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3.0 / 3.5 Iconic Characters

For the 3.0 and 3.5 editions of Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast created a set of iconic characters for each base and prestige class to provide examples for illustrations and flavor text. Some of the iconics also featured in official fiction, the "Iconic Characters of Power" novels by T.H. Lain, the "Creature Feature" short stories in the Knowledge Arcana web magazine, and the occasional article on the Wizards D&D website. The core class iconics also received stats in the Enemies and Allies splatbook.

Alhandra

Race: Human

Class: Paladin (Heironeous)

Alignment: Lawful Good

• Amazonian Beauty: She's described as pretty, tall, and hard-looking/muscular on a regular basis.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Kind of. She knows she's considered attractive as a general thing, but whenever anyone actually has an attracted reaction to her, she doesn't seem to really notice.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: So. Apparently she was engaged to be married, and at one point when her and her fiancé were alone away from civilization he tried to talk her into having sex with him ahead of time. She refused, wanting to wait until their wedding day, so he indirectly lied that they did it anyway by not countering the resulting gossip and rumors, which resulted in her reputation being ruined and the marriage being broken off. She then joined up as a paladin as a response to feeling jilted. ...OK, then.
• Depending on the Artist/Writer: Her hair color.
• Even the Girls Want Her: It would probably be faster to list the characters of either sex who have met her that aren't somehow enamored with, worshipful of, and/or jealous of her.
• Good Is Not Nice: Though less that she's Lawful Stupid, and more that she's a bit tactless, aggressive, impatient, and prone to enjoying viciously teasing and picking on people.

Devis

Race: Half-Elf

Class: Bard

Alignment: Neutral Good

• Disguised in Drag: At one point he dresses up as the lady-in-waiting of a Lord's wife to try to sneak into her knickers. It works a bit too well, and Hilarity Ensues.
• Homoerotic Subtext: Tordek mistakes Devis as actually being a woman during the incident described above, and tries kissing him. Even after he finds out the truth, he still says Devis "has such a pretty mouth" and that the dress fit him nicely.
• Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: Though admittedly usually he didn't actually want to get married and just failed to escape a Shotgun Wedding, so it may not have mattered even if he mentioned that fact...
• Really Gets Around: He apparently has six wives, and scores more girlfriends and lovers, including Mialee.

Eberk

Race: Dwarf

Class: Cleric (Moradin)

Alignment: Lawful Good

Ember Tigerclaw

Race: Human

Class: Monk

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Gimble

Race: Gnome

Class: Bard

Alignment:

• Attention Whore: Sometimes◊.

Hennet Dragonborn

Race: Human

Class: Sorcerer

Alignment: Chaotic Good

• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Nebin.
• Too Many Belts
• Walking Shirtless Scene

Jozan

Race: Human

Class: Cleric (Pelor)

Alignment: Neutral Good

• All-Loving Hero: He's pretty consistently portrayed at least on the surface as seeing the good in everyone and wanting to be good to everyone. Though whether underneath the surface it's being played straight, exaggerated, lampshaded, subverted, or deconstructed depends on which story you happen to be reading (and sometimes which chapter of said story).
• Amazon Chaser: While he notices Alhandra's pretty, he seems more captivated/enamored by the fact that she's tall, built, devout, self-confident, and can kick people's backsides six ways from Sunday.
• Berserk Button: Any time he feels like he or Pelor is being mocked or even jokingly teased, he'll go off on a Tranquilly Furious lecture. Or maybe it's just Lidda who drives him insane.
• Chaste Hero: Ostensibly for the expected reason, but in practice he comes off as more just really clueless about all things involving women.
• Dork Knight: He's a complete doof around women in the novels, especially Alhandra. And in the "Creature Feature" stories he's a "Good Little Christian Boy" to the point of even other characters (usually Lidda) complaining that he is Sickeningly Sweet.
• The Face: He's pretty good at coming up with some decidedly flowery diplomacy when the situation calls for it. And in the "Creature Feature" stories he seems to be literally the only one with anything approaching social skills.
• Gentleman Snarker: Comes out with some surprisingly good zingers on occasion. Also, whenever he has the story's POV he turns out to be a major First-Person Smartass, albeit still a mostly sugary one.
• The Klutz: His difficulty with anything significantly more dexterous than bashing things and dodging is a plot point on occasion.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Lidda, bordering on With Friends Like These... at times.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Starts off this way, eventually ends up losing the wide-eyed part.

Krusk

Race: Half-Orc

Class: Barbarian

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

• Hunter of His Own Kind: Really, really hates Orcs, and will go out of his way to hunt them down.
• Interspecies Romance: With a human barmaid in one of the novels.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He finds it useful to pretend to be a dumb Orc to intimidate people sometimes.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: When he's speaking normally.

Lidda

Race: Halfling

Class: Rogue

Alignment: Chaotic Good

• Bratty Half-Pint: She acts like this at times despite technically being an adult.
• The Fake Cutie: Plays up her little girl looks sometimes when she thinks it'll get her out of being punished for something.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Complains a bit in one of the novels about how hard it is to get a date thanks to this, though she does have a bit of an attraction to Regdar anyway.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Especially to Jozan, and Regdar to a lesser extent.
• The Nicknamer: All over the place, especially of the Malicious Misnaming and Insult of Endearment variety.
• Not a Morning Person: One of the many, many sticking points between her and Jozan.
• Older Than They Look: Sometimes she takes advantage of it, sometimes she just finds it annoying.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Really, really doesn't know when to shut up sometimes.
• Sarcastic Devotee: To Jozan, especially in the "Creature Feature" stories.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jozan, bordering on With Friends Like These... at times.

Mialee

Race: Elf

Class: Wizard

Alignment: True Neutral

• Stripperific: He dress does little to cover her chest or belly, which the other characters pick on her about sometimes.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Depending on the Artist, she can look anything from very fey but still feminine, to Lady Looks Like a Dude, to Dear Heavens What IS That Thing.

Naull

Race: Human

Class: Wizard

Alignment:

• Battle Couple: With Regdar... when she's not busy being kidnapped instead.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Once when she thinks Regdar likes Alhandra, and once when a Duke tries setting Regdar up with his daughter.
• Disney Death: When she gets sucked into the City of Fire in the eponymously titled novel.
• Disposable Woman: She spends almost all of her appearances needing saving in some way, and seems to mostly exist solely to torment Regdar with worrying about her or needing to rescue her. She even gets killed twice.
• Killed Off for Real: In the last novel of the T.H. Lain series.

Nebin Raulnor

Race: Gnome

Class: Illusionist

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Regdar Blacksword

Race: Human

Class: Fighter

Alignment: Neutral Good

• Betty and Veronica: Thanks to being on the wrong end of a heavily-suggested attempt at an Arranged Marriage on the part of his Duke, he ends up stuck in a Love Triangle with Naull as the Betty and the Duke's daughter as the Veronica. Naull is not amused.
• The Captain: Serves as one in Duke Ramas' army in New Koratia.
• The Chew Toy: He's portrayed as getting his backside thoroughly handed to him at least once a splatbook, due to an Artist Revolt from having him be a white guy and forced to be pimped all over the place. The Running Gag even outlives 3.0/3.5 and into the 4e books.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Much to Naull's constant irritation.
• Executive Meddling: According to Monte Cook—Originally, Tordek was intended to be the iconic fighter and general mascot for D&D 3E. However, the marketing department at Wizards of the Coast believed only a white male human would draw more customers and commissioned art for Regdar behind the developers' backs. Hence why the developers made Regdar The Chew Toy.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Admits to thinking so in one of the novels, though the fact that one girl is his girlfriend and the other is the blackguard that kidnapped her ruins things a bit.
• Would Hit a Girl: Though to be fair, the girl in question did just essentially electrocute his nether bits.

Soveliss

Race: Elf

Class: Ranger

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Tordek

Race: Dwarf

Class: Fighter

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

• Boisterous Bruiser: He just wants to have fun and impress women.
• Carpet of Virility: To the point of being almost Godiva Body Hair, if one of the "Creature Feature" stories is to be believed.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: He's a dwarf, making him about half the height of a human, and he's a Fighter, a physical powerhouse class.

Vadania

Race: Half-Elf

Class: Druid

Alignment: True Neutral

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