History Characters / NeverwinterNights

* EvilIsBurningHot[=/=]EvilIsDeathlyCold: His magic variably manifests as fire or ice. [[spoiler:Appropriate considering his Hell is Cania, a glacial wasteland with flows of lava in the ice.]]
* EvilLaugh: A very deep and booming one.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* FinalBoss: Of ''Hordes''.

* HellOnEarth: [[spoiler:Plots to remake Toril into the 10th Hell.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He's a frickin' ''archdevil''. What did you expect?]]

* OhCrap[=/=]ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:His reaction when you call out to him using his True Name. He's so frightened he actually thanks you for your mercy if you banish him back to Cania, because he knows you could do far worse.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: When he learns that you've spoken with the Knower of Names, he'll ask you if you'll like to give him the [[IKnowYourTrueName True Name]] of one of your companions so he can use them as a slave for the rest of eternity, offering an artefact that can only be used by evil-aligned characters in exchange.

* FakeFaithHealer: In lieu of any actual help for the city, his Helmite priests provide "blessings" to the people in the hopes it may stave off the plague; the blessings do nothing and were probably intended to make people ''more'' succetible.

-->'''Player:''' How are you feeling? \\
'''Aribeth:''' I've been wondering why I don't try to run away from myself when I attempt to turn undead. \\
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* TheDragon: [[spoiler:CoDragons with Maugrim after her turn to darkness. In ''Hordes'', if you leave her as a Blackguard when you recruit her, she'll claim that she was working for Mephistopheles all along when she betrays you before the final battle. [[EvilerThanThou You can still Intimidate her into staying by your side]]. [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent The Persuade option has you "suggesting" to her to double-cross Mephistopheles.]]]]

* EvilMakeover: She gets a more sinister character portrait following her FaceHeelTurn. [[spoiler:Justified by her magical conversion into a Blackguard.]]

* LadyOfWar: Emphasized to be graceful and beautiful even as she's a mighty warrior. Being an elf Paladin, it's somewhat inevitable.

* ThePaladin: Her character class, [[spoiler:until she becomes a [[BlackKnight Blackguard]] at the end of Chapter 2. If redeemed in ''Hordes'', she returns to this status.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Went on one in the past for her father prior to becoming a Paladin. [[spoiler:She goes on another in her bitterness over Fenthick's death]].

* WalkingSpoiler: Mentioning anything she does after Chapter 1 ruins the twist that [[spoiler:she has a FaceHeelTurn and becomes a Blackguard commander in Morag's army.]] It's also a spoiler that she apears [[spoiler:in ''Hordes'' in Cania.]]

* YinYangBomb: [[spoiler:She's a dual-class Paladin/Blackguard in ''Hordes of the Underdark'', focusing on one or the other depending on your dialogue with her.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Mentioning anything she does after Chapter 1 ruins a big twist. [[spoiler:As does mentioning she returns in ''Hordes''.]]

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: As a LawfulNeutral Spock expy, he should be a mage instead of a sorcerer, who are more chaotic and spontaneous than the former. However, their game mechanics make them far better suited for an AI companion.%%InUniverse

* WitchHunter: [[spoiler: What you and the entire Prince Ahmed's army actually were.]]

* StuffedInTheFridge: Rare male example. [[spoiler:His being scapegoated and publicly executed at the end of Act 1 is what drives most of Aribeth's HeelFaceRevolvingDoor for the rest of the campaign and expansions.]]

* BadassMustache: Look at it and be in awe.

* McGuffin: The Bloodstone she has stolen.
* TheNecromancer: She summons a ghost to cover her escape. The problems arise when said ghost will not leave as she thought.

* [[MrExposition MsExposition]]: Appears pretty much to plotdump things about Morag and Maugrim that you wouldn't otherwise learn.

* BackForTheFinale: With the player character first stuck in the Underdark because of Halaster's {{Geas}} and then [[spoiler:in Cania after their death]], Durnan stops playing any meaningful role to the plot. He reappears only in the FinalBattle against [[spoiler:Mephistopheles invading Waterdeep. After a quick dialogue with the player he's teleported away by Sobrey. Then the ModularEnding tells of his whereabouts]].

* FantasticRacism: {{Downplayed}}: he reacts negatively to the player sending him an apparently [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch good goblin]] who wants to abandon the war going on in the Undermountain. That's understandable, since goblins tend to be AlwaysChaoticEvil. Nonetheless, he casts aside his suspicions and allows the goblin to do manual labor in his inn.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Further ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' lore describes more of his days when he was called "the Wanderer" and of his excursion in the Underdark.

* RebelLeader: He organises a resistence against the invading hordes in his own inn, and with the city guard already too busy trying to keep order in the city, he's the only one capable of organising a incursion in the Undermountain.
* RetiredBadass: He was a famed adventurer in the past and ventured in the Underdark itself, but now he's settled with running the Yawning Portal Inn.

* TheGoodKing: Though he rejects the official title of King of Neverwinter and styles himself as simply "Lord", he is this trope in practice. Lore from outside the game establishes he does eventually accept the crown and title later in life.

* PowerGivesYouWings: As a Red Dragon Disciple, he eventually sprouts a pair.

* BadassBaritone: A gruff very deep voice that can't but suit a RetiredBadass.
* BigGood: For the first chapter of ''Hordes''. He is the gatekeeper of the entrance well built beneath his inn, and directs the mission to the Undermountain to stop the invading hordes. While you venture further in the Undermountain, you can periodically return to Durnan and update him on what you're discovering Halaster, the Drow and the Valsharess.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Further ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' lore describe more of his days when he was called "the Wanderer" and of his excursion in the Underdark.

* RetiredBadass: For the record, he's one of the few character in ''Neverwinter Nights'' that comes directly from the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' lore and wasn't invented specifically for the game. He was a famed adventurer in the past and ventured in the Underdark itself, but now he's settled with running the Yawning Portal Inn.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Further ''Forgotten Realms'' lore describe more of his days when he was called "the Wanderer" and of his excursion in the Underdark.

!!Companions

[[folder:Nathyrra]]
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A drow assassin/wizard, she trained under the Red Sisters in her craft, and now serves the Seer to show the drow a better way of life and stop the Valsharess from conquering the Underdark. She can join your party in Chapters 2 and 3, and is a romance option for male characters.

* BloodKnight: As far as he's concerned, watching the life drain out of someone he's just beaten to death with his bare hands is a religious sacriment. He recounts a story of a band of his order fighting a lich and falling to its magic to rise as zombies, and he says he despaired to watch them die to such an abomination and then be forced to serve it. However, he also says if they had died at his own hands in battle, he would have done so eagerly and considered it an honor.

** There is also some cut content where [[spoiler:a female PC can use his True Name to force him to fall in love with her]]. Though this one did have a negative impact on his well-being.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: White dragons are normally very lacking in intelligence, especially younger ones like him. His love of civilization and rejection of animalistic impulses makes him a very unusual specimen of his kind.

* KnifeNut: Unlike your typical rogue who's likely to wield a dagger, Tomi uses a kukri.