Town NPCs
Eight souls still hold Tristram against the dark below — the ones who sell, mend, heal and remember for every hero who dares the descent.
Each keeps to their place above ground: the forge, the tavern, the healer's door, the witch's hut across the river. What they offer a visitor is set beside their name.
Choose a townsperson to unfold their tale.
8 townsfolk shown
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| Griswold | Blacksmith | Buys, sells and repairs weapons and armour. |
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Griswold keeps the last forge burning in Tristram, hammering out arms for those mad enough to descend. He buys, sells and mends weapons and armour, and his craft turns a few finds into named relics — the Empyrean Band from the Magic Rock, Griswold's Edge from the Anvil of Fury. A blunt, steady man who stayed at his anvil while the town emptied around him.
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| Pepin | Healer | Heals you at no cost and sells potions and healing staves. |
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Pepin, physician to Tristram, tends the wounded and the fevered and asks no coin — step to him and your hurts are mended. He also sells potions, elixirs and healing staves for the deeper dark. It was Pepin who mended Farnham's body after the cathedral, though not the ruin done to his mind.
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| Ogden | Tavern Owner | Buys and sells goods, and sets several quests. |
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Ogden keeps the Tavern of the Rising Sun with his wife, the last warm hearth in a dying town. He trades in goods and rumours, and it is often from him that a hero first hears of the horrors below — his stolen sign, the fate of King Leoric. Out of pity he lets the broken Farnham drink away his days by the fire.
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| Cain | Elder | Identifies magical items and recounts the town's lore. |
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Deckard Cain, keeper of Tristram's old histories, reads the lore none else remember and names the strange relics dragged up from the labyrinth. His counsel points to the evil beneath the cathedral and the traitor archbishop who loosed it. Wise, weary, and certain the darkness is far from finished.
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| Farnham | Town Drunk | Trades rumours; will not enter the dungeon. |
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Farnham followed Archbishop Lazarus into the cathedral to save the prince and walked instead into the Butcher's slaughter. He lived, and even dragged Griswold clear, but though Pepin healed his wounds nothing could mend his shattered mind. Now he drowns the memory in Ogden's ale and will not go below again.
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| Adria | Witch | Sells spell books, staves and potions. |
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Adria the witch appeared in Tristram as the evil stirred, raising a hut across the river to sell what the town's shops will not — spell books, staves and darker draughts. She speaks in riddles of powers older than the cathedral. None know where she came from, only that she deals in the arcane and asks no questions.
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| Gillian | Barmaid | Serves the tavern and shares the town's gossip. |
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Gillian serves at the Tavern of the Rising Sun and stays in Tristram only to care for her aged grandmother, when all sense says to flee. She offers the day's gossip and a kind word to those bound for the dark. Caught between duty and dread, she waits for the horror below to end.
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| Wirt | Peg-legged Boy | Sells one stolen item at a steep price. |
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Wirt was a child when Lazarus's ambush took him below, made to witness the Butcher's work before the demons tore away his leg. He came back with a peg and a hard, mercenary heart. Now he deals in a single stolen treasure at a time and charges gold merely to show it — bitter, guarded, and out to fleece every hero who passes.
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No townsperson answers to that search.
Named from the game's own towner table as preserved by DevilutionX. That file also carries a wounded townsman of the dungeon and three roaming cattle, who are not residents of the town and are not listed here.
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