JEB
Legend
Thanks for the Mystara knowledge! Would you say all those sets of characters are equally iconic? Or do certain regions/groups seem to be ahead of the rest?Mystara:
- Grand Duchy of Karameikos has Duke Stefan Karameikos and his evil cousin, Baron Ludwik Von Hendrix, as well as Aleena the Cleric from red box starter set, and evil wizard Bargle who killed her. Characters involved in A LOT of beginner adventures, they etrenched themselves in hearts of countless players over the decades
- Principalities of Glantri has Ettienne d'Amberville and rest of the Princes, especially Donna Carnelia de Belcadiz y Fedorias of Belcadiz, Jaggar von Drachenfels, Morphail Gorevitch-Woszlany and Brannart McGregor. Among the Princes they have by far most personality.
- Empire of Alphatia has Prince Haldemar and rest of the crew of Princess Ark, heroes of Bruce Heard's series of short stories. To lesser extent there's Empress Eriadna and her children, especially Prince Zandor, due to Mr. Welch popularizing idea of Zandor as "Wizard Gaston".
- Broken Lands has King Thar, a ruthless Orc warlord and vampire, who stole title of Broken Lands Gazzeteer, which is known as Orcs of Thar
- Hule has Hossadus, Master of the Desert Nomads, reocurring villain and threat to the whole world.
- Ethengar has Moglai the Golden Khan, another iconci antaognist and, similiarly to Thar, Ethengar gazzeteer is named Golden Khan of Ethengar.
- Denagoth has the Shadow Lord, the villain from Saga of the Shadow Lord
- Ghyr has Strongheart the Paladin and rest of Valor's Call and their enemies, League of Malevolence, lead by sorcerer Kelek and warrior Warduke, the toyline characters
I certainly have a soft spot for the latter, but I would argue that if their names aren't even well known, they're probably not iconic enough.one could also argue first PCs from Basic Set - Belarin the Elf, Clarion the Cleric, Derek the magic-user, Fleetwood the Fighter, Greegan the Thief, Tochberry the Halfling and Rolf the Dwarf - or playable characters from Chronicles of Mystara games - Crassus the Fighter, Dimsdale the Dwarf, Greldon the Cleric, Lucia the Elf, Moriah the Thief and Syous the Magic-User - are the most well-known, even if not everyone knows their names.