History Characters / IcewindDale

-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JimCummings

-->'''Voiced By:''' [[Creator/JimCummingsVoiceActorCreator Jim Cummings]]

-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JimCummings

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate is entirely unexplored in ''Icewind Dale 2''. Presumably he was killed when the Legion of the Chimera seized the Severed Hand as their headquarters, but it isn't confirmed and the timeframe between games is long enough that he may have left or succumbed to another fate before then.

* TheApprentice: Orrick keeps a goblin named Weenog as a housekeeper and (in theory) apprentice. In the sequel, the goblin is now a fully trained wizard and is off on his own.

* MageTower: His first home was a tower in Kuldahar. In the sequel, after the Heroes of the Ten-Towns clear out the haunted Severed Hand, he abandons his tower and resettles in the Severed Hand's library to continue his research close-up.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The final Lost Follower, Veddion Kairne, sought of Kholsa rather than await his death. Their was first a battle of words, with Kairne challenging his foe to ''prove'' his guilt in the Barbed Kingdom's slaughter, but it inevitable came to bloodshed.

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Ehld's battle with Atalaclys the Lost is framed like this, with their pair duelling within the "sandy square of a dead town."

%%!!Jerrod

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Ambiguously. He bever actually gives his name in dialogue, but his child disguise's model still wears by it (rather than Yxunomei's "Odd Little Girl" nameplate) and the player will leave their first conversation having gleaned it nonetheless.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Yxunomei, the first game's yuan-ti leader. He takes the guise of an odd little boy instead of an odd little girl, is a yuan-ti priestrather than a demon anointed yuan-ti royalty, and masquerades as a child instead of simply wearing one's face to distress his enemies.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: As long as his customers pay him, he'll sell anything, including information, to anyone. In the second game, he helps your party evade the Legion of the Chimera, then sells you out to the Legion and gives them your location.

%%!!The Yuan-ti

!!The Legion of the Chimera
[[folder:Guthma]]
!!Guthma

A fearsome bugbear chieftain overseeing the orc and goblin horde's attack on Targos.

* TheBrute: Far from stupid, but really only in it for the carnage and glory.
* GloryHound: Exceptionally proud of ''his'' horde and unwilling to cede any power to Sherincal.
* TheStarscream: Bristles at Sherincal micromanaging his army and plots to send her and her Legion Targos's way after its fall.
* StarterVillain: A beefy pawn with a wicked morning star, but a pawn nonetheless.

[[folder:Sherincal]]
!!Sherincal
->''"To the shores of war, then, shall we travel, with valor as our greatest guide."''
A half-dragon warrior commanding the Legion of the Chimera's forces on the western front.

* BadBoss: Has very little tolerance for failure, insulting her underling Guthma for his own at some length, and kills an Andoran druid just to punish ''her mate'' for deviating from a command.
* {{BFS}}: Wields Winged Blight, a massive and repulsive two-handed sword, reinforced with human bones and wrapped in tanned human flesh.
* TheDragon: Half of one, literally and figuratively. She's the half-dragon general of the Legion's western armies and, depending on how the ice temple is approached, can be fought as a DiscOneFinalBoss.
* FairPlayVillain: Ruthless as she is, she does possess a sense of honor, at least insofar as battlefield etiquette is concerned. If told about Captain Yurst's fate, falling from the clutches of her soarsmen to bleed and freeze to death on the icy hills below, she'll the lament the injustice of a noble foe meeting such an end.
* VillainousValor: She actually holds to the concept of valor as one of her guiding tenets.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Despises her human blood and has a cabal of necromancers on hand to try and purge it. For contrast, she lauds her dragon heritage, but laments how little she's gained from it.

[[folder:Saablic Tan]]
A Red Wizard of Thay, he was one of Poquelin's lieutenants, until Malavon betrayed him and turned him into an umber hulk.

* DramaticIrony: The adventuring party in the first game didn't stick a sword in Tan's back to take his badge because Malavon had betrayed him, turned him into an umber hulk, and gave his badge to his neo-orogs. By betraying him, Malavon inadvertently ''saved'' Tan's life.
* FaceHeelTurn: He wasn't really a "face" in the first game, but he was a neutral character who gave your party information and provided a quest or two. In the sequel he's human again and allied with the Legion of the Chimera.
* HulkSpeak: He talks in short, inarticulate sentences. Justified by his transformation into a umber hulk, which has caused his mental faculties to decline to the point that talking at all is difficult.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: In the first game he created neo-orogs for Poquelin, and in the second game creates driders for the Legion of the Chimera.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He wants you to kill the other lieutenants as punishment for his state.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the second game, he's killed ''outside'' the Severed Hand, but his influence is felt throughout the final chapter and the player gets some extensive interactions with his conclave.

[[folder:Isair and Madae]]
!!Isair and Madae
->''"At this point, I think we're supposed to say something to the effect of... 'You're too late to stop us!' Isn't that the way it works in the storybooks, sister?"''\\
''"Come now, Isair. You know I don't like to read."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/PeterStormare (Isair), Mari Weiss (Madae)

A pair of half-fiend twins and the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera, a self-described organization of creatures cast out from the rest of society due to their inhuman nature. Together, they seek to make the Legion a force to be reckoned with and end the prejudice targeted towards them, even if it means going to war.

* GloryHound: Exceptionally proud of ''his'' horde and unwilling to cede any power to Sherinncal.

%%!!The Aurilites

[[folder:Saablic Tan]]
A Red Wizard of Thay, he was one of Poquelin's lieutenants, until Malavon betrayed him and turned him into an umber hulk.

* DramaticIrony: The adventuring party in the first game didn't stick a sword in Tan's back to take his badge because Malavon had betrayed him, turned him into an umber hulk, and gave his badge to his neo-orogs. By betraying him, Malavon inadvertently ''saved'' Tan's life.
* FaceHeelTurn: He wasn't really a "face" in the first game, but he was a neutral character who gave your party information and provided a quest or two. In the sequel he's human again and allied with the Legion of the Chimera.
* HulkSpeak: He talks in short, inarticulate sentences. Justified by his transformation into a umber hulk, which has caused his mental faculties to decline to the point that talking at all is difficult.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: In the first game he created neo-orogs for Poquelin, and in the second game creates driders for the Legion of the Chimera.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He wants you to kill the other lieutenants as punishment for his state.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brother Poquelin]]
!!Revered Brother Poquelin
->''"Who am I? I am but a simple priest, spreading the gospel of suffering to the masses. Soon, you will all know the litany of our faith... I'd start praying now, if I were you."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnKassir

A high-ranking priest of Ilmater from the far-off land of Cormyr.
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%%!!The Legion of the Chimera

[[folder:Isair and Madae]]
!!Isair and Madae
->''"At this point, I think we're supposed to say something to the effect of... 'You're too late to stop us!' Isn't that the way it works in the storybooks, sister?"''\\
''"Come now, Isair. You know I don't like to read."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/PeterStormare (Isair), Mari Weiss (Madae)

A pair of half-fiend twins and the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera, a self-described organization of creatures cast out from the rest of society due to their inhuman nature. Together, they seek to make the Legion a force to be reckoned with and end the prejudice targeted towards them, even if it means going to war.

* AffablyEvil: Isair is still going to kill you, but that's no reason you can't exchange some pleasant banter first, is it? Madae finally decides she's had enough of this in the final battle.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: More or less their entire lives, thanks to their half-fiendish heritage, has been spent rejected and ostracized -- first by humans, then by devils.
* BigBadDuumvirate: As the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera in ''Icewind Dale II'', you spend most of the game fighting through their minions on your way to the final confrontation with the twins. Madae speaks less than her brother, but while Isair sometimes makes decisions for both of them, he never acts without asking Madae's opinion. This constant back-and-forth makes up the majority of their dialogue.
* BigRedDevil: Both of them have the look, with crimson skin, horns, tails, and wings, as the half-fiend children of Belhifet.
* CallBack: The twins' entire history is made up of nods to [=NPCs=] and major locations from the first game, including their foster mother Egenia being the head of Kuldahar's Temple of Ilmater, one of the townsfolk the player rescues from the Talonites of Dragon's Eye.
* ChildByRape: Their mother ''Maiden'' Ilmadia Bariel [[ButICantBePregnant believed she was still a virgin]] at the time you fought her in the first game, wasn't raised by Mother Egenia until after Belhifet's death, and [[spoiler:never knew Poquelin's true identity]]. She [[DrivenToSuicide threw herself off a cliff]] upon seeing the twins for the first time.
* CreepyTwins: As twin {{Big Red Devil}}s at the head of an army of hybrid beings.
* DeadGuyJunior: Iselore named them after his parents on Egenia's request, which he would later come to regret.
* DeadpanSnarker: Constantly. They treat the player party as one big joke.
-->'''Madae:''' Isair, I'm getting tired of these grandstanding mercenaries.\\
'''Isair:''' Really? That's fascinating, because I was just thinking of killing them. Would that be alright with you, sister?\\
'''Madae:''' It sounds perfect to me, brother. Farewell, mercenaries.
* TheDividual: Fraternal twins with contrasting personalities, yet they're rarely seen apart and are almost always mentioned in the same breath.
* DisappearedDad: They were only born after Belhifet's defeat and subsequent banishment back to the Hells. When they eventually catch up with him again in the Hells, he treats them as no better than any other Blood War mercenaries, disposable pawns to be manipulated and discarded.
* DrivenToVillainy: Facing constant rejection at every turn, Isair and Madae are determined to carve out a place for other half-breed outcasts like themselves, whatever the cost. See TraumaCongaLine.
* DualBoss: You fight both of them at the same time, along with their flunkies.
* EvilOrphan: Rejected by everyone but Mother Egenia, after she died they were chased out of Kuldahar, and began a downward spiral after that.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Madae, who's only really playing nice to indulge her brother for as long as her patience holds out.
* FullCircleRevolution: Madae, as usual, makes no bones about it, saying that all the "dispossessed freaks" of the Legion are simply going to enslave those who previously oppressed them in revenge for their previous suffering.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Cambions, the children of a fiend and a mortal, in this case half elf, half devil. They're the children of Maiden Ilmadia, one of Poquelin's minions from the first game... and Belhifet himself.
* HappilyAdopted: Raised with love by the Ilmatari priestess Mother Egenia until her death, at which point the villagers of Kuldahar assumed they murdered her. The twins did not take this well.
* HiredGuns: First as catspaws of Luskan's Hosttower of the Arcane, then as mercenaries in the Blood War, the neverending interdimensional war between demons and devils.
* HornedHumanoid: Another gift from their fiendish sire Belhifet.
* MightMakesRight:
-->'''Madae:''' The reality of this world is that strength rules. Those who aren't willing to push are simply going to get run over.
* MissingMom: Ilmadia threw herself off a cliff when she saw the evidence of her children's fiendish heritage. They were fostered by Mother Egenia, a priestess of Ilmater, until her death.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When villagers of Kuldahar came upon the twins burying Egenia, they immediately leapt to the conclusion that the twins had killed her. The villagers attacked, but were no match for the two cambions. This led to the twins fleeing the town for fear of further reprisals.
* RedOniBlueOni: Madae (red) is quicker to anger and often responds with threats and violence, while Isair (blue) is more level-headed and calculating, preferring to hold conversations with the player before attacking.
* ReligionOfEvil: Madae is a cleric of Iyachtu Xvim, the half-demon son of the [[KillTheGod dead god]] (at the time) Bane and the then-incumbent (again, at the time) god of tyranny, hatred, and fear in the Realms. The twins' mother Ilmadia was also a priestess of Xvim.
* SiblingYinYang: Isair is clever, cool-headed, learned, creative in his villainy, and likes using five dollar words. Madae is bloodthirsty, quick to anger, dislikes reading, and solves most of her problems with murder. Interestingly, Lysara considers Madae to be the better half of the Legion of the Chimera's leadership.
* SuperBreedingProgram: One of the more unfortunate lessons to learn from [[SnakePeople the yuan-ti]]. The twins intend to bring the Dale under their control by, among other things, forcibly breeding their prisoners with their various monstrous allies.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Mother Egenia believed they could learn to be good, but kept them hidden and isolated from all outside contact. The misunderstanding with the villagers following her death shattered this "morality in a bottle", as Iselore calls it, with their fiendish instincts rising to the surface... or possibly they were just two frightened kids who were attacked without cause, and fled in fear for their lives.
* TraumaCongaLine: Starting from before they were even born. Their father was baatezu general who sought to conquer the Prime and was killed before they were born, their mother one of his lieutenants who killed herself when the moment she saw her children, Archdruid Iselore couldn't bring himself to kill them but bore them no love, and when their guardian, the Ilmatari priestess Mother Egenia, died, they were driven from their hometown of Kuldahar as their infernal instincts began to surface, eventually finding their way to the streets of WretchedHive of Luskan. When they finally found a way to cross planes to find their father on a battlefield in the Abyss, they found that their half-mortal heritage meant they were no more accepted among devils than anywhere else -- so they returned to Icewind Dale, ventured to the ruined citadel and attempted to make it a haven for half-breeds like themselves. They attempted to open negotiations with nearby Bryn Shander, received "gifts" laced with holy water, and so turned their original plans for settlement into a campaign of conquest. Which brings us to the beginning of the second game.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Equality for all... through open war and a SuperBreedingProgram.
-->'''Isair:''' Even you must agree that such a true and noble goal surely justifies whatever means necessary to bring it about -- and with that being said, it's time for your meddling to end.
* UnexplainedAccent: Peter Stormare uses his distinctive, gravelly-voiced natural Swedish accent for Isair, for which he has been cast as all manner of [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign vaguely European characters]] across multiple works. Madae doesn't share the accent. Neither do any of the other Kuldahar voice actors. As long as it sounds cool, of course, nobody really cares what accent the actors have in any of the Infinity Engine games.
* VillainHasAPoint: Discrimination and prejudice against half-breed races and the like is very prominent in the Forgotten Realms setting, and it was only due to how the Ten-Towns received their attempts at diplomacy that the twins responded with force.
* WingedHumanoid: Their wings appear prehensile, like giant clawed hands.

* SealedEvilInACan: Remains trapped at the bottom of Lac Dinneshere for as long as [[spoiler:the shattered pieces of Aihonen's blade pierces her frozen heart.]] Guess [[ChekhovsGun what turns up]] in a minor sidequest in the very FirstTown of the base game?

* GreaterScopeVillain: An ancient dragon defeated by the controversial hero Aihonen -- controversial because while he saved the settlers from Iscasaracht, he also fought against the Uthgardt. Much of the events of ''HOW'' stem from the battle between the two. [[spoiler:Iscaracht graduates to BigBad (or rather is revealed to have been the true BigBad all along) when it turns out Iscasaracht is back and has been manipulating the Uthgardt into a war with the Ten-Towns which will inevitably destroy them both as part of her age-long revenge plot.]]

* SealedEvilInACan: Remains trapped at the bottom of Lac Dinneshere for as long as [[spoiler:The shattered pieces of Aihonen's blade pierces her frozen heart.]] Guess [[ChekhovsGun what turns up]] in a minor sidequest in the very FirstTown of the base game?

* EvilSoundsDeep: Especially for a ''female'' dragon. [[spoiler:And especially when still in the body of Wylfdene, meaning her lines are being voiced in the BadassBaritone of Creator/RonPerlman.]]

-->'''Belhifet:''' [[spoiler: No, no! [[{{Immortality}} Not after all this time!]]]]

* KilledOffForReal: He is slain in the mortal plane and banished back to Avernus for a century at the end, but [[spoiler: In ''Siege of Dragonstone?'' He is killed in his fortress in Avernus. He's gone forever now.]]

-->'''Belhifet:''' [[spoiler: No, no! [[{{Immortality}}Not after all this time!]]]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:During the end cinematic, [[NarratorAllAlong the kindly narrator's voice]] turns to anger before [[EvilLaugh laughing evilly]] as the now-revealed Belhifet swears his revenge against all Faerun.]]

[[folder:Orrick the Gray]]
!!Orrick the Gray

A mage living in the tower overlooking Kuldahar. He is purely concerned with his own magical research, indifferent to the troubles facing the Dale. His only real contact with the outside world is selling a few magical trinkets, which the locals can't use or understand, to passing adventurers.

* TheApprentice: Orrick keeps a goblin named Weenog as a housekeeper and (in theory) apprentice. In the sequel, the goblin is now a fully trained wizard and is off on his own.
* LivingWithTheVillain: In the sequel, you find Orrick in the Severed Hand, the elven citadel which has converted into the Legion of the Chimera's base of operations. True to his name, he's not exactly cooperating with them, but as long as he can continue studying the mythal undisturbed, he doesn't care about the Legion's denizens, politics, religion, wars or atrocities.
* MageTower: His first home was a tower in Kuldahar. In the sequel, after the Heroes of the Ten-Towns clear out the haunted Severed Hand, he abandons his tower and resettles in the Severed Hand's library to continue his research close-up.
* MeaningfulName: Orrick '''The Gray''' remains neutral at every turn. He doesn't take sides in conflicts between good and evil, or order against chaos.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Beware, his items for sale will change every time you begin a new chapter.
* TrueNeutral: His in-universe alignment, and the reason he's "the Gray": Orrick refuses to take sides in any conflict, and is only concerned with the knowledge he can gather.

%%!!Larrel
%%!!Hjollder
%%!!The Seer
%%!!The Kedros Family

!Foes

[[folder:Kresselack]]
!!Kresselack the Black Wolf
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/TonyJay

The spirit of an ancient warlord now haunting the Vale of Shadows.

* TwentyFourHourArmor: Being a spirit, he's being wearing the same armor non-stop for centuries.
* AffablyEvil: Even with all the evils deeds Kresselack committed in his previous life, he's very well-mannered, polite and even allow you to loot his tomb after you help him.
* AlasPoorVillain: He proves to be surprisingly reasonable once you've battled your way to the heart of his tomb -- pitiable, even, in that he has come to see his life of bloody conquest as wasted, and the immortality he once sought as a curse. All the more so now that he will have to spend undeath alone in his tomb, since [[NiceJobBreakingItHero you've destroyed his companions]]. When he asks that you stop the Aurilites from breaking the remaining enchantments on his tomb so that he is also forced to spend eternity in cold and darkness as well.
* ArcVillain: For the Vale of Shadows and, naturally, Kresselack's Tomb.
* BarredFromTheAfterlife: After he sacrificed his life to his god, he found himself bound to his tomb and is unable to leave the Material plane.
* {{BFS}}: His favored weapon is a greatsword, which he allows you to loot after you complete a quest for him.
* BlackKnight: An undead warrior. Technically a barbarian in life, he was buried in his ceremonial armor and very much looks the part.
* EvilOverlord: In life he was this, but in death he discovered that no matter how hard he tried -- burying himself with his entire army -- you really can't take it with you.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Intoned by the great Tony Jay.
* ILied: Kresselack promised your party to reveal who's responsible for the evil plaguing Kuldahar in exchange for slaying an Aurilite cultist. After you've done the deed, he admits not knowing who's behind the troubles in Kuldahar.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Kresselack was a warlord and a conqueror. For all the evil deeds he had done, including slaying his most loyal followers, he was rewarded with eternal un-life bound to his tomb.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: He was buried with his army, all of which you must fight on your way to Kresselack himself... only to find out that they were telling the truth, and genuinely had nothing to do with the current troubles in the region.
* NotMeThisTime: After killing your way to the end of Kresselack's tomb and destroying all his undead guardians... it turns out Kresselack really wasn't behind the theft of the Heartstone Gem or the kidnappings in Kuldahar. You have, however, left his crypt undefended and thus vulnerable to a different threat [[spoiler:namely the Aurilites, devotees of the evil goddess of cold.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: A description of a magical bastard sword in the sequel revealed that Kresselack has sired many children with different women.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Kresselack [[ImmortalitySeeker believed he did in life]], but since then he's discovered that neverending undeath is a curse, but perhaps a fitting punishment for the life he led.

%%!!The Aurilites

[[folder:Yxunomei]]
!!Yxunomei
->''"I am a soldier by day, a farmer by night. The harvest of dead souls provides nutrition for my nation's war."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/TaraStrong

An ancient and powerful entity which has taken the volcano of Dragon's Eye for her fortress and the yuan-ti and lizardfolk within for her followers. The heroes must seek her out after she steals the Heartstone Gem.

* ArcVillain: Worshipped as a god by the yuan-ti of Dragon's Eye and the final opponent fought in the area.
* BadassBoast: Though as she sees it, she's only speaking the unvarnished truth.
* BenevolentBoss: Zigzagged. She intends to honor her commitment to her yuan-ti followers by leaving behind the kingdom she intends to create on Toril, and she's annoyed when the PC refers to them as SnakePeople. She's quite blunt about how she feels about failure, however -- if they can't prevent the party from stealing back the Heartstone Gem, then they've earned their deaths. That doesn't stop her from joining in the final fight against the heroes in Dragon's Eye.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: Surprisingly, yes. She doesn't care to remain in this world to rule it, and would rather leave the kingdom she would conquer to her yuan-ti followers. [[spoiler:This is because she's a high-ranking soldier in the multiverse-spanning army of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the tanar'ri]], and her business on Faerun is mainly to prevent the Old Enemy -- Belhifet -- from gaining a foothold for his own people.]]
* ColdHam: Remains cold and remote at all times, while delivering some of the game's most over-the-top, Lovecraftian dialogue... only to cap it off with the occasional understatement which does more to reveal how far removed she is from earthly concerns than anything else.
-->'''Odd Little Girl:''' Quite.
* CreepyChild: She appears to the party in the guise of a decidedly ''odd'' little girl.
* CrypticConversation: She starts out this way, perhaps before finding a level the party will understand.
-->'''Odd Little Girl:''' Your moon is eclipsed. There are no more shadows, only a corona that illuminates forgotten promises to the black devotees.
* EldritchAbomination: Much of her dialogue and trappings (her yuan-ti cult, for instance) would be right at home in a CosmicHorror story. [[spoiler:She's actually a marilith, which isn't even the highest rank of tanar'ri, ''D&D''[='s=] stock ChaoticEvil race of demons.]]%%InUniverse
* EvilVersusEvil: She's locked in a millennia-long conflict with the Old Enemy, which has only found its way to Toril and the Dale in the past few hundred years. [[spoiler:Specifically, she's a demon, aligned with chaos and evil in the neverending conflict of the Blood War. Her enemy, Belhifet, is one of the LawfulEvil devils.]]%%InUniverse
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Inverted with her [[CreepyChild Odd Little Girl]] guise. She's well aware that it creeps people out, but more importantly, most people hesitate to attack her when she looks like an innocent child. Even if they know the truth, there's an emotional cost to it.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation:
-->'''Odd Little Girl:''' The forces at work here are factories of truth so foreign to your understanding that if you attempted to observe the machine in its entirety, it would burn your fragile mind to vapor.
* ItsPersonal: Towards you, by the time you fight her. If you attempt to cut off dialogue with her and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere excuse yourself]], she's having none of it, claiming that she's going to take some pleasure in making you ''pay'' for the havoc you've caused.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: She's a ancient demonic entity who is literally worshipped as a god in Dragon's Eye. What does she say when you ask her who or what she is? A soldier.
* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: She styles herself as the handmaiden of the yuan-ti's god, Sseth.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: In her true form. [[spoiler:As a marilith, she looks like a woman with a snake's body in place of legs, and six arms, wielding a weapon in each hand.]]
* OrderVsChaos: Played with. Despite her cold, rational way of thinking, Yxunomei is a creature who embodies chaos and evil on a primal level. [[spoiler:By way of contrast, Belhifet is far more petty, personal, and emotional despite being a creature of law.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: She's actually [[spoiler:a tanar'ri, a race of ChaoticEvil fiends from the Lower Planes of the ''D&D'' multiverse. More than that, her serpent-bodied, many-armed form is that of a marilith, somewhere below the highest ranks of demons and not unique by any means. Which gives a sense of the relatively minor scale of these events on a cosmic scale.]]%%InUniverse
* PragmaticVillainy: She intends to reward her followers with the kingdom her conquest will leave behind if they serve her well, yet invites you to simply take what you need should they fail her. She is neither kind or uncaring, merely... dispassionate.
* ScrewYouElves: Something of a backhanded example, since Odd Little Girl only gets away with this by virtue of exaggerating most of elves' insufferable traits.
-->'''Odd Little Girl:''' Oh, my. Hundreds of years. You must feel very proud to be able to leap out of the primordial ooze of godly creation, gasp for a moment in the air, an lie on the shore in the belief that you won't die like all the other fish. All the while, elephants of stone stomp on these celestial shores and *you*, in your blindness, take no note.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: At first.[[note]]"Sidereal translations" simply being another way of saying "the movement of the stars."[[/note]]
-->'''Odd Little Girl:''' Sidereal translations spell out chaotic events in your future. Beware.\\
'''PC:''' Uh, that's great, little girl...
* SnakePeople: Her favored servants are the snake-like yuan-ti, though she'll take offense if you actually ''call'' them snake people, as opposed to their proper name. [[spoiler:She herself has the lower body of a huge serpent in her true form.]]
* TheStoic: Part of the reason her Odd Little Girl form is so [[CreepyChild creepy]]: she's utterly emotionless.
* TimeAbyss: She's ''old''.
-->'''PC:''' You're right, oh mighty one. But... aren't we all really just motes of dust, floating in a sea of time?\\
'''Odd Little Girl:''' No. You are one of many fireflies dancing for a moment in the night, feeling at your brightest that you can illuminate the universe at will. *I* am a star. I came into existence when your world took form. I am as persistent as time. Where I move, infernal tides crush foreign shores and nations of thought are drowned in blood.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Yes, all the above quotes are delivered by a little girl standing shoulder to shoulder with an army of serpent cultists who kidnap, torture, and eat their victims.
* WouldntHurtAChild: ExploitedTrope. She doesn't [[BlueAndOrangeMorality really understand]] ''why'' beings on this plane are generally hesitant to attack children, but she's nonetheless identified this as a weakness to be exploited and thus uses a child as her avatar. Where Yxunomei comes from, there's no concept of man, woman, or child; all are fair game to be reaped in the harvest of souls.
* YeGoodeOldeDays: Her yuan-ti followers want a return the world to the good old days when, as Yxunomei can personally recall, the Dale was still humid, tropical jungle swampland.

%%!!The Yuan-ti

[[folder:Brother Poquelin]]
!!Revered Brother Poquelin
->''"Who am I? I am but a simple priest, spreading the gospel of suffering to the masses. Soon, you will all know the litany of our faith... I'd start praying now, if I were you."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnKassir

A high-ranking priest of Ilmater from the far-off land of Cormyr.

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard]], an object of great malevolence and power. Poquelin wears it on a chain around his neck. [[spoiler:And he avoids its influence, not by any force of will or arcane power, but simply because its plans and those of Belhifet happen to coincide.]]
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Brother Poquelin:''' I am the beginning and the end of this story. I, and ''only'' I, will determine how it plays out. Goodbye.
* DeadpanSnarker: Unlike Yxunomei, the Old Enemy isn't above snide wordplay and petty jibes while gloating over having gotten the best of the heroes all this time.
-->'''Brother Poquelin:''' I'm sorry, but war and charades are the only two games I know how to play.
* EvilSorcerer: Despite being a priest, his magical powers amount to this. [[spoiler:Since as a devil, of course, he in no way has the support of a god of good such as Ilmater.]]
* FlunkyBoss: Summons huge numbers of EliteMooks to swarm the party during when you finally manage to track him down.
* HiddenVillain: Your first true meeting with Poquelin happens a good 4/5ths of the way through the game. The first time you meet him, he's in disguise as [[spoiler:Arundel. And with the heroes distracting themselves dealing with Kresselack and Yxunomei while he built up his forces elsewhere, he really couldn't have planned it better himself.]]
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Gloats over [[spoiler:having acquired Crenshinibon, assembled the various lieutenants you've already confronted and killed, freezing the passes and having his frost giant servants cause the avalanche which killed most of the expedition out of Easthaven, and killing Arundel personally.]]
* MeaningfulName: Poquelin is the family name of Molière, famous French comedian and playwright. Fitting for someone who is simply playing a role.
* ObviouslyEvil: By the time you meet him, he's dropped any pretense and does all his gloating in sneering, self-amused manner. He's also got pale, bluish skin, and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black robes]]. One assumes he made more of an effort to maintain his disguise previously, but he already knows you've found him out by the time you confront him.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:In his true form as Belhifet]], the closest thing Poquelin has to a friend is [[spoiler:his demonic ArchEnemy Yxonumei. Of course, given how old they both are, maybe it's not surprising that he views everyone else as fleeting and expendable.]]
* SinisterMinister: A revered brother of Ilmater, the god of suffering but also [[DarkIsNotEvil mercy]]. [[spoiler:Poquelin is really a (literal) DevilInDisguise, however, and Poquelin in all likelihood never existed, formed wholesale out of Brother Perdiem's memories.]]
* SoftSpokenSadist: Speaks in a high, breathy stage whisper as he mocks your accomplishments, assuming you don't simply cut straight to the fight with him. Of course, given that they got [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the Cryptkeeper himself]] to voice him, it couldn't have been any other way.
* TeleportSpam: A major part of the fight against him is managing to catch him before he teleports away again, hiding behind his many mooks.

[[folder:Belhifet]]
!!Belhifet
->''"And as the first rays of dawn glittered off the scattered fragments of the crystalline tower, a light snow began to fall over the once-again peaceful town of Easthaven. And so ends the final chapter in my tale, with the forces of good triumphant over the forces of evil."''
-->'''-- Narrator'''

Hailing from Baator, the Nine Hells, the devil Belhifet seeks to conquer the whole of the Realms, beginning with Icewind Dale.

* ArchEnemy: The demoness Yxunomei, his opposite in number in the Blood War.
* BigBad: The ultimate villain of the original ''Icewind Dale'', pulling the strings around the events around Kuldahar [[spoiler:through his disguise as Brother Poquelin]]. [[spoiler:Also the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'', after Caelar reveals that the true purpose of the entire Crusade was to rescue her uncle from Belhifet's clutches.]]
* BigRedDevil: Played very straight. [[spoiler:Although he spends most of the first game disguised as the kindly Brother Poquelin.]]
* CirclesOfHell: ''D&D''[='s=] Nine Hells are based, in part, on [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante's]] ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''. Belhifet's domain is [[spoiler:a citadel of iron and chains on the first layer, [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Avernus]], which is where your pursuit of Caelar Argent ultimately takes you in ''Siege of Dragonspear''.]]
* CollapsingLair: The crystal tower in [[WhereItAllBegan Easthaven]] crumbles once Belhifet is finally vanquished.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Not quite an archdevil in the intricate hierarchy of the baatezu, but a powerful and high-ranking unique devil in his own right.
* DevilInDisguise: ''A'' devil in disguise. [[spoiler:He spends most of the game HiddenInPlainSight as [[SinisterMinister Revered Brother]] [[DevilInDisguise Poquelin]], a priest of Ilmater, the LawfulGood god of suffering.]]
* DualWielding: Wields a pair of enormous machete-like blades.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even his fellow devils thought his grudge with Yxunomei was excessive. [[spoiler:Interestingly, despite being [[AlwaysChaoticEvil tanar'ri]], Yxunomei takes a far more measured approach to their conflict, and seems to have kept the favor of her own superiors.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: While [[spoiler:in disguise as Brother Poquelin, he has a high, sibilant voice]], his actual voice is impressively deep and suitably ferocious, [[spoiler:provided as it is by mighty-voiced actor Creator/DavidOgdenStiers, who executes a deft turn from kindly scholar to snarling devil in the span of a few lines.]]
* HijackedByGanon: Fans of ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'' would probably expect this around the time Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard, appears in the game. [[spoiler:While Poquelin/Belhifet retains center-stage, the crystal's power does allow him to create the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon. In a straighter example of the trope, Belhifet goes on to become the FinalBoss of ''Siege of Dragonspear'', with BigBad apparent Caelar Argent either joining forces with Charname to defeat him once and for all, or else falling fully and becoming a blackguard in service to Belhifet.]]
* KilledOffForReal: He is slain in the mortal plane and banished back to Avernus for a century at the end, but [[spoiler: In ''Siege of Dragonstone?'' He is killed in his fortress in Avernus. He's gone forever now.]]
* NarratorAllAlong: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:Like Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', David Ogden Stiers provides the voice for both the game's main villain and the kindly narrator. In ''Icewind Dale'', however, the two characters are explicitly one and the same. In a clever bit of BaitAndSwitch, you don't actually hear Belhifet's real voice during the game itself, only in the final credits, when the pleasant, grandfatherly tones shift into hateful, bestial snarling as he swears to return some day, practically spitting out the word when he speaks of the triumph of the forces of "good". Perhaps even more surprisingly, the only thing the narrator seems to [[UnreliableNarrator mislead you about]] is his true identity.]]
* OrderVsChaos: Belhifet would have had to have taken action against the ancient demon Yxunomei if the player party hadn't beaten him to it.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In ''D&D'' lore, LawfulEvil devils come from Baator, the Nine Hells, while the ChaoticEvil demons come from the Abyss. The two fight a neverending, bloody war which frequently spills over into the "real" world of the Prime, where they collect the souls of the living and draft them into their battles. (When referring to both races collectively, the preferred in-universe nomenclature is "fiends".)
* {{Retcon}}: The first game keep referring Belhifet as a demon. This was changed to devil in the sequel.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Continues to refer to himself in the third person [[spoiler:as he finishes narrating the book of the player's adventures, breaking character as the narrator and revealing himself as a banished devil who [[WeWillMeetAgain will have his revenge]].]]
* TimeAbyss: Inevitably, as a contemporary of Yxunomei's. He doesn't play it up as much, however.
* WeWillMeetAgain: As a fiend, death is not the end for him, and he promises to return one day for his revenge. [[spoiler:He says this in-character as the [[NarratorAllAlong narrator]], making it seem as if he's addressing the player directly. ''16 years'' after Icewind Dale's initial release, he makes good on his promise in, of all places, ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'', where he is the [[HijackedByGanon final villain]] yet again.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:During the end cinematic, [[NarratorAllAlong the kindly narrator's voice]] turns to anger before [[EvilLaugh laughing evilly]] as the now-revealed Belhifet swears his revenge against all Faerun.]]
-->'''Belhifet:''' [[spoiler:As for the vanquished ''demon, Belhifet'', defeated on the Prime... [[NarratorAllAlong he was]] ''[[NotSoStoic banished]]'' back to the depths of Hell, where he languished for a period of a ''hundred years, '''tormented''' by the memory of his '''mistakes''', and '''waiting''' ''for the day he would ''[[WeWillMeetAgain return]]'' to Faerun, and ''exact'' his ''[[BestServedCold revenge]]''.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Like many more powerful [[OurDemonsAreDifferent fiends]] in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Belhifet can take a variety of different shapes. [[spoiler:He spends most of the game [[DevilInDisguise disguised]] as Brother Poquelin.]]

[[folder:Wylfdene]]
!!Wylfdene
->''"I awoke that day. I am neither Wylfdene nor Jerrod, but both joined as one. It is through me that the tribes have come together. And through me, my people shall rule the North once more."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RonPerlman

A barbarian warlord of the Uthgardt who perished a season past, only to now rise again to lead his people -- touched, it is said, by the spirit of the legendary hero Jerrod, and now possessing the spirits of both men. The united tribes now threaten the Ten Towns, to drive out the outlanders and reclaim the lands of his people.

* BackFromTheDead: The great warlord Wylfdene, returned from the dead a season after his passing, having received a vision from the hero Jerrod.
* BarbarianHero: The barbarian's barbarian, and a hero among heroes, made up of both their greatest living warrior and a legend of their ancient past.
* BigBad: Of the ''Heart of Winter'' expansion pack. The leader of the barbarian army arrayed outside the gates of Lonelywood, calling for war to take back the Dale from the settlers of the Ten-Towns. [[spoiler: Then it turns out "Wylfdene" really was DeadAllAlong, his corpse hijacked by Iscasaracht, an ancient undead dragon with a vendetta against the whole of the Dale and all the settlers within, Uthgardt and settler alike. After TheReveal, she becomes the Big Bad proper.]]
* CameBackStrong: Returned from the dead as an immensely powerful (albeit undead) warrior.
* EndOfAnAge: Represents the last hurrah of the Uthgardt, and their bid to avoid losing any more of their land and nomadic culture to the southern settlers.
* FusionDance: The souls of both Wylfdene and Jerrod, united in death to raise his body and lead the tribes into a new age. [[spoiler:Actually a convenient lie -- the risen Wylfdene is neither man, but instead possessed by the spirit of the ancient dracolich Icasaracht who seeks her revenge on all humans in the Dale.]]
* HeroAntagonist: Unlike the [[CardCarryingVillain card-carrying villains]] of the original campaign, everything about Wylfdene is written as though he truly believes in his cause, and sees himself as the great hero his people need. [[spoiler:Which is as Icasaracht intended, and, in her own way, she too sees herself as entirely justified.]]
%%* MessianicArchetype:
* PossessingADeadBody: Wylfdene's corpse, reanimated by the fused spirits of Wylfdene and the Uthgardt's ancient hero Jerrod. [[spoiler:Actually Icasaracht.]]
* TheReveal: The story of the expansion is all about finding a way to stave off war with the Uthgardt. That means discrediting Wylfene, whose claims of being the reincarnation of Jerrod himself seem suspect. [[spoiler:Undead barbarian warlord? No, undead barbarian warlord's dead boy possessed by the spirit of an ancient undead dragon matron. The real Wylfene is truly dead, and Jerrod had nothing to do with it except as a way of manipulating the tribes into following Iscasaracht-as-Wylfdene.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: He's not wrong about what has been taken from the tribes already, and the possibility that the expansion of the outlanders will continue is real enough. He believes the only way to stop this from happening is to draw a line in the sand with the Ten Towns, however, and whether or not the player can convince him otherwise is an open question. [[spoiler:Until it's revealed that "Wylfdene" is actually Icasaracht, manipulating the two sides into an open war that will bring ruin to them both.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Icasaracht]]
!!Icasaracht
->''"My heart was shattered long ago, and all mercy bled from the wound."''

A white dragon matron, said to be the last of her kind. At one point, dragonkind unquestionably ruled over Faerun, until humanoid settlers encroached upon their lands. Now, she seeks to reclaim her territory by any means possible.

* BadassBoast: She has a ''lot'' of these. Like most dragons, Icasaracht has quite a high opinion of herself.
-->'''Icasaracht:''' ''[=[=][[spoiler:still in the body of Wylfdene]][=]=]'' I held the north in my claws! When I spread my wings, I shadowed the face of the world! I WAS A GODDESS!
* BestServedCold: Engineers the circumstances of her revenge on the upstart humans such that it takes thousand of years to pay off. [[spoiler:Her initial plot involves pitting the barbarians and settlers of the region against one another, posing as Wylfdene over the course of several months.]]
* BigBad: The GreaterScopeVillain of ''Heart of Winter'', as opposed to Wylfdene's HeroAntagonist. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the two are, not unlike Poquelin and Belhifet, actually one and the same.]]
* BreathWeapon: Breathes ice, as a white dragon.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the base game in Easthaven, the sea spirit Elisia returns the shattered Blade of Aihonen to the dragonslayer's [[IdenticalGrandson lookalike descendant]] Jhonen. [[spoiler:The blade being removed from Icasaracht's heart, sunk to the depths of Lac Dinneshere, is what allows the dragon to be reborn.]]
* CrazyPrepared: She's a lich. A ''[[{{Dracolich}} dragon lich]]'', but still -- this comes with the territory. Which means that before she was slain by Aihonen, she prepared special wards that would preserve her body and spirit, and sacrificed the spirits of her unborn children to ensure her resurrection.
* CycleOfRevenge: A major theme of the expansion is how this corrupts and destroys from within. Justice is without purpose if you destroy yourself and lose everything you care about along the way. [[spoiler:Having killed her own mate and sacrificed her brood to live long enough to take her revenge on the humans, Icasaracht literally has nothing else left.]]
* DeathByWomanScorned: She slew her mate after even he came to believe that she had [[EvenEvilHasStandards gone too far]] [[spoiler:by turning their unborn hatchlings into phylacteries as part of her scheme for revenge against the humans of the Dale.]] She then [[NeverMyFault blames the humans]] for turning him against her.
* {{Dracolich}}: Less skeletal than most, because the particular means of resurrection involves [[spoiler:infusing her eggs with necromantic power, sacrificing the souls of her own unborn hatchlings so that she can possess them and be reborn.]]
* EndOfAnAge: A key theme: she seeks vengeance for the end of the age of draconic dominance across Faerun. She shares this in common with Wylfdene, and for that matter the Ten-Towns, which, it is implied, will eventually lose their freedom and independence, the way of all frontiers.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Especially for a ''female'' dragon. [[spoiler:And especially when still in the body of Wylfdene, meaning her lines are being voiced in the BadassBaritone of Creator/RonPerlman.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: An ancient dragon defeated by the controversial hero Aihonen -- controversial because while he saved the settlers from Iscasaracht, he also fought against the Uthgardt. Much of the events of ''HOW'' stem from the battle between the two. [[spoiler:Iscaracht graduates to BigBad (or rather is revealed to have been the true BigBad all along) when it turns out Iscasaracht is back and has been manipulating the Uthgardt into a war with the Ten-Towns which will inevitably destroy them both as part of her age-long revenge plot.]]
* AnIcePerson: She's a white dragon, meaning she breathes cold and her natural habit is a glacier cave. [[spoiler:The eponymous ''[[TitleDrop Heart of Winter]]'' is hers.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Or rather, the dragon. [[spoiler:It was ''her'' spirit possessing the body of Wylfdene in an attempt to lead the barbarian tribes to war against the Ten-Towns.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Though her mortal body was slain by the hero Aihonen, [[spoiler:she had turned her own eggs into necromantic repositories into which she would be reborn in the event of her death, thus ensuring she could continue to enact her revenge in secret.]]
* NeverMyFault: She killed her own mate, but she blames the humans for that, too. [[spoiler:He turned on her after she extracted the souls of their own unhatched eggs as part of a ploy to ensure she would survive long enough to avenge the dragons on the humans of Icewind Dale.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons in the Realms come in all different colors, with the non-metallic, chromatic dragons being naturally evil by default. Icasaracht is a white dragon, known for being smaller and less intelligent than most other dragons -- which she subverts -- and for having a bony, skeletal-looking head shape, even when they're not undead.
* {{Pride}}: Icasaracht's pride as a dragon is her defining trait. In fact, she's so proud that when the Seer shows her her reflection while she's still [[spoiler:possessing Wylfdene's body,]] she's so disgusted by what she sees that she drops the ruse and kills her in a fit of rage.
-->'''Icasaracht:''' ''[=[=][[spoiler:still as Wylfdene]][=]=]'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]] This hideous form defiles the majesty of my being!
* {{Revenge}}: Served [[BestServedCold very cold indeed]].
* SealedEvilInACan: Remains trapped at the bottom of Lac Dinneshere for as long as [[spoiler:The shattered pieces of Aihonen's blade pierces her frozen heart.]] Guess [[ChekhovsGun what turns up]] in a minor sidequest in the very FirstTown of the base game?
* WalkingSpoiler: Naturally, since she's been dead and gone for over a thousand years. [[spoiler:The increased hostilities between the barbarian tribes and the Ten-Towns is ultimately her doing.]]

[[folder:The Luremaster]]
!!The Luremaster
A strange ghost haunting the abandoned and cursed Castle Maluradek.

* AnArmAndALeg: Maluradek had his hands cut off as a punishment for writing a poem which showcased Maluradek's cowardice.
* TheBard: The Luremaster was once a bard.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was originally just a random bard that followed Maluradek and the Watchknights of Helm so he could chronicle their battle against the dragon. However, when he saw the knights slay the dragon while Maluradek fled, the Luremaster decided to tell the story as it really happened and not do what Maluradek wanted by making him seem more heroic than he truly was. Maluradek had his hands cut off and had him thrown in the dungeon, but the Luremaster then began to sing his poem, so Maluradek murdered him. Then the Luremaster came back as a restless spirit which made it impossible to escape the tower, condemning everyone there. And once everyone in the castle was dead, he sent out Hobart to lure in more adventurers for the purpose of subjecting them to his dangerous trials so he could see if there were any true heroes among them.
* MurderIntoMalevolence: The Luremaster's persecution and murder by Maluradek resulted in him becoming a monstrous ghost which condemned the castle's inhabitants, as well as anyone else who visited it, to suffering and death.
* RiddleMeThis: Most of his challenges to the party are in the form of bizarre riddles.

%%!!The Legion of the Chimera
[[folder:Maiden Ilmadia]]
!!Maiden Ilmadia
An elven maiden and one of Poquelin's top lieutenants.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After IWD, Ilmadia is resurrected by mother Egenia [[DrivenToSuicide only to die months later]].]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Some things were best left untouched.]]
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler:In the interim between the IWD and [=IWD2=], she gave birth to demonic twins. She was so horrified that [[DrivenToSuicide she threw herself off a cliff]].]]
* ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Between the two games, Ilmadia was resurrected by mother Egenia and found herself mysteriously pregnant with twins. Being a virgin, she couldn't understand how that could have happen. Mother Egenia told her it must have been a miracle from Ilmater. The truth however, was far more sinister.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Giving birth to half-demonic twins did no do any good to her mental state and she took her life away.]]
* MisterBig: Ilmadia is in charge of leading fire salamanders and fire giants who tower her many times her height.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:After her suicide in the sequel, they never found her corpse.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:She always believed herself to be a virgin until her resurrection. The realization that a devil lord raped her and she bore his children drove her to madness and death.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only woman among Poquelin's six lieutenants.
* {{Retcon}}: Ilmadia has stolen artifacts and magical tomes from the ruins of the Severed Hand. When confronting her, she says she doesn't give a rat's arse about her kind and their ways. In the sequel, she's revealed to have joined Poquelin out desperation to restore the Severed Hand, her ancestral home, to its former glory.
* {{Unicorn}}: The unicorn is her badge's symbol. [[UnicornsAreSacred She exploits this trope for her own benefit.]]
* UnicornsAreSacred: As part of her master's plan, Ilmadia take advantage of her virginity to attract and corrupt unicorns.
* VirginPower: As part of Poqulein's master plan, she intents to corrupt unicorns and turn them into [[EvilCounterpart black unicorns]]. [[OnlyTheChosenMayRide Being a elf and a virgin means she can easily lure unicorns who shunned away everyone else.]]
* WickedCultured: She claims to be cultured compared to Poquelin's other generals and her fire-related army.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Limha]]
!!Limha
->"Filthy lies from a filthy creature! Why, I have no ''idea'' of who this dirty child is or how it came to be here."

A witch who lives on the edge of the Fell Wood. Although she presents herself as a sweet, motherly woman, she's actually responsible for kidnapping the children from the Wandering Village, and must be killed in order to progress.

* BlatantLies: As demonstrated by the above quote, she's almost ''comically'' bad at lying once you've gotten her angry.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She'll sell the party mid-level spells and provide them a safe place to rest, and she seems to genuinely care about her "son" Agog, but once she's been exposed her true nature becomes all too evident. Also, not unlike [[Literature/HanselAndGretel a certain other]] [[Main/WickedWitch Wicked Witch]], she lures children in with promises of sweet treats before locking them up with the intent to use them for her own purposes.
* HairTriggerTemper: She immediately flies off the handle if you accuse her of kidnapping, transitioning from calling the party "precious" to "worm" and "insect".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Her justification for kidnapping children for their souls amounts to this. She believes that protecting the villagers from the barbarian tribes is sufficient payment for the children she takes, despite that fact that they obviously didn't give her permission to steal them. However, it's very clear that she ultimately only cares about her own prowess.
* VainSorceress: Steals children and partially consumes their life essence in order to preserve her youth. And according to her, she's been doing this for centuries.
* VillainHasAPoint: Despite everything, she's probably right when she claims her prowess is the only reason the Black Raven barbarians haven't wiped out the villagers yet. The barbarians are very dangerous opponents, vastly outnumber the Wandering Village, and the woods -- clogged with Limha's abominations -- provide the only buffer between them.
* WickedWitch: Lives alone in a haunted forest? Check. Uses her magic to create hideous monsters? Also check. Steals children for her own purposes and turns them into animals? Triple check. It's a wonder the villagers didn't catch on sooner.

%%!!Saablic Tan

[[folder:Isair and Madae]]
!!Isair and Madae
->''"At this point, I think we're supposed to say something to the effect of... 'You're too late to stop us!' Isn't that the way it works in the storybooks, sister?"''\\
''"Come now, Isair. You know I don't like to read."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/PeterStormare (Isair), Mari Weiss (Madae)

A pair of half-fiend twins and the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera, a self-described organization of creatures cast out from the rest of society due to their inhuman nature. Together, they seek to make the Legion a force to be reckoned with and end the prejudice targeted towards them, even if it means going to war.

* AffablyEvil: Isair is still going to kill you, but that's no reason you can't exchange some pleasant banter first, is it? Madae finally decides she's had enough of this in the final battle.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: More or less their entire lives, thanks to their half-fiendish heritage, has been spent rejected and ostracized -- first by humans, then by devils.
* BigBadDuumvirate: As the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera in ''Icewind Dale II'', you spend most of the game fighting through their minions on your way to the final confrontation with the twins. Madae speaks less than her brother, but while Isair sometimes makes decisions for both of them, he never acts without asking Madae's opinion. This constant back-and-forth makes up the majority of their dialogue.
* BigRedDevil: Both of them have the look, with crimson skin, horns, tails, and wings, as the half-fiend children of Belhifet.
* CallBack: The twins' entire history is made up of nods to [=NPCs=] and major locations from the first game, including their foster mother Egenia being the head of Kuldahar's Temple of Ilmater, one of the townsfolk the player rescues from the Talonites of Dragon's Eye.
* ChildByRape: Their mother ''Maiden'' Ilmadia Bariel [[ButICantBePregnant believed she was still a virgin]] at the time you fought her in the first game, wasn't raised by Mother Egenia until after Belhifet's death, and [[spoiler:never knew Poquelin's true identity]]. She [[DrivenToSuicide threw herself off a cliff]] upon seeing the twins for the first time.
* CreepyTwins: As twin {{Big Red Devil}}s at the head of an army of hybrid beings.
* DeadGuyJunior: Iselore named them after his parents on Egenia's request, which he would later come to regret.
* DeadpanSnarker: Constantly. They treat the player party as one big joke.
-->'''Madae:''' Isair, I'm getting tired of these grandstanding mercenaries.\\
'''Isair:''' Really? That's fascinating, because I was just thinking of killing them. Would that be alright with you, sister?\\
'''Madae:''' It sounds perfect to me, brother. Farewell, mercenaries.
* TheDividual: Fraternal twins with contrasting personalities, yet they're rarely seen apart and are almost always mentioned in the same breath.
* DisappearedDad: They were only born after Belhifet's defeat and subsequent banishment back to the Hells. When they eventually catch up with him again in the Hells, he treats them as no better than any other Blood War mercenaries, disposable pawns to be manipulated and discarded.
* DrivenToVillainy: Facing constant rejection at every turn, Isair and Madae are determined to carve out a place for other half-breed outcasts like themselves, whatever the cost. See TraumaCongaLine.
* DualBoss: You fight both of them at the same time, along with their flunkies.
* EvilOrphan: Rejected by everyone but Mother Egenia, after she died they were chased out of Kuldahar, and began a downward spiral after that.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Madae, who's only really playing nice to indulge her brother for as long as her patience holds out.
* FullCircleRevolution: Madae, as usual, makes no bones about it, saying that all the "dispossessed freaks" of the Legion are simply going to enslave those who previously oppressed them in revenge for their previous suffering.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Cambions, the children of a fiend and a mortal, in this case half elf, half devil. They're the children of Maiden Ilmadia, one of Poquelin's minions from the first game... and Belhifet himself.
* HappilyAdopted: Raised with love by the Ilmatari priestess Mother Egenia until her death, at which point the villagers of Kuldahar assumed they murdered her. The twins did not take this well.
* HiredGuns: First as catspaws of Luskan's Hosttower of the Arcane, then as mercenaries in the Blood War, the neverending interdimensional war between demons and devils.
* HornedHumanoid: Another gift from their fiendish sire Belhifet.
* MightMakesRight:
-->'''Madae:''' The reality of this world is that strength rules. Those who aren't willing to push are simply going to get run over.
* MissingMom: Ilmadia threw herself off a cliff when she saw the evidence of her children's fiendish heritage. They were fostered by Mother Egenia, a priestess of Ilmater, until her death.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When villagers of Kuldahar came upon the twins burying Egenia, they immediately leapt to the conclusion that the twins had killed her. The villagers attacked, but were no match for the two cambions. This led to the twins fleeing the town for fear of further reprisals.
* RedOniBlueOni: Madae (red) is quicker to anger and often responds with threats and violence, while Isair (blue) is more level-headed and calculating, preferring to hold conversations with the player before attacking.
* ReligionOfEvil: Madae is a cleric of Iyachtu Xvim, the half-demon son of the [[KillTheGod dead god]] (at the time) Bane and the then-incumbent (again, at the time) god of tyranny, hatred, and fear in the Realms. The twins' mother Ilmadia was also a priestess of Xvim.
* SiblingYinYang: Isair is clever, cool-headed, learned, creative in his villainy, and likes using five dollar words. Madae is bloodthirsty, quick to anger, dislikes reading, and solves most of her problems with murder. Interestingly, Lysara considers Madae to be the better half of the Legion of the Chimera's leadership.
* SuperBreedingProgram: One of the more unfortunate lessons to learn from [[SnakePeople the yuan-ti]]. The twins intend to bring the Dale under their control by, among other things, forcibly breeding their prisoners with their various monstrous allies.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Mother Egenia believed they could learn to be good, but kept them hidden and isolated from all outside contact. The misunderstanding with the villagers following her death shattered this "morality in a bottle", as Iselore calls it, with their fiendish instincts rising to the surface... or possibly they were just two frightened kids who were attacked without cause, and fled in fear for their lives.
* TraumaCongaLine: Starting from before they were even born. Their father was baatezu general who sought to conquer the Prime and was killed before they were born, their mother one of his lieutenants who killed herself when the moment she saw her children, Archdruid Iselore couldn't bring himself to kill them but bore them no love, and when their guardian, the Ilmatari priestess Mother Egenia, died, they were driven from their hometown of Kuldahar as their infernal instincts began to surface, eventually finding their way to the streets of WretchedHive of Luskan. When they finally found a way to cross planes to find their father on a battlefield in the Abyss, they found that their half-mortal heritage meant they were no more accepted among devils than anywhere else -- so they returned to Icewind Dale, ventured to the ruined citadel and attempted to make it a haven for half-breeds like themselves. They attempted to open negotiations with nearby Bryn Shander, received "gifts" laced with holy water, and so turned their original plans for settlement into a campaign of conquest. Which brings us to the beginning of the second game.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Equality for all... through open war and a SuperBreedingProgram.
-->'''Isair:''' Even you must agree that such a true and noble goal surely justifies whatever means necessary to bring it about -- and with that being said, it's time for your meddling to end.
* UnexplainedAccent: Peter Stormare uses his distinctive, gravelly-voiced natural Swedish accent for Isair, for which he has been cast as all manner of [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign vaguely European characters]] across multiple works. Madae doesn't share the accent. Neither do any of the other Kuldahar voice actors. As long as it sounds cool, of course, nobody really cares what accent the actors have in any of the Infinity Engine games.
* VillainHasAPoint: Discrimination and prejudice against half-breed races and the like is very prominent in the Forgotten Realms setting, and it was only due to how the Ten-Towns received their attempts at diplomacy that the twins responded with force.
* WingedHumanoid: Their wings appear prehensile, like giant clawed hands.

* NoPronunciationGuide: The start of a habit with Black Isle/Obsidian that would later reach its peak in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity''. It's pronounced something closer to "''WULF-deyn''".

* HornyDevils: As a shapeshifter and cunning manipulator, he [[spoiler:impregnated the elf Ilmadia, whose children would be Isair and Madae, the BigBadDuumvirate of the second game.]]

* ScrewYouElves: Something of a backhanded example, since Odd Little Girl only gets away with this by virtue of having most of elves' insufferable traits taken UpToEleven.

* NotSoDifferent: He ''tried'' to reason with Madae by bringing up the fact that they're both half-breeds, with the exception that he ignores any bigoted remarks directed at him and that he doesn't force people to accept him. Madae simply laughs in his face in response.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in the frost giant ambush and resulting avalanche that cuts you off from Easthaven, before anyone in the initial expedition from Easthaven ever makes it to Kuldahar.

%%!!The Luremaster
%%!!The Legion of the Chimera
[[folder:Maiden Ilmadia]]
!!Maiden Ilmadia
An elven maiden and one of Poquelin's top lieutenants.