History Characters / PathfinderKingmakerPartyMembers

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: The Royal Crown they receive upon being declared king/queen gives a huge boost (+6) to all three mental stats, making it moderately useful for a physically dependant character and immensely powerful in the hands of a spellcaster.

* ArcherArchetype: He's a ForestRanger with a high Dexterity score and a number of feats invested toward using longbows when you recruit him. He's also quiet, cold, and prefers [[IWorkAlone to work alone]].

* CharacterSelectForcing: He's optional and even missable in Act 2, but as an alchemist, he can create acid bombs to neutralize trollish regeneration, and he's the earliest pre-DLC character who can fill the Treasurer position as an Advisor. Bartholomew Delgado is available shortly thereafter, but parties which don't want to support his necromantic experiments might not even realize he's recruitable, and the next and last candidate, Maegar Varn, isn't available until the end of Act 4 -- making Jubilost almost mandatory should the player want to have an optimal management system without forking over money for mercenaries.

* RequiredPartyMember: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], as he isn't mandatory for Act 2 and is optional, but his ease of access to acid damage during a chapter where you need it to deal with trolls makes him one of the best options to bring, since he can create acid bombs if chosen feat wise. On top of that, without DLC, he's the only member who can fill the Treasurer position as an Advisor, making him almost mandatory should the player want to have an optimal management system without forking over money for mercenaries.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Ginormous Sword is a monster of a blade that deals massive damage, but it also takes a big penalty to its chance to hit thanks to it being oversized. Against smaller enemies with high AC it can be an impractical tool, but it is very potent if you can reduce enemy AC and stack bonuses to attack rolls on Amiri.

* MightMakesRight: She's from a society where the strongest warrior rules over the others... unless they're a woman. She disagrees with the ideology women can't be warriors, but fully accepts the idea that the strong should rule.

* FantasticRacism: Unsurprisingly, he ''hates'' trolls after their rampage left him the SoleSurvivor of his DoomedHometown. He's quite quick to dismiss any offers of peace from other "monster" races as well -- goblins, kobolds, spriggans, and fey -- and he mistrusts the Numerian barbarians' claims that they only fight other fighters, and would never sack an unsuspecting peaceful village.

** He's more concerned with doing right than being liked, and often argues in favor of harsh and unpopular decisions and [[ShootTheDog Shooting the Dog]] rather than risk further trouble.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: While neither is directly recruitable [[spoiler:until the GoldenEnding]], Ekun will permanently leave the game should you ally with Hargulka. He will also leave if you recruit Tartuk after not letting him participate in the battle with Kargadd.

* ChaoticGood: Her InUniverse alignment. Linzi is cheerful, sweet-natured, a devoted friend, and is infuriated by cruelty to other people. She's also more than a little prone to DidntThinkThisThrough, like when she [[spoiler:uses treasury funds to buy a printing press for the capital without asking first]].

* RequiredPartyMember: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as he both isn't mandatory for Act 2 and is optional, but his ease of access to acid damage during a chapter where you need it to deal with trolls makes him one of the best options to bring, since he can create acid bombs if chosen feat wise.

* ButThouMust: You cannot force Linzi out your party or permanently kill her. [[spoiler:You also cannot prevent her from dying at the conclusion]].

* HomoeroticSubtext: Linzi herself is not a romance option for either gender PlayerCharacter and she never outright states that she is gay. However, from the dialogues it is clear that she harbors a crush on Valerie, with her writing constantly bringing up her heavenly beauty. She also becomes flustered around Annamede Belavarah if taken along to the Rushlight Tournament, to a degree that goes way beyond being simply starstruck, and is stated to have [[DistractedByTheSexy failed her exams because of her presence]] prior to the game's start. She also flirts with Octavia in Campside banters, and is offered to join a threesome with her, but ends up too flustered to accept. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/OwlcatGames/comments/pf9ff0/ask_me_anything_session_with_owlcat_games/hb316mp/?context=3 Linzi's writer confirmed during a Q&A session that she was intentionally written to be a lesbian.]]
* HornyBard: {{Downplayed}}. She never directly propositions anyone in the game nor is she a romance option for the PlayerCharacter, but seemingly only because she's too shy to try to act on her feelings: [[InteractiveNarrator her monologues as the game's narrator]] and various other dialogues frequently bring up Valerie's divinely-gifted beauty and she sometimes flirts with Octavia in campfire banter (who invites her to join a threesome at one point, but Linzi is too flustered to accept). She also gets deeply flustered around her idol Annamede Belaverah to a degree that far exceeds [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee merely being star-struck]].

* InformedAttribute: The game says she'll support the free expression and experimentation of magic as a Magister, but in practice she actually usually favors muzzling many avenues of magical research that seem morally dubious. In fairness, it's mostly stuff she equates to slavery, like undead (which trap a portion of the original person's soul in the body) and constructs (which are made by imprisoning elemental or other spirits inside a man-made frame).

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:He can channel Sarenrae's power directly to destroy the Oculus, but it robs his sight in exchange. This is because only a permanently blinded good outsider can destroy the Oculus without a ''holy'' weapon, so Sarenrae chooses to help him ''by'' permanently blinding him. Or, alternatively, he chooses to permanently blind himself with her power so that he can do it; the scene is deliberately ambiguous.]]

* ObliviousToLove: When you click on him, he might share a story about a girl who told him his eyes light up her world, then seemed strangely disappointed when he responded that Sarenrae would light up her soul. If romanced, he'll misread the Baroness's interest early on and has to outright ask if she likes him romantically before he gets it.

* ChaoticNeutral: InUniverse. His only concern is traveling the world and experiencing new sights and events to ward off the Bleaching, and maybe find a way to end it altogether along the way. Helping the Baron/ess is means to an end.

* SmallNameBigEgo: He cannot conceive of the idea that anyone in Avistan who calls themselves educated would not have heard of him. Should you tell him you don't know him, he states you're either stupid or making a very offensive joke at his expense. Interestingly, The General can recognize his name if they pass a Knowledge(World) check during Varnhold's Lot, while the Baron/ess gets no such check when they meet Jubilost.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:He can channel Sarenrae's power directly to destroy the Oculus, but it robs his sight in exchange.]]

* GlassCannon: She can be one of the most effective nukers in your party, but her low Constitution and inability to use Abjuration magic mean she can dish it out but can't long withstand return fire. With the right equipment it's still possible to get her AC to mid-20s or low 30s.

** Her starting Intelligence is a [[DumbBlonde lower than]] [[BrainlessBeauty average 9]]. Party conversations reveal her to be well-versed in noble literature, Shelyn scripture, and warfare. Even if she's something of a philistine, that'd likely fall under the umbrella of Wisdom rather than intelligence.

* LawfulNeutral: InUniverse. Valerie trained to be a paladin and places great stock in sworn oaths and law and order.

* StoneWall: She aspires to be one in-universe, and mechanically is built to wear heavy armor and a massive shield. Her relatively low Strength means that even her initial bastard sword proficiency only offsets her low-damage tendencies by a small amount.

* ChaoticNeutral: Her InUniverse alignment. She cares about little more than wandering the world kicking ass, though she does go through some CharacterDevelopment that changes her perspective somewhat.

** He's also a very skilled High Priest if given the job and puts genuine care and attention into his work. His flavor text describes his efforts as unusual and weird, but effective, and he usually gets results in spite of his oddities. His final speech once you max out the Divine rating for the Kingdom is him talking about how many obscure cults, religious organizations, and traditions you saved from extinction. And how even Abadar, the God of Civilization would approve of your efforts. Oh sure he talks about how pointless it was as they would all die out eventually, but it obvious just how proud he is of all your's and his efforts.

* InformedAttribute: Him being of Evil alignment is not so apparent. He's a pretty chill guy, the ruthlessness manifests [[ByronicHero when it comes to the slavers that abducted him and Octavia.]] To be fair there are hints in dialogue such as him saying that while he doesn't go out of his way to screw people over anybody in his way deserves what they get, his Chaotic Evil alignment seems to imply he values his freedom and is willing to do anything to keep it as well as survive. This is far cry from how Chaotic Evil is usually portrayed. It is implied that he is far closer to the neutral end of the scale, as [[spoiler: a few specific acts of good in the game can cause him to switch his alignment to ChaoticNeutral, without significantly changing his dialogue and personality.]]

* GlassCannon: Eventually downplayed as Regongar achieves higher levels of his magus class and/or Dragon Disciple prestige class and qualifies for using heavier and heavier armors, but at first he's got a ton of damage potential, especially since he's competently built to capitalize on his class's high crit potential with Spellstrike and the ''Shocking Grasp'' spell, alongside absolutely terrible AC (only light armor without the Dexterity to make full use of it, and he not only doesn't get Shield Proficiency but using one is mutually exclusive with his Spell Combat class feature anyway) and mediocre hitpoints on top of his tendency to fight through the pain and get himself killed thanks to his Ferocity. Every spell he casts trying to mitigate these issues is a spell he's not casting to kill enemies outright, and that's setting aside that other party members in his niche can benefit from most of them too.

* OptionalPartyMember: Should you be inclined to, you can just kill him on your first encounter.
** Similar to Jubilost, doing the Ruined Watchtower before Troll Trouble starts will allow you to explore the area while bypass him entirely, and the areas he would reveal can delibertaely be found in othere ways. Skipping Ekundayo is somewhat less likely than Jubilost due to how out-of-the-way the ruined watchtower is, however.

* BerserkButton: Torag and his clergy are a very sore point to him and one of the few things which genuinely [[NotSoStoic tick him off]]. [[spoiler:During his companion quest, he destroys an anvil dedicated to Torag with his ''bare hands'' in a fit of rage.]] [[spoiler:Later in his companion quest it's revealed that this isn't just due to a fit of berserk strength.]]

* ChaoticNeutral: InUniverse. He's a bitter old dwarf who [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch rejected his society]] in favor of WalkingTheEarth as one of Groetus's doomsayers.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite worshiping a god representing the inevitable decay of everything, Harrim is not evil (like Groetus himself) and fairly sees the whole "everything must die" more as a philosophical statement than a divine mandate. He even channels positive energy like a good cleric, allowing him to spontaneously heal the living.

* TheFatalist: As part of his religion, he preaches about the inevitability of fate, how all things must end and how nothing they can ever accomplish even truly matters.

** He's also a very skilled High Priest if given the job and puts genuine care and attention into his work. His final speech once you max out the Divine rating for the Kingdom is him talking about how many obscure cults, religious organizations, and traditions you saved from extinction. And how even Abadar, the God of Civilization would approve of your efforts. Oh sure he talks about how pointless it was as they would all die out eventually, but it obvious just how proud he is of all your's and his efforts.

* GlassCannon: Eventually downplayed as Regongar achieves higher levels of his magus class and qualifies for using heavier and heavier armors, but at first he's got a ton of damage potential, especially since he's competently built to capitalize on his class's high crit potential with Spellstrike and the ''Shocking Grasp'' spell, alongside absolutely terrible AC (only light armor without the Dexterity to make full use of it, and he not only doesn't get Shield Proficiency but using one is mutually exclusive with his Spell Combat class feature anyway) and mediocre hitpoints on top of his tendency to fight through the pain and get himself killed thanks to his Ferocity. Every spell he casts trying to mitigate these issues is a spell he's not casting to kill enemies outright, and that's setting aside that other party members in his niche can benefit from most of them too.

** For some inexplicable reason, he has gold eyes. [[spoiler:In ''Dungeons and Dragons'', golden eyes are typically a [[SupernaturalGoldEyes sign of celestial heritage]]--in his case, ''being'' a polymorphed celestial.]]

* GoodIsNotDumb: He's happy to remind everyone that merciful does not mean stupid. Though he urges the party to take the more merciful route, at times he also supports punishing those who are unrepentant (and he's quite good at reading who is really sincere or not in their repentance).

* LeeroyJenkins: Valerie and [[PetTheDog Jaethal]] laments she just charges into battle with little armor or tactics.