Baekri Hyang
The lone survivor of the Blood Sword Clan’s massacre, heir to the Plum Blossom Sword. She draws her blade not for vengeance, but to prove herself.
Recruit offer (from floor 5)
Unlike the generated mercenaries, these twelve are hand-made. Each carries a name and an age, an origin and a history, art and motion of their own. Eight arrive as recruit offers. Four you meet through bond quests in the dungeon.
Bond quests
Four of them never appear in recruit offers. You meet them in the dungeon across two chapters. The first chapter is a fight against the person while something holds them. The second cuts the thing away. Before the fight and after you win it, they speak.
The twelve
Sylvaine
A markswoman who honed her bow in the forest for a hundred years. She has no memory of an arrow ever missing.
Recruit offer (from floor 10)
Durganthor
The shield that never falls. On the battlefield, the ground he holds has never once been breached.
Recruit offer (from floor 15)
Fenmao
A feral dagger that even shadows cannot keep up with. He never stops until his mark is dead.
Recruit offer (from floor 20)
Kaiser von Arnheim
The heretic of the Empire’s Magic Academy. A genius caster who dragged forbidden flame magic onto the battlefield.
Recruit offer (from floor 25)
Serafina
A saint rumored to bring back even the dead. She is called the battlefield’s last hope.
Recruit offer (from floor 30)
Cheolgwon Mujin
The Fist King who shattered a steel gate with his bare hands. Once his fist is clenched, it opens only after the end is seen.
Recruit offer (from floor 35)
Azure Wolf
A legend of the northern snowfields. The incarnation of the azure wolf said to have led his pack to hunt giants.
Recruit offer (from floor 40)
Vespera Noct
An abyssal gate warden. She returned to the tower to seal the fracture left by her severed oath.
Dungeon bond quest (from floor 55)
Brin Copperlock
The forge-master who designed the siege arbalest. She entered the tower after finding her own mark carved into the shadow of the ruins.
Dungeon bond quest (from floor 60)
Yeoncheong
A taoist carrying the lost ledger of seals. He seals the names and contracts the tower keeps repeating.
Dungeon bond quest (from floor 70)
Rask Winterbane
An ice-spear guide who held the rear of the northern escape road. He wants one road that anyone can walk home on.
Dungeon bond quest (from floor 80)
Izel Vargast
A drakekin of the bloodline of the ancient dragon Vargast. She left the nest and went down to the heart of the tower, and saw the repeating pact calling her blood.
Dungeon bond quest (from floor 150)
Ildarin
The elf mage who first noticed that the tower repeats. He has climbed the same floors more than a hundred times, writing names and pacts into a ledger.
Dungeon bond quest (from floor 250)
In the game the same list lives under the Named tab of the codex. The 1.12.2 patch notes describe the bond quest dialogue.