List of Broken Sword characters
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Broken Sword is a series of adventure games primarily developed by Revolution Software. The list below covers all known characters featured in Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (BS1), Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (BS2), Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon (BS3) and Broken Sword: The Angel of Death (BS4).
None of the games featured any voice actors credited to specific roles, though it's known that Rolf Saxon voices the protogonist, "George Stobbart" throughout the whole series, and that "Nicole Collard" was voiced by Hazel Ellerby in BS: The Shadow of the Templars, and by Sarah Crook in BS: The Sleeping Dragon.[1][2]
[edit] Characters
- Y Character appears in the game
- N Character does not appear in the game
- BS1 Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
- BS2 Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
- BS3 Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
- BS4 Broken Sword: The Angel of Death
| Character | BS1 | BS2 | BS3 | BS4 | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Stobbart | Y | Y | Y | Y | George is a young American patent lawyer and one of the main protagonist of the series, who appears as a playable character, and is voiced by Rolf Saxon throughout the series. He is in a relationship with Nicole Collard in the first three games, and with Anna-Maria Presa in the fourth game. |
| Nicole Collard | Y | Y | Y | Y | Better known as Nico; she is a beautiful French free-lance journalist and one of the main protagonists, but does not appear as a playable character in BS1. She is voiced by Hazel Ellerby in BS1, Flaminia Cinque in BS2, Sarah Crook in the BS3, and Katherine Pageon in the BS4. |
| Khan | Y | N | N | N | A Syrian member of the assassination cult, the Hashashin, and nemesis of the Neo-Templars. Khan begins to kill members of the Neo-Templars in order to prevent them from finding "the Sword of Baphomet". He is killed by a Neo-Templar, Eklund, but his C4 is used by Nico to destroy the sword. |
| Flobbage | Y | N | Y | N | A road-worker from BS1 whose sewer key is stolen by George. 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 BS3. |
| André Lobineau | Y | Y | Y | N | 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. He helps out George and Nico by providing them with historical information. |
| Sergeant Moue | Y | N | N | N | 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 BS2, it is revealed that he gained a promotion to inspector. |
| Inspector Rosso | Y | N | N | N | 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 he tries to drive George away from revealing the truth, he kills Eklund to save George, before being shot by the Grand Master. |
| Flap | Y | N | Y | N | 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. Although both are presumed dead by the end of the game, Flap returns in BS3. |
| Guido | Y | N | N | N | |
| Lady Piermont | Y | N | N | N | An old English lady who helps George to obtain a key to a hotel room a medieval manuscript in the Hotel Ubu. In BS3, it is revealed her name is "Aunt Clarissa". She is voiced by the same voice actress as "Mrs Piermont" from Beneath a Steel Sky. |
| Sean Fitzgerald | Y | N | N | N | 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 pixe. His fate is unknown after that. |
| Countess de Vasconcellos | Y | N | N | N | 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. |
| Duane Henderson | Y | Y | N | Y | An American couple who visit a village, Marib in Syria. Both overweight and jolly, Duane is the chairman of a greeting card manufacturing company (so he says; until it's revealed he works for the the CIA). They return BS2. visiting when George Quaramonte City in Central America. Duane makes a solo appearance in BS4. |
| Pearl Henderson | Y | Y | N | N | |
| Plantard | Y | N | N | N | 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 | Y | N | N | N | An archaeologist, known as Molly Peagram, who also hosted his own TV show, "Peagram's Past". He goes to Ireland to dig up the gemm from the castle at Lochmarne. Before George reaches him, he leaves and gives the gem to Fitzgerald to deliver to Jacques Marquet. According to George's and the Grand Master's conversation om the end of the game, he's dead. |
| Jacques Marquet | Y | N | N | N | Formerly known as the Mole of Montmartre, was a gangster, who 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 reveals he hired Flap and Guido Treibein to steal in the Museum Crune. Right after that came and killed Eklund. |
| Bruno Ostvald | Y | N | Y | N | A Nobel Prize winner and historian for the Neo-Templars. Although not named in this game, his name is revealed in BS3. In BS3 he has abandoned the Neo-Templars, describing their intentions as "evil". Bruno is said to come from an unpronouncable East European country. |
| Eklund | Y | N | N | N | 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. |
| Klausner | Y | N | N | N | 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 | Y | N | Y | N | The leader of the Neo-Templars who is presumably killed along with many of the Templars when Nico destroys the Sword with the C4. He is later revealed to have survived the church's explosion in BS3. |
| Karzac | N | Y | N | N | A drug-smuggler plots to revive Tezcatlipoca. He kills Oubier's wife and gets him addicted to drugs in order to make him useful to his cause. He later organises Nico's abduction to get the Coyote Stone back. He reveals his plot to Oubier and then kills him. After he frees Tezcatlipoca, he gets killed by him. |
| Pablo | N | Y | N | N | Karzac's main henchman, a menacing tall South American man. He poses as Oubier's butler and captures Nico leaving George to die at the burning house. He meets George and is knocked out in Marseilles. He appears again in London where Karzac kills Oubier. His last appearance is near the ending. |
| Madame La Presidenta Grasiento | N | Y | N | N | The dictator of Quaramonte. She first appears during Nico's interview with Raoul Grasiento and at the end where she confronts failure of her son who starts to doubt about the mission. In the final scene, she and Titipoco are left hanging from a ledge. Raoul rescues Titipoco, allowing her to fall to her death. |
| General Raoul Grasiento | N | Y | N | N | Though starting out as a pawn to his mother Raoul is convinced by Nico that Karzac plans to dispose of him as soon as Tezcatlipoca has been freed. He has a brief struggle with Pablo off-screen, which he survives to save Titipoco. |
| Titipoco | N | Y | N | N | |
| Conchita Garcia | N | Y | N | N | |
| Miguel | N | Y | N | N | |
| Father Hubert | N | Y | N | N | |
| Rio | N | Y | N | N | |
| Mr. Glease | N | Y | N | N | |
| Mr. Laine | N | Y | N | N | |
| Professor Oubier | N | Y | N | N | |
| Mina Ketch | N | Y | N | N | |
| Frost Ketch | N | Y | N | N | |
| Emily Ketch | N | Y | N | N | |
| Bronson | N | Y | N | N | |
| Haiku McEwan | N | Y | N | N | |
| Harry | N | N | Y | N | |
| Vernon Blier | N | N | Y | N | |
| Beatrice | N | N | Y | N | |
| Dudley Cholmondely | N | N | Y | N | |
| Colonel Butley | N | N | Y | N | |
| Melissa Butley | N | N | Y | N | |
| Madame Zazi | N | N | Y | N | |
| Tristram Hillage | N | N | Y | N | |
| Eamon O'Mara | N | N | Y | N | |
| Petra | N | N | Y | N | |
| Susarro | N | N | Y | N | |
| Anna-Maria Presa | N | N | N | Y | |
| Virgil | N | N | N | Y | |
| Mevlut | N | N | N | Y | |
| Brother Mark | N | N | N | Y | |
| Archie Lonsdale | N | N | N | Y | |
| Sister Angelica | N | N | N | Y | |
| Cardinal Gianelli | N | N | N | Y | |
| Maynard | N | N | N | Y | |
| Toni Martino | N | N | N | Y | |
| Fingers Martino | N | N | N | Y | |
| Chico Garella | N | N | N | Y | |
| Alfonso | N | N | N | Y | |
| Thelwell Minster | N | N | N | Y | |
| Juanita | N | N | N | Y | |
| Vincenzo Spallacci | N | N | N | Y | |
| Suzie Balloon | N | N | N | Y | |
| Father Devlin | N | N | N | Y | |
| Father Gregor | N | N | N | Y |
[edit] References
- General
- Revolution Software. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. PC. (September 1996)
- Revolution Software. Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror. PC. (October 1997)
- Revolution Software. Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon. PC. (November 2003)
- Revolution Software. Broken Sword: The Angel of Death. PC. (September 2006)
- Revolution Software (1996). Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars instruction manual (PC). Virgin Interactive.
- Revolution Software (1997). Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror instruction manual (PC). Virgin Interactive.
- Revolution Software (2003). Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon instruction manual (PC). THQ.
- Revolution Software (2006). Broken Sword: The Angel of Death instruction manual (PC). THQ.
- "Remembering A Hero: Broken Sword's George Stobbart". PushStartSelect. http://pushstartselect.com/2012/remembering-hero-broken-swords-george-stobbart/. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
- Specific
- ^ "INTERVIEW – In Conversation With Rolf Saxon (Actor, Broken Sword)". Alternative Magazine Online. April 8, 2011. http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2011/04/08/interview-in-conversation-with-rolf-saxon-actor-broken-sword/. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
- ^ "ComputerAndVideoGames: News - Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, Diary Part Four". ComputerAndVideoGames. July 25, 2003. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/93794/broken-sword-the-sleeping-dragon-developer-diary-part-four/. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
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