The following contains the characters that appear in the crew manifest of the Obra Dinn. See the category page to choose a character based on images instead. In addition to the characters below, the game has The Honourable East India Company chief inspector, a boatman, a courier, the chief inspector's housekeeper, a stowaway, and a number of "terrible beasts".
See the article on Crew Muster Roll Book for characters listed in the demo builds of the game from 2014 and 2016.
Crew manifest[]
# | Name | Surname | Quality | Origin | Fate | Fate revealed | Appear- ances |
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1 | Robert | Witterel | Captain | England | Suicide with a pistol | Chapter 10, part 4 | 15 |
2 | William | Hoscut | First Mate | Scotland | Shot by captain Witterel with a pistol | Chapter 10, part 1 | 14 |
3 | Edward | Nichols | Second Mate | England | Shot with a gun by Chioh Tan upon return to the ship | Chapter 4, part 6 | 9 |
4 | Martin | Perrott | Third Mate | England | Spiked by a mermaid in the lazarette | Chapter 8, part 4 | 10 |
5 | John | Davies | Fourth Mate | England | Clubbed by Henry Brennan after Davies killed Olus Wiater | Chapter 9, part 5 | 12 |
6 | Alfred | Klestil | Bosun | Austria | Torn apart by a beast (a kraken) | Chapter 9, part 1 | 11 |
7 | Charles | Miner | Bosun's Mate | France | Torn apart by a beast (a kraken) off screen | During chapter 7 | 14 |
8 | Henry | Evans | Surgeon | England | Escaped on a lifeboat with Emily Jackson, Miss Jane Bird, and Davey James; was alive in Africa, in Morocco; sent the logbook to the HEIC and died a year later | During chapter 9 | 11 |
9 | James | Wallace | Surgeon's mate | England | Decapitated by a beast (a giant crab) at the same time as Jie Zhang | Chapter 6, part 4 | 6 |
10 | Winston | Smith | Carpenter | America | Speared by a beast (a crab rider) | Chapter 6, part 8 | 8 |
11 | Marcus | Gibbs | Carpenter's Mate | America | Spiked by a beast (a giant crab) | Chapter 6, part 3 | 4 |
12 | Thomas | Sefton | Cook | England | Struck by the tail of a mermaid | Chapter 5, part 2 | 2 |
13 | Emil | O'Farrell | Butcher | Ireland | Spiked by a beast (a giant crab) | Chapter 6, part 6 | 7 |
14 | Christian | Wolff | Gunner | Austria | Shot by a loose cannon that went off during a kraken attack | Chapter 7, part 4 | 6 |
15 | Olus | Wiater | Gunner's Mate | Poland | Shot by John Davies with a gun after Wiater stabbed Thomas Lanke for trying to reveal a mutiny attempt | Chapter 9, part 4 | 12 |
16 | Duncan | McKay | Purser | Scotland | Drowned alongside Nathan Peters and Alexander Booth as a kraken throws their lifeboat in the air | During chapter 7 | 6 |
17 | Finley | Dalton | Helmsman | England | Drowned by a beast (a kraken) off screen | During chapter 7 | 2 |
18 | Edward | Spratt | Artist | England | Crushed around the neck by a beast (a kraken) | Chapter 7, part 2 | 5 |
19 | Abigail | Hoscut Witterel | Passenger | Scotland | Crushed by a kraken as a mast hit her | Chapter 7, part 8 | 1 |
20 | Nunzio | Pasqua | Passenger | Italy | Knifed by Edward Nichols to cover up a theft Nichols committed | Chapter 3, part 1 | 1 |
21 | Emily | Jackson | Passenger | England | Alive in Africa; escaped on a lifeboat alongside Henry Evans, Miss Jane Bird, and Davey James | During chapter 9 | 3 |
22 | Jane | Bird | Passenger | England | Alive in Africa; escaped on a lifeboat alongside Henry Evans, Emily Jackson, and Davey James | During chapter 9 | 3 |
23 | Bun-Lan | Lim | Passenger | Formosa | Clawed by a beast (a mermaid) out on the open sea after being kidnapped by Edward Nichols | Chapter 4, part 4 | 6 |
24 | It-Beng | Sia | Passenger | Formosa | Burned to death by the chest's fluid | Chapter 4, part 5 | 9 |
25 | Chioh | Tan | Passenger | Formosa | Spiked alongside Hamadou Diom by a suspended beast (a mermaid) | Chapter 5, part 1 | 5 |
26 | Hok-Seng | Lau | Passenger | Formosa | Shot by Henry Brennan (as a member in a firing squad) after being found guilty of murder actually committed by Edward Nichols | Chapter 3, part 2 | 4 |
27 | Zungi | Sathi | Ship's Steward | India | Accidentally shot through a wall with a rifle as Charles Miner was trying to take out a crab rider | Chapter 6, part 7 | 7 |
28 | Fillip | Dahl | Captain's Steward | Sweden | Burned to death by the chest's fluid in the lazarette | Chapter 8, part 1 | 4 |
29 | Paul | Moss | 1st Mate's Steward | Wales | Killed with a sword by Leonid Volkov while trying to escape alongside Henry Evans, Emily Jackson, Miss Jane Bird, and Davey James | Chapter 9, part 2 | 5 |
30 | Samuel | Galligan | 2nd Mate's Steward | Ireland | Knifed in the neck by It-Beng Sia as Sia was trying to reach the chest Galligan was guarding | Chapter 4, part 3 | 5 |
31 | Roderick | Andersen | 3rd Mate's Steward | England | Crushed by a loose cannon during the kraken attack | Chapter 7, part 5 | 4 |
32 | Davey | James | 4th Mate's Steward | England | Alive in Africa; escaped on a lifeboat alongside Henry Evans, Miss Jane Bird, and Emily Jackson | During chapter 9 | 7 |
33 | Peter | Milroy | Midshipman | England | Exploded by lit cartridge bag of gunpowder when trying to fight the kraken | Chapter 7, part 6 | 10 |
34 | Thomas | Lanke | Midshipman | England | Knifed by Olus Wiater after Lanke overheard a discussion about a mutiny attempt and tried to warn others | Chapter 9, part 6 | 15 |
35 | Charles | Hershtik | Midshipman | England | Burned trying to take out a crab rider, or spiked by a beast (a giant crab) | Chapter 6, part 5 | 4 |
36 | Omid | Gul | Topman | Persia | Fell overboard during the kraken attack | During chapter 7 | 7 |
37 | Timothy | Butement | Topman | Scotland | Shot with a gun by Edward Nichols | Chapter 3, part 3 | 2 |
38 | Huang | Li | Topman | China | Electrocuted by lightning strike | Chapter 6, part 1 | 5 |
39 | Jie | Zhang | Topman | China | Decapitated alongside James Wallace by a beast (a giant crab) | Chapter 6, part 4 | 4 |
40 | Li | Hong | Topman | China | Speared by a beast (a mermaid) | Chapter 4, part 1 | 4 |
41 | Wei | Lee | Topman | China | Drowned by a beast (a kraken) off screen | During chapter 7 | 7 |
42 | Nicholas | Botterill | Topman | England | Speared by a beast (a crab rider) | Chapter 6, part 2 | 4 |
43 | Maba | Topman | New Guinea | Torn into two by a beast (a kraken) | Chapter 7, part 7 | 8 | |
44 | Lewis | Walker | Topman | England | Clubbed with a pole weapon by captain Witterel | Chapter 10, part 3 | 14 |
45 | Leonid | Volkov | Topman | Russia | Shot in the chest with a rifle by Emily Jackson after killing Paul Moss | Chapter 9, part 3 | 11 |
46 | Alarcus | Nikishin | Seaman | Russia | Drowned by a beast (a mermaid) | During chapter 4 | 4 |
47 | Aleksei | Toporov | Seaman | Russia | Drowned by a beast (a mermaid) | During chapter 4 | 8 |
48 | Nathan | Peters | Seaman | England | Drowned alongside Alexander Booth and Duncan McKay as a kraken throws their lifeboat in the air | During chapter 7 | 15 |
49 | Lars | Linde | Seaman | Denmark | Clubbed by Nathan Peters as Peters blamed Linde for the death of his brother | Chapter 7, part 1 | 12 |
50 | John | Naples | Seaman | Wales | Killed (leg dismembered) with a sword by Fillip Dahl; succumbed to wounds | Chapter 5, part 4 | 5 |
51 | Renfred | Rajub | Seaman | India | Died of illness | Chapter 2, part 2 | 4 |
52 | Abraham | Akbar | Seaman | India | Crushed by a loose cannon during the kraken attack | Chapter 7, part 3 | 12 |
53 | William | Wasim | Seaman | India | Crushed by falling cargo; neck snapped or skull caved by stretcher carrying mermaid | Chapter 5, part 3 | 6 |
54 | Soloman | Syed | Seaman | India | Died of illness | Chapter 2, part 1 | 3 |
55 | Hamadou | Diom | Seaman | Siera Leona | Spiked by a beast (a mermaid) | Chapter 5, part 1 | 4 |
56 | Henry | Brennan | Seaman | England | Knifed by captain Witterel after an attempt by Brennan and Hoscut to take shells from the captain | Chapter 10, part 2 | 17 |
57 | Alexander | Booth | Seaman | England | Drowned alongside Nathan Peters and Duncan McKay as a kraken throws their lifeboat in the air | During chapter 7 | 11 |
58 | Patrick | O'Hagan | Seaman | Ireland | Speared by a beast (a mermaid) | Chapter 4, part 2 | 7 |
59 | George | Shirley | Seaman | England | Shot with a loose cannon alongside Christian Wolff by a beast (a kraken) | Chapter 7, part 4 | 9 |
60 | Samuel | Peters | Seaman | England | Crushed by falling cargo that landed on top of him when the ship was being loaded; his brother blamed Lars Linde for the accident | Chapter 1, part 1 | 1 |