The cast of Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk and the tropes related to them.
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The Guild
"An unstoppable guild is about to invest the most dangerous maze in all the Land of Fangh."
It doesn't actually have a name, although the Dwarf insist on calling it "La compagnie des fiers de hache", a pun on "axe blade" (fer de hache) and "proud" (fier). So, "The proud axe blade company".
The Ranger
A Ranger with a steely gaze.
"If nobody has a lighter, that's it: I'm done!"
- Baguette Beatdown: He once mistaken a sandwich for his sword. It was fatal.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Happens with the Elf more than once.
- The Eeyore: Often complains, to the point a T-shirt was printed with his face, and the words: "Do I hang myself right now or do I wait for the next episode?" on it.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Ranger.
- Failure Hero: He actually doesn't know how to use his sword. In fact, the song "On an Adventure, Comrades!" ("A l'aventure, compagnons!")
details how his first quest in solo ended up in disaster.
- Jack of All Trades: In The Amulet Of Chaos, he's okay at melee, archery, support and healing.
- Red Baron: Gets the nickname Bradorc meaning "orc arm" for having his sword arm transformed into an orcish one.
- Rousing Speech: Once delivers one with a megaphone, while the guild is lost in a forest. Surprising, coming from him.
- Ship Tease: With the Elf. Especially when she insists on kissing the Ranger, in order to thank him after he saved her from drowning.
- Small Town Boredom: In his youth, he used to work at his parent's workshop fixing chairs. He fled away as soon as possible, with the ambition of becoming a hero.
- Unlucky Everydude: Described as being average in every way.
- White Male Lead: Justified as he's the Author Avatar.
The Enchantress
A fire-haired Enchantress.
- Badass Bookworm: She has so much books with her that, according to the Dwarf, she'll soon need a wheelbarrow to carry them.
- Badass Long Robe: Her "mage Tholsadum's" magic robe protects her from cold or magical attacks.
- Inept Mage: At first, she has problems with some of her spells which don't work due to her lack of experience; however she quickly grows out of this phase. She does still have some embarrassing moments of either ineptitude or plain bad luck in later adventures.
- Her choice of spells during their brief stay in the Castle of Gzor is probably her lowest moment, first using Curse of the Right Arm on an ambidextrous enemy and then trying the Mind Control of Rodents on a weremole.
- As for bad luck, there is the Major Fireball spell, which doesn't agree with her at all in the fifth season. First, it backfires and hits her in the back (she comes out of it unscathed thanks to the Robe of Archmage Tholsadum that she's been wearing since season 1) and then she has another fumble and summons a demon.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Her Enchantress.
- Subverted as of november 2023 and the 3rd volume of the "Fiers de Hache" comic series in which her real name was revealed to be Félicie Jonaille.
- Magic Staff
- The Medic: She is mainly a fighting wizard, but she knows some healing spells.
- Missing Mom: Her mother was killed by Pirates when she was young.
- Nephewism: She was raised by her uncle and aunt.
- Omniglot: She is the member of the guild who learned the most languages, and thus is the only one who can understand the Ogre.
- Only Sane Woman: Not only she's by far the most intelligent character , but has more patience and is Closer to Earth than the Ranger. Arguably, she'd be a better leader than him if she tried to.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her first dress and her hat are pink.
- Robe and Wizard Hat: She loses her pointy hat at the end of season four, and replaces it with a fur, horned hat. She gets another pointy hat in the "Fiers de Hache" comic series.
- Translator Buddy: For the Ogre.
- Vocal Dissonance: The main characters are all voiced by the male creator, POC. You don't notice much with the high-pitched voice deformation used for the Elf, but the deep voice the Enchantress ended with make her sound like an old woman. Explained in-universe by a magical accident, which altered her voice.
The Barbarian
A brutal Barbarian.
"BRAWL!!"
- BFS: His only ambition is to buy a even bigger sword than the previous one when he just took a level.
- Distracted by the Sexy: He's the most easily distracted by the Elf, after the Ranger.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He trains elves in order to make warriors out of them in the fifth season. His methods don't spare the female volunteers.
- Dumb Muscle: One of the dumbest element with the Ogre. He usually speaks in short, simple sentences, and has trouble understanding the others when they don't do so.
- Exposed to the Elements: He does not feel the cold, as cold is for pussies according to him.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Barbarian.
- Expy: Of Conan the Barbarian.
- Horny Vikings: He wears a horny helmet permanently.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Due to his lack of patience with tactical explanations.
- Loincloth
- Never Gets Drunk: Until the day he tries a Gargle Blaster made from hornets and falls immediately in an alcoholic coma.
- Never Learned to Read
- Proud Warrior Race Guy
- The Quiet One: He doesn't talk much, but it's due to his lack of vocabulary.
- Religious Bruiser: Perhaps unsurprisingly given that he worships a god of brawling and violence, he reveres his deity and always call out to him when joining the fray. This is lampshaded when the guild is joined by the Priestess of Youclidh, the God(ess) of Good Health, Well-being and Healing, who tends to scold him because his devotion to his deity makes her deity work much harder than they should.
- Smart Ball: Due to a total coincidence, he found the answers to the two riddles the group was confronted with in the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk.
- The Stoic: He does not even react to pain... usually.
- Torture First, Ask Questions Later: The Barbarian once slapped Reivax, then told him to answer. No question was asked until then.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Roasted chicken and blueberry pie. It's a cultural preference of all the barbarian nation, actually.
The Ogre
A ruthless Ogre
Ogre: Gnolo!
Enchantress: He said "fuck you".
Enchantress: He said "fuck you".
- Berserk Button: When the Enchantress is hurt.
- Big Eater
- Bilingual Dialogue: Averted, the Enchantress often pauses to explain to the Ogre what the others just said.
- Dumb Muscle: Being The Unintelligible, his actual level of intelligence is unknown.
- Gentle Giant
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Ogre.
- Human Pack Mule: Expected since he is an ogre, of course. First he carries all the figurines during season 2, then also the Lunelbar Elfs presents. After the guild sold all these items, he still carries the other members' stuff, especially the Enchantress's books.
- Improvised Weapon: Prior to season 4, he usually fights with bare hands (which is still pretty effective), but sometimes uses his surroundings like a table leg or a stool.
- Loincloth: He loses it at a poker game mid-season one, goes on without it and is depicted with Scenery Censor in the comics, use leaves as a Garden Garment in season 2, and finally gets new clothes in season 4.
- The Makeover: The Dwarf and the Barbarian get him clothes and weapons in season 4, prior to that all he had was a Loincloth and Improvised Weapon.
- Odd Friendship: With the Enchantress; he doesn't eat her because she is the only human who can speak his language.
- One-Hit Kill: He kills the "dreadful bandit" Tarkal with one punch.
- Our Ogres Are Hungrier: A typical ogre, although the sense for imminent danger that he shows off consistently starting from the fifth season is a rather unique trait.
- Smash Mook
- Spider-Sense: Starts feeling dangerous situations in the fifth season. The others quickly wise up to the specific words he uses every time it happens.
- Taken for Granite: One of the Enchantress' fumbles in season 6 turned his skin into some kind of marble. It makes him tougher but so dense that he can no longer swim or climb.
- 10-Minute Retirement: Parodied, when the Enchantress forbid him to play guitar at night. He quit immediately but came back the next morning, after inviting the Minstrel to join them.
- To Serve Man: Subverted as he is technically an anthropophage, but avoids eating living humans since he befriended the guild. He eats already dead enemies instead, or big orders of food in taverns.
- The Unintelligible: Can only speak in ogre language.
- Unskilled, but Strong
The Elf
An agile and clever Elf.
- Amusingly Awful Aim: The Elf's ineptitude with her bow is a constant Running Gag of the series. While she will hit something with her arrows, it is very rarely something she was aiming at. One time, she accidentally shot the Ranger's leg and he assumed the troll they were fighting was what shot him, even though the troll didn't have a bow. In another instance, she shot one of the dwarves the party was rescuing from a squad of orcs; at least they could blame the orcs on this one, thanks to the Enchantress silencing the Elf in time. She's still prone to this, as the dwarf example shows, but she's gotten a lot better after she became the Elven Queen. Notably, her main councilor gave her some nifty magic arrows and magic items which allowed her to use the Bow of Yemisol at level 4 despite the weapon supposedly being for level 6 archers.
- Back from the Dead: Her resurrection took longer than her comrades, as it used a spell rather than fate points.
- Brainless Beauty: She lacks the intelligence usually attributed to her race.
- Catchphrase: "Excellent!"
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Usually wears green, due to being a wood elf.
- Came Back Wrong: Subverted. The Enchantress once stated that resurrection can change a person, but in the Elf's case, she simply shows affection toward the Ranger, who "saved" her◊.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Her Elf.
- Friend to All Living Things: Everyone is her friend, except perhaps the Dwarf.
- Granola Girl: She is opposed to any form of violence against nature and wildlife.
- Heir Club for Men: Inverted, elves only have queens. Thus the Elf becomes a monarch although she has a brother.
- Hidden Elf Village: She was raised in one of these.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl:
- Due to elf's low standards of modesty, everyone already saw her naked — and she never minds.
- One of her Inventory quips in the Amulet of Chaos is "A lotta people put their hands in my pocket...!" in a tone that implies she has no problem with this, but doesn't understand why they do it.
- Legacy Character: All elven queens are named Selenia. Thus, from the season 5 on, the Elf is called like this.
- Most Common Super Power: Her bosom gets bigger every time she gains her first three levels.
- Naïve Everygirl: Actually so naive, that's it's stated in the novels the reason why she is still a virgin is a mystery. She even has difficulties to understand the core concept of sex.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: The neckline in her outfit goes down to her navel.
- Older Than They Look: She's around 40, and look like half of her age.
- Rags to Royalty: The sudden death of her cousin, Queen Selenia, made her the next monarch. Arguably, the "rags" depends on how the status of an adventurer elf, who often had to sleep outside, is considered in-universe.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Right after her coronation, she gets back in her old clothes and goes again on a quest with her companions. Justified in that elven royalty is less about etiquette and show-off than the human counterpart.
- Sleepyhead: To a lesser extent than the Paladin. However she often states that she feels sleepy, or needs to take a nap. Including in a middle of a dungeon.
- Straw Vegetarian: She isn't of the vegan variant, though.
- Youngest Child Wins: It's because she's the youngest of four children, that she is the heir of her queen cousin. The elves invert the human birthright for firstborns.
The Thief
A perceptive Thief
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: In the video game, due to being a semi-intangible, technically immortal ghost, the thief becomes less and less of a coward as the game goes on, outright becoming more bloodthirsty than the Barbarian by the time of the final fight.
- Already Met Everyone: He robbed the Barbarian just before he was recruited by Gontran Theogal, but doesn't recognize him later.
- Badass Cape
- Bookworm: Probably the most intelligent character after the Enchantress. He used his rogue talents in his youth, to sneak into his local book shop.
- Covert Pervert: Quite pervy despite his affable façade. He notably tries to strip naked the shop girl and later the waitress of the Dungeon.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He was burned to the 28th-degree, and instantaneously turned into ashes.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Thief.
- Fatal Flaw: He is impatient to go on his first adventure, and didn't to take time to learn on how to unlock magically protected doors.
- Gentleman Snarker: Despite being a Deadpan Snarker, he was doing it more subtlety than the others.
- Killed Off for Real: He had no Fate points, and unlike the Elf his body was completely burned after he stepped in a magic trap, thus a resurrection spell couldn't be used.
- Lovable Coward: Was the most fearful, and used to quickly run away at the sight of any danger. Turns out his carefulness was justified and wasn't enough to save his life.
- In the Hood: His face was obscured in the comics, with only the eyes visible.
- Nice Guy: The most polite and patient male character, with shades of Only Sane Man.
- No Body Left Behind: Except a key and his locksmith kit, which were looted by the Dwarf during the Moment of Silence in his honor.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: His vocabulary was quite refined, to the extent he was sometimes not understood by The Barbarian.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He was killed off mid-season one, thus is not as well-known than his comrades, after five seasons.
The Dwarf
A typical Dwarf.
- The Alcoholic: Beer is the only thing he accepts to spend money on.
- Back from the Dead: Twice. He seems to have a good amount of fate points.
- The Cameo: In Les Aventuriers du Survivaure when he suddenly appears naked in the teleportation room of the space crew. The event is also canon in the Naheulbeuk universe but has yet to be explained.
- Deadpan Snarker: He even eats magical candies in order to boost his ability to be a nuisance.
- Elves Versus Dwarves: He starts arguing with the Elf exactly three seconds after meeting her for the first time.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Dwarf.
- Famous Ancestor: He's of Gurdil's descent, an adventurer who even has his own song.
- Fiery Redhead: He became one in the comic.
- Gold Fever: Just touch his gold, and you'll hit his Berserk Button.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After all the trouble he caused by stealing gems from the Mir-nodd dwarfs, his reward is to have his axe and his money transformed into sausages.
- Leeroy Jenkins: It allows him to receive the most XP and loot the monsters first. It sometimes costs him his life.
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same: He is prone to fighting, loves beer and gold, comes from a mine and uses axes, and is a Deadpan Snarker.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Chiantos, a dwarven candy made of mine mushrooms and granite powder who increase the efficiency of its user's insults.
- Violent Glaswegian: Suddenly becomes one in the English dub of the animated show as he receives a Scottish accent.
- With Friends Like These...: He's Only in It for the Money, and Hates Everyone Equally, more particularly the Elf. The Barbarian find him sympathetic, though.
Gluby the forest gnome
- Can't Hold His Liquor: Alcohol give him severe nausea.
- The Dog Bites Back: Evil Sorcerer Gontrand Theogal died thanks to him. Gluby wanted to escape the mutilation the latter planned to do to him, in order to fulfill a prophecy. The gnome joined the guild after that, from season 3 on.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To the point The Ranger suspects him to keep all experience points for himself.
- The Unintelligible: But unlike the Ogre, he seems to understand what the others says.
The Minstrel
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Minstrel.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Killed by the morning star of a troll.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Is an half-elf.
- Killed Off for Real: He tried to sing for a mountain troll. And like The Thief, he didn't have any Fate points.
- Sixth Ranger: The others recruited him to compensate the loss of the Thief. But the Minstrel didn't last long, either.
The Paladin
- Epic Fail: His tentative to seduce Queen Norelenilia.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone Calls Him Paladin.
- Drowning My Sorrows: The state the Ranger finds him in, in a tavern during season 4, by coincidence. He became a paladin of the wine goddess in order to forget his lack of success with Norelenilia.
- The Paladin: Of Dlul, God of sleep and boredom. And later of Picrate, wine Goddess.
- Really Fond of Sleeping: It's part of his religion; sleeping is actually praying Dlul.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After he falls in love with an elven queen, and he realizes how incompetent the others are.
- Serial Romeo: According to the official site, he already tried to woo two others elven queens in the past, and all his decisions are tied to the presence of pretty girls.
- Sixth Ranger: Once again, he was recruited to replace the Minstrel. And didn't last any longer.
- Sleepyhead: He tend to fall asleep anywhere.
Villains
Zangdar
- Catchphrase: "Ah, damned !"
- Character Death: Gets Zerg Rushed by skeletons and then set on fire by a dragon for good measure.
- From Bad to Worse: Zangdar tries to get back his statuettes, and not only fails at this but also loses his dungeon in the process.
- Gratuitous English: Even though the audio series are in French, he often quips "ah, damned !" when frustrated with something.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets angry incredibly quickly, and admits that his bad temper doesn't help. It ends up killing him when he charges blindly a group of skeletons while low on magic.
- Harmless Villain: He keeps on crossing the path of the Guild, but never succeeded to defeat them.
- In the Hood: His main attire has a hood in the comics. Unlike the Thief, Zangdar's face can be seen though.
- Riches to Rags: Due to an incredible stroke of bad luck, he loses his dungeon of Naheulbeuk and all his possessions during the course of a few days, and ends up wandering with his sidekick in peasants clothes. However, by requiring his cousin help, and by keeping for himself said cousin's dungeon after his sudden death, Zangdar goes Rags to Riches nearly as quickly in season 4.
- Self-Made Orphan: Not willingly, though. One of his spells froze his entire house during his apprenticeship.
Reivax
- Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the original material, the Elf wants to torture him by cutting his hair, but in the comics (who became canon) he has a Charlie Brown Baldness.
- Anything but That!: Reivax can't stand pain and bribes the dungeon's executioner every time he gets a flogging punishment.
- Bastard Understudy: He once made Zangdar sign the dungeon's inheritance for himself when his master was drunk, or made fake bills. But Reivax never has had the occasion to betray him straight until then.
- Collector of the Strange: He has an impressive doorknob collection.
- Cowardly Sidekick: Tends to betray when he's physically threatened.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: The Dwarf suggested to cut his leg with a soup spoon in order to make him talk.
- Half-Human Hybrid: He became a greenish humanoid in the comics (though it was never clearly said he was human in the original material). Like most of the elements created for the comics, his status of half-orc half-human was made canon.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: How Zangdar made him pay the revelation of his Achilles' Heel to the Guild.
- Non-Human Sidekick: Reivax's race is especially difficult to say; he's a green-skinned bald humanoid with Pointy Ears.
- Oh, Crap!: When the Ogre says he can tear his arm off.Reivax: Wait what's wrong with all of you?
- Omniglot: He speaks various languages including goblin and crow.
- Sidekick: The main sidekick of Zangdar.
