Non-Player Characters (NPCs) are those characters that are not played by a player. All characters are organized the same way, but only the PCs (Player Characters) actually represent a player. All other characters (family and your hired men) are called NPCs and do what ever the PC heading their household tells them to do. Most of the 6,000 NPCs are not hired, but wait around in the fiefs tavern for someone to hire them. Some one percent of the NPCs have exceptionally good stats and these are called Mighty Men. Another ten percent of the NPCs have somewhat less good stats and these are called Wannabees. When an NPC dies they have a new first name generated and then placement is randomly determined. Where ever they show up that becomes their new language.