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Lords of the Fallen

Lords of the Fallen NPCs

All 20 people you can talk to — 15 with a full questline walkthrough, 8 who sell something, and 7 who can end up fighting you.

Vendors

Everyone who sells you something. Stock is read from the items themselves, so it matches what each item page says about where to buy it.

Damarose the Marked, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Damarose the Marked Sells 6 Can be fought 3 locations Questline An Adyr worshipper who cut off her own hand as an offering, and sells to anyone willing to overlook it. Side against her near the end of her quest and she becomes a fight. Exacter Dunmire, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Exacter Dunmire Sells 28 3 locations Questline The Dark Crusaders' Exacter, who sets you on the beacons and supplies you for the work. The largest stock of any vendor in the game. Molhu, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Molhu Sells 12 Skyrest Bridge Questline An ancient priest who trades in the Umbral, and who spent ages of failures on the process that finally produced Elianne. Stomund, Captain of the Fidelis, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Stomund, Captain of the Fidelis Sells 23 2 locations Questline Captain of the Knights of the Fidelis, who believes the Hallowed Sentinels can still be redeemed. Sells the second-largest stock in the game. Thehk-Ihir, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Thehk-Ihir Sells 12 6 locations Questline A pilgrim who never completed his pilgrimage — the game files call him the Failed Pilgrim — and who sells what he gathered on the way. Tortured Prisoner, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Tortured Prisoner Sells 11 Can be fought 3 locations Questline A prisoner found caged and nameless, who trades with you once freed. Who she actually is the game withholds until very late. Winterberry, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Winterberry Sells 10 2 locations Questline A child who trades with Deep Sparrows and tries to make friends with everything, including a brogid. Her asset name is DeepSparrowTrader.

Blacksmith and crafter

Upgrades and rune work.

Gerlinde, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Gerlinde Sells 11 2 locations Questline The blacksmith. Upgrades weapons and sells the materials to do it — you have to free her from a cell in Pilgrim's Perch first. Sparky, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Sparky 2 locations The crafter, whose character asset is literally called TheCrafter. Works runes into weapons once you have found him.

Questlines

People whose story goes somewhere. Six of them end in a fight, and those link to the boss page.

Andreas of Ebb, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Andreas of Ebb Can be fought Skyrest Bridge Questline A scavenger who believes humanity needs no gods, only the right man to lead it. Follow his questline far enough and it ends in a fight. Byron, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Byron 5 locations Questline A gravekeeper, and half of the only love story in Mournstead. His questline and Catrin's are the same questline told from one side. Drustan, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Drustan 3 locations Questline A cheerful fraud passing himself off as a lampbearer, which the game files record plainly: his character asset is called FakeLampbearer. Eustace 2 locations A Knight of the Fidelis, and one of Stomund's. The game gives him no portrait of his own. Iselle Questline A young Abbess with an armour set to her name and no portrait in the gallery. The game files her under YoungAbbess and calls her Iselle. Kukajin, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Kukajin Can be fought 2 locations Questline A mercenary of the Envenomed, found petrified in the Forsaken Fen. Free her and she will fight beside you for a fee — fail to pay it and she comes for you. Nathaniel 2 locations A Knight of the Fidelis alongside Eustace. The game gives him no portrait of his own. Paladin Isaac, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Paladin Isaac Can be fought Questline A Paladin of the Dark Crusaders who doubts the work he has been given. Beating him is what unlocks the Dark Crusader class. Pieta, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen Pieta Can be fought Skyrest Bridge She of Blessed Renewal, met as a boss before she is ever met as an ally. Her own scenes are the ones where somebody tries to tell Judge Cleric the truth. The Iron Wayfarer, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen The Iron Wayfarer Can be fought 7 locations Questline The protagonist of the first Lords of the Fallen, still walking. Decisions during his questline can turn him hostile.

Not quite people

The Putrid Mother, an NPC in Lords of the Fallen The Putrid Mother The Umbral goddess herself, who receives all into her grace. An entity you meet rather than a person you talk to, but the game files her as an NPC.

Read this before you start any of them

Most failed questlines in this game trace back to one of five decisions. 15 of the 20 NPCs here have a walkthrough, and every one of them can be broken by something on this list.

1
Cleansing a beacon locks your ending

Five Radiant Beacons sit behind Sentinel bosses: Forsaken Fen, Upper Calrath, Fief of the Chill Curse, Tower of Penance and The Empyrean. Killing the boss and cleansing the beacon are separate actions. The instant you cleanse one you are committed to the Radiance ending, Inferno and Umbral become impossible, and Damarose turns hostile. Kill the Sentinels and walk away from their beacons to keep your options open.

2
The Lightreaper has room for one friend

Paladin Isaac, Kukajin and the Tortured Prisoner all want to be summoned at the final Lightreaper fight, and you get one summon. Choosing Isaac fails Kukajin permanently and the reverse. Decide before you enter that arena.

3
Merchants close forever, always at the worst moment

Stomund, Exacter Dunmire, Thehk-Ihir, the Tortured Prisoner and Damarose each shut their shop permanently at a specific step. Spend your Vigor before you hand the item over, not after.

4
Resting at a vestige is what advances NPCs

Several characters — the Iron Wayfarer worst of all — move when you sit at a vestige, not when you clear an area. If someone is not where they should be, rest and look again, and check the Umbral realm.

5
Doors are one-way triggers

Three are quest guillotines: the Fief of the Chill Curse door kills Drustan's quest if opened early, the church gate to The Empyrean removes Thehk-Ihir and Stomund, and the Bramis Castle gate forecloses the Umbral rune handoff. Do the local business first.

Where the sources disagree

7 places where the sources behind these walkthroughs contradicted each other. They are listed rather than resolved, because picking a winner we cannot verify is worse than saying we do not know.

  • Hallowed Sentinel Scripture is placed in Pilgrim's Perch by two sources and Forsaken Fen by a third. Pilgrim's Perch first.
  • The Iron Wayfarer's Lower Calrath position is given as either the Vestige of Lydia the Numb Witch or the Vestige of Sebastian. Same district.
  • The Iron Wayfarer's own steps have you cleansing the second Upper Calrath beacon, which contradicts the Umbral ending's requirement to cleanse nothing.
  • Andreas of Ebb's Book of Lineage branch is described three ways. Handing it over is the safe read.
  • Sparky's fate on his own branch differs between sources.
  • Winterberry moved in patch 1.6.49 and both positions are still documented.
  • Melchior appears both as a body in the Effigy of Adyr and as a character in Mother's Lull.

Where this comes from

The roster is the game's own: it keeps a UI record for every character it treats as an NPC, and this is all of them. Shop stock is read from the items, so it agrees with what each item page says about buying it. Locations come from the quest-step spawners standing in the game's levels — which is why an NPC who moves shows the whole route rather than one address. Datamined

The walkthroughs are the exception and are labelled as one. Steps, triggers and fail states are confirmed in play — the game files record quest steps but not reliably what advances them, so a step-by-step cannot be datamined. What the build does check is every reward they name: 65 of 66 resolve to items in our own data, and the one that does not is a consumable we have never ingested rather than a claim that is wrong.