Traveling Companions and Loved Ones: (Goblin Slayer | Priestess)
Adventurers Guild: (Guild Members | Staff)
Other Characters: Other Significant Players | Villagers | The Gods | Antagonists
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Cow Girl's Uncle
Voiced by: Daichi Hayashi (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
A dairy farmer and Cow Girl's current guardian after her parents death.
- Accidental Hero: When he took Cow Girl into the city on the fateful night that goblins attacked her village. He didn't realize it at the time, but this action saved his niece's life.
- Blatant Lies: When Goblin Slayer comes home late and asks about the Wine Merchant's carriage driving out from the farm, Uncle denies awareness of it and claims he was only outside to check on the cows. It's abundantly clear to Goblin Slayer, let alone the reader, that he's trying to avoid the topic for a while longer.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Thinks all adventurers are thugs and not good enough for his niece. That includes Goblin Slayer.
- Cool Uncle: To Cow Girl - he is willing to let Goblin Slayer live on his farm at her request, even though he clearly disapproves of the goblin-obsessed adventurer that his niece's childhood friend has become.
- Creature of Habit: When discussing the Wine Merchant's offer to buy his farm from him and turn his mixed farming cattle ranch into an industrial barley plantation for beer-brewing, he admits his main problem is that he's so used to the way he's lived and operated that to switch to a new production is almost unthinkable for him.
- Curtains Match the Window: In the anime, he has brown eyes and brown hair.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Losing his sister and old home has hurt him terribly, and is why he's so standoffish.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Although Cow Girl and Goblin Slayer aren't dating, he is aware that his niece is in love with Goblin Slayer and has voiced his disapproval of him to Cow Girl many times. He even outright tells his niece that he believes Goblin Slayer has lost his mind after witnessing his sister's death. In Year One, he tells Goblin Slayer that he was willing to marry Cow Girl off to the boy she grew up with, but not to the adventurer he has become.
- Doting Parent: He tries his hardest to support and accommodate his niece after taking her in. Despite all his misgivings about adventurers, he still allows Goblin Slayer to stay mostly because doing so was the first request Cow Girl ever made of him.
- Feeling Their Age: In Volume 14, even Goblin Slayer notes how he looks perpetually fatigued nowadays, the specter of senescence hovering over him and ready to sap all his strength.
- Go-Getter Girl: A Rare Male Example - Cow Girl's Uncle may own his own land and make a decent living as a dairy farmer, but he's not one to just let a good, honest deal by to further his income. Twice thanks to Goblin Slayer he's found ways to use his farm to make further products.
- After Goblin Slayer returned from Water Town with tools to make ice cream, Cow Girl's Uncle jumped at the chance to borrow Goblin Slayer's tool (with his permission) to sell Ice Cream in the Frontier Town during Spring and Summer to good fiscal success.
- When Goblin Slayer went to the Desert Kingdom, he sent back a female Camel to the farm as a souvenir for Cow Girl; her uncle has since been collecting its milk to see if he can make some cheese (Camel cheese is indeed real) and sell it as a rare exotic good.
- Hidden Depths: He is a highly introspective man, he sometimes gets absorbed in his thoughts about if he is doing the best for his niece, or agonizing about the fact that maybe he is overstepping, not wanting to replace her parents. He is also a former mercenary, so he is well aware how Adventurers can be. He is also willing to offer Goblin Slayer advice about how to live a more normal life.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Has this talk twice with Goblin Slayer.
- The first time, in Year One, he prejudged Goblin Slayer to be a typical roughneck, saw his orphaned niece visit the barn he was spending the night in and leave the next morning distraught, and confronted Goblin Slayer with a pitchfork in hand before figuring out the truth of Cow Girl's visit and reaction to Goblin Slayer's personality change.
- The second time, in Volume 3 of the main story, it's a defeated and chagrined plea for Goblin Slayer to realize how much their upcoming date means to Cow Girl and not lead her on. He gives up when he sees the boy isn't getting it.
- Innocently Insensitive: Early in Year One Volume 2, he makes numerous flippant remarks to Cow Girl about how Goblin Slayer might have a lover or be seeing prostitutes. It takes her running off for him to realize that her crush on the boy would have made such gossip hurt, and that bringing up hookers to his 13-year-old niece was inappropriate.
- Minor Major Character: After the events of Volume 1, his farm is considered an extremely important asset and Branch Castle or "fallback position" for the Frontier Town; in short, he's kind of a big deal, just not to the story. Because of this, he's not only part of the town's leadership and attends their meetings regularly, but the threat of his farm falling to Goblins was enough for the Guild to put a special incentive on Goblin bounties in order to convince higher ranked adventurers to protect his farm.
- No Sympathy: Knows that Goblin Slayer has every reason to hunt down goblins, but still believes that this same trauma will prevent his niece from finding happiness with the adventurer.
- Papa Wolf: To Cow Girl since she is the only family that he has left.
- Parental Substitute: Is this to Cow Girl, and feels guilty for taking the place of his sister and her husband.
- Parents as People: In Chapter 57 of the Year One manga, he reflects on his time looking after Cow Girl so far. He acknowledges in detail their occasional arguments, mutual hangups, and how he still doesn’t fully understand her, but he cares for her the best he can and their are slowly making it work.
- Retired Badass: Not something he usually talks about, but as a young man he fought his good share of wars.
- Self-Made Man: Proudly describes himself as a yeoman or freeholder. He's personally earned his land and cultivated his farm, and he's not about to sell out to anyone. He doesn't even want any farmhands beyond his niece yet, even as he acknowledges that he's a few years away from the age when his body can't keep up with farm labor anymore.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: He earned the right to own his own land by serving as a yeoman in a noble’s retinue. He saw “more than his share of death” while fighting for his prize, and to this day has a deep-set dislike of career warriors beyond the typical mistrust of parochial homesteaders.
- Shipper on Deck: He likes the idea of Cow Girl settling down with a "good man" when she reaches marriage age, and not averse for that man to be her childhood crush... but not the Goblin Slayer said childhood crush has become. Therefore many of his private conversations with Goblin Slayer are attempts to plant the seed of giving up his genocidal quest and become a normal villager again with Cow Girl.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Goblin Slayer, though he's the one with the problem. Goblin Slayer's presence brings up bad memories, causes his beloved niece emotional turbulence, and comes with numerous quirks. He eventually acknowledges that the boy is harmless and stops being hostile, but even that is more out of grudging exhaustion than a positive change in perspective.
- Survivor's Guilt: He takes both Cow Girl and Goblin Slayer in at least in part because he feels an obligation to their deceased families and destroyed childhoods, and sometimes wishes he could take the place of his departed sister.
- The Teetotaler: In Volume 16 Cow Girl mentions that her uncle completely abstains from alcohol, though he's yet to share with her the reason.
- Tsundere: He is one to Goblin Slayer. Though he never voices it aloud, he does pity the lad and understands his life has been nothing but hardship. Because Goblin Slayer's death would devastate his niece, he fears for the man's mental and physical well-being. In various passive-aggressive ways he explains disapproval of Goblin Slayer's genocidal obsession and expresses there are other lifestyles available. He dangles a future with Cow Girl on the farm as one possibility, but only if Goblin Slayer gives up being an adventurer.
- He also reminds Goblin Slayer to take care of his body and turned down an offer to have Goblin Slayer married off in Volume 10 by a wealthy merchant for a not-insignificant amount of money. Even though he doesn't approve of his lifestyle he genuinely does care about him.
- It's subtle, but he does try to be a father-figure to Goblin Slayer in his own way. In one chapter of Year One, he considers thanking Goblin Slayer for mending a fence but doesn't because he thinks it's distant and informal and instead just welcomes him home, and then later chides him for not letting him (Uncle) and Cow Girl know that he'd been promoted.
Goblin Slayer's Sister
Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese), Rachel Glass (English)
Goblin Slayer's older sister. Years before the main story began, she was raped and murdered by goblins right in front of her younger brother, which kickstarted his genocidal hatred of goblins.
- Brainy Brunette: Had brown hair and was noted by her brother to be wise. In the light novels, Goblin Slayer even recollects that his sister was the sharpest person in their village and earned her food by teaching the village children how to read and write. He also remembers that she could have made a good living in the city, but chose instead to stay in the village to raise him.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Her (thankfully unseen) torture at the hands of the goblins lasted three days, with her being raped and most likely being eaten alive, all while her little brother can only watch in horror.
- Death by Origin Story: Her death is what turned her little brother into Goblin Slayer.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Or at least Parental Substitute older siblings, as Goblin Slayer reveres her memory. This trope was in turn true for her, as she always told Goblin Slayer what wonderful people their parents were and offered him their father's hunting knife as a memento.
- Eaten Alive: Implied to have died in this manner after a horde of goblins were done with her, while her little brother was Forced to Watch. The horror and indignity of it all was the first, and likely biggest, blow to Goblin Slayer's psyche.
- Face Death with Dignity: Even as her hands trembled, she refused to allow fear to show on her face and spent her last moments before being found by goblins ensuring her brother was hidden and assuring him of his safety with a smile.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: Was apparently a dab hand at stewing, just look at Grandma's Recipe.
- Good Is Not Dumb: A kindly, loving big sister and guardian to a young Goblin Slayer, she was also her hamlet's resident tutor for hire. She was even a devotee to the God of Knowledge, and maintained a shrine in the village.
- Grandma's Recipe: She had her own special way of preparing beef stew, that she also taught to Cow Girl. The latter insists it's not some grand secret recipe, but the memories it conjures for Goblin Slayer and herself are such that she makes it for his dinner almost religiously.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Allow herself to be captured by goblins knowing that they would be too busy with her to notice her hidden little brother.
- Hidden Depths: Later light novels eventually reveal she studied both her parents trades and was the one who first gave Goblin Slayer training in basic woodsmanship and archery.
- Loose Floorboard Hiding Spot: Hid her little brother from goblin marauders by stuffing him down a trapdoor into a little storage space under their house.
- Motherly Side Plait: Of the "doomed anime mom" variety. Having this hairstyle marks her as a goner in this universe.
- Nice Girl: Selfless, loving, kind, and wise.
- Posthumous Character: In the early volumes she was mostly a case of The Lost Lenore, providing a Small Role, Big Impact that brought forth the existence of Goblin Slayer. But later volumes and the Year One Prequel provide increasing amounts of info about her character from people that knew her while she was alive, especially Goblin Slayer showing readers more of his memories, painting an ever-expanding rounded image of who she was despite even the prequel starting shortly after her death.
- Promotion to Parent: Her and Goblin Slayer's ranger father and herbalist mother died during a plague while Goblin Slayer was still very young, so she raised him herself as far back as he can remember.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Is long dead by the time the story begins, but her teachings and the manner of her demise are what made Goblin Slayer into the man he is today.
Sister Grape
A nun devoted to the Earth Mother and Priestess' surrogate sister. Met in Volume 10 as the manager of a vineyard in a new town and the victim of some truly awful rumors.
- Ambiguously Brown: She's moderately dark-skinned, but with bright green eyes, and said to be descended from immigrants who "crossed the southern mountains."
- Big Sister Mentor: She avoids town while the rumors are flying mostly so it doesn't cause problems for the other nuns around her, and gives Priestess advice when the stres of dealing with the situation starts to overwhelm her.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Like many other girls before, the narration is happy to note how ample her bustline is, and how attracted the background males can be to it.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Gets a wide, toothy, crooked grin when teasing Priestess or sizing up her adventuring party.
- Cool Big Sis: Is this to Priestess, who in the present is delighted to link back up with her and introduce her new friends to her, and is adamant about laying to rest the horrid rumors besmirching her.
- Fantastic Racism: Played With; the crux of the rumors surrounding her is the insistence that she's somehow "a goblin's daughter," but such a thing is impossible and she's clearly entirely human. She is dark-skinned and explicitly of a non-native ethnicity, and it's implied her appearance is what people use as an excuse to entertain the notion, but she's also not being targeted for being a person of color, her status as one is treated as the obvious counter to the allegation, no other non-white humans are subject to bigotry, and the whole fiasco seems to imply that different races of humans aren't discriminated against on grounds of merely being different races.
- The Pollyanna: She pays no personal mind to the rumors and remains focused on her work and finding joy in her daily routine. She genuinely has to stop and think when Priestess asks her how she can remain so cheerful all the time.
- Plucky Girl: Extremely vivacious, enthusiastic about working the orchards and making new friends, a personality as magnetic as her body, and far too strong-willed and self-assured to let herself be negatively affected by the wild rumors circulating about her.
- Remember the New Guy?: She's Priestess' beloved senpai from her training days that was never seen or mentioned for 9 volumes and two in-universe years. In fairness, the rest of the party never really has reason to follow Priestess into the temple or ask about it, and the narration never follows Priestess in her off-duty time.
- Younger Than They Look: Is just two years older than Priestess and barely 19, but her emotional maturity and certain illustration of her next to Priestess make her look well into her twenties.
Mother Superior
An abbess devoted to the Earth Mother, and Priestess' direct superior.
- High Priest: The closest to one we've seen so far for the faith dedicated to the Earth Mother, and she is at least prestigious enough to oversee regional religious rituals and have dealings with other high-status clerics like Sword Maiden.
- Improbable Age: Volume 10 says she is shockingly young for being an abbess of a major temple, not even having reached middle-age yet despite some years in the post.
- Irony: She laughs off (in a good way) the idea of Priestess being The Chosen One or Secretly Royalty... and as of Volume 13, there are a lot of hints that Priestess is both those things.
- Orphanage of Love: Runs one out of her abbey, which is where Priestess was raised and trained.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Reportedly gave Priestess a strident chewing-out off-screen over her purchasing chainmail, but didn't do anything more when Priestess held firm, and later on vouches for her and Goblin Slayer's trustworthiness during a meeting of state heroes and religious authorities in Volume 3.
- So Proud of You: Greatly respects Priestess' magical talent and achievements, and has high hopes for what she will accomplish in the future, even if she does laugh off the idea that Priestess is The Chosen One, hidden royalty, or anything like that.
Village Chief
Heavy Warrior's best friend and a former mercenary who was forced into early retirement after receiving a Career-Ending Injury. He used his status as a war veteran to claim chieftainship of his hometown as a reward for his service.
- Always Someone Better: Heavy Warrior viewed his best friend as this, at least until he received his Career-Ending Injury.
- Career-Ending Injury: He once was a mercenary, but then he took "an arrow to the knee".
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Downplayed; Goblin Slayer comments on his young age the first time he meets him in Year One, stating that the Village Chief is "only just barely an adult". Its implied he is around the same age as Goblin Slayer and Heavy Warrior, meaning he was just a teenager when he became the chief of his village.
- The Ghost: He was talked about bit in the main story by Heavy Warrior, before making a proper introduction in the prequel story.
- Happily Married: To his wife, who is pregnant with his child during their introduction in Year One.
- Hero of Another Story: He and Heavy Warrior joined the army, became mercenaries, and went on several adventures together. Their journey together came to an end when he received a Career-Ending Injury and Heavy Warrior decided to become an adventurer afterwards.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair is longer than his wife's.
- Really 17 Years Old: Admits that he lied about his age so that he could go off to war early, which is meant to explain how he became a chief as such a young age.
- Retired Badass: He was a former mercenary and supposedly was Always Someone Better to Heavy Warrior, before an arrow to the knee forced him into early retirement.
- Stealth Insult: An innocent example - when asked about his limp, he explains he "took an arrow to the knee", which is both accurate and a playful "ball and chain" marriage joke about his wife; let's just say the latter got the joke and wasn't exactly amused.
- Younger Than They Look: Although he looks like a man in his 20s during his introduction in Year One, Goblin Slayer is quick to point out his young age, implying the Village Chief is actually a teenager when Goblin Slayer first meets him. However, Goblin Slayer does also mention that his eyes does carry the composure of someone much older, and he does show a great deal of maturity during their conversation.
The Village Chief's Wife
A village girl from Heavy Warrior's hometown. She was his former crush, but ended up settling down with his best friend instead, the Village Chief.
- Ambiguously Brown: She has a darker skin complexion than the other people in her town.
- The Caretaker: To her husband, thanks to the bad knee he got from his Career-Ending Injury.
- The Ghost: Like her husband, she was talked about a bit in the main story, but didn't get a proper introduction until the prequel story.
- Happily Married: To the Village Chief.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Her husband's innocent joke about his limp is because he "took an arrow to the knee" is not lost on her as, In-Universe, the expression is a euphamism akin to "the ol' ball and chain" - a marriage joke. Thus it's not only an innocent joke at her expense, but it's made even funnier because her husband also took an arrow to the knee literally.
- The One That Got Away: Apparently, she is this to Heavy Warrior. Part of the reason why he decided to become an adventurer and move out of his hometown was because of the humiliation of her settling down with his best friend before he got a chance to admit his feelings to her.
- Teen Pregnancy: Assuming that she is around same age as her husband, she would have been a teenager during her introduction in Year One, when she was pregnant with his child.
The Three Sisters
Three sisters that lived in same village as Goblin Slayer and Cow Girl, and were victims of the goblin attack on it.
- Big Sister Instinct: The eldest sister is willing to suffer a Fate Worse than Death if it means protecting her family. Not that it did her much good.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The eldest sister is blonde, the middle sister is a redhead, and the youngest is a brunette.
- Breeding Slave: Their presumed fate.
- Decoy Protagonist: Of Year One. The prequel story opens on them as their village is attacked by a goblin horde, with the sisters seemly being standouts from the rest of the townsfolk. Unfortunately, in the first couple of pages in Chapter 1, the girls are overwhelmed and captured by the goblins. The story then switches its focus to the true protagonist, the boy who would one day become Goblin Slayer.
- Deer in the Headlights: What ultimately gets the two younger sisters captured, due to a combination of their fears of the goblins and their unwillingness to leave their older sister behind.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: While the goblins were having their way with them.
- Foil:
- The eldest sister is this to Goblin Slayer's Older Sister. Both are attractive young women that try to protect their family on the same night goblins attacked their village and were subjected to a Fate Worse than Death. The difference being Goblin Slayer's Older Sister succeeded in protecting her brother by hiding him, while the eldest sister failed to protect her two younger sisters by trying to get them to run away. Additionally, Goblin Slayer makes it clear that his sister died that night, while it's implied the three sisters got to live on a little longer... each as a Breeding Slave.
- They can be seen as one to the Greenhorn Party. Their situation was clearly meant to be reminiscent to what happen to the women of the party, with the eldest sister taking the place of Fighter, while her younger sisters took the place of Priestess and Wizard. Unfortunately, the eldest sister is not a skilled combatant like Fighter, so she is quickly overwhelmed by the goblins when she attempt a You Shall Not Pass!. Unlike Priestess, the two younger sisters were overcome by fear and did not take their chance to run away, resulting in all three women being captured. Worst of all, without an adventurer like Goblin Slayer around to save them, the sisters most likely spent the rest of their lives as Breeding Slaves to the goblin horde, a fate that the women of the Greenhorn Party were barely able to avoid.
- Ms. Fanservice: All three sisters are very attractive, buxom, and cute. Unfortunately, this seems to be why the goblins gave them a horrific Fate Worse than Death instead of outright dismembering them like the other villagers.
- Oh, Crap!: The eldest sister has several of these moments in quick succession of one another. First, when a goblin flanks her and she realized too late its performing a Diving Kick towards her head. Second, is when the goblins quickly strip her down naked after pinning her. The third and the worst one, is when the goblin pried open her legs with the poor girl being unable to move. She can only react with pure terror when she realized what was about to come next.
- Rape as Drama: All three sisters ended up being gang-raped by goblins, despite trying to defend themselves. They are the first shown example of this in the Year One manga.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: The youngest sister has long, black hair.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Their only purpose is to show the fate of any woman unfortunate enough to be captured by goblins.
- Senseless Sacrifice: The eldest sister tried to hold off the goblins to let her two younger sisters escape, unfortunately her sacrifice was in vain as they were captured anyways.
- Uncertain Doom: The last time we see them, they were captured and gang-raped by a large group of goblins. Although it is not shown what happens to them afterwards, it's safe to assume they are no longer around by the time of the main story. There is a slight chance they might have been saved by an adventurer, especially since Burglar was tracking the horde that attacked their village, but they would be deeply traumatized for the rest of their lives in that case.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Attempted by the eldest sister, who tried to hold off the goblins invading her home so that her sisters can escape. Unfortunately, her sisters refuse to leave her and all three of them got overwhelmed by the horde.
Goblin Mother
A captured village girl who spent a week in a goblin nest. She is the first person Goblin Slayer ever saved as an adventurer.
- Angst Coma: She is completely unresponsive when Goblin Slayer finds her, with her light breathing being the only indication that she is still alive.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Surprisingly, played straight in the Year One manga. For a woman who spent a week in a goblin nest and given birth to multiple goblin children within that week, she doesn't have a single scratch on her. Averted in the light novel as she was mentioned to be covered in filth and goblin bites.
- Breeding Slave: She is the first person confirmed to have given birth to goblin children, and delivered 3 of them by the time Goblin Slayer saves her.
- Damsel in Distress: The very first one that Goblin Slayer saves as an adventurer.
- Outliving One's Offspring: This is possibly the only example where this is a good thing. Goblin Slayer slaughtered the goblins she gave birth to, while she got to live on.
Village Boy
A little boy who Goblin Slayer saves from running into a goblin nest during Volume 4.
- Fake-Out Opening: The first few paragraph make his story look like a Flashback to Goblin Slayer's childhood, right up until Goblin Slayer himself actually shows up on a quest.
- Foil: Due to the bait-and-switch of the beginning, the boy is deliberately crafted to have a life almost identically to the young Goblin Slayer, but several personal aspects are in direct contrast to how Goblin Slayer was like in actual flashbacks. Like Goblin Slayer, this is a little Farm Boy who plays at and dreams of being an adventurer, has a female best friend and next door neighbor who is visiting family in the city, and is an orphan being raised by an older sister who also serves as a teacher in a temple of the God of Knowledge. However:
- The boy is a rambunctious Bratty Half-Pint, while Goblin Slayer has consistently been shown as always having been naturally pensive and introverted, if less so than how he becomes post-trauma.
- The boy is extremely cheeky towards his frazzled sister, while Goblin Slayer was a dutiful Momma's Boy towards a sister who was always ladylike and composed even at the razors edge of death and dishonor.
- The boy and his female friend have a slight Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic in how he recollects their back-and-forths and attempts to one-up each other, while Cow Girl has so far been unilateral in her teasing of her childhood friend, with the occasional fights between them arising from and causing very real and extreme bad feelings between them.
Bard
A bard that sings ballads of Goblin Slayer's adventures in Volume 1.
- The Bard: We first see him singing the tale of a hero on a street corner for crowds. In fact, this is how High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest find Goblin Slayer in the first place.
- Character Exaggeration: In his ballads, he exaggerates Goblin Slayer as a wandering Knight in Shining Armor that always save the Damsel in Distress. It is somewhat justified as he has never actually met Goblin Slayer. However, High Elf Archer did catch him lying about Goblin Slayer being a wanderer when the bard stated Goblin Slayer lived in a town.
- Lighter and Softer: His ballad are what one would expect to hear from a modern fairy tale, noticeably omitting the darker parts of Goblin Slayer's adventures like the loss of innocent lives and rape that occurs.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He was the one that got High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest interested in recruiting Goblin Slayer for their mission and told them where they can find him, so without the bard they would have never partied up with Goblin Slayer. Additionally, it was implied his songs are what made Sword Maiden seek out Goblin Slayer to both take care of Water Town's goblin infestation and to be her Living Emotional Crutch.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In-Universe, his ballads have Goblin Slayer always rescuing goblin captives even when it isn't true. The bard's song about Goblin Slayer burning down the mountain fortress talked about how Goblin Slayer saved a princess, when the harsh reality was Goblin Slayer was too late to save the captured village girl or the female party during that mission.
Attendant
A nun of the Supreme God who serves as Sword Maiden's personal assistant.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: She (or at least an attendant) apparently has assassin training and is charged with defending the famed demon-slaying Sword Maiden from any who means her harm during her travels.
- The Caretaker: Watches over Sword Maiden and helps her with daily tasks that her blindness hampers. She is personally grateful to Goblin Slayer for giving her charge peace of mind.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Feels like this when Sword Maiden lets her lovesickness interfere with her daily duties.
- Hartman Hips: Noted to have well-formed hips, and she works them.
- Naughty Nun: Downplayed, but the narration tells us she knows exactly what she's doing when she shakes her hips.
- Servile Snarker: Jabs at Sword Maiden about her "love letters" to Goblin Slayer when she has to write to the King.
- Supermodel Strut: Rolls her hips as she walks so much so that even Goblin Slayer takes note.
Abbess
A nun who runs a convent to the God of Trade in the pioneer village where Chosen Heroine grew up in Year One.
- Muggle: Never received any miracles from her god, according to Chosen Heroine.
- Orphanage of Love: Looked after several foundlings, and raised them right if Chisen Heroine is any indication.
- Parental Substitute: Is one to Chosen Heroine, though she’d never admit it.
- Stern Nun: Is quite liberal with tough love correction, though a kid like Chosen Heroine hardly responds to gentle admonishment.
- Tasty Gold: Scratched the silver coin Goblin Slayer offered for lodging.
Informant
An enigmatic young woman that occasionally gives Samurai Captain news and advice in Daikatana.
- All-Encompassing Mantle: Wears a heavy, figure-obscuring cloak to go along with her cagey way of approaching others.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Has a huge, snide smile on her face when talking to Samurai Captain most of the time.
- Cryptic Conversation: Never gives a straight answer about the things she warns about.
- Gossipy Hens: Claims to be this, presenting her information as mere rumor.
- Humans Are Morons: She doesn't give her advice out to just anyone due to a lack of faith in their ability to act wisely on it.Informant: People aren’t that smart, and the ones who think they’re smart just waste their time yammering.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Samurai Captain completely forgets her existence after they talk, but not the information.
- Mysterious Waif: Who is she? How does she know so much? Why is she helping Samurai Captain? What's her goal? We have no solid clue.
- Quest Giver: Effectively this, as her information on new foes usually drives Samurai Captain to seek them out. She is brought up again in the tabletop game as an option for a quest hook.
- Seers: Her information comes mostly from revelations by the Trade God, her patron.
Trade Nun
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Samurai Captain praises her chest to her face as a parting crack while saying goodbye at the end of Daikatana.
- Faux Death: One of her miracles is Preservation; a spell that puts mortally wounded adventurers into a frozen state for a long while, giving their comrades a chance to raise the funds to pay for a Resurrection.
- Healing Hands: She and her fellows know a plethora of recovery magic, and will perform them for a price.
- Nun Too Holy: She's irascible, sardonic, flirtatious, and mercenary in attitude, but a devout person regardless.
- Only in It for the Money: Is rather blunt about not caring much for most adventurers that come to her for aid, and monetizes every single aspect of her church's healing services.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Early in volume 3 of Daikatana, between the demon war causing a sudden wave of refugees to enter Fortress City and the Golden Party making resolutions for a potential final delve, Trade Nun judges the situation too dire for apathy or money-grubbing and makes a gift of a new spear for Female Warrior.
- Secret Identity: The Informant is merely her in a cloak and vagabond rags.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: She performs the Resurrection miracle for Samurai Captain when he gets his throat slashed, and when he wakes up as she is getting dressed she flaunts her naked body while joking about charging for the view.
- Spell Blade: Female Warrior's new spear was personally blessed by herself.
- Stern Nun: She is the apparent head of her chapel and runs a tight ship. Samurai Captain is constantly reaffirming how cold and apathetic her eyes are and how obviously insincere her smile is anytime he sees her, she has no qualms about kicking ailing adventurers to the curb if they can't pay upfront for healing, and she is capable of cowing even veteran dungeon-delvers into fearful contrition if she catches them being rowdy in her domain.
Royal Guardswoman
An elite warrior charged by the crown to stand sentry at the opening of the Dungeon of the Dead to sound an alarm if the monsters within start coming out.
- Cool Big Sis: She has a 10 year old sister that she looks after and adores, and becomes friendly with the future Golden Party when Samurai Captain and Female Bishop bring said sister back to her after she got lost in the market.
- Gallows Humor: Makes rampant use of it most times she's spoken to, such as when she states 50% of rookies die on their first trip in the Dungeon of the Dead and cheerfully guesses the other half "eventually die exploring" when asked what happens to them, then gives the Golden Party five body bags while sardonically pointing out that if they end up needing bags for their full six members, they're not getting carried out at all.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Despite Samurai Captain praising her vigilance and warrior mien on first meeting her, she and her coworkers consistently miss every adventurer Serial Killer that flits in and out of the Dungeon of the Dead. Apparently when charged to be on the look-out for escaping monsters, they took it to mean only the magic beasts.
- Praetorian Guard: Her position, as one of the old king's hand-picked bodyguards.
Female General
An older military woman placed in charge of defending the Kingdom's eastern border. Seen in a Flashback to the war against the Demon Lord from a decade before the story's start, and running her own fortress in Volume 12 of the main story.
- Always Someone Better: Insists to other people that she's not impressive compared to her younger sister, Arc Mage.
- An Arm and a Leg: Loses half her limbs in one of the concluding battles of the previous war with the Demon Lord. They're not commented on in the main series like her single eye, so she either restored or replaced them.
- Blood Knight: She admits in the prologue of Year One Volume 2 that she is disinterested in peace and only feels alive on the battlefield.
- Eye Scream: Lost her left eye in a battle during the days of the Dungeon of the Dead.
- One Degree of Separation: Actually fought alongside Lizard Priest towards the end of the days of the Dungeon of the Dead. She's also the sister of Goblin Slayer's second mentor, Arc Mage. And somehow has a personal connection to Half-Elf Light Warrior.
- Rebellious Princess: Comes from a very high-ranking family, but left it all to become a soldier because she didn't want to be married off or shackled to a bureaucratic position.
