirks]]. He eventually acknowledges that the boy is harmless and stops being hostile, but even that is more out of grudging exhaustion than a positive change in perspective.
* SurvivorsGuilt: He takes both Cow Girl and Goblin Slayer in at least in part because he feels an obligation to their deceased families and destroyed childhoods, and sometimes wishes he could take the place of his departed sister.
* {{Tsundere}}: He is one to Goblin Slayer. Though he never voices it aloud, he ''does'' pity the lad and understands his life has been nothing but hardship. Because Goblin Slayer's death would devastate his niece, he fears for the man's mental and physical well-being. In various passive-aggressive ways he explains disapproval of Goblin Slayer's genocidal obsession and expresses there are other lifestyles available. He dangles a future with Cow Girl on the farm as one possibility, but only if Goblin Slayer gives up being an adventurer.
** He also reminds Goblin Slayer to take care of his body and turned down an offer to have Goblin Slayer married off in Volume 10 by a wealthy merchant for a not-insignificant amount of money. Even though he doesn't approve of his lifestyle he genuinely does care about him.
** It's subtle, but he does try to be a father-figure to Goblin Slayer in his own way. In one chapter of ''Year One'', he considers thanking Goblin Slayer for mending a fence but doesn't because he thinks it's distant and informal and instead just welcomes him home, and then later chides him for not letting him (Uncle) and Cow Girl know that he'd been promoted.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goblin Slayer's Sister]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ReinaUeda (Japanese), Creator/RachelGlass (English)
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_10_19_at_10205_pm.jpg]]

Goblin Slayer's older sister. Years before the main story began, she was raped and murdered by goblins right in front of her younger brother, which kickstarted his genocidal hatred of goblins.
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* BrainyBrunette: Had brown hair and was noted by her brother to be wise. In the light novels, Goblin Slayer even recollects that his sister was the sharpest person in their village and earned her food by teaching the village children how to read and write. He also remembers that she could have made a good living in the city, but chose instead to stay in the village to raise him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Her (thankfully unseen) torture at the hands of the goblins lasted ''three days'', with her being raped and most likely being eaten alive, all while her little brother can only watch in horror.
* DeathByOriginStory: Her death is what turned her little brother into Goblin Slayer.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at least ParentalSubstitute older siblings, as Goblin Slayer reveres her memory. This trope was in turn true for her, as she always told Goblin Slayer what wonderful people their parents were and offered him their father's hunting knife as a memento.
* EatenAlive: Implied to have died in this manner after a horde of goblins were [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil done with her]], while her little brother was ForcedToWatch. [[StartOfDarkness The horror and indignity of it all was the first, and likely biggest, blow to Goblin Slayer's psyche]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Even as her hands trembled, she refused to allow fear to show on her face and spent her last moments before being found by goblins ensuring her brother was hidden and assuring him of his safety with a smile.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Was apparently a dab hand at stewing, just look at GrandmasRecipe.
* GoodIsNotDumb: A kindly, loving big sister and guardian to a young Goblin Slayer, she was also her hamlet's resident tutor for hire. She was even a devotee to the God of Knowledge, and maintained a shrine in the village.
* GrandmasRecipe: She had her own special way of preparing beef stew, that she also taught to Cow Girl. The latter insists it's not some grand secret recipe, but the memories it conjures for Goblin Slayer and herself are such that she makes it for his dinner almost religiously.
* HeroicSacrifice: Allow herself to be captured by goblins knowing that they would be too busy with her to notice her hidden little brother.
* HiddenDepths: Later light novels eventually reveal she studied both her parents trades and was the one who first gave Goblin Slayer training in basic woodsmanship and archery.
* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: Hid her little brother from goblin marauders by stuffing him down a trapdoor into a little storage space under their house.
* MotherlySidePlait: Of the "doomed anime mom" variety. Having this hairstyle marks her as a goner in this universe.
* NiceGirl: Selfless, loving, kind, and wise.
* PosthumousCharacter: In the early volumes she was mostly a case of TheLostLenore, providing a SmallRoleBigImpact that brought forth the existence of Goblin Slayer. But later volumes and the ''Year One'' {{Prequel}} provide increasing amounts of info about her character from people that knew her while she was alive, especially Goblin Slayer showing readers more of his memories, painting an ever-expanding rounded image of who she was despite even the prequel starting shortly after her death.
* PromotionToParent: Her and Goblin Slayer's ranger father and herbalist mother died during a plague while Goblin Slayer was still very young, so she raised him herself as far back as he can remember.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Is long dead by the time the story begins, but her teachings and the manner of her demise are what made Goblin Slayer into the man he is today.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grape Nun]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grapenun.jpg]]

A nun devoted to the Earth Mother and Priestess' surrogate sister. Met in Volume 10 as the manager of a vineyard in a new town and the victim of some truly awful rumors.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: She's moderately dark-skinned, but with bright green eyes, and said to be descended from immigrants who "crossed the southern mountains."
* BigSisterMentor: She avoids town while the rumors are flying mostly so it doesn't cause problems for the other nuns around her, and gives Priestess advice when the stres of dealing with the situation starts to overwhelm her.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Like many other girls before, the narration is happy to note how ample her bustline is, and how attracted the background males can be to it.
* CheshireCatGrin: Gets a wide, toothy, crooked grin when teasing Priestess or sizing up her adventuring party.
* CoolBigSis: Is this to Priestess, who in the present is delighted to link back up with her and introduce her new friends to her, and is adamant about laying to rest the horrid rumors besmirching her.
* FantasticRacism: PlayedWith; the crux of the rumors surrounding her is the insistence that she's somehow "a goblin's daughter," but such a thing is impossible and she's clearly entirely human. She is dark-skinned and explicitly of a non-native ethnicity, and it's implied her appearance is what people use as an excuse to entertain the notion, but she's also not being targeted ''for'' being a person of color, her status as one is treated as the obvious counter to the allegation, no other non-white humans are subject to bigotry, and the whole fiasco seems to imply that different races of humans aren't discriminated against on grounds of merely being different races.
* ThePollyanna: She pays no personal mind to the rumors and remains focused on her work and finding joy in her daily routine. She genuinely has to stop and think when Priestess asks her ''how'' she can remain so cheerful all the time.
* PluckyGirl: Extremely vivacious, enthusiastic about working the orchards and making new friends, a personality as magnetic as her body, and far too strong-willed and self-assured to let herself be negatively affected by the wild rumors circulating about her.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She's Priestess' beloved senpai from her training days that was never seen or mentioned for 9 volumes and two in-universe years. In fairness, the rest of the party never really has reason to follow Priestess into the temple or ask about it, and the narration never follows Priestess in her off-duty time.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Is just two years older than Priestess and barely 19, but her emotional maturity and certain illustration of her next to Priestess make her look well into her twenties.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mother Superior]]

An abbess devoted to the Earth Mother, and Priestess' direct superior.
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* HighPriest: The closest to one we've seen so far for the faith dedicated to the Earth Mother, and she is at least prestigious enough to oversee regional religious rituals and have dealings with other high-status clerics like Sword Maiden.
* ImprobableAge: Volume 10 says she is shockingly young for being an abbess of a major temple, not even having reached middle-age yet despite some years in the post.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:She laughs off (in a good way) the idea of Priestess being TheChosenOne or SecretlyRoyalty... and as of Volume 13, there are a lot of hints that Priestess is both those things]].
* OrphanageOfLove: Runs one out of her abbey, which is where Priestess was raised and trained.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Reportedly gave Priestess a [[ObstructiveCodeOfConduct strident chewing-out off-screen over her purchasing chainmail]], but didn't do anything more when Priestess held firm, and later on vouches for her and Goblin Slayer's trustworthiness during a meeting of state heroes and religious authorities in Volume 3.
* SoProudOfYou: Greatly respects Priestess' magical talent and achievements, and has high hopes for what she will accomplish in the future, even if she does laugh off the idea that Priestess is TheChosenOne, [[LostOrphanedRoyalty hidden royalty]], or anything like that.
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[[folder:Village Chief]]
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Heavy Warrior's best friend and a former mercenary who was forced into early retirement after receiving a CareerEndingInjury. He used his status as a war veteran to claim chieftainship of his hometown as a reward for his service.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Heavy Warrior viewed his best friend as this, at least until he received his CareerEndingInjury.
* CareerEndingInjury: He once was a mercenary, but then he took [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim "an arrow to the knee"]].
* AChildShallLeadThem: {{Downplayed}}; Goblin Slayer comments on his young age the first time he meets him in ''Year One'', stating that the Village Chief is "only just barely an adult". Its implied he is around the same age as Goblin Slayer and Heavy Warrior, meaning he was just a teenager when he became the chief of his village.
* TheGhost: He was talked about bit in the main story by Heavy Warrior, before making a proper introduction in the prequel story.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife, who is pregnant with his child during their introduction in ''Year One''.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He and Heavy Warrior joined the army, became mercenaries, and went on several adventures together. Their journey together came to an end when he received a CareerEndingInjury and Heavy Warrior decided to become an adventurer afterwards.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: His hair is longer than his wife's.
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Admits that he lied about his age so that he could go off to war early, which is meant to explain how he became a chief as such a young age.
* RetiredBadass: He was a former mercenary and supposedly was AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Heavy Warrior, before an arrow to the knee forced him into early retirement.
* StealthInsult: An innocent example - when asked about his limp, he explains he "took an arrow to the knee", which is both accurate and a playful "ball and chain" marriage joke about his wife; let's just say the latter got the joke and wasn't exactly amused.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Although he looks like a man in his 20s during his introduction in ''Year One'', Goblin Slayer is quick to point out his young age, implying the Village Chief is actually a teenager when Goblin Slayer first meets him. However, Goblin Slayer does also mention that his eyes does carry the composure of someone much older, and he does show a great deal of maturity during their conversation.
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[[folder:The Village Chief's Wife]]
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A village girl from Heavy Warrior's hometown. She was his former crush, but ended up settling down with his best friend instead, the Village Chief.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: She has a darker skin complexion than the other people in her town.
* TheCaretaker: To her husband, thanks to the bad knee he got from his CareerEndingInjury.
* TheGhost: Like her husband, she was talked about a bit in the main story, but didn't get a proper introduction until the prequel story.
* HappilyMarried: To the Village Chief.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Her husband's innocent joke about his limp is because he "took an arrow to the knee" is not lost on her as, InUniverse, the expression is a euphamism akin to "the ol' ball and chain" - a marriage joke. Thus it's not only an innocent joke at her expense, but it's made even funnier because her husband also took an arrow to the knee ''literally''.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Apparently, she is this to Heavy Warrior. Part of the reason why he decided to become an adventurer and move out of his hometown was because of the humiliation of her settling down with his best friend before he got a chance to admit his feelings to her.
* TeenPregnancy: Assuming that she is around same age as her husband, she would have been a teenager during her introduction in ''Year One'', when she was pregnant with his child.
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[[folder:The Three Sisters]]
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Three sisters that lived in same village as Goblin Slayer and Cow Girl, and were victims of the goblin attack on it.
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* BigSisterInstinct: The eldest sister is willing to suffer a FateWorseThanDeath if it means protecting her family. Not that it did her much good.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The eldest sister is blonde, the middle sister is a redhead, and the youngest is a brunette.
* BreedingSlave: Their presumed fate.
* DecoyProtagonist: Of ''Year One''. The prequel story opens on them as their village is attacked by a goblin horde, with the sisters seemly being standouts from the rest of the townsfolk. Unfortunately, in the first couple of pages in Chapter 1, the girls are overwhelmed and captured by the goblins. The story then switches its focus to the true protagonist, the boy who would one day become Goblin Slayer.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: What ultimately gets the two younger sisters captured, due to a combination of their fears of the goblins and their unwillingness to leave their older sister behind.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: While the goblins were having their way with them.
* {{Foil}}:
** The eldest sister is this to Goblin Slayer's Older Sister. Both are attractive young women that try to protect their family on the same night goblins attacked their village and were subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath. The difference being Goblin Slayer's Older Sister succeeded in protecting her brother by hiding him, while the eldest sister failed to protect her two younger sisters by trying to get them to run away. Additionally, Goblin Slayer makes it clear that his sister died that night, while it's implied the three sisters got to live on a little longer... each as a BreedingSlave.
** They can be seen as one to the Greenhorn Party. Their situation was clearly meant to be reminiscent to what happen to the women of the party, with the eldest sister taking the place of Fighter, while her younger sisters took the place of Priestess and Wizard. Unfortunately, the eldest sister is not a skilled combatant like Fighter, so she is quickly overwhelmed by the goblins when she attempt a YouShallNotPass. Unlike Priestess, the two younger sisters were overcome by fear and did not take their chance to run away, resulting in all three women being captured. Worst of all, without an adventurer like Goblin Slayer around to save them, the sisters most likely spent the rest of their lives as {{Breeding Slave}}s to the goblin horde, a fate that the women of the Greenhorn Party were barely able to avoid.
* MsFanservice: All three sisters are very attractive, buxom, and cute. Unfortunately, this seems to be why the goblins gave them a horrific FateWorseThanDeath instead of outright dismembering them like the other villagers.
* OhCrap: The eldest sister has several of these moments in quick succession of one another. First, when a goblin flanks her and she realized too late its performing a DivingKick towards her head. Second, is when the goblins quickly strip her down naked after pinning her. The third and the worst one, is when the goblin pried open her legs with the poor girl being unable to move. She can only react with pure terror when she realized what was [[RapeAsDrama about to come next]].
* RapeAsDrama: All three sisters ended up being gang-raped by goblins, despite trying to defend themselves. They are the first shown example of this in the ''Year One'' manga.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: The youngest sister has long, black hair.
* SacrificialLamb: Their only purpose is to show the fate of any woman unfortunate enough to be captured by goblins.
* SenselessSacrifice: The eldest sister tried to hold off the goblins to let her two younger sisters escape, unfortunately her sacrifice was in vain as they were captured anyways.
* UncertainDoom: The last time we see them, they were captured and gang-raped by a large group of goblins. Although it is not shown what happens to them afterwards, it's safe to assume they are no longer around by the time of the main story. There is a slight chance they might have been saved by an adventurer, especially since [[HeroOfAnotherStory Burglar]] was tracking the horde that attacked their village, but they would be deeply traumatized for the rest of their lives in that case.
* YouShallNotPass: Attempted by the eldest sister, who tried to hold off the goblins invading her home so that her sisters can escape. Unfortunately, her sisters refuse to leave her and all three of them got overwhelmed by the horde.
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[[folder:Goblin Mother]]
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A captured village girl who spent a week in a goblin nest. She is the first person Goblin Slayer ever saved as an adventurer.
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* AngstComa: She is completely unresponsive when Goblin Slayer finds her, with her light breathing being the only indication that she is still alive.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Surprisingly, played straight in the ''Year One'' manga. For a woman who spent a week in a goblin nest and given birth to multiple goblin children within that week, she doesn't have a single scratch on her. Averted in the light novel as she was mentioned to be covered in filth and goblin bites.
* BreedingSlave: She is the first person confirmed to have given birth to goblin children, and delivered 3 of them by the time Goblin Slayer saves her.
* DamselInDistress: The very first one that Goblin Slayer saves as an adventurer.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: This is possibly the only example where this is a good thing. Goblin Slayer slaughtered the goblins she gave birth to, while she got to live on.
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[[folder:Village Boy]]
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A little boy who Goblin Slayer saves from running into a goblin nest during Volume 4.
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* FakeOutOpening: The first few paragraph make his story look like a {{Flashback}} to Goblin Slayer's childhood, right up until Goblin Slayer himself actually shows up on a quest.
* {{Foil}}: Due to the bait-and-switch of the beginning, the boy is deliberately crafted to have a life almost identically to the young Goblin Slayer, but several personal aspects are in direct contrast to how Goblin Slayer was like in actual flashbacks. Like Goblin Slayer, this is a little FarmBoy who plays at and dreams of being an adventurer, has a female best friend and next door neighbor who is visiting family in the city, and is an orphan being raised by an older sister who also serves as a teacher in a temple of the God of Knowledge. However:
** The boy is a rambunctious BrattyHalfPint, while Goblin Slayer has consistently been shown as always having been naturally pensive and introverted, if less so than how he becomes post-trauma.
** The boy is extremely cheeky towards his frazzled sister, while Goblin Slayer was a dutiful MommasBoy towards a sister who was always ladylike and composed [[FaceDeathWithDignity even at the razors edge of death and dishonor]].
** The boy and his female friend have a slight VitriolicBestBuds dynamic in how he recollects their back-and-forths and attempts to one-up each other, while Cow Girl has so far been unilateral in her teasing of her childhood friend, with the occasional fights between them arising from and causing very real and extreme bad feelings between them.
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[[folder:Bard]]
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A bard that sings ballads of Goblin Slayer's adventures in Volume 1.
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* TheBard: We first see him singing the tale of a hero on a street corner for crowds. In fact, this is how High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest find Goblin Slayer in the first place.
* CharacterExaggeration: In his ballads, he exaggerates Goblin Slayer as a wandering KnightInShiningArmor that always save the DamselInDistress. It is somewhat justified as he has never actually met Goblin Slayer. However, High Elf Archer did catch him lying about Goblin Slayer being a wanderer when the bard stated Goblin Slayer lived in a town.
* LighterAndSofter: His ballad are what one would expect to hear from a modern fairy tale, noticeably omitting the darker parts of Goblin Slayer's adventures like the loss of innocent lives and rape that occurs.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He was the one that got High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest interested in recruiting Goblin Slayer for their mission and told them where they can find him, so without the bard they would have never partied up with Goblin Slayer. Additionally, it was implied his songs are what made Sword Maiden seek out Goblin Slayer to both take care of Water Town's goblin infestation and to be her LivingEmotionalCrutch.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: InUniverse, his ballads have Goblin Slayer always rescuing goblin captives even when it isn't true. The bard's song about Goblin Slayer burning down the mountain fortress talked about how Goblin Slayer saved a princess, when the harsh reality was Goblin Slayer was too late to save the captured village girl or the female party during that mission.
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[[folder:Attendant]]
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A nun of the Supreme God who serves as Sword Maiden's personal assistant.
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* BodyguardingABadass: She (or at least ''an'' attendant) apparently has assassin training and is charged with defending the famed demon-slaying Sword Maiden from any who means her harm during her travels.
* TheCaretaker: Watches over Sword Maiden and helps her with daily tasks that her blindness hampers. She is personally grateful to Goblin Slayer for giving her charge peace of mind.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Feels like this when Sword Maiden lets her lovesickness interfere with her daily duties.
* HartmanHips: Noted to have well-formed hips, and she works them.
* NaughtyNun: Downplayed, but the narration tells us she knows exactly what she's doing when she shakes her hips.
* ServileSnarker: Jabs at Sword Maiden about her "love letters" to Goblin Slayer when she has to write to the King.
* SupermodelStrut: Rolls her hips as she walks so much so that even Goblin Slayer takes note.
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[[folder:Abbess]]
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A nun who runs a convent to the God of Trade in the pioneer village where Chosen Heroine grew up in ''Year One''.
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* {{Muggle|s}}: Never received any miracles from her god, according to Chosen Heroine.
* OrphanageOfLove: Looked after several foundlings, and raised them right if Chisen Heroine is any indication.
* ParentalSubstitute: Is one to Chosen Heroine, though she’d never admit it.
* SternNun: Is quite liberal with tough love correction, though a kid like Chosen Heroine hardly responds to gentle admonishment.
* TastyGold: Scratched the silver coin Goblin Slayer offered for lodging.
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[[folder:Informant]]
An enigmatic young woman that occasionally gives Samurai Captain news and advice in ''Daikatana''.
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* AllEncompassingMantle: Wears a heavy, figure-obscuring cloak to go along with her cagey way of approaching others.
* CrypticConversation: Never gives a straight answer about the things she warns about.
* GossipyHens: Claims to be this, presenting her information as mere rumor.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Samurai Captain completely forgets her existence after they talk, but not the information.
* MysteriousWaif: Who is she? How does she know so much? Why is she helping Samurai Captain? What's her goal? We have no solid clue.
* QuestGiver: Effectively this, as her information on new foes usually drives Samurai Captain to seek them out. She is brought up again in the tabletop game as an option for a quest hook.
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[[folder:Trade Nun]]
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A woman of the cloth that runs the temple of the Trade God in Fortress City during the events of ''Daikatana''.
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* FauxDeath: One of her miracles is Preservation; a spell that puts mortally wounded adventurers into a frozen state for a long while, giving their comrades a chance to raise the funds to pay for a Resurrection.
* HealingHands: She and her fellows know a plethora of recovery magic, and will perform them for a price.
* NunTooHoly: She's irascible, sardonic, flirtatious, and mercenary in attitude, but a devout person regardless.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Is rather blunt about not caring much for most adventurers that come to her for aid, and monetizes every single aspect of her church's healing services.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She performs the Resurrection miracle for Samurai Captain when he gets his throat slashed, and when he wakes up as she is getting dressed she flaunts her naked body while joking about charging for the view.
* SternNun: She is the apparent head of her chapel and runs a tight ship. Samurai Captain is constantly reaffirming how cold and apathetic her eyes are and how obviously insincere her smile is anytime he sees her, she has no qualms about kicking ailing adventurers to the curb if they can't pay upfront for healing, and she is capable of cowing even veteran dungeon-delvers into fearful contrition if she catches them being rowdy in her domain.
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[[folder:Royal Guardswoman]]
An elite warrior charged by the crown to stand sentry at the opening of the Dungeon of the Dead to sound an alarm if the monsters within start coming out.
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* CoolBigSis: She has a 10 year old sister that she looks after and adores, and becomes friendly with the future Golden Party when Samurai Captain and Female Bishop bring said sister back to her after she got lost in the market.
* GallowsHumor: Makes rampant use of it most times she's spoken to, such as when she states 50% of rookies die on their first trip in the Dungeon of the Dead and cheerfully guesses the other half "eventually die exploring" when asked what happens to them, then gives the Golden Party five body bags while sardonically pointing out that if they end up needing bags for their full six members, they're not getting carried out at all.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Despite Samurai Captain praising her vigilance and warrior mien on first meeting her, she and her coworkers consistently miss ''every'' adventurer SerialKiller that flits in and out of the Dungeon of the Dead. Apparently when charged to be on the look-out for escaping monsters, they took it to mean ''only'' the magic beasts.
* PraetorianGuard: Her position, as one of the old king's hand-picked bodyguards.
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[[folder:Female General]]
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An older military woman placed in charge of defending the Kingdom's eastern border. Seen in a {{Flashback}} to the war against the Demon Lord from a decade before the story's start, and running her own fortress in Volume 12 of the main story.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Insists to other people that she's not impressive compared to her younger sister, Arc Mage.
* AnArmAndALeg: Loses half her limbs in one of the concluding battles of the previous war with the Demon Lord. They're not commented on in the main series like her single eye, so she either [[GoodThingYouCanHeal restored]] or [[ArtificialLimbs replaced]] them.
* BloodKnight: She admits in the prologue of ''Year One'' Volume 2 that she is disinterested in peace and only feels alive on the battlefield.
* EyeScream: Lost her left eye in a battle during the days of the Dungeon of the Dead.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Actually fought alongside Lizard Priest towards the end of the days of the Dungeon of the Dead. She's also the sister of Goblin Slayer's second mentor, Arc Mage. And somehow has a personal connection to Half-Elf Light Warrior.
* RebelliousPrincess: Comes from a very high-ranking family, but left it all to become a soldier because she didn't want to be married off or shackled to a bureaucratic position.
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* {{Bokukko}}: She's pretty tomboyish, and even refers to herself as "[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns Boku]]".

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayumiSuzushiro

* MagicKnight: She can use spells alongside her swordplay.