Dark Souls II - Characters
The central characters and NPCs of Dark Souls II, covering the royal family and its fragments, the merchants and smiths who settle in Majula, and the summonable NPC phantoms. Most NPCs can be summoned for specific boss fights, and several have questlines that end only if they survive every summon.
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| Name | Description | Role | Faction | Abilities | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald Herald (Shanalotte) | The hooded woman at the Majula bonfire who explains the curse, levels the player up in exchange for souls, and repeatedly insists that the Bearer of the Curse seek the King. | Guide and level-up NPC | Majula | Level-ups in exchange for souls Estus flask upgrades from Estus Shards Narrative guidance through the main path | Majula bonfire |
| King Vendrick | The king who built Drangleic by conquering the Giants and stealing their power, then hollowed inside his own crypt after discovering what Nashandra was. | Fallen monarch | Drangleic | Giant conquest and the golem army King's Ring authority over Drangleic's doors Optional boss encounter in the crypt | Undead Crypt, below Velstadt's throne room |
| Nashandra | Vendrick's queen and a fragment of Manus, drawn to the throne by the power of the Giants' souls. | Antagonist, Queen of Drangleic | Children of Dark | Dark sorcery and curse application Manipulation of the Drangleic court Final boss encounter at the Throne of Want | Throne of Want |
| Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin | Vendrick's brother, who experimented on dragons, giants and the curse itself and eventually fused with the First Flame's residue to become a burning, root-like immortal. | Antagonist and optional final boss | Drangleic royal family | Fire and root attacks Immortality outside the cycle Unlocks the Scholar of the First Sin ending | Appears at bonfires after the Crown expansions; fought at the Throne of Want |
| Maughlin the Armourer | A nervous armour merchant who moves into Majula's abandoned house and expands his stock as the player spends souls with him. | Merchant | Majula | Armour sales with a spend-based stock expansion Boss armour sets at high soul spend | Majula, eastern house |
| Lenigrast | The hollowed blacksmith locked out of his own Majula smithy until the player finds his key in the Lost Bastille. | Blacksmith | Majula | Standard reinforcement to +10 Weapon repair Titanite stock through Chloanne | Majula smithy, unlocked with the Lenigrast key |
| Steady Hand McDuff | A blacksmith working by torchlight in the Lost Bastille who handles infusion, the mechanic that reshapes a weapon's scaling and damage type. | Blacksmith and infuser | Lost Bastille | Weapon infusion (Fire, Lightning, Magic, Dark, Mundane, Raw, Enchanted, Bleed, Poison) Unlimited Titanite shards Boss weapon reinforcement | Lost Bastille, behind the locked door near the Servants' Quarters |
| Straid of Olaphis | A petrified sorcerer in the Lost Bastille who, once freed with a Fragrant Branch of Yore, trades boss souls for unique weapons and sells high-level sorceries and hexes. | Boss soul trader and spell merchant | Lost Bastille | Boss soul transposition Advanced sorcery and hex sales Petrification-removal quest hook | Lost Bastille cell, freed with a Fragrant Branch of Yore |
| Weaponsmith Ornifex | A bird-woman smith found caged in the Shaded Woods ruins and later resettled in Brightstone Cove Tseldora. | Boss weapon smith | Brightstone Cove Tseldora | Boss weapon forging Petrified Dragon Bone reinforcement Crown expansion weapon trades | Shaded Woods cage, then Brightstone Cove Tseldora |
| Melentia | A cheerful, opportunistic merchant who starts in the Forest of Fallen Giants and relocates to Majula after the player spends with her. | Merchant | Majula | Lifegem and Human Effigy stock Pharros' Lockstone sales Stock expansion with soul spend | Forest of Fallen Giants, then Majula |
| Lucatiel of Mirrah | A masked swordswoman searching for her brother and slowly losing her identity to hollowing. | Summonable ally | Mirrah | Summonable for four boss encounters Mirrah Greatsword moveset Questline reward: Lucatiel's armour set | No-man's Wharf, Lost Bastille, Black Gulch and Drangleic Castle summon signs |
| Benhart of Jugo | A boastful warrior with a fake Moonlight Greatsword who claims a glorious past he may not have had. | Summonable ally | Jugo | Summonable for multiple boss encounters Two-handed greatsword moveset Questline reward: Bluemoon Greatsword | Summon signs across Drangleic |
| Vengarl of Forossa | A disembodied head sitting in the Shaded Woods who sells weapons and armour while his body wanders the world as a hostile phantom. | Headless warrior and merchant | Forossa | Weapon and armour sales Summon for the Looking Glass Knight Body phantom drops the Vengarl set | Shaded Woods, near the Ruined Fork Road |
| Licia of Lindeldt | A cleric who opens the way to Huntsman's Copse using a Rotunda Lockstone and then sells miracles from Majula's rotunda. | Miracle merchant | Lindeldt | Miracle sales Opens the Huntsman's Copse route Price scaling with sin | Majula, the rotunda between the eastern and northern paths |
| Felkin the Outcast | A hooded hexer living in a hut in Huntsman's Copse who sells dark magic and the Sunset Staff. | Hex merchant | Huntsman's Copse | Hex sales Sunset Staff stock Dark magic build support | Huntsman's Copse hut |
| Darkdiver Grandahl | The masked leader of the Pilgrims of Dark who appears in three locations and inducts the player into the covenant that opens the Dark Chasm of Old. | Covenant leader | Pilgrims of Dark | Pilgrims of Dark induction Opens the Dark Chasm of Old Darklurker access | Black Gulch, Shaded Woods and Drangleic Castle |
| Alsanna, Silent Oracle | A fragment of Manus who married the Ivory King and froze Eleum Loyce to contain the chaos beneath it. | Quest NPC | Children of Dark | Grants the Eye of the Priestess Opens the frozen paths of Eleum Loyce Crown of the Ivory King questline | Eleum Loyce, Crown of the Ivory King |
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