Wind Rider (NPC) Wind Riders are a type of Wind Rider found in the eastern part of Tyria . Tentacle Slash - The Rider hits you with its tentacle, dealing a small amount of damage and stealing a boon. Shoot - The Rider charges up and swings the tentacles upwards, knocking back the target, dealing moderate amount of damage. A non-player character ( NPC) is a creature that is not under the control or management of any player (not a character ). NPCs can be friendly or hostile. NPCs mostly serve a game play function. An example of this is a trader, combat ally or non- charmable animals . Technically, henchmen, heroes and pets are NPCs, but they inhabit a grey area

^{Chat link is a text code that can be entered in the chat panel to create a link referencing an in-game element; mouse-hovering over the link displays a tooltip information about that entity. Chat links are displayed in the currently selected language localization of the game. They are used to share information with other players or, sometimes} The recurring NPC allies in Prophecies/Factions were mostly henchman. They had mostly minor roles but were present in the lore. For Nightfall/EOTN, both heroes and henchman exist, but most of the henchman/NPC Allies that had any lore implications whatsoever are turned into heroes. hcyztH.