Welcome to Elderfield Character List: Every NPC by Area

Every Welcome to Elderfield character grouped by where you meet them: marriage candidates, merchants, Greystone Estates tenants, Old Woods, Catacombs and more.

Welcome to Elderfield is crowded with odd people — and a few things that are not quite people. This list groups every named character by role and by the area where you usually meet them, so you can find who you are looking for or work out who asked you for help. The nine marriage candidates come first; see the marriage and romance guide for hearts, gifts and proposing.

Marriage candidates

Character	Who they are	Where to find them
Alice	Former classmate and VHS tape collector	School, Town, Farmhouse
Blorph	Sewer dweller who wants to live on the surface	Sewers, Farmhouse
Celeste	Ghost who haunts the Library and Greystone Estates	Library, Greystone Estates, School
Edwin	Devoutly religious former classmate	Town, School, Farmhouse
Ellie	Upbeat former classmate who loves creepy mysteries	Town, School, Farmhouse
Josh	Cautious former classmate worried about disappearances	Town, School, Farmhouse
Molly	Blacksmith who runs the Workshop	Workshop, School, Farmhouse
Sam	Former classmate fascinated by the night sky	Greystone Estates, Town, School
Tanner	Former classmate living in a cabin near the Old Woods	Town, Farm Path, Farmhouse

Merchants and services

Character	What they do	Where
Farmer Hans	The giant skull who owns the Farmhouse and teaches you to farm	Farmhouse
Old Man Crawford	Retired farmhand selling starter tools and supplies	Farmhouse
Chef Elroy	Hans's cook; sells recipes and gives cooking requests	Farm, Farmhouse
Chef	Wandering cook who teaches recipes when you meet him	Library, Old Woods
Herb	Fisherman who introduces fishing and runs the contests	Lakefront, Old Woods
The Seed Merchant	Sells seasonal cash crop seeds	Farm Path, Town
The Travelling Merchant	Weekend buyer of seasonal crops	Town Outskirts
The Tax Man	Sets and collects your crop taxes	Town Outskirts
Klaus	Carpenter selling furniture and renovating the Farmhouse	Klaus's House, Farmhouse
Stan	Carpenter who handcrafts furniture in his own shop	Carpenter
Henrietta	Runs the Pet Shop and Nursery, selling animals and pets	Pet Shop and Nursery
Food Cart Man	Runs the rotating Food Cart	Town
Gabby and Juan	Staff at the Elderfield Saloon	Elderfield Saloon
Big Cat	A talking cat with a shop	Old Woods
Mall Rat	Long-lived shopkeeper deep in the mall	Mall and Mall Mines
The Garbage Man	Collects and sells discarded goods	Sewers
Skeleton Merchant	A cheerful shopkeeper underground	Catacombs
The Meat Man	An unsettling trader	Forsaken Settlement
Stranger	Mysterious seller who sometimes appears on your farm	Farm

Town officials and community figures

Character	Role	Where
Mayor	Runs the town and hosts community events	Town
Father Desmond	Priest of the Church of the Old Gods	Church
Police Officer	Handles investigations	Police Station, Old Woods, Catacombs
Prof. Dayton	Researcher trying to save forgotten knowledge	Library
Erik	Fortune teller who explains luck	Outside the Mall
Manager John	Manager of Parks and Recreation	Sewers
Gallery Attendant	Takes submissions for the Art Gallery	Art Gallery
News Anchor	The voice of the TV news reports	Varies

Town and farm residents

Abby, Adrian, Akira, Art, Barry, Brian, Brittany, Damian, Dan, Daryl, Dave, Isabella, Jenn, Mary, Old Man Jackson and his wife, Rachel, Terry, Trisha, Veronica and Zoe. Most of them hand out requests: Isabella the mycologist wants rare mushrooms, Brittany wants you to reach her pen pal Carla, Akira rewards you for investigating mysteries, and Art and Jenn's household has its own exploration requests. Trisha, an Old Woods resident, is a longtime friend of Molly.

Greystone Estates tenants

Character	Why you meet them
Carla	Brittany's former pen pal
Darius	A guarded tenant tied to a key-related encounter
Donald	Would rather be out in the cold than in his apartment
Earl	Needs wine for a date
Jack	Doubts the building's haunted reputation
Jeannie	Adrian's partner, who moves here from the Town Apartment
June	Has noticed the rooms shifting
Tracy	Is scared of something in the laundry area

Old Woods and Lakefront

Character	Why you meet them
Hank	Lives near the mill and recruits travellers for searches
Ansel	Self-described adventurer camping in the woods
Gretta	Cabin resident who mistakes you for a delivery worker
Grizzled Woodsman	Loner who warns you about the woods
Jacob	Traveller who asks you to look out for something he lost
Michelle	Joggers Club member who wants you to run
Sarah	Explorer saved by her Lucky Pocket Knife
Fallen Angel	An isolated supernatural being who asks for your soul

Sewers and the Mall

Dax blocks a sewer route until you meet his terms, Jeremiah is an exile from the Forsaken Settlement, and the Gatekeeper controls access to the Sewers.

Forsaken Settlement

Adam, Chloe, Dimitri, Grace, Hannah, Isaiah, Leo (the settlement's real-estate agent), Lydia, Maryam, Olivia, Samson, Thaddeus and Theodore. Most of them are short on supplies or light and rely on surface visitors like you to carry goods, search tunnels or bring help.

Catacombs

Bill, Carlos, Charlie, Denzel (a follower of Kaal), Douglas, Farmer Sven (trapped and asking for farming supplies), Gibson, Jenna, Jess, Tobias and Zeek.

The Old Gods

Eight Old Gods shape the town's stranger events, each with cultists at the shrines:

Old God	Associated with
Daeus	The sea and the deep
Delvek	Darkness and the unknown
Gatis	The moon; all-seeing
Hagroth	Growth and harvest
Kaal	Death
Nezroth	Flesh
Valtris	Forbidden knowledge
Xxarteck	Dreams and rebirth

Mysteries, festivals and other oddities

Mystery encounters: the Ancient Mushroom, Bird Woman, Coat Man, Ghost and Ghost Watcher at the Lakefront, Grimmi on the rooftop, Maggot Man in the sewers, Pete the Laundry Ghost, Pumpkin Cat, and The Staring Woman.
Festival characters: Pumpkid (a boy named Ben) and his siblings Abigail, Skelekid and Witchkid, their parents Amelia and Martin, the Decoration Vendor, the Snowman, The Great Pumpkin and the Demon of Gifts.
Other creatures: Tentacow, the tentacled cow at the Pet Shop.

Sources

Welcome to Elderfield on Steam
Characters — Welcome to Elderfield community wiki, checked September 30, 2026; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Descriptions are summarized in our own words.

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