History Characters / BaldursGateOtherPartyMembers

* AbortedArc - Pre-release materials pegged him as one of the characters who would return as a party member in [=BG2=]. Instead, his role in the sequel is limited to a very brief cameo. CHARNAME can still ask him to join, but he will ignore it.

* {{Unfunny}} - Jan, Imoen, Korgan and Haer'Dalis ''love'' to mess with him.
** Of course, this doesn't stop a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he taunts Edwin[[spoiler:a]] about the [[spoiler:GenderBender by asking to champion "her"]].

* Main/{{Unfunny}} - Especially against Jan, Imoen, and Haer'Dalis.

* Main/{{Unfunny}} - She's not amused by Korgan's crude come-ons.

* {{Unfunny}} - He's a pretty serious guy and fairly humorless compared to Jan, Imoen, Yoshimo, and the like.
** His humour is a lot more subtle and less frequent than the others, but it's most definitely still there. Heck, at one point Yoshimo starts singing a... Rather ribald verse he claims to have found scribbled in the margins of a holy text, then halfway through stops and apologises to Keldorn for his language. Keldorn promptly finishes the verse, much to Yoshimo's astonishment, and implies he was the one who scribbled it in the book while an initiate several decades earlier.

* BlondesAreEvil - Though she's not a FemmeFatale, [[TheVamp Vamp]], [[TheLibby Libby]], or other evil blonde stereotype.

Party members that can be recruited in '''either''' ''[[{{ptitlenhv310a8odku}} Baldur's Gate]]'' or ''Baldur's Gate II'', as well as their associated tropes.

* {{Expy}} - Montaron is a proto-[[OrderOfTheStick Belkar]]

* InnocenceVirginOnStupidity - It's not clear whether the literal definition of this trope [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean technically applies or not]], but the setup between her and Eldoth is a classic case.

* PregnantBadass - Strangely, given her [[InnocenceVirginOnStupidity initial]] [[WideEyedIdealist characterization]], she can spend a good portion of [=ToB=] as this, before becoming an ActionMom.

* HumansAreWhite - Actually averted: there ARE other black people on the Sword Coast, although everyone else we see from Rasheman is white.

* AdventureCouple - He and Jaheira, before his demise.
* Main/BattleCouple - with Jaheira.

* Main/DroppedABridgeOnHim
* Main/GameplayAndStorySegregation - He can't be raised from the dead, despite the fact that such things are common in the game world. {{Lampshaded}} when the protagonist can ask Jaheira if they shouldn't try to resurrect him when his body is discovered, and she replies that it's impossible, because his soul is "too far beyond the veil".. [[HandWave or something]].

* Main/TheGenericGuy - He's a fighter with nondescript stats and no special abilities.

* AdventureCouple - With Minsc.

* [=~I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before~=] - Only once: when Jan and the party literally go to Hell.

* [=~Let's Get Dangerous~=] - He's generally incapable of taking things seriously, but in the sidequest during which his former love and her child are endangered he credibly threatens to open up a can of whoopass on his antagonist.

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* TheSwordThatSpeaks

* Main/EnsembleDarkhorse - As mentioned above, quite a few people were disappointed he didn't make it into the sequel.

* Main/GotMeDoingIt - Indirectly: an extremely minor character in IcewindDale realizes that he's complaining so much that he's beginning to sound like his cousin Xan.

** He does if you take him into Baldur's Gate with you. [[spoiler: Brielbara, the mother of the child, is near the Splurging Sturgeon and will ask the party to save their child from a curse her husband put on the baby. She will specifically talk to Coran if he's in the party. Once she is done explaining her situation, Coran will ask the party members to help him. If you refuse, he leaves. If you agree and bring back Yago's spellbook so the curse can be broken, Brielbara will ask Coran to join her in raising their child together. He refuses.]]

* Main/IdiotBall - He clearly was holding one, which caused him to get exposed and captured. He's got an Intelligence score of 7 (where the world average is 10), too.

* Main/LawfulGood - He's basically a dwarven paladin, except that the second edition rules did not allow non-humans to be paladins.

* TheRival: Kagian. Yeslick remarks that while all dwarves are family, he refuses to see Kagian as such.

Some time later, Ajantis got sent to the Windspear Hills with several Paladins. However, he is later put under a spell that makes him think that a group of men who came to them are gnolls and ogres. Unfortunately, the spell also makes those who see him look like gnolls and ogres, and the group happens to be the Bhaalspawn's group, who proceeds to kill Ajantis by accident.

* TheDitz: When encountered and spoken to in the second game, he has ''no idea'' who the player is, nor does he remember Skie, the evil sorceress who hired him. If present, Jaheira will comment on this.

** When in a city, he may also spontaneously sing, "'Tis a beautiful day in the neighborhood!", similar to the opening song of ''Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood''. He will also recite part of ''Trees'' by Joyce Kilmer ("I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.") when he's in the woods with your party. His voice is really low, though, so it's hard to hear what he's saying without turning on the subtitles.

** His humour is a lot more subtle and less frequent than the others, but it's most definitely still there. Heck, at one point Yoshimo starts singing a... Rather ribald verse he claims to have found scribbled in the margins of a holy text, then halfway through stops and apologises to Keldorn for his language. Keldorn promptly finishes the verse, much to Yoshimo's astonishment, and implies he was the one who scribbled it in the book in the first place.

** His humour is a lot more subtle and less frequent than the others, but it's most definitely still there. Heck, at one point Yoshimo starts singing a.. rather ribald tavern song, then halfway through stops and apologises to Keldorn for his language. Keldorn promptly finishes the verse, much to Yoshimo's astonishment.

* ShoutOut - [[{{Wolverine}} I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do ain't pretty.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes - He ''really'' doesn't like forges.

* Main/LeastCommonSkinTone - Actually averted: there ARE other black people on the Sword Coast, although everyone else we see from Rasheman is white.

* LeastCommonSkinTone - There are plenty of black people in Amn, but he's from Kara-Tur, the setting's [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Asia analogue]], and given his fondness for katanas and [[GratuitousJapanese Japanese]] almost certainly the Japan-analogue. Along with Tamoko, he's one of only two Kara-Turans in the games.

* Main/LeastCommonSkinTone - Not so uncommon in these games, as he's one of three black [=NPC=]s (that's counting Viconia, who is a wholly different kind of black) you can recruit throughout the story, but as one of the only playable characters in the second game who's a native of Amn, which is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of medieval Spain, it's a bit odd. He could be a moor-equivalent.

* AlasPoorScrappy - As unpopular as he was with many players, most found his death between games a bit of a PlayerPunch.

* Main/NeutralGood

* Main/TheScrappy - Along with Quayle, probably the leading candidate for the "honor" in the first game.

* Main/TearJerker - Despite his status as one of the first game's [[TheScrappy Scrappies]].

* Main/ChaoticEvil

* Main/NeutralEvil

* NeutralEvil

* Main/ChaoticEvil

* ChaoticEvil

* NeutralEvil - A good example of everyday, non-AxCrazy evil at that.

* Main/ChaoticNeutral
* Main/CharacterDerailment - He's a huge jerk in [=BG1=] but a kindly old gnome in [=BG2=], with no explanation for the change.
** It's explained that his interaction with Aerie (off-screen) really softens him. Except that how he'd been interacting with her for decades before [=BG2=] and [=BG2=] is set less than a year after [=BG1=], during which he was an asshole.
*** Aerie's not with him in [=BG1=], so either he tones down his act deliberately when she's with him or her presence makes him feel all mushy and nice. When she's not around, he shows his true colors. Maybe.

* Main/{{Jerkass}} - At least until his [[CharacterDerailment abrupt change of heart]].

* CrusadingWidower - Kivan's love was tortured to death by Tazok before the game began.

** Of course, this doesn't stop a CrowingMomentOfFunny when he taunts Edwin[[spoiler:a]] about the [[spoiler:GenderBender by asking to champion "her"]]
* WellDoneSonGuy- Anomen has daddy issues up the ass.

* Main/HeyItsThatVoice - JeffBennett, who also do the voice of Cespenar and Jan.

Coran is a happy-go-lucky elven adventurer and serial womanizer who's encountered in Cloakwood forest. At first he's insistent on hunting wyverns, but after that subquest is complete he will join the party permanently. He will flirt shamelessly with female party members, particularly Safana, and in addition has a lovechild in Baldur's Gate that he doesn't know about.

Yeslick is a good-hearted dwarven fighter/cleric, and one of few surviving members of his clan when their ancestral mines were accidentally flooded. He ended up befriending the wrong human, was doublecrossed and forced to reveal the location of his clan's mine and help reclaim it. If you rescue him he helps you in re-flooding the mine (which is a major blow to the villains' operations) and can join your party. He doesn't get along with fellow dwarf Kagain whom he finds a very much disgrace to dwarves due to his money-grubbing personality (and vice versa).

Yet another dwarven fighter, Kagain runs a mercenary company that provide protection for caravans, but is very obsessed with gold. In contrast to other evil characters, he tent to be rather quiet. However, he is always at odds with Yeslick, who continually chastises his gold-obsession, and Kagain hates him for being too 'goody-goody' and stupid, sometimes this can come to blows. He has a constitution of twenty, which grants him regeneration.