Nalia de ' Arnise Nalia de ' Arnise is a young Amnian noblewoman of a particularly charitable bent . She has learnt some rogue skills in the process of sneaking out of her home to help out those less well off , something her guardians did not much approve of , especially as her mother had died of an illness contracted during such charity . Besides of this , she is a capable mage . Nalia lived in her family castle with her father and aunt until it was attacked by troll s and yuan - ti . Her father was killed during the attack , leaving her as a female heir little chance to legally inherit the castle without finding someone suitably martially inclined to act as its new lord ( or lady ) . Nalia is one of the potential party NPC s in " " ( and , consequently , in " " as well ) . She can be found in the Copper Coronet , pleading others to help her as she has helped them , looking for someone to help her defend her castle against an attack . She will recognize the player character ' s party as adventurers and ask them for help , although she won ' t reveal the attackers are troll s until after reaching the castle . Regardless of how soon the player heads out there , the castle will have been breached already , meaning that the new task is to retake it . TorGal , the leader of the trolls , will reveal that they were hired by someone else to attack the castle , but not who it was . Lord de ' Arnise , Nalia ' s father , has been killed in any case . If the player character is a fighter ( and not a multi - or dual - class fighter who has already accepted one of the game ' s class - based " strongholds " ) , Nalia will ask them to act as the new lord of the castle . Otherwise , it will fall to the Roenall family . That will not be enough for Isaea Roenall , though , who was supposed to marry Nalia but whom she can ' t stand . He will later kidnap her from the party by quasi - legal means , and the only way to get her back is to dig up some of the abundant dirt there is to be dug up on him , proving his dishonesty in general . In any case , Nalia is willing to leave home to go adventuring with a decent party after her father is killed . Nalia is appalled at the unfairness of the class system in her country and others like it , and consequently very preoccupied with helping the needy , to the point of critisizing charity that is too small . She insists that she does not " go slumming " , and thinks she is really in touch with the people she ' s trying to help , but she has some difficulty shaking off the feeling of superiority she was raised with , and is seen as well - intentioned but not so good as she thinks she is . Rather like Imoen , Nalia has some minor thief abilities , but has dual - classed into a mage early on . As her thief abilities become less and less able to deal with the increasing challenges presented in the game , which starts to happen almost immediately , she becomes more like a pure mage , albeit with the ability to use some light weapons . With the thief levels really not taking up any experience to speak of , she ' s certainly one of the most powerful arcane spellcasters in the game , matching Edwin in potential levels if not in sheer number of spells .