List of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars characters

The following is a list of characters from the video game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.

Main characters

George Stobbart

An American patent lawyer on vacation, travelling Europe, in Paris who is knocked out by the explosion caused by Khan, dressed as a clown, which killed Plantard one of the Neo-templars. With the help from Nico and the people around him George begins to piece together the motive behind the murder which leads him on the trail of the Knights Templar. George travels to Ireland, Spain and Syria and eventually to Scotland for the final confrontation with the Neo-Templars all the while making stops at Nico's apartment in Paris, solving puzzles and avoiding being killed by either traps, Khan or thugs of the Neo-Templars.

Nicole Collard

A French freelance photo-journalist who was supposed to meet Plantard before his death who connects the murderer to two previous murders (the victims of which turn out to be members of the Neo-Templars). Nico does mostly investigative work though helps George steal the Tripod from the museum when George knocks himself out while trying to stop Flap and Guido. Nicole destroys the Sword of Baphomet when she throws Khan's C4 on to a pile of burning gunpowder. Nico lives at a dump of an apartment and is trying to become a big-time journalist. She eventually falls in love with George.

Khan

A Syrian member of the assassination cult, the Hashashin, and the greatest nemesis of the Neo-Templars. Khan views the Neo-Templars as enemies of Allah and humanity, unworthy of the title of the original Knights Templar. Khan begins to kill members of the Neo-Templars in order to prevent them from piecing together the location of the Sword of Baphomet. In the end Khan is disguised as an elderly woman who takes the same section in the train as George and Nico, but he realised that George and Nico are attempting to defeat the Neo-Templars so he doesn't attempt to attack them; eventually, he is shot by Eklund in a fight at the back of the train, but his C4 is used by Nico to destroy the sword. Before his death, Khan tells George all that he knows about the Neo-Templar's secret plans and wishes him the best in his struggle against them.

Khan is a seasoned killer of flexibility accorded, by disguise the Members of the Templars killed. His acquaintances were disguises the Snowman, King Penguin, mime, clown, Kobold and the old lady With the snowman costume, he kills in Italy Arno Bilotta. With the king penguin costume, he kills in Japan Yamada. With the pantomime costume, he kills Pierre Carchon in Paris. With the clown costume, he kills Plantard in Paris. With the leprechaun costume, he kidnapped Sean Fitzgerald to get the gem, but if he ran Fitzgerald and killed him is uncertain. His last panel, the old lady he used to protect, George and Nichole and travel to Bannockburn. Khan also killing the Ice Queen in Paris. Whether Khan also Nigel Peagram killed is unknown

Supporting characters

Flobbage

A road-worker whose sewer key is stolen by George and used several times during his adventure. George gives Flobbage a newspaper and he learns about a favourite racehorse of his who is racing that day, so he goes to put a bet on the racehorse and wins that bet which turns his life around. He returns in Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon.

André Lobineau

A history student that Nicole had known in college who still considers him a contestant for her affections. Though subtle he gets carried away when talking about history.

Sergeant Moue

A dutiful but over-excited gendarme who has a habit of premature extrapolation which his superior, Rosso, detests. He has some odd hobbies such as collecting matchboxes. In the latter part of the game, he is reported to be dead. However, in Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, Nico tells George that Moue simply went into hiding when he found about the Neo-Templars. He reappeared after the Neo-Templars were destroyed and gained a promotion to inspector.

Inspector Rosso

A stern officer of the law and a proponent of psychic detection which he often uses to solve his cases. Rosso is later revealed to be a member of the Neo-Templars. Though Rosso tries to drive George away from revealing the truth he finally cracks at the end, killing Eklund to save George, before being shot by the Grand Master.

Flap and Guido

Two petty criminals hired by the Neo-Templars as thugs to organise the theft of Peagram's tripod. Flap is a fat, powerful, and simple-minded thug, while Guido is more suave and trusts more in his gun or throwing knife.However, flap survived the fall from the train, and Guido survived the explosion. Work in The Return of the Templars, the two continued for the Knights Templar, in the explosion died in China where the rest of the Knights Templar, it could also have fallen victim to Guido, as it no longer shows up in the next parts. , Flap returns in The Sleeping Dragon.

Lady Piermont

The old English lady at the piano in the Hotel Ubu. She is very helpful to George by giving him information on Khan and by distracting the clerk to allow him to take the room key. Later, she helps him obtain a medieval manuscript. In The Sleeping Dragon, she is mentioned again as "Aunt Clarissa" by her niece Mellissa, although she never meets George again. She is very similar to Mrs Piermont in Beneath a Steel Sky, and also uses the same voice actor.

Sean Fitzgerald

A young Irishman from Lochmarne who is supposed to deliver Peagram's gem to Jacques Marquet. George scares him off and he gets run over and kidnapped by Khan dressed as a pixie. His fate is unknown after that.

Countess de Vasconcellos

The lonely owner of the de Vasconcellos' lands and the last of her line, with just her gardener to keep her company. She believes that the Templars betrayed her family by not coming to the rescue of one of her ancestors and his children.

The Hendersons

An American couple called Duane and Pearl, who visit town of Marib in Syria. Both overweight and jolly, Duane is the chairman of a greeting card manufacturing company (so he says, until it is revealed he works for the government; possibly the CIA). They return in The Smoking Mirror when George bumps into them in Quaramonte City in Central America. They return in The Return of the Templars in York Airport. Duane makes a solo appearance in Angel of Death.

The Neo-Templars

Plantard

The old man and the intended victim of Khan. Plantard was supposed to introduce the manuscript (which George later steals from Khan) to Nico. Nothing much is known about him, except that he met with Khan's other victims to discuss the Sword of Baphomet.

Nigel Peagram (a.k.a. Molly Peagram)

A renowned archaeologist who also hosted his own TV show, "Peagram's Past". He returns from retirement in order to dig up the gem and tripod from the castle at Lochmarne. Before George reaches him, Peagram leaves in the fears of being killed by Khan and leaves the Gem for Sean Fitzgerald to deliver for Jacques Marquet. Peagram is never seen in the game aside from a magazine-page shown by Nico and the dialogue-icons. According to George's and the Grand Master's conversation towards the end of the game, he is presumed dead.

Jacques Marquet

Jacques Marquet formerly known as the Mole of Montmartre, a gangster, a register of the crimes was made ​​Extortion, kidnapping, arson and theft of art. He was to receive the Gem of Peagram, he did not get it.He is stationed in Hagenmeyer clinic, he was hospitalized because of anthrax. In an interview with George, he mentioned the one Hashashin assassin cult, and that he has hired Flap and Guido Treibein to steal in the museum Crune. Right after that came and killed Eklund Marquet.

Pierre Carchon

Pierre Carchon was one of the largest and most important men in Europe. Little is known about him except the one on a photo where he went down with Nico's father and his fiancée, a village in Africa. He had very good contact with Nico's father and wanted to invite her, however Khan, dressed as a mime, took Pierre's life before Carchon could elaborate.

Bruno Ostvald

A Nobel Prize winner and historian for the Neo-Templars. Although not named in this game, his name is revealed in The Sleeping Dragon. The second time George meets him in The Sleeping Dragon he has abandoned the Neo-Templars, describing their intentions as "evil". In The Shadow of the Templars he is a member of the organisation but his doubts towards the Grand Master’s scheme are hinted at during one of their meetings.

Bruno is said to have originated from an East European country, though it is never mentioned which one, only that George is unable to pronounce it.

Eklund

A dangerous member of the Neo-Templars who kills Marquet and Khan and later tries to do the same to Nico and George, in both cases under the Grand Master's orders. He is killed by Rosso who throws a dagger at his neck; in the Director's Cut he is killed by Rosso using a gun instead.

Klausner

While searching for clues to the location of the Sword of Baphomet, Klausner is trapped inside a cave in Syria and dies of starvation and dehydration.

The Grand Master

The leader of the Neo-Templars who is killed along with several of the Templars when Nico destroys the Sword. As survivors of the Grand Master as well as many other Templars, the explosion, he could be up transgress in The Return of the Templars. However, he appeared in the game to not, and he was not the leader of the Templars but more Armuda. Maybe he pursued his own plans. He attempts to turn George to his side but ultimately fails. He is later revealed to have survived the church's explosion in The Sleeping Dragon.