NPCs

Many of the Non Player Characters are non-essential to the main storyline, however most of them have small quests or functions of their own.

Alvina of the Darkroot Wood

Anastacia of Astora

Black Iron Tarkus

Crestfallen Warrior

Dark Sun Gwyndolin

Darkstalker Kaathe

Dusk of Oolacile

Everlasting Dragon

Gravelord Nito

Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight

Hawkeye Gough

Kingseeker Frampt

Kirk, Knight of Thorns

Knight Lautrec of Carim

Lady of the Darkling

Lord's Blade Ciaran

Maneater Mildred

Marvellous Chester

Oscar, Knight of Astora

Paladin Leeroy

Petrus of Thorolund

Quelaag's Sister

Quelana of Izalith

Rhea of Thorolund

Vince and Nico of Thorolund

Sieglinde of Catarina

Siegmeyer of Catarina

Sif, the Great Grey Wolf

Solaire of Astora

Witch Beatrice

Xanthous King, Jeremiah

Phantom Information

Some of the NPCs in the game will make themselves available to the player at bosses as helpful phantoms if the player is in human form.
Conversely, there are also NPCs that will also invade the player's world through scripted events.

Note: Black Phantoms will only spawn if the player is in human form and the area boss has not been defeated.
Therefore if the area boss is defeated before being invaded by a particular NPC Black Phantom, that NPC will not become available until the next playthrough.