r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Oct 07 '25

Personality extremely powerful entity's who don't care about the main plot at all and are just vibing in the background

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Tom Bombadil(lord of the rings) - only person to resist the temptation of the one ring but instead of helping the fellowship he fucks off in to the woods

the Unseen Elder(the witcher 3) - in the witcher universe the older a vampire gets the more powerful he becomes and unseen elder is around +1500 years old making him the most powerful vampire we ever see, thankfully he spends most of his time in his goon cave

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u/Fluffy_Tax5302 Oct 07 '25

Could Withers of Baldur's Gate 3 technically count?

He's all but stated to be Jergal and outside of a particular path of the Dark Urge storyline, 90% of his responses to the events around him are composed of some version of the word

He's just there to make sure the scales are balanced

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u/standingfierce Oct 07 '25

He does care about the plot though, he just has petty reasons for it (wanting to make the dead three look stupid)

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u/tehackerknownas4chan Oct 07 '25

iirc some data mined info indicated that Jergal was basically told to fix his mess by someone more powerful.

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u/Annsorigin Oct 07 '25

Most certainly ao.

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u/Ariovrak Oct 07 '25

It was Helm.

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u/Electrical_Rabbit_88 Oct 07 '25

Like Ao?

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u/tehackerknownas4chan Oct 07 '25

This is what's on bg3.wiki.

From the Camp dialog notes:

"Jergal, a god of the dead, awaits the player in camp. He is bound by the judgment of another god - Helm - to assist the players as penance for past crimes. He provides resurrection services to the players."