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In general:
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Most of them start with a sword.
- Magikarp Power: Pretty much all of them. Only around half of them come with decent weapons, 80% wear civilian clothes, and a single one comes with his own horse, and all of them are completely reliant on you to outfit them with better gear. A good suit of armor typically costs between 6000 and 12000 denars, a helmet another 2000, gauntlets and boots together also 5000, a melee weapon anything between 3000 and 7000, a good shield another 2000 and a horse also 2000. This is typically an investment between 15000 and 25000 denars, before you can start comparing them to a Swadian knight, which you may not have on hand for most of the game, especially since outfitting your main character typically takes precedence. Thus, they will probably wear stuff you salvaged from random sea raiders for much of the game, and be distinctly inferior in combat compared to an unnamed knight who automatically gets coat of plates armor, an arming sword and a charger. Late-game, once you can afford to buy them plate armor and unique weapons, and have optimized their stats and skills, they will likely become your best fighters.
- Multinational Team: There are two Swadians (Firentis & Katrin), two Vaegirs (Alayen & Klethi), two Khergits (Baheshtur & Borcha), two Nords (Deshavi & Matheld) and two Rhodoks (Bunduk & Ymira). Of each of these pairs, one has an upper-class upbringing, while the other has a lower-class background, to further contrast with each other. The rest of the heroes has an even more exotic background, so your party will almost certainly be this.
- Mutually Exclusive Party Members: Each hero has two other ones they don't get along with. Keeping two heroes that dislike each other around can sometimes be possible with careful party management, keeping them around with both their disliked ones is impossible.
- Rags to Riches: It is possible to give all of them fiefs as your vassals, if you decide to become king or queen. For most of the low-born ones in particular this is a massive jump in status.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: And how. A significant amount of them even join up to get out of trouble with local authorities.
- The Smart Guy: This is their principal use, since the fighting can be done just as well (and in some cases better) by your Red Shirt Army. Fittingly, pretty much all of them have above average intelligence. In fact, Alayen and Bunduk are the only ones to not have Intelligence as their best or second-best stat.
- You All Meet in an Inn: All of them are found in taverns.
Alayen
Alayen
A Vaegir noble who has decided to earn his fortune as a mercenary.- Battle Couple: With Ymira.
- Birds of a Feather: Both he and Ymira were disinherited by their fathers, and they get along quite well.
- Blue Blood: Again, he's a Vaegir noble. It's also what stops him from truly proposing to Ymira.
- Dumb Muscle: He starts with the second-highest strength of all heroes, right after Bunduk (and Bunduk is level 9, whereas Alayen starts at level 2). He has also the lowest intelligence of all of them.
- Heroic Lineage: His father earned his reputation as a hero for defending Rivacheg against a Nord invasion.
- Impoverished Patrician: Turned to mercenary work because he was barred from inheriting the family estates by his father.
- Pride: Takes his status as a nobleman seriously.
- This puts him at odds against Marnid, who views him as nothing more than a mere merchant, something Marnid gets annoyed with even though he's saved his life once.
- Upper-Class Twit: And how.Alayen: And before I join, can you lend me 300 denars, so that I can buy some proper clothing that befits a gentleman of noble birth such as myself. The coat on me has been worn down badly due to my recent bad fortune, and I cannot let common soldiers mistake me as one of their own.
Artimenner
Artimenner
An experienced engineer who seeks an escort out of town after a contract goes bad.- Badass Bookworm: The best Engineer in the game, to start, as well as a reasonably competent soldier.
- The Engineer: As noted above.
- Ignored Expert: In his backstory, he told his last employer that the tower he was working on would collapse if he cut corners, but the latter insisted on doing things his own way. Then the tower collapsed, killing the employer to boot.
- Klethi believes him to be a sorcerer because of his engineering schematics.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He is also familiar with medical texts of a historical doctor named Galerian, which becomes a source of friction with Jeremus who disagrees with the ancient texts on many matters.
- The Smart Guy: Starts with high Intelligence.
- Too Clever by Half: He is an educated man and considers himself as much. However, his dogmatic adherence to established teachings means he sometimes falls into the same traps as those he considers beneath him. For example, he dismisses Katrin's palm readings as superstitious nonsense, because... to cast a genuine horoscope you would need properly educated astrologists.
Baheshtur
Baheshtur
A proud Khergit lord who is on the run.- Barbarian Hero: Somewhat, with all the raiding and pillaging he speaks fondly of. Ironically, he does call you a barbarian in his first encounter.
- This also leads to his friction with Marnid, because Marnid was a merchant of the kind that Baheshtur used to raid and hopes to raid in the future.
- Blood Knight: At least, he takes pleasure in killing his family's ancient rivals.
- Blue Blood: Again, he's a Khergit lord.
- Born in the Saddle: He's a Khergit.
- Bow and Sword in Accord: Starts out highly proficient with all forms of weapons, though does not begin with a bow.
- Cultured Badass: He's quite eloquent for a steppe nomad and has high Intelligence when you first recruit him.
- Feuding Families: Took up being a mercenary because he sought to continue his family's feud against the Khan's wishes.
- Horse Archer: As befitting his heritage as a Khergit noble, he starts out with high levels in Horse Archery.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: He believes that the Khergits' decision to settle down and tie themselves to cities and the comforts of civilization will make them weak and easy prey for the next wave of conquerors from the steppes.
Borcha
Borcha
A would-be horse thief who enjoys plundering innocents. Also a Khergit, but quite different from Baheshtur.- Even Evil Has Standards: He enjoys looting and killing, but he considers killing downed enemies to be a step too far. This leads to problems with Klethi, who does just that.
- Horse Archer: In earlier versions.
- Lovable Coward: He actually likes it when you run away from battle.
- Lovable Rogue: Or at least Marnid thinks so.
- The Rustler: He's in trouble because someone else in the town you meet him in accused him of being a horse thief. He insists that it was just an honest mistake, and the horse closely resembled his own.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: Has spotting, tracking and path finding as his initial skills.
- Not only is he the best pathfinder in the game in absolute terms due to his high intelligence, but he is also the only of the three to be able to ride (in fact, Deshavi and Klethi are the only heroes unable to ride a horse). This means that if you run an all-cavalry army, he will be one of your most important assets. Deshavi and Klethi (the two heroes that are redundant to have, if you have him) also just so happen to be the ones he doesn't get along with, allowing him to fit into a very wide range of parties.
- Those Two Guys: For a long time when the game was in beta, he and Marnid were the only recruitable companions.
Bunduk
Bunduk
A former Rhodok sharpshooter turned mercenary and wandering drunkard.- Anti-Hero: One of the more ... violent companions.
- Cold Sniper: Really doesn't like nobles. Really loves his crossbow.
- A Father to His Men: He comes into conflict with Lezalit over styles of leadership: Bunduk believing in this trope, Lezalit believing a soldier should be more scared of his commander than his enemy.
- Just the First Citizen: He calls himself Tribune instead of Lord, if you give him a fief.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: How he ends his long career.
- Team Dad: He is one of the older heroes, as he mentions having been a soldier for at least 20 years, and he and Katrin are together supposedly almost 100 years old. That said, he will adress you as "Brother" or "Sister" (unlike the other party members, who tend to call you "Captain" or "Sir".
- Unfriendly Fire: He will threaten to shoot Lezalit with his crossbow, but never carries through.
- Working-Class Hero: Even if promoted to a vassal and given a fief, he insists on being called 'Tribune'. He also dislikes raiding villages and, if chosen as a herald to gain Right to Rule, he'll claim you'll protect the rights of the commoners. Deshavi objects to that, though.
Deshavi
Deshavi
A woman who was sold into marriage, kidnapped by bandits, but is now a free woman.- Abusive Parents: They sold her into an Arranged Marriage she strongly objected to.
- Black Vikings: Almost literally. Despite being from a Nord village, she has rather dark skin and wiry hair. It is implied that her family isn't ethnically Nord, though, and that her village merely has Nord overlords.
- The Cynic: By far the most bitter and resentful companion in the game. Talking to her will be mostly about how much she hates her hometown, how much she hates Calradia, and especially how much she hates bandits.
- Make an Example of Them: How she builds support for your bid for kingship - by promising that you would erect gallows across Calradia and hang any bandit as a warning to others. Ymira objects to this.
- Worth noting that this is also why she objects to Bunduk's claim for bolstering your Right to Rule: she knows Bunduk means well but believes that no bandit should have the right to appeal to the king and escape justice that way.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: Has spotting, tracking and path finding as her initial skills.
- Trauma Conga Line: Has had a really tough life before joining you, which leads to her aforementioned hatred of bandits.
Firentis
Firentis
An honorable knight, attempting to find redemption for killing his brother.- Accidental Murder: Killed his brother in a drunken rage when they were quarrelling over the same woman.
- The Atoner: The reason he joins your party is to help atone for killing his brother.
- Beard of Sorrow: Has a rather unkempt appearance. He also has the lowest Charisma of all heroes in the game.
- Blue Blood: He's from a noble house in Suno, whose lords seem to consider themselves a cut above even other Swadian nobility.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: His Fatal Flaw. It is implied he gets angry very easily and becomes uncontrollable in such situations.
- Knight in Shining Armor: He sees delivering justice to Calradia as part of his process of atonement and doesn't like dishonorable actions such as robbing villages.
- He also believes that this is how a King should rule; preventing violence from being required. Matheld objects to the idea.
- Necessary Evil: Considers killing to be this.
- What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Although he does not complain about heavy action and understands that it is necessary to humble warlords and kill bandits to give Calradia peace, he does have a distaste for killing.
Jeremus
Jeremus
A skilled surgeon and "natural philosopher" with a penchant for overly-fancy terms.- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Despite not being one (it is unknown whether Calradia even has a religious system), he looks exactly like a stereotypical Catholic monk with his pilgrim clothes, his staff and his tonsured head. He even acts like a confessor in his relationship with Firentis.
- Combat Medic: Not too fond of violence, but you can make him one.
- Ignored Expert: He mentions in his backstory that one of his patients died from fevers after the family refused to give him the medication Jeremus recommended, which was "a tincture of willow bark". Willow bark is the base ingredient of aspirin.
- Insufferable Genius: While most scholars are this to a degree, he's the worst by far.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He is, however, a damned good medic even early on; once levelled up properly he's still pretty damn insufferable but undoubtedly a genius.
- Pathetically Weak: Jeremus is notorious for his physical weakness and his ability to be knocked out easily, so much so that even the weakest enemies can render him unconscious in battle just from a single hit. There have even been speedruns to see how fast he could get knocked out, with the current World Record topping at 1:10:18 minutes.
- "Jeremus knocked unconscious" will be something you'll hear a lot if you have him fight in battles.
- The Medic: Starts with points in all medical skills, making him ideal for the role, and went to a university to learn such.
- That Old-Time Prescription: See Ignored Expert.
- He also tends to go against ancient texts by a figure named Galerian, saying that most of it was junk, but there is kernels of truth there. His disregard for the ancient texts where they are wrong causes Artimenner to assume him to be a fraud.
- The Smart Guy: He's a "natural philosopher" (i.e. a scientist) by training, which is reflected by his high Intelligence.
- What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Dislikes fighting too often. However, this does help him bond with Firentis, and both would like Calradia to eventually have peace.
Katrin
Katrin
An unsuccessful merchant looking for a new life.- Arms Dealer: Got her experience by dealing to armies.
- Fortune Teller: To bolster your Right to Rule, Katrin takes a look at your palm and claims that your "King's Line"/"Emperor's Line" is very long, and indicates there is some prophecy associated with it. Artimenner objects to using this to bolster your right to rule, however.
- Joke Character: Kinda sorta started as one during the early build of the game. Of the skills she has, the only useful one is "Inventory Management", which is of no use to her, since she's a follower and not a leader.
- The Silverstag
mod averts this. It adds several special abilities (granting some passive bonus to the party) to hirable companions. Katrin has one which is calculated from her Inventory Management, which makes her automatically resupply the ammunitions of the allied units.- In the latest builds following the addition of the party roles and traits systems, she is now the best possible Supply Master in the game, With her Chef trait double the duration of spoiling foods allowing them to actually be useful, vastly improving the morale bonus from foods, and her ridiculous +7 Inventory management means her personal inventory is large enough to literally carry a massive army's worth of food from the moment you pick her up. Can also make a decent quartermaster as well if she's given some trade skill but Marnid is still the best for that role.
- The Silverstag
- Outliving One's Offspring: She had two sons, who both died young.
- Team Mom: Strongly implied to be the oldest hero in the game. She even calls you "laddie".
Klethi
Klethi
A sociopathic girl who needs to get out of town - fast.- Dark Action Girl: Was an assassin before joining up with you.
- Evil Redhead
- Five-Finger Discount: This was her preferred way of pepping up her income, and also the reason she got into trouble with her last employer.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: She likes collecting shiny things and would meticulously search enemy corpses for valuables after battle. Despite this, she does not start with any points in Looting.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Starts with both a regular dagger and ones for throwing. It is implied they were her favorite means of conducting her job, too.
- Professional Killer: Ex-professional killer, anyways.
- Token Evil Teammate: This wiki article about planning a party of heroes includes a guide suggesting two companions setups (built accordingly to their mutual like-dislike relations): one for early game, one for later in the campaign. The early party is especially made of heroes not relucting to raid villages or caravans (which is an easy way to gain money in early parts of a campaign), the second includes more honourable heroes who dislike those actions. Despite her background and not disliking raid actions, she appears in the suggestions of "good" party members.
- She also is noted by Borcha to slit the throats of defeated enemies. She claims it's to find "hidden contraband" (IE: money).
Lezalit
Lezalit
A strict swordsman who specializes in Training from Hell.- Bad Boss: He likes it when your army suffers hunger or sustains heavy losses.
- Blood Knight: A subdued example. He believes that if you are worthy of being King of Calradia, you should not only be able to unite the six nations in game, but also conquer the further out parts of the former Calrad Empire. Katrin objects to this, however.
- Blue Blood: He's a nobleman from Geroia.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: His last job was training peasants into soldiers for the Vaegirs. He was fired because the lord who employed him thought he was too brutal. This leads him into conflict with Ymira, who dislikes liberal use of flogging and hanging to keep order.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Puts a facade to make the troops more efficient. However, Ymira believes that it may not be a façade at all and that he genuinely enjoys his punishments.
- Hobbes Was Right: A firm believer of this, thinking that a commander must be feared by his subordinates. He also objects to Borcha's recommendation of gaining right to rule by saying that people must be kept in check with an iron fist - "with whips and nooses if necessary".
- The Strategist: Notably, he chooses a strategy nearly identical to generally-accepted "best" army composition - Rhodok spears for the center, Nord infantry on the flanks, Vaegir archers, Swadian and Sarranid melee cavalry to smash the enemy, and Khergit horse archers for mobile support. He even says he would serve an army like that free of charge.
- However, he does not employ it himself as a Lord, instead recruiting troops based on the culture of his fiefs.
Marnid
Marnid
A brilliant merchant from Geroia who ran afoul of misfortune.- Drowning My Sorrows: What he's doing when you meet him.
- Honest Corporate Executive: He was proud to be an honest merchant. He still stays honest when fighting for you, he just isn't a merchant any longer.
- Intrepid Merchant: He's apparently been all over for trading. He is also the best trader in the game, at first.
- Magikarp Power: Starts at level 1 with terrible equipment and mediocre abilities outside of intelligence. If you're willing to invest in him, he can surpass Artimenner or Jeremus as an engineer or a medic.
- Proud Merchant Race Guy: While he does join your party as a soldier, he is by trade a merchant and butts heads with Bashetur because the latter often speaks of raiding caravans.
- Those Two Guys: For a long time when the game was in beta, he and Borcha were the only recruitable companions. Both of them also like each other, though Marnid feels the need to keep an eye on his purse around Borcha.
Matheld
Matheld
A Nord widow looking to reclaim her rightful lands from her opportunistic brother-in-law.- Action Girl: She's very proficient with a wide array of weapons and has points in Athletics and Power Strike.
- Affirmative Action Girl: Calradia is a sexist land, remember? She was basically shafted by her brother-in-law for being a woman, in fact, despite having apparently proven herself to be her husband's equal in all matters.
- Arranged Marriage: Offers to help Ymira find one, which causes friction between them.
- Battle Couple: She formed one with her husband in the backstory.
- She does have a liking to Nizar, though.
- Blood Knight: Face battle with relish and dislikes retreating. This puts her at odds with Firentis' advice on ruling Calradia.
- Blue Blood: She's a Nord noblewoman.
- Innocently Insensitive: She offers to, once she had retaken her inheritance, arrange a marriage for Ymira with one of the household warriors. Matheld meant it as a way to help her, believing Ymira would have few prospects after being disinherited by her father. Ymira simply walks away.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: The most intense in the game. She's proud of her Nord heritage, with all that that implies.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her hairstyle.
- Warrior Poet: According to Nizar, she sings Nord battle songs when fighting, which helps them become friends.
Nizar
Nizar
A famous swordsman, horseman and poet.- Battle Couple: With Matheld.
- Blood Knight: Basically decides to take up arms with your company because he's bored.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Faces battle with relish and dislikes retreating.
- The Casanova: According to him, at least. He claims to be on the run from a cuckolded husband and in need of a convenient exit when you first find him. This also causes friction with Alayen, who considers him as having no respect for a woman's honor.
- Cool Horse: He comes with his own courser, which may be worth more than he himself is at low levels.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Claims to possess legendary skill in sword, lance, and bow, despite not starting with any points in Power Draw.
- Miles Gloriosus: probably a case of Gameplay and Story Segregation, but his combats stats are nowhere near the level his boasting suggests they should be.
- Warrior Poet: Professes to be skilled at both war and poetry, and his starting stats certainly back him up. This also helps him become friends with Matheld.
- Weak, but Skilled: His strength and agility are actually very low for a combat-focused character, but he compensates with high skill scores.
Rolf
Rolf
A member of the House of Rolf. Allegedly.- Crutch Character: Starts out as the highest-leveled hero in the game with the highest weapon proficiencies and even comes with some rudimentary medical skills which allow you to turn him into a Combat Medic if you want.
- Gentleman Adventurer: According to himself, anyway.
- Impoverished Patrician: He comes from the "noble and puissant" House of Rolf. Or so he claims.
- Small Name, Big Ego: It's likely he's just a bandit with delusions of grandeur; especially since his right to rule advice is to basically fake a lineage giving you a claim by blood to be Calradia's king.
- Deshavi claims that he was part of a group called the "Brethren of the Woods", a bandit group, and is quite familiar with the Woods of Ehlerdah which are said to be thick with bandits.
- The Cloudcuckoolander May Be Right: However, he is listed as a noble in the game files, possibly lending some credence to his claims.
Ymira
Ymira
A gentle girl who fled from her Arranged Marriage.- The Baby of the Bunch: Strongly implied to be the youngest hero in the game, given her naiveté even by the standards of her sheltered upbringing and the fact that girls in medieval times were usually married off at the age of 15 or 16.
- Hair of Gold: She's a mostly kind-hearted blonde.
- Magikarp Power: Starts at level 1 with terrible equipment and mediocre abilities outside of intelligence. If you're willing to invest in her, she can surpass Artimenner or Jeremus as an engineer or a medic.
- Runaway Fiancé: She's on the run from an arranged marriage with a man she's disgusted by.
- The Smart Guy: Starts with high Intelligence.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: She basically becomes a mercenary to demonstrate she can take care of herself and because it's sounds fun, with hardly a clue as to what that really entails. She also objects to Deshavi's suggestion for gaining support on the grounds of needing to leave room for mercy.
- This also causes friction between her and Lezalit, as while she understands that military life is difficult, she thinks he genuinely takes pleasure in his cruelty.
Viking Conquest
In General
- Overrated and Underleveled: Partially averted. While most of them are of low level (6 to 12) when recruited, if they are a specialist in an area expect at the very least 7 or even 9 points in the relevant skills. For example, Agathinos starts with engineering 9.
- Permanently Missable Content: Mixed. In story mode, it may be necessary to kill them or they may choose to leave on their own accord at certain points. However, if the story campaign is continued into Sandbox, they can be recruited again even if you had personally killed them as if nothing had happened but the usual instances of companions leaving the party.
- Supporting Leader: Unlike the base game, the leadership skill is useful to companions as they can contribute to your party size with it.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: All of them are based on the companions from the base game, though how much this applies varies per companion. Some such as Reginhard have been completely reinvented from their base character, others have similarities but also enough differences like Brunhild, and others just had the names changes like Clovis.
- You All Meet in an Inn: Played (mostly) straight in sandbox mode as in the base game, but in the story mode this only really applies to optional companions.
Aganthinos
Aganthinos
A Christian engineer from Constantinople kidnapped by some Varangian Guardsmen who was sold to the Jarl of Hordaland, who managed to buy his freedom.In story mode, he approaches the player while they are in the area after clearing Odin's Cave, and is an optional companion. In sandbox mode he can be found in any city at random.
- The Engineer: Basically what he specializes in, joining the player shortly before they are to head to England where sieges will be required.
- The Smart Guy: He begins with a whopping 18 Intelligence when recruited, amongst the highest values available.
- Squishy Wizard: Well, squishy engineer, but the trope remains as Agathinos is not very good in a fight.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's basically Arteminner from the base game.
Ailchu
Ailchu
An Irish peasant with high agility and skirmishing talent, Ailchu thinks extremely highly of himself and his skills as both a warrior and a poet.In story mode, he is an optional hero who can be recruited in Caiseal, while in sandbox he can be found anywhere.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He has Nizar's backstory and dialogue, though in terms of likes and dislikes he actually fills Lezalit's position, the dialogues for which have been customized.
- Warrior Poet: Really confident in his skills as a warrior, and really wants to be sung of.
Asbjorn
Asbjorn
A Danish doctor who served as one of the judges at the Thing near Ribe, Asbjorn has taken an interest in the player as they seem to be wrapped up in the goings-on of the northlands and what is to come, and lends his services rather than returning home.
In story mode, he can join the player after the Thing in Ribe has ended and, if needed, a holmgang completed. In sandbox, he can appear in any mead hall.
- The Medic: His primary role, beginning with seven points in each of the relevant skills.
- Permanently Missable Content: In story mode, should the player join with West Seaxe against the Norse, he will leave the party.
- Squishy Wizard: Thoroughly averted; he begins just as strong as he is intelligent, allowing him to use the heaviest armor from the get-go and he can level up further to increase his toughness in combat.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Jeremus, particularly noticeable in his right-to-rule and fief dialogues.
Beda
Beda
A Christian priest from East Engle, Beda was captured by Sven Bull-Neck and made a slave to assist the player's mother, also in his captivity and is eventually sent to meet with the player in the Boar Grove, and joins the party afterwards.
In Sandbox mode, the above does not happen but he can still join for free if found in any tavern to aid the player.
- But Thou Must!: He is an obligatory recruit for the player's party during story mode, though luckily he doesn't intrude on anything the way Reginhard does.
- Knight Templar: Extremely zealous about his Christian faith, which causes problems with multiple companions.
- Ironically, he has no problems assisting a player that chose to join Northumbyre and the Norse invasion, though his recruitment occurs well after that event.
- Made a Slave: Though he's gotten over it rather quickly.
- Mr. Exposition: In-universe, he writes the Beda Chronicle which is used as interludes and as the epilogue for the story mode.
- Squishy Wizard: The above comes at cost of his combat statistics being utterly terrible - he does have a passable Ironflesh and Power Throw score, but lacks the strength to use heavy armor.
- Support Party Member: He is not as good an engineer as Agathinos, nor as skilled a medic as Asbjorn, and he isn't as much of a secondary leader as Solvieg, but he has a strong mix of Intelligence and Charisma that lets him fill both roles at once or as a backup.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Played With. He has mostly original dialogue, but he takes the place of Klethi with a few minor tweaks.
Bodo
Bodo
A man of the Kingdom of Asturias (in the Cantabrian region of modern-day Spain), Bodo is one of the most important characters in the story mode having become the player character's friend during their journey to Friese, and then by revealing that the player's mother survived Sven's attack. He remains with the player for the rest of the campaign unless the player sides with the Norse.- Death Seeker: Mild case after surviving the raid on the Woden Ric; he knows he should be dead but understands he has to make his second chance count. He will get his wish when the story returns to his home, though whether it is in vain or not depends on which side the player fights for.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Technically, his first appearance in the prologue, but he does not become a companion until later.
- Jack of All Stats: He has a very even distribution of attributes, though oriented towards combat and leadership rather than intelligence skills. Ultimately though, he is better as a warrior than a support party member.
- Permanently Missable Content: In story mode, should the player join with the Norse when the option to leave for West Seaxe comes, he will leave the party.
- Supporting Leader: His skillset puts him pretty firmly into this role, with both combat and Leadership skills to be useful in a fight and to boost the party size.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Firentis, as repentance seeking warriors, though the similarities end there.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: For the player, at least. The fact that he is an agent for the King of Asturias and carrying a letter about and army to fight the Great Army led by the sons of Ragnar is the reason the Woden Ric is attacked in the first place.
Brunhild
Brunhild
A Frisian woman originally from Doccinga, Brunhild was taken by the Jarl of Kennemer to be a maid (or at least that was what her father, Thonkirk, was told), but she was ultimately made a slave by the Jarl, instilling in her a hate for the Danish. She joins the player as they leave Friese behind them as part of escaping. Her story remains the same in the Sandbox mode, though she can be encountered in any tavern instead.- Blue Blood: Despite being a former slave, she is considered to be a noble for the purposes of being granted a fief should the players become an independent ruler.
- Made a Slave: Which has traumatized her to no end and instilled in her a hatred for the Danish.
- Magikarp Power: Similar to Ymira in the base game, she has a high intelligence and can become a capable healer or other support character given enough time. However as attribute points are much rarer in Viking Conquest, she is limited to being a light skirmisher or providing support skills.
- Permanently Missable Content: In story mode, should the player join with the Norse when the option to leave for West Seaxe comes, she will leave the party.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Ymira, though their similarities end at being young women with little combat skills entering adventure. For one, Brunhild begins with some combat points invested rather than having absolutely none as Ymira does.
- Undying Loyalty: Puts a lot in it with the player at first, as the player assists them in escaping from a life of slavery, which is why Solvieg likes her. Make sure it absolutely is undying via the relation score, or if you stay with the Norse when the option to turn on them comes up she will leave.
Caio
Caio
A Roman-Briton who lived in Hardian's Wall along with his father and brothers, Caio is released to join the player if they bring eight units of wheat to the refugees living in its shadows. An expert tracker, he can be an invaluable addition to the party. His recruitment remains the same in both Sandbox and Story mode.- Army Scout: His role in the party, with extremely high Pathfinding and Spotting from the get-go. Tracking is not his forte, however.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Borcha in terms of team role and likes/dislikes.
Ceawlin
Ceawlin
A Saxon warrior who hires on with the player's shield wall if found and recruited in a tavern. He really hates Britons and Picts, seeing them as inferior.- Amazon Chaser: He likes Solvieg for her toughness.
- The Big Guy: He has a starting strength of twenty, meaning he can max out all strength based skills like Ironflesh and Power Strike and with one additional attribute point he can use the Troll's Axe to cut his way through any opposition on the player's behalf.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Bunduk, if you replace a hatred for the nobility with a hatred of Britons.
Clovis
Clovis
A Frankish nobleman living in exile who can join the player's shield wall as a way to keep some dignity in his life. In campaign he is recruited in Cantwaraburgh, while in sandbox he can be found in any mead hall.- The Big Guy: Though Cealwin is much stronger than him, Clovis dwarfs almost every other character and still remains one of the stronger recruitable heroes, though he is a bit more well rounded in his skills.
- Blue Blood: He is a Frankish nobleman in exile, so this comes with the territory.
- Smarter Than You Look: Though he seems to be an arrogant noble warrior, he has a rather high intelligence.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's Alayen with the serial numbers filed off, right down to his dialogue.
Donnchadh
Donnchadh
A laconic Gael with no tolerance for Picts.- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Fills the role of Rolf in the original game, including companions doubting his nobility.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: On recruitment, at least. His starting armor consists of little more than pants.
Dwywei
Dwywei
A Pict woman who was separated from her warband on a scouting mission and was blamed for its failure, forcing her to flee from her people. She eventually took up residence in the Stone Circle within modern-day Wales under the protection of a druid, but seeks to leave as he is crazy.- Action Girl: Of the sniper variety with her crossbow, though she begins with enough points in power draw that she can use a longbow instead.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: Where Caio handles Pathfinding and Spotting, Dwywei handles the actual Tracking skill.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Deshavi, though without the murderous hatred of bandits.
Egil
Egil
A bastard son of Horik Gottfredsson who joins the player's party to get out from that shadow and make a name for himself. He is actually a spy sent by his father to keep tabs on your adventures, and serves as your link to him after an ambush at Ulf's farmstead.- Blue Blood: Averted; though his backstory makes a point of him being the son of a king, he is also a bastard son and is not considered a noble, meaning that landing him will anger vassals.
- Jumped at the Call: He was really eager to get out of his father's shadow and start fighting to earn a name for himself, rather than just being a bastard son serving as a Huscarl for that reason alone.
- Permanently Missable Content: In story mode, should the player be forced to duel him in a Holmgang, it will require them to kill him.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Played With. His story is unlike any of the base game's characters. However, if you ask him about Right to Rule and try to land him with a fief, he will default to Marnid's dialogue and he fills a similar spot in the likes/dislikes lineup.
Helgi
Helgi
A Sviar (Swedish) warrior who had come to Bebbanburh to train warriors, but was discharged due to how harsh his training is.- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Lezalit, though in terms of companion likes/dislikes he is closer to Nizar and unlike Lezalit is not a noble companion.
- Training from Hell: He's based on Lezalit, what did you expect?
Morgant
Morgant
A Welsh Briton who killed a rival and had to flee.- Stay in the Kitchen: He has a rather firm idea of what roles a woman should have, which causes friction with Solvieg who refuses to be ordered around like a tavern wench. Does not come up at all with a female player character, though.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Baheshtur in both story and being built as a riding skirmisher.
Reginhard
Reginhard
A Frisian traitor who first betrayed the brother of a Frisian rebel leader to the Jarl of Kennemer, and then again betrays the aforementioned leader to the player to kill him.- But Thou Must!: You can tell him that he'll be leaving after his relevance to the story passes, but you don't get to remove him until the Holmgang, should he betray you.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: He has the most dislikes of any companion in Viking Conquest - most only have two dislikes and a few have three, but Reginhard sits at five total, all of which are mutual in dislike. While Story Mode prevents companions from leaving to maintain the integrity of the plot, in sandbox mode this makes Reginhard more trouble than he's worth in most parties.
- Permanently Missable Content: In story mode, should the player be forced to duel him in a Holmgang after he sells you out to Sigurd Ragnarson, you will have to kill him in single combat.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The most notable aversion of the roster; while he fills Matheld's role in the lineup of heroes the only thing he shares with her is being a warrior.
Solveig
Solveig
A Norse warrior woman who has been shadowing the player for some time. In story mode, she will assist the player when he or she is ambushed in Denmark while separated from the party and should she survive the encounter she will offer her service. In sandbox mode, she can be recruited in any tavern.- Action Girl: Of the three female companions she is the one who takes this furthest, barring a female player character built for combat.
- Overrated and Underleveled: As a warrior, she is rather average and her starting equipment means she is highly likely to die during her introduction in story mode. As a supporting leader and skill with words, by contrast, she is the best companion available.
- Permanently Missable Content: In story mode, if she dies in her introduction (or the player is defeated), she cannot be recruited. Even if she is, should the player join with West Seaxe against the Norse, she will leave the party.
- Supporting Leader: Her primary role as she has a Charisma of 18 on recruitment and her Leadership is almost maxed out as well, increasing your party size.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Matheld in terms of being a Norse warrior woman, but primarily fills Katrin's role in terms of likes and dislikes.
