NPCs

Abbreviation for Non-Player Character.

NPCs are the characters that are created by Square-Enix and are controlled by a computer, not a real person. This generally includes monsters (i.e. the beasts that one fights), and Town/city residents and nomads (i.e. those NPCs with green names).

This page lists all the NPCs that fall under the latter and their role in Final Fantasy XI.

For information on specific types of NPC's, see:

Adventurer's Assistant
Armor Storer
Assault Mission Giver
Campaign Arbiter OOE
Chocobo Renter
Conquest Overseer
Event Item Storer
Guild Merchant
Imperial Gate Guard OOE
Immigration NPC
Item Deliverer
Map Marker
Outpost Vendor
Outpost Teleporters
Past Event Watcher
Regional Vendor
Standard Merchant
Tactical Assessment OOE
Tenshodo Merchant
Tutorial NPC
Title Changer
Warp NPCs
Weather Checker

Full List of the NPC categories by affiliation:

Al Zahbi NPCs
Bastok NPCs
Battle NPCs
Chocobo Circuit NPCs
Cutscene NPCs
Jeuno NPCs
Kazham NPCs
Lumoria NPCs
Mhaura NPCs
Nashmau NPCs
Norg NPCs
Outland NPCs
Pankration NPCs OOE
Rabao NPCs
Tavnazian Safehold NPCs
San d'Oria NPCs
Selbina NPCs
Special Event NPCs
Windurst NPCs

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Wings of the Goddess (Shadowreign)

San d'Oria (S) NPCs
Bastok (S) NPCs
Windurst (S) NPCs
Jeuno (S) NPCs
Fort Karugo-Narugo (S) NPCs
Garlaige Citadel (S) NPCs
The Eldieme Necropolis (S) NPCs
Crawlers' Nest (S) NPCs
Beastman Confederate NPCs
Freelance NPCs

See also Player Character and Adventuring Fellow Guide for further information, as well as Characters for background stories and Vanadiel history.

Useful Tips[]

For keyboard users, you may hit F8 to select the nearest NPC. Repeated uses of F8 will not change the targeted NPC unless another NPC becomes closer.

A useful macro command for selecting only NPCs is <stnpc>, used in place of <t>. It allows you to tab between targetable NPCs before finishing the execution of the macro.