History Characters / PathfinderKingmaker

* AnAxeToGrind[=/=]BladeOnAStick: Wades into battle swinging a bardiche, a type of pole-axe.

UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The player can optionally react to his visit to their court in this manner.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:His resurrection has led him to forget his past as a gnome and be convinced he was always a kobold named Tartuk. If the player calls him out for being Tartuccio in disguise while defending Jubilost's cart, he reacts with confusion and anger.]]

* TragicVillain: Nyrissa's full story is actually quite tragic. [[spoiler: She used to be a kind-hearted and innocent, if somewhat naive nymph, who sought to forge a kingdom for herself and her friends. The Lantern King curbstomped her and essentially took away all she cherished, turning her into the complete opposite of the good-aligned being she used to be. Now cold, bitter and without any hope, she destroys a thousand kingdoms to "atone".]]

* TheCavalry: If the player supports her against Darven, she ultimately comes to their aid in the final chapter.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Though fluent in Common, he speaks it with a strange inflection. At times it's as if someone who knows the words and pronunciation, but never spoken them.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: As quite a number of gnomes within Golarion, Tartuccio has an unusual hair colour, purple in his case.

* VillainRespect: If Amiri dispenses with calling Armag out for trying to execute Dugath and Nilak and just says that she's there to kill him, he admires her boldness and notes that the [[{{Irony}} Six Bears should be proud to have a warrior such as her]].

* VillainRespect: If Amiri dispenses with calling Armag out for trying to execute Dugath and Nilak and just says that she's there to kill him, he admires her boldness and notes that the [[{{Irony}} Six Bears should be proud to have such a warrior as her]].

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fangberries and played for drama. It's one of the few things he can still taste.

* WalkingTheEarth: This is what he did before the events of the game and the epilogue reveals that he continued his travels after the final victory.

* SmarterThanYouLook: It would be easy to see Irovetti as a stupid hedonist, whose ruthless pursuit of pleasure causes him to commit mistake after mistake. While this is partially true and he does alienate and antagonize a lot of people who would otherwise be firmly on his side, he is also actually highly intelligent, always has a scheme of his own at hand and he is [[spoiler: the only one of Nyrissa's pawns who realizes that he is being played and tries to fight her influence, long before the player character comes to the same conclusion. His research even proves crucial to ultimately defeat her.]]

* TheSociopath: LackOfEmpathy, [[SmugSnake overconfidence]], and [[ManipulativeBastard casually manipulation]] - he definitely fits.

* NothingPersonal: What she claims [[spoiler: when initially betraying you]] - later events can fill in the blanks somewhat.

* ProphecyTwist: She bitterly notes this when, [[spoiler: upon being defeated, the final grain falls into the chalice - ''her'' Queendom was the final one to fall to fulfill the Lantern King's terms]].
* RedemptionQuest: [[spoiler: Her reason for attacking your fiefdom - she was given this by one of the Eldest as a means to "prove" she's sorry for what she tried doing]].

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Compared to the other Eldest, Shyka comes off as reasonable and well intentioned. Even if they aim solely to humour themselves, they have some surprising moments of kindness, hinting at some degree of fondness for mortals. First, they allow the kobold during the Inconsequential Debates to accompany them back to the First World, simply because they are humoured by the little creature's excitement. Second, even after Jubilost rejects their gift of immortality, they allow him to give it to someone else instead and even twist time to spare Xae and her gnomes an eternity of torment. Third, they support the player character against the Lantern King, by giving them advice on how to disrupt his game and using the first crown to ruin his plans for Nyrissa. The fact that this also grants Nyrissa a peaceful death is an additional kindness. Fourth, if Jubilost chooses to have Shyka help Xae instead of giving immortality to a random gnome, Shyka will not only help but give that immortality to Xae then nudge Xae into repaying that favor thousands of years later - a favor Xae wouldn't be aware she owed if Shyka hadn't hinted at it - despite not being obligated to do either of those things. This not only lets Jubilost meet and speak with the most important gnome in history but also saves his life.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Is supportive and helpful until you destroy the Stag Lord. Once you have a barony of your own, she immediately starts plotting to kill you, though she still acts friendly and benevolent until you walk into her ambush ([[DevelopersForesight or you learn about her from Tristian in Act 4]])
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a taste for irony and sarcasm, often delivered in a very bitter tone. [[spoiler:This tendency even persists if her feelings are returned to her.]]

* DrivenToVillainy: Quite literally, as [[spoiler: she was a carefree nymph who dreamed of making a fun little Queendom prior to incurring the wrath of the Lantern King, who removed her heart and cursed her to destroy a thousand kingdoms. The game notes, though, [[MoreThanMindControl that it doesn't absolve her of all responsibility]].]].
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:You can choose to side with her against the Lantern King. Unlike the possible HeelFaceTurn she can pull during her RomanceSidequest, this route explicitly does not actually cause her to redeem herself though, she merely abandons her RedemptionQuest in favour of revenge against the being who cursed her.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:She can have several, depending on your actions in the final few battles--being killed over and over by the Jabberwocky, being doomed to repeat her struggle against the Lantern King forever, and being [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor crowned an Eldest but having nothing, not even emotions]], namely.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:If the PlayerCharacter chooses to simply give her The Apology in the end, she will return it to the Eldest only for The Lantern King to throw a TwistEnding in her path: He reveals the Apology is for ''her'' to drink, crowning her the Queen of Dust and Sorrow and one of the Eldest -- a Queen with no Queendom (as the PlayerCharacter destroyed it), no servants (the PlayerCharacter killed them all), no sisters (all dead as well), and no emotions (still locked away inside Briar, which [[RedemptionRejection she rejected forever]]). She never crosses paths with the player again.]]

A MadScientist Wizard with few if any ethical scruples. Can be a Diplomat or a Treasurer.

* HappilyMarried: To Svetlana.

'''Race:''' Human\\

[[caption-width-right:350:´[[ManipulativeBastard “I seek them, grant them power, lead them to triumph – and then push them into the abyss!”]]]]

A seemingly-innocent nymph who claims to need the player's help and offers her assistance in their fight against the Stag Lord. Once they gain their barony, she quickly betrays them for reasons unknown. [[spoiler:The reasons being, in her past, she tried to make a kingdom for herself and incited the ire of the Lantern King. He stripped her of her ability to feel love and ordered her to fill a cup with the grains of a thousand fallen kingdoms, one grain per kingdom, and present it to him as an "apology".]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:In the original Adventure Path, it was completely impossible to redeem Nyrissa--if you offered her Briar, she would take it and use it against you. Her sympathetic backstory was also present, but depending on the DM, not always something the players would learn. Here, you learn her history no matter what, and she can genuinely be redeemed.]]

One of Nyrissa's servants, a satyr who works as her master of the hunt. [[spoiler: He is also the Lantern King in disguise, personally keeping an eye on Nyrissa.]]

--> '''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral\\

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Bartholomew is surprisingly loyal and dedicated to help the barony in his function as an advisor. Nonetheless, most of the people at court actively dislike him and not without reason. Octavia outright hates him due to his treatment of captive trolls, Linzi repeatedly writes how weird and creepy he is and despite him being the most experienced vivisectionist in the Stolen Lands, Jhod only reluctantly accepts his help during the Season of Bloom.

* PragmaticVillainy: Bartholomew doesn't seek to be evil, he simply seeks knowledge without moral consequences, thus the pursuit for it makes him evil. If butchering live monsters is the only means to acquire the information he requires for a research project, he will do so without hesitation. However, he does not go out of his way to inflict suffering for no reason. His entire motivation and cruelty make sense when seen from an "end justify the means," perspective. In short, Bartholomew demonstrates how without morality, solving mysteries and problems can become unnecessarily evil.

* HappilyEverAfter: If Kesten survives, he eventually becomes the Chief of the Kingdom's Guard. He marries a girl from Brevoy some time after the events of the game...and well, see InterclassRomance.

* MyGreatestFailure: In his past, Jhod lived within a village that was plagued by werewolf attacks. When encountering a disheveled and suspicious stranger, he jumped to conclusions and riled up the peasants to hang the supposed werewolf. Later, it turned out that the man was not a lycantrophe, but merely a scout for a local bandit gang. Despite having averted a different threat for the village, Jhod never forgave himself for acting rashly and without thinking twice.

A merchant, who has built a small trading post at the northern border of the Stolen Lands, which is one of the few elements of proper civilization within the dangerous and mostly untamed region.

* TheFool: They can be sent on tasks that puts them in severe risk of [[RandomEncounter Random Encounters]] and will return with nothing but a grin, another outlandish story and a series of NoodleImplements they'll happily donate to the Baron/ess.

* CoolHelmet: Wears a fanged stag skull as a helm. You can loot it from his body and wear it yourself, and it provides a couple of magical bonuses.It also changes one of your Idle animations to drinking from a mug in animation very reminiscient of Stag Lord. The Helmet makes you alcoholic.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: He doesn't seem to have any problem with having a woman among his closest associates, as evidenced by Kressle's position. The original AP even mentions that he executed his lackeys who tried to rape her back when she first came to join him, if only because she proved to be stronger than them. Another of his high-ranking bandits is Auchs, who is freakishly strong, yet mentally handicapped. In general, his gang consists of a wild mix of races and genders, indicating that the Stag Lord values everyone who can add something of value to his gang and not particularly caring for their backgrounds.

* ChangedMyMindKid: If he is convinced to turn agains the Stag Lord and survives the following combat, he leaves the kingdom to atone for his past misdeeds. However, he returns in the final chapter of the story, leading an army of reformed bandits to support the player in their fight against [[spoiler: the Lantern King]].

* {{Sadist}}: The flashbacks you see at the abandoned hut demonstrate jist how brutally he treated his son, before he turned the tables on Nugrah.

* OldSoldier: In conversation with Octavia, he mentions he has a granddaughter in her age, which likely means that he is anywhere from his sixties to late seventies. To reach such an age as a barbarian means quite a lot and Dugath takes it a step farther by still being the most capable of his fighters.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: If you kill Hargulka first, you can convince him to stop fighting and either leave the Stolen Lands altogether, or accept him as your vassal, if your character is Chaotic. When Talking with Hargulka before Battle he also says that Tartuk wants peace with Humans but Hargulka doesnt believe them.

* [[spoiler:SecretCharacter]]: [[spoiler: Tartuk can actually be recruited as a playable companion character in act 7, assuming you didn't kill him anyway.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: The only ArcVillain besides the Stag Lord whose demise is set in stone. He refuses any kind of mercy from the Baron/ess and taunts the latter as he dies.

* SerialRapist: Aside from being an ExtremeOmnisexual, it is stated that Irovetti has a problem with consent. His naga slave has to be calmed with spells so that she doesn't kill him when he visits her and it is revealed that he eventually uses the Briar to make her fall in love with him, effectively overwriting her free will. He also tries to use it on Annamede and Ilora after they reject his increasingly pushy advances, though with them, it has the opposite effect and makes them hate him only more. While other victims of his are not shown in person, it is outright stated that he sees all of Pitax and the Academy in particular as his personal harem, wether they want to or not.

--->'''Annamede''': "I stab thee with mine own heart... Bitch!"

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being mostly focussed on securing her own position and gladly looking the other way when it comes to Irovetti's many atrocities, Atalia's patience is not limitless. After repeated offences, she fires Professor Eobald, who covered up his favourite student's crimes. A lawful-aligned player character can also appeal to her sense of justice and get her to finally turn against Irovetti during the power struggle in Pitax.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Atalia's style of leading the academy in a nutshell. She is mostly focussed on securing her own position, so much that she is willing to let Irovetti get away with anything, even if he outright harasses one of her best students. She only gets involved during the most glaring cases and never directly against the king. This lead to the abysmal reputation of the academy, where students with the right connections can get away with almost anything.

* StupidEvil: It is justified due to his severe addiction, which is implied to cloud his judgement and increase both, his aggression and paranoia. He meets the player with hostility, which is a potentially stupid idea in itself, given that the player gets options to respond to this hostility with violence. Even if the player is pragmatic enough to overlook his threats, he still decides to visit them in the capital after Irovetti is dealt with, hoping to be made the new governor of Pitax, even if he previously tried to have them killed during the power struggle. The other two candidates at least have some degree of legitimacy, whereas his arguments ultimately boil down to promising the player a share of the loot he and his gang will extort from the city, which, at most, sounds intriguing for evil-aligned player characters. It crosses into TooDumbToLive territory if the player has a LawfulGood alignment.

* DirtyCoward: The entire reason she works for Nyrissa in the first place is that she is afraid of her. An evil-aligned player can talk the witch into avoiding a fight with him, by offering her to work for him instead. Clearly terrified by him, she will give him the potions she created for Nyrissa, before stating that she wishes to fight neither of them. She then flees to avoid the wrath of either.

* TreacherousQuestgiver: At first, the Knurly Witch seems to strike a deal with the player character, sending him to kill her ArchEnemy, the Wriggling Man in exchange for her key to open Nyrissa's inner sanctum. Should the player go through with her demands, she will immediately turn on them and needs to be taken down as well.

--->'''The Lantern King''': ''(The crowned living flame slowly turns to you, his glowing mask throbbing in rage. His wrath intertwines with the very essence of the surroundings, [[RealityWarper making the whole world change]].)'' To drink without quenching thirst. To climb a mountain that has no peak. I staged the performance, and you left it [[NoEnding without a finale]]. You [[spoiler:took away Nyrissa, my precious toy, carefully crafted of [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds despair and wrath]].]] I could reduce you to dust, revive you, and turn you to dust once more, here and now. But the universe abhors inelegance. So instead I shall repay you -- with your own coin!

* ReallyGetsAround: Darven repeatedly mentions having had several lovers in the past and if her survives the events of the game, the epilogue mentions repeated encounters between him and the guards and servants of the player's castle, whenever he comes to visit.

* CasanovaWannabe: One of his books can be found, detailing his complicated and ultimately embarrassing encounter with a married woman and the fallout that ensues, written in an obviously biased way that is meant to portray him as a charming ladykiller. He can be romanced by the General in the Varnhold's Lot DLC, showing that he reacts highly awkward to someone actually flirting with him.

* TheFool: Between the stories in his book and his adventures in-game, it's clear that Gunderson has fit this trope for most of his life, stumbling into and out of dangerous situations without any clue as to what he's doing.

* EvilVersusEvil: His involvement in Jaethal's questline. Jaethal freely admits she did horrible things in her pursuit of immortality, including killing several members of her own family, but he gleefully admits to having killed would-be {{Human Sacrifice}}s to ruin necromantic rituals and using innocents as catspaws, heedless of the collateral damage he's causing in his single-minded pursuit of the {{undead}}. [[spoiler:It says something when siding with Jaethal against him is a Neutral ''Good'' option.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Absolutely nobody likes Lander, which is lampshaded by Jubilost, who calls him the only person in the entire kingdom [[HateSink who draws more ire than him]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Absolutely nobody among the Tiger Lords likes or even trusts them. Armag is the exception and he eventually realizes how they have manipulated him. It doesn't take much to convince the Tiger Lords to turn against them.