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<div style="font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; text-align: center;">Characters</div>
<div style="font-size: 0.85em; color: #6b7684; text-align: center;">the people the story turns on</div>
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| colspan="2" style="background-color: #1c232b; padding: 4px;" | <div style="color: #c9b27a; font-size: 0.85em; text-align: center;">A gunman among townspeople</div><div style="color: #6b7684; font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center;">Official key art, Pearl Abyss</div>
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| style="text-align: left;" | One to each surviving state
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'''Characters''' in ''[[Black Desert]]'' are the named figures the world's politics run through, and most of them are rulers or the people who displaced rulers.

The setting is unusually crowded with recent history. Three of the four western powers changed hands within a decade of where an adventurer arrives, so the important figures are not distant legends but people currently holding, or currently losing, a throne.

The exception is the one character every player has. The [[Black Desert/Black Spirit|Black Spirit]] attaches itself to the adventurer at the beginning and never leaves, handing out quests and pushing them onward, and it is the only character the whole playerbase shares.

= Rulers =

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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Sahazad Nesser|Sahazad Nesser]]
| Sixth king of [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]], holding a throne he cannot fully legitimize without the golden key.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Neruda Shen|Neruda Shen]]
| Head of the merchant guilds and, since the monarchy burned, effective ruler of [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Brolina Ornette|Brolina Ornette]]
| Queen of [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]], who inherited a civil war and later reopened the borders.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Viorencia Odore|Viorencia Odore]]
| Once the only princess of the Vedir, now queen of the Ahib in [[Black Desert/O'dyllita|O'dyllita]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Crucio Domongatt|Crucio Domongatt]]
| Last king of [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]], who demoted himself to Lord after losing the war he started.
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= The dead and the deposed =

Rather more of the important names belong to people who are no longer in charge.

Guy Seric took [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]] for [[Black Desert/Calpheon|Calpheon]] and died in circumstances nobody has explained, after which the Calpheonite monarchy collapsed into a council. Bareeds II of [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]], remembered as the least capable king that country had, died when his castle burned. King Dahad of Calpheon was buried with his army by a sandstorm in the [[Black Desert/Great Valencian Desert|Great Valencian Desert]].

Further back, Noir Bartali III destroyed his own kingdom in [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] trying to buy immortality, and Imur Nesser of Valencia ordered a massacre that his people blamed for the plague that followed.

= Outside the courts =

[[Black Desert/Illezra|Illezra]] is the figure who changed the map most directly. She unsealed the Book of Cartian, took the power inside it, and brought on the Three Days of Darkness that ended the Mediahn monarchy.

Others matter for what they hold rather than what they did. Chief Durgeff of [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] broke with precedent by hiring foreign hunters when dragons returned, and the [[Black Desert/Aakman|Aakman]] guard relics from a civilization that predates every state on the map.

= See also =

* [[Black Desert]]
* [[Black Desert/Lore|Lore]]
* [[Black Desert/Factions|Factions]]
* [[Black Desert/Timeline|Timeline]]
* [[Black Desert/Regions|Regions]]
* [[Black Desert/Home|Home]]

= Further reading =

* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=300 History of Valencia — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=298 History of Mediah — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://blackdesertonline.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters Characters — Black Desert Wiki (Fandom)]

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{{ Black Desert/Banner }} {| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #1c232b;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | colspan="2" style="padding: 10px; background-color: #1c232b;" | <div style="font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; text-align: center;">Characters</div> <div style="font-size: 0.85em; color: #6b7684; text-align: center;">the people the story turns on</div> |- | colspan="2" style="padding: 0;" | ![[Black_Desert_Characters_key_art.webp]] |- | colspan="2" style="background-color: #1c232b; padding: 4px;" | <div style="color: #c9b27a; font-size: 0.85em; text-align: center;">A gunman among townspeople</div><div style="color: #6b7684; font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center;">Official key art, Pearl Abyss</div> |- |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b; width: 32%;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Constant companion | style="text-align: left;" | [[Black Desert/Black Spirit|The Black Spirit]] |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rulers | style="text-align: left;" | One to each surviving state |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Period | style="text-align: left;" | Mostly the 280s of the [[Black Desert/Timeline|Elionian calendar]] |} '''Characters''' in ''[[Black Desert]]'' are the named figures the world's politics run through, and most of them are rulers or the people who displaced rulers. The setting is unusually crowded with recent history. Three of the four western powers changed hands within a decade of where an adventurer arrives, so the important figures are not distant legends but people currently holding, or currently losing, a throne. The exception is the one character every player has. The [[Black Desert/Black Spirit|Black Spirit]] attaches itself to the adventurer at the beginning and never leaves, handing out quests and pushing them onward, and it is the only character the whole playerbase shares. = Rulers = {| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #1c232b;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a; width: 30%;" | Figure ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Position |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Sahazad Nesser|Sahazad Nesser]] | Sixth king of [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]], holding a throne he cannot fully legitimize without the golden key. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Neruda Shen|Neruda Shen]] | Head of the merchant guilds and, since the monarchy burned, effective ruler of [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Brolina Ornette|Brolina Ornette]] | Queen of [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]], who inherited a civil war and later reopened the borders. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Viorencia Odore|Viorencia Odore]] | Once the only princess of the Vedir, now queen of the Ahib in [[Black Desert/O'dyllita|O'dyllita]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | [[Black Desert/Crucio Domongatt|Crucio Domongatt]] | Last king of [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]], who demoted himself to Lord after losing the war he started. |} = The dead and the deposed = Rather more of the important names belong to people who are no longer in charge. Guy Seric took [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]] for [[Black Desert/Calpheon|Calpheon]] and died in circumstances nobody has explained, after which the Calpheonite monarchy collapsed into a council. Bareeds II of [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]], remembered as the least capable king that country had, died when his castle burned. King Dahad of Calpheon was buried with his army by a sandstorm in the [[Black Desert/Great Valencian Desert|Great Valencian Desert]]. Further back, Noir Bartali III destroyed his own kingdom in [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] trying to buy immortality, and Imur Nesser of Valencia ordered a massacre that his people blamed for the plague that followed. = Outside the courts = [[Black Desert/Illezra|Illezra]] is the figure who changed the map most directly. She unsealed the Book of Cartian, took the power inside it, and brought on the Three Days of Darkness that ended the Mediahn monarchy. Others matter for what they hold rather than what they did. Chief Durgeff of [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] broke with precedent by hiring foreign hunters when dragons returned, and the [[Black Desert/Aakman|Aakman]] guard relics from a civilization that predates every state on the map. = See also = * [[Black Desert]] * [[Black Desert/Lore|Lore]] * [[Black Desert/Factions|Factions]] * [[Black Desert/Timeline|Timeline]] * [[Black Desert/Regions|Regions]] * [[Black Desert/Home|Home]] = Further reading = * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=300 History of Valencia — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=298 History of Mediah — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://blackdesertonline.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters Characters — Black Desert Wiki (Fandom)]