Voiced by: Cam Clarke

A fellow student at the Neverwinter Academy. His brother dies in the attack, and you can allow him to accompany you. He's mostly there to teach the player about companions, since the entire Prelude is a tutorial and all.

• He Knows About Timed Hits
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end of the Prelude, he decides that he's not cut out for life as an adventurer.
• True Neutral invoked

A halfling rogue. He returns in Hordes of the Underdark as a possible companion, but only in Chapter 1.

• Chaotic Neutral invoked
• Knife Nut
• Large Ham: "HERE COMES HALFLING DEATH!"
• Loveable Rogue

An elf cleric of Sehanine Moonbow. She returns in Hordes of the Underdark as a possible companion, but only in Chapter 1.

• Artificial Stupidity: Seriously girl, casting "Harm" on that nearly-killed undead guy is a bad move.
• The Klutz
  • Cute Clumsy Girl
• Establishing Character Moment: She apologizes to you when you first meet, mistaking you for someone whose cat she accidentally stepped on.
• Neutral Good invoked
• White Mage
• Widow Woman: Her husband Synth is dead.

Voiced by: Steve Blum

A half-orc barbarian who hails from the Uthgardt tribes. He's quite well-spoken for a half-orc, likely thanks to being brought up by people who can speak in complete sentences. He returns in Hordes of the Underdark as a possible companion, but only in Chapter 1.

• An Axe to Grind
  • Double Weapon
• Chaotic Good invoked
• Half-Human Hybrid
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Steve Blum.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• You Killed My Mother: His personal quest involves dealing with his mother's killer.

A dwarf monk of the Long Death. He returns in Chapter 3 of Hordes of the Underdark, where he's planning to try take over Cania now that Mephistopheles isn't around. Regardless of your choices, you have to fight and kill him.

• Barefisted Monk
• Blood Knight
• Combat Sadomasochist: As a follower of the Long Death, he worships the essence of death itself. Inflicting pain, suffering and death on others, and experiencing it himself, is one of the fundamentals of the faith.
• In Love with Your Carnage
• Lawful Evil invoked
• Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Heavily averted. He doesn't even have a beard!
• Token Evil Teammate: the only evil-aligned henchman in the campaign.

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

A human bard. She returns in Hordes of the Underdark as a possible companion, but only in Chapter 1.

• Cannot Spit It Out: Talking to her at length in Hordes implies she fell in love with the hero of the original campaign, but never told him how she felt.
• Double Weapon: Wields a two-bladed sword.
• Fiery Redhead
• Magic Knight
• The Red Mage
• Retcon: Her original portrait wasn't as beautiful as in-game dialogue implied◊. A patch fixed that◊.
  • The reason her portrait, among others, was changed was that the image it was based upon (of Catherine Zeta-Jones) was not authorized for Bioware to use.
• Ship Tease: With a male player character.
• True Neutral invoked
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Her final fate at the end of Hordes of The Underdark says she became a famous bard among the nobility. She then found her true love, a hideous man, going as far as living poor for the rest of her life to be with him.

A gnome sorcerer.

• Captain Ersatz: As a gnome he has pointed ears, and he's from Lantan, a nation that is highly scientific, rational and logical. Sound like anyone familiar?
• Lawful Neutral invoked
• Squishy Wizard
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Notably the only Henchman from the original game absent from Hordes.

Voiced by: Wendee Lee

An elf (or half-elf; it's not very clear) paladin of Tyr, and one of the more prominent characters in the original campaign. Later becomes a blackguard serving Morag, though it's possible to redeem her.

She returns in Chapter 3 of Hordes of the Underdark, and it's possible to get her to join your party as either a paladin or a blackguard. She has unique dialogue for each of her possible classes/alignments, too.

• The Atoner: If you get her to become a paladin again in HOTU, she becomes this.
• Chainmail Bikini: What the hell is with that armor?
• Dark and Troubled Past: You can get her to tell it to you in Chapter 2 of the original campaign. Serves some foreshadowing her Face Heel Turn as you find out she wasn't always as righteous and moral as Chapter 1 may have left you believing.
• The Dragon: Co Dragons with Maugrim after her turn to darkness. In Hordes, if you leave her as a Blackguard when you recruit her, has her claim she was working for Mephistopheles all along when she betrays you before the final battle.
• Eating the Eye Candy: When the Mimic steals the male player character's armor, more obviously if she's on the dark side.
• Face Heel Turn
  • Face Heel Revolving Door: Though the severity depends on the player's actions.
• Heel Face Door Slam: It's implied that even if she turns herself in, she gets executed.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Wendee Lee.
• Lady of War
• Love Makes You Evil
• Masculine Girl to Fenthick's Feminine Boy.
• Meaningful Name: Her true name is Va'ardalia the Twinsouled, though really all the True Names are vaguely-disguised puns on the character's nature.
• The Paladin/Black Knight
  • Yin Yang Bomb: She's a dual-class Paladin/Blackguard in Hordes of the Underdark, focusing on one or the other depending on your dialogue with her.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Spends the entirety of chapter 1 and most of chapter 2 hanging about at HQ. Then she defects.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Went on one in the past for her father prior to becoming a Paladin. She goes on another in her bitterness over Fenthick's death.

An elven priest who is Aribeth's lover and Desther's friend.

• Feminine Boy to Aribeth's Masculine Girl.
• The Scapegoat
• Unwitting Pawn
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Which unfortunately ends up getting him killed.

A Helmite priest in Neverwinter, who does not think highly of anyone except his Helmites dealing with the problem.

• Arc Villain: The main antagonist of Act I
• Jerkass: The minute you meet him he proves to be quite the insufferable bastard.
• The Mole: Steals the cure once you complete it
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After he steals the cure, the Big Bad leaves him to be captured.
• Wham Line: "No, Lady Aribeth. I have the cure."

Morag's prophet and the leader of her followers.

• Bald of Evil
• Evil Sorcerer
• The Dragon: To Morag.

A lizardwoman who is trying to stop Morag, and so helps the heroes.

• But Now I Must Go: Fades away in the ending.
• Defector from Decadence
• Lizard Folk
• MsExposition
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much
• Snake Talk

• Big Bad
• Flunky Boss
• Load-Bearing Boss: Justified, as it was her personal Pocket Dimension.
• Lizard Folk

A half-orc barbarian/sorcerer.

• Chaotic Neutral invoked
• Jerkass Woobie
• Small Name, Big Ego
• Square Race, Round Class
• Third-Person Person

A dwarven cleric/rogue.

• Luke Nounverber
• True Neutral invoked

A kobold Bard. He can join your party in the Intermission and Chapter 2. He returns as a companion in Hordes of the Underdark, where he can multiclass as a Red Dragon Disciple, and is the only companion who can accompany you through the whole campaign.

• The Cameo: Reappears in Neverwinter Nights 2 as a shopkeeper in Neverwinter.
• Chaotic Good: In "Shadows of Undrentide". True Neutral in "Hordes of the Underdark". invoked
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? / Shut Up, Hannibal!: gives one to Mephistopheles.
• Lampshade Hanging: He hangs a fair few lampshades wherever he goes. Comes with being a bard.
  "If priests raise dead, then why anybody die?"
  "If dragons not fly, then why they gots wings?"
• Luke Nounverber
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much
• Power Gives You Wings: As a Red Dragon Disciple, he eventually sprouts a pair.
• Third-Person Person
• Took a Level in Badass: In Hordes of the Underdark. And you can make him take more levels by using his True Name to make him believe in himself—according to the ending if you do such, he becomes a famed adventurer in his own right without you, and eventually goes back to his original tribe and becomes their chieftan.
  • Pint Sized Powerhouse
• Undying Loyalty: He's incredibly loyal to "the boss" (you). Just how loyal is he? When Mephistopheles tries to turn your party members against you, Deekin is the easiest to persuade otherwise. And if you use Deekin's true name to get him to believe in himself, he'll deliver an awesome "Shut Up, Hannibal!" to Mephisto.
  "DEEKIN NO LIKES YOU!"
• You No Take Candle: Like the rest of his kobold tribe.

• Mentor Occupational Hazard

A paladin apprentice in Drogan's school.

• Black and White Morality: Her philosophy.

• Disc One Final Boss
• Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: Half-elf and half-demon.

• Big Bad
• Load-Bearing Boss - Inverted. To defeat her, you must destroy the ring of mythallars surrounding her, which causes Undrentide to plummet down from the sky.
• Taken for Granite - she is a medusa, after all.

A drow assassin/wizard. She can join your party in Chapters 2 and 3, and is a romance option for male characters.

• The Atoner: See under Heel Face Turn.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Her in-game alignment is Lawful Evil, but she acts more like a Good-aligned character. This is probably because Assassins require one to be Evil-aligned.
• Heel Face Turn: Formerly a minion of the Valsharess, she was sent to kill the Seer. Something compelled her to stay her hand when the time came though, and she pledged herself to the Seer's service to make ammends.
• Knife Nut
• Lawful Evil invoked
• Magic Knight
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Along with all the other Eilistraee-worshipping drow.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl: Comes with being a drow.

Voiced by: Frederick Zbryski

A tiefling weapon master. He can join your party in Chapters 2 and 3, and is a romance option for female characters.

• Chaotic Good invoked
• Dark and Troubled Past: Hoo boy.
• Deadpan Snarker
  "How are we going to get across this river of lava? Somehow I don't think swimming is the answer."
• Epic Flail: And it's called Devil's Bane.
• Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: He has a frickin' prehensile tail.
• Half-Human Hybrid: He's descended from a demon.
• Horned Humanoid
• Luke Nounverber
• Mr. Fanservice
• This Is Gonna Suck: His reaction when he realises that he and the PC are in Baator if you bring him along in Chapter 3.
• When All You Have Is Your Trusty Flail

The spirit of an ancient and powerful mage, he was a former adventurer into the Underdark that got killed and sealed into a sword. The player has the option to free him from his new undead owner, and he provides a fairly potent weapon, as well as lots of helpful and not-so-helpful commentary on your adventure.

• Aborted Arc: At one point you can ask if there's a way to free him, and he mentions that since his original body is probably long gone, you could find a soulless body for him, or something like a golem or similar construct. You can animate such a golem as a henchman in Chapter 2, but there's no way to transfer Enserric's spirit to it. The developers had the idea to make this possible, but they had it too late in development to implement it in the game.
• Calling Your Attacks: He'll do so for you, adjusting his lines appropriately for different enemies and commenting on their "taste". Apparently he likes the taste of elves, undead not so much.
• Cool Sword
• Deadpan Snarker: Oh dear god, you have no idea. "You want advice? Here's some advice - don't ask a sword for advice."
• Empathic Weapon
• Life Drain: After Chapter I you can open a dialogue option that ends with him being able to temporarily drain part of your spirit to empower the blade, allowing you to take temporary Constitution penalties to increase the enchantments on it.
• Morph Weapon: His default form is a Longsword, but if you don't like that he can change into a Dagger, Greatsword or Shortsword.
• Snarky Non Human Side Kick
• Talking Weapon
• Urban Legend of Zelda: Many on potential ways to free his spirit, most involving the Golems in Chapter II.
• Wild Mass Guessing: In-universe. Enserric wonders, due to the fact he's fading and can't remember a lot about his life, if he's really Enserric, or if his companions revived his human body and the Enserric in the sword is a shade of the real Enserric who continued on with his life unaware of what became of the sword and vice-versa.

A high-ranked Drow sorceress, she's making a play to take over the Underdark and more since she found a way to bind an Archdevil to her control.

• Big Bad: At first.
• Depraved Bisexual: She's just as willing to vamp female Player Characters as males.
• Duel Boss: There's a couple of ways to set up the battle with her, but in all of them you face her one-on-one.
• Disc One Final Boss
• Everyone Calls Her The Valsharess: And she insists you call her that. It's Drow for "queen", by the way.
• Evil Sorceress
• Stripperiffic
• Take Over the World
• Tempting Fate: She refuses to believe that the PC can "stop [her] great rise". Guess how she meets her end.
• The Vamp: Tries to seduce you to her side; emphasis on seduce.
• Unwitting Pawn
• Whip It Good

A mysterious cloaked entity that oversees a pocket universe, he teleports the player there in Hordes of the Underdark whenever they near death and revives them. Actually a forced servant to Mephistopheles, who controls him via his True Name.

• Black Cloak
• True Neutral: It's implied he doesn't like being bound to Mephistopheles, but it isn't clear if his issue is with being bound to serve him or with what he's being forced to do because of it. Once the player learns the Reaper's True Name he grants them passage out of Cania with the same indifference. invoked

A devil roped into serving the Valsharess and is a source of power and knowledge for her. Actually one of the Archdukes of Hell and ruler of the Eighth Circle, he tricks the Valsharess into believing the player will destroy her, then uses his control over the Reaper and connection to the player to release himself from his servitude to be free to take over the world and become the most powerful Archdevil alive.

• Big Red Devil
• The Dragon: To the Valsharess. At first.
  • Dragon Ascendant
• Evil Sounds Deep: Does he ever.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's a frickin' archdevil. What did you expect?
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The entire reason he told the Valsharess the player would be the one to defeat her was to further events that would lead to their confrontation.