Guest Party Members | Allies and Other Characters (Empire/Republic of Tal'Dorei) | Villains
Guest Party Members | Allies and Other Characters (Dwendalian Empire | Xhorhas) | Villains
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Other player characters who are not a part of the main party, whose paths cross with theirs for various reasons.
Shakäste (and the Grand Duchess)
Shakäste
Played by: Khary Payton
"I don’t know about you all, but I’m getting really tired of this stabbing feeling."
- Race: HumanClass: Cleric (Tempest Domain)
A human cleric that the party encountered while delving into a gnoll-infested mine.
- Benevolent Conspiracy: According to the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, he’s a member of the Golden Grin, a secret group dedicated to fighting tyranny and corruption.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Shakäste is a nice guy: he dedicates himself to helping the people around Alfield and those who get kidnapped by the gnolls, he leads them to safety and does so without desire for a reward (having gently silenced a mother before she could have him introduced to Bryce) and does his best to help the party as they venture further into the gnoll mines. That being said, his spells are powerful, so much so that he gets the HDYWTDT against the manticore and causes its heart to explode, and while he knows that Nott stole his coin purse and lets her keep it, he warns her against doing it again with an implied threat to her fingers.
- But Now I Must Go: Pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye at the end of the Alfield adventure without saying goodbye to anyone in the Nein.
- Compelling Voice: He can cast Command, and it's instrumental in defeating a gnoll pack leader.
- Cool Old Guy: He's quite advanced in age, and has been covertly rescuing townsfolk from the gnolls. He even gets the HDYWTDT on the manticore! He's acknowledged as cool by several members of The Mighty Nein.
- Einstein Hair: He has a glorious mane of frizzled white hair with a Wizard Beard to match.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Arrives just in time to help in the battle against Lorenzo.
- Handicapped Badass: Likely thanks to his advanced age, Shakäste is blind with cataracts, as demonstrated in his character description and in-game art.
- Hero Secret Service: Only once thus far, but Shakäste is the character the Mighty Nein call on when they need someone to escort Luc and Edith from Felderwin to Nicodranas even in the midst of the escalating war between the Dwendalian Empire and Xhorhas. He pulls it off with his ever-present chill before returning to his role as Knight Errant.
- An Ice Person: He employs the Frostbite spell in battle.
- Knight Errant: Reveals himself to be this in episode 29, which explains in part why he's around to aid the Mighty Nein in taking down Lorenzo and the Iron Shepherds.
- Lethal Joke Weapon: Similar to Jester, Shakäste's Spiritual Weapon does not take the form of an actual weapon - instead it's a giant, sassy bust of Estelle Getty, and is just as dangerous. Later on, it's a statue of Nefertiti; Khary half-jokingly says that it will always appear in the form of a powerful woman.
- Mercy Kill: Out of mercy and love for the manticore mother following the death of her child, Shakäste kills her quickly and cleanly, with a gentle smile on his face.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Heavily implied by his Mercy Kill on the manticore, with Matt directly suggesting that Shakäste "recognizes the pain of one who has lost a child".
- Playing with Fire: He can cast Sacred Flame, which is the spell he ends up dispatching the manticore with.
- Prophet Eyes: Being blind, his eyes are pure white, with no pupils.
- Silver Fox: All the female team members seem to have a bit of a thing for him, even Beau.
- Terms of Endangerment: Unusually for a heroic character, he does this while fighting against Lorenzo's henchwoman, Rizza.
Grand Duchess Anastasia "Stacy" Nikolaevna
- Race: Celestial (Hummingbird)Class: Familiar
Shakäste's companion, a black hummingbird.
- Animal Eye Spy: Shakäste can see through her eyes. Shakäste being blind, she effectively is his eyes.
- Familiar: She seems to be Shakäste's.
- Stealth Pun: Shakäste introduces her by saying "Some people call her Stacey, but that's not her name!", a reference to the song "That's Not My Name" by The Ting Tings. Apparently the pun was too stealthy as most of the cast didn't get the joke until after the session.
- Telepathy: Shakäste can communicate with her telepathically.
Calianna
Calianna Mordsson
Played by: Mark Hulmes
"I promise you that all I want is to right some of the wrongs that I once did as part of that group."
- Race: Half-elfClass: Sorcerer (Draconic Bloodline)
A half-elf sorcerer seeking an artifact hidden in the Labenda Swamp.
- Blood Knight: Calianna's black dragon heritage causes her to become exceptionally more violent and animalistic in combat.
- Breath Weapon: Her draconic ancestry allows her to breathe acid.
- Crossdressing Voices: Calianna is a woman and is played by Mark Hulmes, a man.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Calianna is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette with chromatic dragon ancestry—a species generally known for being evil-aligned—and black dragon ancestry at that, being literally dark as well as having poison abilities (often associated with evildoing). She grows especially bloodthirsty in battle, and was raised by a cult of the Scaled Tyrant to boot! What's she actually like? She's very sweet, excitable, and polite, and seeking to destroy artifacts of the Scaled Tyrant.
- Dragon Ancestry: According to her, she is about one tenth dragon, hence her Draconic Bloodline. Judging from other evidence, she appears to be related specifically to a black dragon.
- Extreme Doormat: Her first instinct every time the party does something rude to her (whether the initial rudeness at the inn, including a joke about skinning her dragon half, getting charm spells cast on her, or having the object of her quest hidden by Caleb and used as leverage to get her to submit to a lie detecting spell) is to both apologize for bringing it on herself and act completely okay with whatever happened, even defending the person who did it if it caused arguments.
- Light 'em Up: She knows the Light cantrip.
- Little Bit Beastly: Half of her face is covered in black dragon scales and she has a draconic claw and tail. She says she's only about one tenth dragon.
- Making a Splash: She can cast Shape Water.
- Nice Girl: When she isn't under the control of her draconic heritage, that is.
- Not Quite Flight: She casts Levitate on Beau to get her out of the grasp of a troll when she's barely brought from the brink of death.
- Playing with Fire: She claims that her magical specialties are mainly fire and acid.
- Poisonous Person: With black dragon ancestry, she has various acidic abilities.
- Word of Gay: Her player said on twitter
that he thinks "she would lean more towards liking girls" in terms of sexuality. - You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Takes the time to reassure Caleb and the rest of the Mighty Nein that they are in fact more than "a bunch of assholes."
Keg
Keg
Played by: Ashly Burch
"Let’s get this over with."
- Race: Mountain DwarfClass: Fighter (Champion)
A dwarven fighter from Shadycreek Run who wants to kill the Iron Shepherds.
- Aborted Declaration of Love: When Keg leaves in episode 30, she leaves behind a note for Beau that just says, "Thanks." Several lines were crossed out before that, however, which could be made out to read, "Your eyes are beautiful when you smile. I love—"
- Amazon Chaser: Many of the instances of Keg being aroused by Beau are because of feats of strength, indicating this.
- Aroused by Their Voice: "Keg is aroused" is a Running Gag throughout her appearances, but she takes special notice of Shakaste's deep, smooth baritone.
- The Atoner: Keg used to work with the Iron Shepherds in some capacity, but now despises them and wants nothing more than to kill them all.
- Butch Lesbian: A bisexual example. Her short hair (plus stubble) and general demeanor, combined with her obvious attraction to Beau, indicate this.
- Catchphrase: Not exactly Keg herself, but her player frequently notes that "Keg is aroused," most commonly when Beau does something impressive.
- Character Development: She starts out so terrified of Lorenzo that she has disadvantage on her attacks against him, but later is able to shake off his attempts to intimidate her during the assault on the Sour Nest.
- Cowardly Lion: She talks a big game, but really she's terrified of the Iron Shepherds, knowing what they do to traitors. Molly's death inspires her to try to fight them anyway.Keg: You're leaving me alone?! I'm canonically a coward!
- Cruel Mercy: Lorenzo spares her because living with the memory of what happened will be a worse punishment.
- Declaration of Protection: She ends her goodbye note to Nott by saying that if anyone hurt her she'd kill them.
- Dual Wielding: She fights with an axe and a warhammer at the same time. In game terms, this means she gets an extra attack per round, but only if she doesn't use her bonus action for anything else.
- Girls with Moustaches: She has a five o'clock shadow in acknowledgment of the fantasy tradition of lady dwarves growing beards.
- Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: At the end of episode 29 she agrees to have a lot of this with Beau.
- The Illegible: She leaves notes for Nott and Beau when she leaves in episode 30. Her handwriting is noted to be terrible, and there are multiple misspellings.
- In Love with Your Carnage: "Keg is aroused" is her player's go-to response whenever someone, usually Beau, does something impressive. Later upgraded to literally "Keg's in love".
- Noodle Incident: Apparently Keg was once married... for all of about an hour, before her partner "sobered up" and realised she'd made a mistake.
- Not Afraid of You Anymore: She finally stands up to her fear of Lorenzo while heading towards the final confrontation with him. When she passes the saving throw, Matt describes all of her fear hardening into resolve and determination.Keg: EAT SHIT, FUCKO!
- Oral Fixation: She almost always has a cigarette in her mouth.
- Revenge: Keg states several times that she wants all of the Iron Shepherds dead.
- Take Me Instead: Attempts this to get Lorenzo to spare the rest of the Mighty Nein after Molly is killed, but ultimately Lorenzo decides that making her live with what happened is a greater punishment.
- Unreliable Expositor: Her insider knowledge of the Iron Shepherds falls flat on its face when it turns out they've brought along a couple of hired hands, bringing their numbers to seven, the member she'd identified as a Sorcerer suddenly gives out Bardic Inspiration, and Lorenzo, the supposed Fighter, unleashes a devastating Cone of Cold spell. With the Bard she has the excuse of not knowing a whole lot about magic, and she seems just as surprised by Lorenzo as the Nein. There's also the fact that she hid from the Mighty Nein that she used to work with them, only telling them so under the effects of a Suggestion from Caleb.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Molly notes that with a name like hers, she has very weird parents.
- With Catlike Tread: Many times during her time on the show an attempt at stealth by the party is instantly ruined by her very conspicuously clanky plate armour.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: She and the Mighty Nein succeed in killing all of the Iron Shepherds, but the friend who she wanted to rescue, who had been captured by them, is not there anymore.
Nila
Nila
Played by: Sumalee Montano
"I have lost people before. I find ways to see them in nature. I pick one leaf and I know that it is a spirit waving to me."
- Race: FirbolgClass: Druid (Circle of the Shepherd)
A firbolg druid who seeks to rescue her kidnapped son from and exact revenge upon the Iron Shepherds.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Two words; her smell bag. She uses it to meditate and divine out what to do. It's..pungent.
- Friend to All Living Things: Par for the course as a Druid. She even takes the time to feed goodberries to the sickly roosters in Shadycreek Run.
- Gentle Giant: As a firbolg, she's over 7 feet tall. She's nothing but sweet natured, unless it's to do with the Iron Shepherds.
- Little Bit Beastly: Whilst in a somewhat different way to the "classic" use of the trope, her ears and nose have a distinctly ovine (or bovine) appearance.
- Mama Bear: She's normally very gentle, but the threat to her son has brought out a fiercer side.
- Best demonstrated in episode 28, where Nila gets a natural 19 on the roll to bash down a door between herself and the place her son is being held, and another to bend open the bars of the cell holding him to drag him out.
- No Social Skills: Rather, she's not used to things outside her people and this makes her come across awkward and strange to others.
- Shock and Awe: She can call lightning to strike her enemies again, and again, and AGAIN.
- Team Mom: To the group, in her time travelling with them.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: As per the Druid Class.
Twiggy
Twiggy
Played by: Deborah Ann Woll
"It is a big beautiful world!"
- Race: Forest GnomeClass: Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
A gnome girl in possession of a mysterious puzzle box who stowed along on the Squall Eater after the Mighty Nein left Darktow.
- Ambiguously Human: Or ambiguously gnomish. Her Vague Age and the strange nature of her backstory make it seem like she might not be what she appears to be. Furthermore, at the end of Episode 45, she tells the Mighty Nein that it was the most fun adventure she'd ever had in her lives.
- Badass Adorable: She's cute as a button and shockingly effective in combat, culminating in a critical hit that killed the blue dragon which had almost killed the Mighty Nein.
- Bubblegum Popping: As part of her Invisibility spell; when the bubble pops and covers Twiggy, she becomes invisible.
- Creepy Cute: Twiggy is as adorable as can be and apparently legitimately good, but there's still something vaguely off about her.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She spent a lot of time locked up in a small room, to the point she actually went crazy to cope with her situation.
- The Dragonslayer: The first in the campaign, scoring a fatal critical roll against a blue dragon that had come close killing some of the Mighty Nein.
- Girly Skirt Twirl: Does this in her full-body artwork and in-session. Her mini-figure is even posed mid-twirl.
- Invisibility: She can cast this spell by putting an eyelash into a piece of gum, which she will then chew on and blow into a bubble bigger than herself. Once the bubble pops, Twiggy vanishes from sight.
- Master of Disguise: She has access to Disguise Self. The dragon doesn't buy it for even a second though, since she can only make herself look up to a foot taller and she's a Gnome.
- So Unfunny, It's Funny: Much like Nott, Twiggy casts Hideous Laughter by telling a terrible joke that will magically compell the hearer to laugh. Her target of choice - Caleb - is unphased however, to the disappointment of everyone at the table.
- Sticky Fingers: Both figuratively and literally, thanks to her hands being covered in chocolate.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: While they are won over by Twiggy's relentless adorableness almost immediately, Jester and Nott at one point fear she might be this for them, since Twiggy paints and can create a duplicate of herself (like Jester), and can pick locks and use Mage Hand (like Nott). Naturally, Nott's solution to this problem is to just kill Twiggy.
- Sweet Tooth: Really likes chocolate, her hands and face are smeared in the stuff.
- Vague Age: Deborah describes her as looking like a child in the light and sixty in the shadows, making it unclear what her age really is.
Spurt
Spurt
Played by: Chris Perkins
"I win!"
- Race: KoboldClass: Inventor
A Kobold sent by his clan to spy on The Mighty Nein as they traversed through their tunnels, who strikes a deal with them after he's found out and captured.
- Accidentally-Correct Writing: When asked how long Kobolds live, he cheerfully responds his own age, eleven days, despite kobolds canonically living for over a century. Given that he was killed shortly afterward, his own life did indeed last only eleven days.
- Ascended Extra: Twice! Originally, he was supposed to be an NPC played by Matt, before he decided to get Chris Perkins to play him. Then, the popularity of the character lead to him appearing in Idle Champions Of the Forgotten Realms.
- Bee-Bee Gun: His bag of hornets.
- Captain Obvious: Asked to scout ahead in the caverns, Chris rolls a Nat 1 on the Perception check. Spurt immediately declares, "it's dark down here!"
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's bizarre even for a kobold, deciding that Nott is his mother and believing that his own (extremely young) age is the maximum age a kobold can reach.
- Death of a Child: Killed by a fire giant.
- The Ditz: Like the rest of his clan, he's not exactly a scholar.
- Don't Celebrate Just Yet: Exaggerated. Spurt flings a single wasp nest at the fire giant, which barely hurts it and only serves to piss it off. Spurt immediately crows "you're dead!", and shouts "I win!" in triumph an instant before he's crushed to death under the hammer.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Played for Laughs mere moments after he's killed.Nott: Mighty Nein, we have to do this for the memory of Spurt!Caduceus: ...Who?
- I Want My Mommy!: Cries out for his mother when he gets grappled by Nott. Nott tauntingly responds in the affirmative, which causes Spurt to start thinking of Nott as his mother.
- Improbable Weapon User: This is his shtick as a kobold "inventor". His weapons include a bag of wasps, a scorpion tied to the end of a stick, a live skunk, and a "centipult".
- Joke Character: He's practically useless, both in combat and at navigation, and mainly exists to die hilariously.
- Killed Off for Real: Notable as the first guest character to permanently die onscreen in either campaign.
- Meaningful Name: Entirely Played for Laughs. "Spurt" means "gush out in a sudden and forceful stream". Spurt gets crushed like an over-ripe melon by a fire giant he needlessly antagonized, leaving nothing behind but a smear.
- No Indoor Voice: All of his lines are shrieked.
- Smelly Skunk: Carries one around in a cage, named Pepé. Not even the other kobolds know where it came from.
- Squashed Flat: Courtesy of a fire giant.
- Throw It In!: Matt had planned Spurt as an NPC who could be befriended or cause additional troubles later on, but realized "Perkins is going to be there, this character is pretty fun, why not ask him if he'd like to play him?".
- Too Dumb to Live: Decides to throw a nest of hornets at a fire giant and then stand there and taunt it. He dies immediately.
- Tragic Keepsake: His brother was eaten by a green slime. Which he currently has in a jar.
- Ugly Cute: Jester certainly thinks so.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Picks a fight with a fire giant and gets immediately one-shotted into oblivion about half an hour after he's introduced.
Reani
Reanminere "Reani"
Played by: Mica Burton
"The rule is that evil dies."
- Race: Scourge Aasimar
Class: Druid (Circle of the Moon)
An aasimar woman who is friends with Umagorn Smeltborn, and accompanies the Mighty Nein as they search for a white dragon.
- Blood Knight: Seems extremely eager to respond to any possible problems or threats with stabbing and/or poison, said in the exact same friendly and bubbly tone of voice as everything else she says.
- Black-and-White Morality: Seemingly subscribes to this, simply stating her objective is to ensure "evil dies", regardless of the magnitude or context of the action. Naturally, this does not completely mesh with the Nein's Grey-and-Gray Morality, which confuses her.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Invoked by her player, who, when giving notes on Reani's design to the artist, specifically said she wanted Reani to be stacked.
- Catchphrase: "If you do x, I will have to kill you!"
- Damage Reduction: Has Celestial Resistance against radiant and necrotic damage on account of being an aasimar.
- Flowers of Romance: After her adventure with the Mighty Nein is over, she druid-crafts a rose and gives it to Beau, which is followed by a kiss.
- A Friend in Need: She is very close friends with Umagorn Smeltborn (whom she calls Umi), and was going to visit him the day the Nein came to his forge. She overheard their conversation, and per Mica Burton she wants to help the Nein find the dragon so Umi can reforge the sword and prove his worth almost as much as she wants to do it so she can heed Samliel's command to find a white dragon.
- Genki Girl: She's an excitable and energetic woman!
- Good Is Not Soft: Claims to be a force of good who quickly and swiftly kills anyone deemed evil in any way.
- Green Thumb: Reani keeps some very healthy plants in her underground home, and can also Druidcraft.
- Holy Halo: It's faint, but she's got a halo over her head.
- Morphic Resonance: No matter what animal form she takes, it always has her halo over its head.
- Open Secret: It's implied that most people she deals with know she's "The Lightbringer" and are just playing along to humour her.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Due to the Morphic Resonance above, she has a hard time hiding her identity as "The Lightbringer".
- Semi-Divine: As an aasimar, she is part-celestial.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: Stores the occasional item, like the dragon scale Jester painted into being, in her cleavage. Or as she calls it, "nature's pocket".
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a Druid, she can Wildshape into different animals.
Post-Campaign One Shots
Aggy
Rab "Aggy" Agg
Played by: Daniel Sloss
- Race: DwarfClass: Monk
A dwarven investigator who was tasked by a friend of his from the Cobalt Soul to investigate a possible breach in the Cobalt Soul's Rexxentrum Archive.
- The Alcoholic: His most prominent possessions were two bottles of tonic wine. And he was so full of booze that Fjord commented how it could taste it in his ashes after he died.
- Brutal Honesty: He had absolutely no qualms to say whatever passed through his head. He even asked Caduceus if he was a horse to his face.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He is described as "a former adventurer that let himself go". Also, he is a heavy drinker and his investigation method involves using headbutts to find secret passages and not checking for hidden traps. He triggers countless traps by doing so and it eventually gets him killed.
- Deader than Dead: The final trap he triggered instantly Disintegrated him, making an attempt at bringing him back to life impossible even if Resurrective Magic was still working.
- The Ditz: This guy's main investigation technique involves "using his head" by headbutting whatever looked suspicious to him. It doesn't end well.
- Drunken Boxing: He is a Monk and a heavy drinker. Sadly, aside him stopping Beau from grabbing him, we never see him fighting.
- Fat Bastard: He is short, overweight, and rude to the Mighty Nein during the short time they spend together.
- Fearless Fool: He completely disregards any kind of danger he could find himself in even if one of the people suggesting him to be more careful is an Expositor from the Cobalt Soul.
- Hardboiled Detective: He is old, cynical, uses street smarts (in the form of headbutts) to solve his problems, and drinks a lot to boot. Too bad that his methods are bound not to work inside of an archive full of powerful magical artifacts over which the Cobalt Soul took extreme measures in order to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
- Joke Character: He was a level 5 Monk thrown in a post-Campaign involving level 20 characters. Even Luc had more levels than him. Of course he dies shortly after his introduction, with his death being the first Wake-Up Call for Luc that maybe he was less ready for the adventuring life than he expected.
- Killed Off for Real: He got Disintegrated by a trap mere minutes after his introduction.
- Make an Example of Them: When Caduceus realized that Aggy's antics were going to get him killed, he told Luc to look at him to learn how a serious adventurer should not behave.
- Man in a Kilt: He wears a kilt and a sporran. He is implied to come from the Exandrian equivalent of Scotland, like his actor Daniel Sloss.
- Not Enough to Bury: He got instantly Disintegrated by a trap he didn't bother to check.
- Too Dumb to Live: Headbutting a place full of potential death traps put in to protect inestimable historical artifacts was not the smartest of ideas.
- Use Your Head: His method for investigating traps is to headbutt them. This backfires when he headbutts a trap rigged with Disintegration.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He died even faster than Spurt in the main campaign!
- Wine Is Classy: Averted, Aggy drinks what is obviously Buckfast.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He was investigating the Rexxentrum Archive of the Cobalt Soul like it was a common library and not an archive full of powerful magical artifacts that shouldn't absolutely fall into the wrong hands. He also ignores Beauregard and the other Nein's warnings about everything being potentially protected by deadly traps, even if most of them have been dispelled by the Apogee Solstice.
