History Characters / PillarsOfEternityNPCs

%%* PowerTrio:

* TheTrickster: A youngish {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who enjoys games and pranks and made his name on a uniquely chaotic spell.

* TheTrickster: He's an illusionist, a prankster, and a liar, suggesting his real personality is considerably less dry and boring than the one he projects when the Watcher first meets him.

* DeathOfAChild: Even though she's only a baby, the Watcher can potentially sacrifice her in Blood Sands, either on Simoc's behalf or for their own gain. The Magran's challenge where the player has to keep her in the party at all times also means she can die if the player doesn't protect her.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Even though she's only a baby, the Watcher can potentially sacrifice her in Blood Sands, either on Simoc's behalf or for their own gain. The Magran's challenge where the player has to keep her in the party at all times also means she can die if the player doesn't protect her.

* InfantImmortality: Averted, since he doesn't see the Hollowborn as truly alive. [[spoiler:That goes for his own Hollowborn newborn son when you assault Raedric Hold.]]

* CoolChair: She is one. Which must make things awkward when the Watcher sits on her while making official decrees.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Her soul is forever bound to Caed Nua, but while the keep has fallen into disrepair, she hasn't given up hope that her keep will one day be the glorious place she envisioned it as. The Watcher can help her achieve her dream. [[spoiler:Unfortunately no matter what the Watcher does, the keep ends up destroyed by the resurrected Eothas.]]

* SoulJar: Her soul is contained in the marble throne of Caed Nua. Even after Caed Nua's destruction at the beginning of II, she survives via the remains of the throne.

* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Due to her exceptionally gifted cipher abilities and her popularity with men when she was young, she quickly grew bored of her many suitors since she could read them all like an open book and found nothing noteworthy. [[spoiler:Only Thaos and her late husband could hold her interest.]]

* MindReading: One of her abilities as a cipher, and she doesn't ask permission beforehand, either.
-->'''Lady Webb:''' Because you have seen his face, and that makes it a simple matter for me to see it...
* [[MsExposition Mrs Exposition:]] After she summons you, great big blocks of the main plot start dropping into place. Given the highly secretive nature of [[TheConspiracy the enemy]] in this game, this kind of character is pretty much [[JustifiedTrope a necessity]].

-> '''Voiced by:''' Unknown (I), Creator/LauraBailey (II)

* TheKilljoy: Zigzagged. He plays the part of a humorless GrumpyOldMan in person, but the quirkiness of his servants and his many pranks hint at hidden depths.

* TheTrickster: He's an illusionist, a prankster, and a liar, suggesting his real personality considerably less dry and boring than the one he projects when the Watcher first meets him.

* TheCameo: Appears via flashback in the second game. [[spoiler:Not just in the Watcher's memories of the first game, but also in the memories of Ranaga Ruāsare of the violently isolationist Wahaki tribe. Only a few hundred years after the Engwithans enacted their plans, Thaos came to Ori o Koīki with a warning from the gods to keep out of the Engwithan ruins. Unexpectedly, however, the Wahaki had kept oral records and murals of the cataclysm, enough that they knew that their ancestors had built the ruins alongside the Engwithans, and that the Engwithans had brought ruin to them all. Recognizing Thaos' distinctive headdress, she ordered him and his party burnt at the stake, another thing they presumably learned from the Engwithan Inquisition. It all seemed to be going very badly indeed -- until Ruāsare's past life decreed that all outsiders would receive similar treatment should they trespass on Wahaki lands, meaning none would be allowed to enter the ruins, which is what Thaos wanted all along. At which point he promptly stopped struggling and merely awaited his death, and the next life to follow.]]

* MasterOfDisguise: Downplayed, at least in-game. He apparently wanders around his mansion disguised as other people, to the point where you can bluff your way his imp servants simply by putting on his robes and saying you're Arkemyr. Whatever else he gets up to in disguise, if anything, isn't shown.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The corner of his lip twitches when you ask him if he has any suspects in the burglary of his mansion.
* TheArchmage: A requirement for membership in the Circle.

* TheComicallySerious: Think Creator/JohnCleese in any authority figure role.

* WackyGuy: Subverted. Despite the colorful, whimsical spells that bear his name and his apparent affection for the zany, obnoxious imps he employs as servants, in person Arkemyr seems like quite a stiff compared to the other members of the Circle you meet. It's apparently not just you, either, based on the reaction he gets from his colleagues. All that being said, before ''The Forgotten Sanctum'' he was the only archmage the Watcher had met in their travels who hadn't tried to kill them, [[spoiler:even after you break into his house and rob him blind]], so his quest ''is'' mostly PlayedForLaughs.

%%* Cloudcuckoolander: Mildly. He has his reasons, but they're a little... strange, based purely on what he thinks will maximize "fun" for himself and other people. Of course, others' definition of fun may not match Tayn's...

* ForHappiness: Although his idea of happiness and fun isn't necessarily the same as most.

* WackyGuy: A youngish {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who enjoys games and pranks and made his name on a uniquely chaotic spell.

* AffablyEvil: Plays the part of a courtly Old Valian nobleman to the hilt. Exemplified most dramatically if [[spoiler:The Watcher kills Captain Aeldys before traveling to Magran's Teeth. If that happens, then it's Pim who storms the Kahanga Palace afterwards. He greets the assembled dignitaries courteously even as he holds their guards at gunpoint.]]

* OurElvesAreBetter: Averted. Aeldys fits the rude, crude pirate stereotype much better than any elven ones. You can only just make out the pointed ears in her in-game portrait.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Even though she's only a baby, the Watcher can potentially sacrifice her in Blood Sands, either on Simoc's behalf or for their own gain.

* {{Expy}}: He’s pretty blatantly one of [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII Jon Irenicus]], right down to a voice actor who seems to be doing a Creator/DavidWarner impression.

* TakeAThirdOption: In the [[GuideDangIt unlikely scenario]] where Furrante and Aeldys are both killed by the Watcher, and the Príncipi don't confront the Watcher at Ukaizo, Pim takes over the fleet and reorganizes them as a peaceful shipping company.

* JerkassGods: The first Llengrath suspected the cycle of reincarnation was created by the gods as a deliberate means of preventing any one kith from gaining too much power. [[spoiler:He's not wrong -- a god is simply an amalgamation of countless other souls, so effectively [[AGodAmI the same thing]] as the Llengrath legacy, just on a much larger scale.]]

* BiTheWay: Regardless of the Watcher's own gender (which is shared with the past life), one possible reason for the past life turning against the Inquisition and joining Iovara is [[ThePowerOfLove love]].

The third chair of the Príncipi. Formerly Furrante's first mate before assembling a fleet of his own, Pim explains the structure of the Consuaglo to the Watcher when approached in Balefire Beacon. He's one of the old guard of the Príncipi and despite not being Vailian himself, he still adopts Old Vailian mannerisms.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Storms out of a Consuaglo session in protest after Furrante has Aeldys marked for death on trumped-up charges. Especially noteworthy given that he's been loyal to Furrante's faction for years and doesn't think much of Aeldys' new bloods.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Storms out of a Consuaglo session in protest after Furrante has Aeldys marked for death.

[[folder:Benweth]]
!!Captain "Brutal" Benweth

-> '''Voiced by:''' Ashley Zhangazha

The fourth chair of the Príncipi and Aeldys' second-in-command, Benweth is introduced attempting to steal the Defiant and kill the Watcher and your crew almost the very moment you wake up.

* AlasPoorVillain: In spite of all his atrocities, Od Nua is a broken man driven insane with grief who only wants to be reunited with [[spoiler:his beloved son. Convincing him to let go of his past finally brings him some measure of peace, instead of continuing in the hellish limbo between life and death he consigned himself to for centuries.]]

* SealedGoodInACan: He only wants to protect the Archipelago. Technically, [[GoodVsGood so do the Huana]], but they have a different idea of what that means. He doesn't even seek vengeance on the Huana if you set him free, though in fairness, his escape attempts killed most of the Watershapers' Guild as it is, and he does take a good chunk out of the harbor on his way out to sea.

** Untrue. The Marauder was [[spoiler: a woman, who had one of her men rape the Soldier's mother.]]