Laughless Saint NPCs and Characters

A note on names before anything else

This is the single messiest area of documentation for this game. NerveLabs has published no cast list, community walkthroughs transcribe names by ear, and the same character routinely appears under two or three spellings — occasionally within one video.

We list the spellings we have actually seen and mark them unconfirmed rather than picking a favourite and presenting it as canon. Where a name is confirmed by an official patch note, we say so.

Magdal Rest residents

Character	Where	Role
Peaches	Toward the skull from the town entrance	Merchant. Gives Nuisance and the Fisherman’s Friend ring quest
Bog / Bok	The tavern, “the Form of the Skull”, or by the well	Gives Dark Water. Perpetually thirsty
Bronwyn / Brunwin	North from tavern then left; also described in the southern swamp	Alchemist. Sells supplies, diagnoses the well curse (alchemy)
Ramba / Remba, true name Nakanak	Wanders — often the beach	Reformed thief. Gives Right Where I Found It. Trains sneak
Hyrum	Behind tavern, past alchemist, over the bridges, up the stairs	Locked out of his own house (Locked Out)
The moon-faced man	Inside Hyrum’s house	Cursed by the Saint. Drives Moon in the Man
Chiani / Chi Alani	Market square, staircase between tavern and shop, second floor of the hut	Advises on the moon-face curse; points you to the hermit
The jinn — Theodorus / Theodoris / Seadorus / Siadoras	Behind the shop, into the tavern, right toward the well	Apprentice jinn. Teaches magic. Gives The Lost Tome and Mentoring Magic
The seer	Magdal Rest	A fortune teller “with true sight and not after your coins”
Krizur	Merchant	Accepts stolen goods; given a robust inventory in Update 7
The fool on the hill	Crossroad south of Peaches, on the way to the skeletons	Sits on a hill by the road. One walkthrough author passed him without speaking to him, noting “maybe he’s not a fool”
A one-handed weapons trainer	Magdal Rest	Greets you with “off on a fool’s journey to feed yourself to the tower, or into the jungle to feed yourself to the beasts?” and trains one-handed weapons
Pichess	Merchant	Sells a healing spell as of Update 7

Krizur and Pichess are the two names on this page confirmed by official patch notes rather than transcription, so their spellings are reliable.

Beyond the town

Character	Where	Role
Bartolomaeus / Bartolomeos	House with a snail in the garden, south of the Tower	Wizard. Delivery target for Mentoring Magic. Has the Recall spell
The real Ramba	Tsaffon ruins, east	A cat who lost her identity. Grants Remembrance of Past
An’Dalus — the rusted knight	Top of a tower, far west	Rusted solid. Gives Rust in Peace. Trains armour
Peter	Inside the Tower, left after the first lever	A skeleton who wants you to find an egg
Detta	Small island, far south	Hermit skilled in transformation magic. You need his journal, not him
The madman	Beach near the starting boat	Has the stolen tome. Hostile

Trainers

Worth pulling out separately, since training is easy to walk past:

Ramba/Nakanak — sneak, after Right Where I Found It
An’Dalus — armour, after Rust in Peace
The jinn — magic basics, after The Lost Tome; corrupting spells if you lie in Mentoring Magic
Bronwyn — alchemy training was observed at 25 gold

The cast is deliberately strange

The official description sets expectations honestly:

“A giant toad learning to read. An ancient skeleton who just wants to swim. A musician from a faraway land hunts for something precious. Everyone has a theory for why you’re here. None of them agree.”

We have not verified the toad or the musician against a route, so they are not in the tables above — but they tell you what kind of cast this is. Everyone on the island arrived following the same dream and most do not remember the journey.

NPC behaviour changed a lot in week one

If an NPC is behaving oddly, check whether it was a known bug:

Fix	Update
Chialani no longer self-immolates by accident	Hotfix 1
NPCs no longer get stuck on beds after sleeping, and stop self-immolating	Hotfix 4
A quest NPC is no longer mercy killed by vicious frogs	Hotfix 5
NPC persistence and appearance consistency fixed	Hotfix 5
Merchants regenerate stock only up to a limit, not infinitely	Update 6
Many voice lines recut or added for the first time	Update 6 and 7

Note that Chialani appears in an official patch note with that exact spelling — which is the strongest evidence we have for how that name is actually written.

Sources

NerveLabs official announcements, Hotfix 1 through Update 7, 17–21 Aug 2026, for Krizur, Pichess, Chialani and all NPC fixes.
Steam store page for app 3849000 for the cast description.
Quest walkthrough videos published 19–23 Aug 2026 for locations, roles and dialogue.
“First Look” gameplay playthrough for the seer and the alchemist’s swamp location.

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