NPCs, or non-player characters, encompass the various, usually non-hostile characters one can encounter within Cairn, the world of Grim Dawn. Their function is to provide various services to the player or give quests, impart background information and lore, or merely serve to populate the world.
Service NPCs[ | ]
Merchants[ | ]
Merchants are NPCs to who offer a wide selection of equipment for sale to the player, and will buy unwanted items. Merchant wares change periodically, so you never know what they will have to offer.
Some merchants can be found in hard to reach places and can offer specialty items not found at any other vendor.
Smuggler[ | ]
Smugglers provide a means for the player to store items, either for later use, or to transfer to another character. Smugglers provide each character with a personal stash, as well as a shared stash, which can be accessed by any character. All Smugglers are interconnected, so an item deposited with one Smuggler can be accessed with others.
The Shared Stash can be upgraded with additional tabs of storage, at the cost of Iron Bits. These upgrades are unlocked across all of your characters.
Note that characters rolled in hardcore mode cannot access the shared stash of characters rolled in normal mode, and vice-versa.
Spirit Guide[ | ]
Spirit Guides allow the player to reallocate Skill and Devotion points. There is a small fee, which becomes progressively more expensive the more points are refunded.
Note that you cannot unlearn a skill point invested in an active skill without first unlearning all points from passive skills which affect it. It is now possible to remove points from the Mastery bar, but you still cannot completely unlearn a mastery.
Inventor[ | ]
Inventors will take items with attached components and salvage either the item or the component. They are also capable of dismantling equipment and turning it into valuable scrap and components. The more powerful the item, the more powerful the components it can generate. This process requires dynamite.
Blacksmith[ | ]
The Blacksmith offers Crafting services. All equipment created by a Blacksmith is imbued with an additional property specific to the Blacksmith crafting it, making crafting an appealing way to acquire gear.
Illusionist[ | ]
The Illusionist is available with the Ashes of Malmouth Expansion, and offers equipment transmogrification services. The Illusionist will re-skin equipment to look like any other item of the same category.
Other Characters[ | ]
Act 1 NPCs[ | ]
Act 2 NPCs[ | ]
Act 3 NPCs[ | ]
| Alex Elmsworth Beatrice Summers Bolvia Brother Adrius - Master of Arms Brother Elluvius Brother Jarron - Kymon's Supplier Brother Lector Brother Molltair Brother Ulnox Caaraka Captain Somer Chef Brackham Collin Taverin Daila Thornsbury Dalla Dean Oldbarrow Deathmark Kadris Deathmark Harra Deathmark Vallar Denny Oldbarrow Douglass Sullivan Oldbarrow |
Elara Emily Larkson Father Kymon Galarok Harry - Smuggler Haruuv Henry Elmsworth Inquisitor Creed Kaldara Kalista Keeper Malvor - Keeper of Artifacts Keeper Poruuk - Keeper of Artifacts The Keeper of Tomes Laruka Lisa Thornsbury Lisandra Avery Maria Oldbarrow Master Varukk Myla Finegan Nathaniel Thorn Neddie |
Oliver Thornsbury Phil Rallia Ralukk Rob Halloway Renall Oberach Scoutmaster Lysell Sergeant Serriv Sister Thaddia Soulkeeper Kaandris Taris Windborough Tarvic Thorne - Quartermaster Tricia Windborough Umkalo Vaam Vig Weapons Master Borrov Whitfield - Specialty Goods |
| Soldier Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Blade Arc (Clean Sweep - Laceration) • Blitz (Blindside) • Cadence (Discord - Fighting Form - Deadly Momentum) • Forcewave (Tremor - Rending Force - Internal Trauma) • Overguard • War Cry (Terrify - Break Morale) |
| Passive Skills |
| Decorated Soldier • Fighting Spirit • Markovian's Advantage • Menhir's Will • Military Conditioning • Scars of Battle • Shield Training • Veterancy • Zolhan's Technique |
| Toggle Skills |
| Counter Strike • Field Command (Squad Tactics) • Menhir's Bulwark • Oleron's Rage |
| Demolitionist Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Blackwater Cocktail (High Potency - Demon Fire - Agonizing Flames) • Canister Bomb (Concussive Bomb - Improved Casing) • Fire Strike (Explosive Strike - Searing Might - Searing Strike - Static Strike - Brimstone) • Flashbang (Searing Light) • Grenado (High Impact - Skyfire Grenado) - Shattering Blast • Mortar Trap (Heavy Ordnance - "The Big One") • Stun Jacks (Quick Jacks - Full Spread) • Thermite Mine (Hellfire Mine) |
| Passive Skills |
| Blast Shield • Ulzuin's Chosen |
| Toggle Skills |
| Flamed Touched (Temper) • Vindicative Flame (Ulzuin's Wrath) |
| Occultist Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Blood of Dreeg (Aspect of the Guardian) • Blood Pox (Fevered Rage - Wasting - Black Death) • Curse of Frailty (Vulnerability) • Doom Bolt • Dreeg's Evil Eye (Blood Burst - Focused Gaze - Terrifying Gaze - Vile Eruption) • Sigil of Consumption (Destruction) |
| Toggle Skills |
| Bonds of Bysmiel (Manipulation) • Possession • Solael's Witchfire (Consecrated Blade - Second Rite) |
| Summons |
| Summon Familiar (Mend Flesh - Storm Spirit - Lightning Strike) • Summon Hellhound (Ember Claw - Hellfire - Infernal Breath) |
| Nightblade Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Amarasta's Blade Burst (Lethal Assault) • Blade Barrier • Blade Trap (Devouring Blades) • Phantasmal Blades (Frenetic Throw - Heart Seeker - Nether Edge) • Pneumatic Burst (Breath of Belgothian - Shadow Dance - Elemental Awakening) • Ring of Steel (Ring of Frost - Circle of Slaughter) • Shadow Strike (Nidalla's Justifiable Ends - Nightfall) |
| Passive Skills |
| Anatomy of Murder • Dual Blades (Belgothian's Shears - Hidden Hands - Amarasta's Quick Cut - Whirling Death - Execution) • Merciless Repertoire • Phantasmal Armor |
| Toggle Skills |
| Veil of Shadow (Night's Chill) |
| Summons |
| Blade Spirit |
| Arcanist Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Albrecht's Aether Ray (Tainted Power - Disintegration) • Callidor's Tempest (Wrath of Agrivix - Inferno) • Devastation • Maiven's Sphere of Protection (Conversion) • Mirror of Ereoctes • Nullification • Olexra's Flash Freeze (Absolute Zero) • Panetti's Replicating Missile (Distortion - Supercharged - Proliferation) • Trozan's Sky Shard (Frozen Core - Shattered Star) |
| Passive Skills |
| Arcane Will • Fabric of Reality • Inner Focus • Mental Alacrity |
| Toggle Skills |
| Iskandra's Elemental Exchange (Manifestation - Overload - Elemental Balance) • Reckless Power • Star Pact |
| Shaman Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Brute Force (Feral Hunger - Upheaval) • Devouring Swarm • Grasping Vines (Entangling Vines) • Primal Strike (Thunderous Strike - Torrent - Storm Surge) • Savagery (Might of the Bear - Tenacity of the Boar - Storm Touched) |
| Toggle Skills |
| Mogdrogen's Pact (Heart of the Wild - Oak Skin) • Primal Bond • Stormcaller's Pact |
| Summons |
| Conjure Primal Spirit • Storm Totem (Corrupted Storm) • Summon Briarthorn (Ground Slam - Emboldening Presence) • Wendigo Totem (Blood Pact) • Wind Devil (Raging Tempest - Maelstrom) |
| Inquisitor Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Flames of Ignaffar - (Tainted Flame - Intensify - Infernal Purge - Endless Flame) • Horn of Gandarr • Inquisitor Seal - (Null Field - Arcane Empowerment) • Rune of Hagarrad - (Biting Cold - Chillsurge) • Rune of Kalastor - (Ignition) • Storm Box of Elgoloth (Allagast's Arcane Net - Lightning Tether) • Word of Pain (Word of Agony - Death Sentence) • Word of Renewal - (Word of Arms - Vigor - Steel Resolve) |
| Passive Skills |
| Artifact Handling • Bursting Round • Chilling Rounds • Deadly Aim • Ranged Expertise • Storm Spread |
| Toggle Skills |
| Aura of Censure • Aura of Conviction |
| Necromancer Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Bone Harvest (Harvester of Death - Dread - Soul Harvest) • Call of the Grave • Drain Essence (Gravechill - Hungering Reach - Decomposition) • Ill Omen • Mark of Torment • Ravenous Earth (Decay - Foul Eruption) • Reap Spirit • Siphon Souls - (Sear Souls - Blood Boil) |
| Passive Skills |
| Necrotic Edge • Reaping Strike |
| Toggle Skills |
| Harbinger of Souls • Master of Death • Spectral Binding (Spectral Wrath) |
| Summons |
| Raise Skeletons (Undead Legion - Will of the Crypt) • Reap Spirit • Summon Blight Fiend (Unstable Anomaly - Rotting Fumes - Blight Burst) |
| Oathkeeper Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Aegis of Menhir (Avenging Shield - Aegis of Thorns - Reprisal) • Ascension (Clarity of Purpose) • Eye of Reckoning (Soulfire) • Judgment (Crushing Verdict - Heart of Wrath) • Righteous Fervor (Dreeg's Reproach - Consecration - Retribution) • Vire's Might (Volcanic Might - Volcanic Stride - Tectonic Shift) |
| Passive Skills |
| Resilience • Safeguard • Shattering Smash • Smite |
| Toggle Skills |
| Divine Mandate • Path of the Three • Presence of Virtue (Haven - Rebuke) |
| Summons |
| Summon Guardian of Empyrion (Scion of Dreeg - Celestial Presence) |
| Items |
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| Weapons • Axes • Maces • Swords • Two-handed Melee • Pistols • Two-handed Ranged • Daggers • Scepters • Shields • Off-Hands Armor • Head Armor • Shoulder Armor • Chest Armor • Hand Armor • Leg Armor • Foot Armor Accessories • Amulets • Rings • Medals • Belts Unique Items • Sets • Monster Infrequents Relics • Components • Augments • Blueprints • Recipes • Materials • Consumables |
| Creatures |
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| Aetherial • Aether Corruption • Arachnid • Beast • Beastkin • Chthonic • Eldritch Human • Insectoid • Riftspawn • Undead • Heroes • Bosses • Pets |
