Characters

Source-based research, not a personal playthrough. Roles come from official descriptions and published guides; voice credits are identified as credit transcriptions, not guessed from how a voice sounds.

The people you travel with

• The Burnt One — the player. Wakes without eyes or ears, then receives them and escorts Potboy to Moon Mountain.
• Potboy — lantern creature. The flame is the key resource. IGN notes that he says a lot without speaking. He eats coal.
• Housy — the walking house and the place collectibles are stored. Potboy burns Housy in chapter 5. Housy is still there in chapter 6.
• The Soothsayers — two-headed fire-worshippers who deliver prophecy.
• The Soulfisher — an old figure by the fires. Both endings share a closing scene with him.

Figures tied to a chapter

Nobodyville has the Headmaster and the Old Man. Coalhaven's Thief is reconstructed through the leg, arm and skull quests; its story ghost is released through a furnace-and-match sequence, not simply by closing your eyes at a hostile red eye. The Moonbird, Groundskeeper, Craftsman and Princess belong to later story encounters. The Dark Itself is a story threat, not a conventional health-bar boss.

Credited voices

A non-verbal character can still have a credited voice performer: Potboy's vocalisation credit does not establish a set of spoken dialogue lines. Steam lists English as full audio and the other supported PC languages as text; platform language lists should be checked separately.