NPCs

Arl Eamon Guerrin

Class: Warrior

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Champion (Weapon and Shield)

As the maternal uncle of King Cailan, Arl Eamon is one of the king's most trusted advisors. Redcliffe, while not a large or especially wealthy part of Ferelden, is a critical strategic location.

The fortress guards the western pass that leads to Orlais, as well as the major trade route with Orzammar. He's a well-respected man, though not the most charismatic.

King Cailan once said of him, "My Uncle Eamon is a man everyone thinks well of - when they remember to think of him at all." He doesn't appear in combat until the final battle.

Arl Rendon Howe

Class: Rogue

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Assassin (Dual Wield)

The arling of Amaranthine winds along the sinuous northeastern coast of Ferelden. The Waking Sea is known for its temper, and the storms that sweep in from the warmer northern waters are sudden and brutal.

These are the lands of Rendon Howe. He was born during the occupation, and like many of the nobles at the time, he joined Prince Maric's rebels.

He fought alongside young Bryce Cousland, future teyrn of Highever, and Leonas Bryland, future arl of South Reach, at the bloody battle of White River.

It was the most catastrophic defeat of the entire occupation, from which only 50 rebel soldiers escaped alive. Although he was decorated for valor by King Maric, Howe's abrasive manners have earned him almost universal dislike among his peers.

He appears in combat at the Arl of Denerim's Estate in the "Landsmeet" quest.

Arlessa Isolde

The arling of Redcliffe was a source of constant trouble for Emperor Reville during the occupation; it was rumored that because each new report sent the emperor into a fit of violent rage, his court had taken to poisoning messengers before they could deliver their accounts.

Isolde's family was the tenth to be given the difficult task of governing Redcliffe, and because most of the previous arls had either been murdered by their banns or beheaded by the emperor, they did not approach the job with a great deal of enthusiasm.

Isolde met Eamon, not realizing he was the rightful heir to her father's domain, and quickly became smitten with him for being part of the resistance - nevermind that it was her family he was resisting. Perhaps a bit too romantic for her own good, she insisted upon staying behind.

Bann Teagan Guerrin

Class: Warrior

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Champion (Weapon and Shield)

Younger brother to Arl Eamon of Redcliffe, and uncle to King Cailan, Teagan holds the bannorn of Rainesfere, a tiny province of Redcliffe's squeezed between the Frostback Mountains and Lake Calenhad.

Bann Teagan avoids the Denerim court except to go hunting with his nephew, and rarely makes himself heard at the Landsmeet, preferring to leave politics to his brother.

Beraht

Class: Warrior

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Weapon and Shield

Beraht is the crime lord in Orzammar's Dust Town, and his mercenary thugs earn him as much respect as their fists can collect on a daily basis. If you start the game as a Dwarf Commoner, you reluctantly serve under his iron boot.

Bhelen Aeducan

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Weapon and Shield

Third of King Endrin's children, Bhelen has always been considered the last and least of his family. Not the heir, nor the favorite, and not as accomplished as either sibling, Bhelen's most notable trait is his ability to stay out of trouble.

Branka

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Weapon and Shield

Lost in the Deep Roads for two years, the Paragon smith Branka has been hunting for an ancient artifact, the Anvil of the Void, to return its power to the dwarven empire. Prince Bhelen and Lord Harrowmont both hope that Branka is found to lend her support to their bid for the throne.

Brother Ferdinand Genitivi

Brother Genitivi is one of the Chantry's best-known scholars, primarily on the basis of the stories he has published (which many of his contemporaries dismiss as fanciful) of his travels across the length and breadth of Thedas.

Caladrius

Class: Mage

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Blood Mage

A Tevinter slave trader with a smooth wit and tongue, Caladrius leads the extraction of elf slaves from the Elven Alienage. You meet him as you try to uncover evidence against Loghain during the "Landsmeet" quest.

Connor Guerrin

While most of the banns and arls of Ferelden cart their children with them to the Landsmeet in the interest of eventually marrying them off, Connor has spent his entire life at Redcliffe.

And it's hardly surprising: the child possessed the gift of magic. By law, he should have been taken to the Circle of Magi at the first sign, abdicating his claim to Redcliffe.

Instead, the boy was kept out of public view and his magic hushed up... with disastrous results. All mages are beacons that attract the attention of Fade spirits. Because of this, they are trained and tested by the Circle to ensure that they can withstand attacks from malevolent Fade creatures that seek entry into the waking world.

Untrained, Connor drew the attention of a powerful demon that tore the Veil asunder.

Duncan

Class: Warrior

Special Abilities: Dual Wield

Like many others, Duncan gave up his family name when he joined the ranks of the Wardens in a symbolic gesture of cutting ties. He might say this was a convenience in his case, however.

His mother was from the Anderfels, his father from Tevinter, and his childhood was spent in the Free Marches and Orlais. His people were everywhere and his homeland was nowhere.

He was given the almost impossible task of leading the Wardens in Ferelden- a kingdom that had thrown the order out 200 years earlier. Facing local suspicion and hostility, he set about finding recruits.

First Enchanter Irving

Class: Mage

Rank: Boss (in the "Broken Circle" if you fight him, or Lieutenant in the "Final Onslaught" if he's on your side).

Special Abilities: Spellcaster

There is no higher office in a Circle Tower than that of first enchanter. The one who holds this title must not only be an able administrator, but also a mentor, leader, and surrogate parent to all the mages of the tower.

Irving has proven himself to be all these things and more. Apprentices and mages alike know that few matters escape his watchful eyes. He can soothe templars angered by childish magical pranks while he lauds the pranksters at the same time.

Flemeth

Class : Mage

Rank : Normal

Special Abilities : Spellcaster

Ages ago, legend says Bann Conobar took to wife a beautiful young woman who harbored a secret talent for magic: Flemeth of Highever.

And for a time they lived happily, until the arrival of a young poet, Osen, who captured the lady's heart with his verse. They turned to the Chasind tribes for help and hid from Conobar's wrath in the Wilds, until word came to them that Conobar lay dying.

His last wish was to see Flemeth's face one final time. The lovers returned, but it was a trap. Conobar killed Osen and imprisoned Flemeth in the highest tower of the castle.

In grief and rage, Flemeth worked a spell to summon a spirit into this world to wreak vengeance upon her husband. Vengeance she received, but not as she planned.

The spirit possessed her, turning Flemeth into an abomination. A twisted, maddened creature, she slaughtered Conobar and all his men, and fled back into the Wilds.

Guardian (Urn of Sacred Ashes)

Class : Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Two-Handed

The Guardian of the Urn is a ghostly human figure who is dedicated to protecting it and has done so for millennia.

The guardian hints that he is one of the original disciples of Andraste, who brought the ashes to the mountain.

The magic in the ashes and in the mountain itself has kept him alive for a very long time, and has turned him into something beyond human. He is duty made flesh.

Nothing else matters to him. Don't attack him and he won't attack you. The Guardian greets you at the entrance to the Gauntlet as you near the Urn of Sacred Ashes. Listen to his wisdom and it may help you through the Gauntlet's challenges.

Isabela

Class: Rogue

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Duelist

The rogue Isabela earns a little pocket coin by cheating patrons in the Pearl at games of "chance." She's confident in her abilities, and you first meet her taking on several thugs at once and beating them handily.

She will teach you the duelist specialization if you can outwit her at her own game.

Keeper Zathrian

Class: Mage

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Blood Mage

It is said that elves lived in Ferelden long before any others set foot there, and though most of their knowledge has been lost, it falls to the keeper of each clan to preserve what they have.

Zathrian is an old, severe elf with little love for outsiders, but his clan is facing a more trying enemy than most.

Long ago, in retribution for an attack against his clan, he unleashed a terrible curse: He summoned a spirit into this world, and set it upon the humans who had wronged him.

The spirit did not simply slaughter Zathrian's enemies; it transformed them into monstrous beasts. In time, however, the werewolves he had created regained their minds, and they sought out the one responsible for their suffering, turning the curse upon Zathrian's own people.

King Cailan Theirin

Class: Warrior

Special Abilities: Two-Handed

Son of the legendary King Maric Theirin, Cailan was the first Ferelden king born into a land free from foreign rule in two generations. Since his father's death, he's held the throne alongside his queen, Anora.

King Endrin Aeducan

Endrin of House Aeducan traces his ancestry back to the Paragon Aeducan, the greatest warrior of Orzammar's history, who beat back the darkspawn hordes in the First Blight.

The second son of King Ansgar Aeducan, he became heir after his elder brother died in a Proving. The most respected king in four generations, he restored contact with Kal Sharok, the only other remaining city of the once-vast Dwarven Empire, which had been lost during the First Blight.

Knight-Commander Greagoir

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss (if you fight him in the "Broken Circle," or Lieutenant if he's fighting on your side in the "Final Onslaught")

Special Abilities: Templar (Weapon and Shield)

Grim and taciturn, Greagoir has been knight-commander of the templar forces stationed at the Circle Tower for so many years that hardly anyone except the first enchanter recalls that he is not simply part of the tower itself.

Kolgrim

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Two-Handed

Kolgrim is the leader of a mysterious cult based in the twisted village of Haven. Brother Genitivi's research on the Urn of Sacred Ashes has lead him and many fated knights to the clutches of Kolgrim and his followers.

Loghain Mac Tir

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Champion

A master tactician who has led many armies to victory in Ferelden, Loghain betrays King Cailan and the Grey Wardens at the battle of Ostagar. From that moment on, he is your sworn enemy and sets all his resources to seeing you dead and gone.

Lord Pyral Harrowmont

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Weapon and Shield

House Harrowmont is one of the oldest noble houses, as old as Orzammar itself. Endrin's most trusted advisor, Harrowmont is well-known for being an able administrator, and the author of many compromises in the ever-warring Assembly.

Marjolaine

Class: Rogue

Rank: Elite Boss

Special Abilities: Bard

Marjolaine can only be revealed by embarking on Leliana's personal quest. She is an elite bard who will see you all dead as she tries to strike at Leliana.

Queen Anora

The only child of the war hero Loghain Mac Tir, Anora has never been one to stay quietly in the background.

It is common knowledge that in the five years Anora and Cailan held the throne together, she was the one wielding the power. She is held in much higher esteem than her husband by the people of Ferelden, nobility and commoners alike, and commands the respect even of foreign nations, having once inspired Empress Celene of Orlais to declare, "Anora of Ferelden is a solitary rose among brambles."

Ser Cauthrien

Class: Warrior

Rank: Boss

Special Abilities: Two-Handed

Cauthrien came to Loghain's service the hard way - she belonged to a poor family and was out working on the farm when she saw a man on horseback being attacked by several bandits.

She rushed to his assistance, and found out belatedly that the man she "saved" was none other than the great hero Loghain.

Though she was hardly more than a child, he took her in, offering her a position with his soldiers, and she climbed the ranks through sheer determination. Becoming the commander of Maric's Shield, Loghain's elite soldiers, was the proudest moment of her life.

Taliesin

Class: Rogue

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Assassin (Dual Wield)

Between the Tevinter Imperium, Rivain, and the Free Marches sits the nation of Antiva. Although it possesses few resources of its own, Antiva's location makes it a center for trade in the north, and the capital, Antiva City, is the wealthiest in the world.

Antiva has virtually no army - the monarchy is too weak to support one. Most Antivans would be hard-pressed even to name the current king.

The true power lies in the hands of a dozen merchant princes, each with a personal army, and each locked in a constant struggle for power against all the others.

Anyone would think, then, that Antiva would be a ripe target for invasion by one of her neighbors, but even the qunari leave Antiva alone for one very good reason: the House of Crows.

The most efficient, most feared, and most expensive guild of assassins in the world calls Antiva home, and the guild's reputation alone defends the borders.

Taliesin, an old partner of Zevran's from the Antivan Crows, returns to either kill or save Zevran just before the Landsmeet.

Trian

Class: Warrior

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Warrior Archer

The oldest brother of the Aeducan heirs, Trian has a gruff manner that would turn allies away from him if not for his strength of arms.

When it is time for his father, King Endrin Aeducan, to step down from the throne, Trian is in line for the crown.

Valendrian

Every alienage has a hahren, an elder. It falls to the hahren to arrange marriages for those without family, to negotiate with the guards when there's trouble, and to act as a sort of mayor and surrogate uncle to the people of the alienage.

The title, like so many things, is a holdover from the time of Arlathan, for hahrens are not necessarily the oldest person in their community, or even all that old.

Tradition gives the role to the oldest soul, the wisest, cleverest, and the most level-headed. Valendrian has been hahren of the Denerim Alienage since he was in his 30s.

Vaughan

Class: Rogue

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Duelist

In the City Elf origin story, you have plans for marriage. But before you can be joined in matrimony, the ceremony is interrupted by a noble lord, Vaughan, the son of the arl of Denerim.

Vaughan and his mercenary friends kidnap all the women in the wedding party and take them back to his estate to await his pleasure. He pays for his crimes and eventually ends up in a Denerim cell.

Weylon

Class: Mage

Rank: Lieutenant

Special Abilities: Blood Mage

The real Weylon died unbeknownst to his master, Brother Genitivi in Denerim. This imposter works to cover up Genitivi's strange disappearance, and it's up to the PC and his companions to track Brother Genitivi down to find the Urn of Sacred Ashes—even if it means going through Weylon.