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11 NPCs are every character in Soulbound: Online you do not control. They hand out quests, run the shops and banks, teach abilities, take your contracts, and in a few cases stand in for a whole system: the Task Manager is the contract board, and the Weekly and Monthly Vendors are the commission economy. The game marks them out by name colour, with NPC names rendered in tan while player names appear in blue or white, so a glance tells you which is which.
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33 This page is a roster arranged by settlement. Most of it is drawn from player-gathered documentation rather than from patch notes, so read a name as a reliable pointer rather than a guarantee that the character still stands exactly where the list puts them. Where the studio has named someone in a patch note, that is called out, because those are the entries we can be certain about.
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55 Virelda
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77 Virelda is where a Pioneer starts, and it carries the densest cluster of service characters in the early game.
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99 RoleNameWhereVendorFarokVirelda centreBankVirelda GuardVirelda bankContract boardTask ManagerPioneers GuildEvent cosmeticsWeekly VendorPioneers GuildEvent cosmeticsMonthly VendorPioneers GuildSeed vendorBudHomesteadHomesteadArthurHomesteadHomesteadMaraHomesteadTeleport registrationHomeDisc ProgrammerOutside the desert villager's houseTutorial travelTravel BotOutside Granny Smith's homeQuestGranny SmithGranny Smith's homeQuestVirelda ChiefNot fixed to one spotQuestWitch DoctorWitch Doctor's homeQuestPaulVireldaQuestPipVireldaQuestVikrumVireldaDungeonThorneVirelda OutskirtsDungeonVesperVirelda Outskirts
1010 Four of those are confirmed by the studio. Bud's seed stock had its farming requirements realigned on 20 August 2026. Paul's dialogue after Package Deal was corrected on 7 August 2026 so it stops promising a weapon the quest never awards. Vesper gates Seek and Destroy, which was moved behind Vesper's Challenge in the same patch. The Virelda Chief was appearing in two places at once during Dune It Yourself until 20 August 2026.
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1212 The Task Manager stands above the bank vendor in the Pioneers Guild and hands out contracts, the short jobs that pay experience into the skill they belong to along with gold and a reward cache. The Identity Manager, added on 27 August 2026, runs the name-change quest for anyone whose username was altered when usernames became globally unique across every region.
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1414 Arcadia
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1616 Arcadia has the largest named cast in the game so far, and most of a mid-game session that is not spent in a dungeon is spent talking to someone here.
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1818 RoleNameNotesCivic headThe MayorGoverns the city. A duplicate copy left behind by the Diplomatic Relations questline was removed on 20 August 2026Guard captainCaptain RickenCommands the Arcadian Guards on the gateMagistrateMagistrate LeviBuys goodsBankExecutive LoraPersonal storageGeneral storePetraRuns Wefco Mart on the main stripLabDr. FritzThe permanent upgrade bench for abilities and weapons carries his nameWorkshopHectorRuns the workshop, and hands over the Ability ConfiguratorBarHazelOwns The Tired Soul, which carries quests and regenerates staminaFurnishingsYoshimotoRuns the Yoku Forge, which sells apartment furnitureAbilitiesMajorOne of the characters who teaches a ranged abilityVending machinesBuzzBox and SnackSnipeStock recall discs, potions, food and cooking ingredientsSpecial itemsBug VendorTrades stock for a currency of its ownTransportTrain ConductorWorks the underground stationQuestCleo, Clyde, Sven, Tammy and ViperTurn up across the city's questlines
1919 Rowan also belongs to Arcadia's cast: the studio fixed his appearance for the City of Light and Shadow interaction on 23 July 2026, which makes him one of the few names here with direct first-party confirmation.
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2121 Tammy took on a new job on 9 September 2026 and is now the salvage NPC. Bring her gear you no longer want and she breaks it down into crafting materials for a gold fee scaled to the item's tier. Two things to know before you talk to her: she salvages every applicable item in your inventory at once rather than letting you pick, and the materials go to your bag rather than your bank. Bank anything you intend to keep first, and make sure you have the space. See Crafting and Base Building.
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2323 Neo-Tilus
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2525 Neo-Tilus is the fishing town, and its cast reflects that.
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2727 RoleNameNotesBankExecutive LeraBanking and item storageGeneral vendorSkipperSells a local recall disc, food and a coarse core residueFishmongerFishmongerConverts caught fish into raw fillets at a flat rate in goldTeleport registrationHomeDisk Corp.Sets your home teleport point to Neo-TilusCosmeticsLibrarianExchanges a currency of its own for cosmeticsQuestWilsonStarts the fishing questline and teaches an ability at the end of itQuestFinnleyTwo recovery quests. A variant of his Yoku Magnet gives better fishing accessory oddsQuestGlubPoints you toward the Forever FlowerQuestAngel, Marlin, Maris and ShelbyNamed around the townEventThe BlackwakePirates who run the live fishing event off the coast, including a vendor who takes your chum
2828 Finnley is first-party confirmed: the 20 August 2026 patch adjusted his Yoku Magnet so it beats the standard version by a measurable margin.
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3030 Everdune and Beyond
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3232 SettlementRoleNameEverduneVendorMagistrate TaksEverduneBankExecutive LoraEverduneGuardNexusEverduneQuestMirelleFarpointBankExecutive LyraFarpointVendorMagistrate ToleHollow RockQuestNoxleyThe FoundationQuestThe Leader, Jared and Axon
3333 Mirelle and Noxley are both named by the studio. Mirelle's lost pages had their drop re-enabled on 28 July 2026 and adjusted again on 20 August, and a crash after the Noxley Drill event was fixed on 23 July 2026. The Foundation group is the least certain entry here: the region appears on the world map, but a larger Foundation expansion sits on the studio's plan for later, so treat that row as provisional.
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3535 The Starting Area
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3737 Before Virelda there is a short introductory area with a handful of service characters: a gear vendor, a cosmetic vendor, and an in-game help bot that answers basic questions. Bunny, Clyde and Major are the named characters recorded there. Clyde and Major both turn up again in Arcadia later, so a familiar face early on is not a mistake.
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3939 Lore Names
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4141 Four names appear in the world's written material rather than as characters you can walk up to: Nadia Althea, Senna Vahi, Leto Kadesh and Darius Harkov. They belong to the story rather than to the service layer, and Lore and Setting is the better page for them.
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4343 Where NPCs Fit
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4545 Almost every system in the game has a character attached to it. The contract board and the two commission vendors sit in the guild, covered on The Pioneers Guild. The event vendors appear and disappear with the rotation described on Live Events and Commissions. Ability teachers are tied to specific quests, and the ability roster itself is on Classes and Abilities. Vendors who buy your produce are the floor price underneath the player economy described on The Overworld.
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4747 Character placement, vendor stock and the services attached to each name are being tuned during Early Access, so treat locations and stock as current rather than fixed.
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4949 September 2026 NPC Fixes
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5151 The most common reason a quest looked broken was an NPC failing to hand it over. Quest NPCs had not been offering their quests on a first visit to a room, which forced players to leave and re-enter several times before a chain would continue, and that was fixed on 9 September 2026. Finishing or restarting a quest now also refreshes an NPC's available quests without a noticeable pause, after multi-second delays in busy areas were addressed on 3 September.
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5353 Virelda's Chief had been appearing in two places at once during Dune It Yourself. He now leaves correctly after Vesper's Challenge and appears in only one location per quest stage. A texture size error when interacting with Sakamoto was fixed on 9 September, and other players had been occasionally spawning with a missing name or the wrong gear during busy moments, which was fixed on 4 September.