NPC

An NPC, or non-player character, is a character found within a video game like Mythic Quest which a real human does not control. They add verisimilitude into a game by giving players a person who would be likely to exist within the environment. Many characters within MQ are NPCs, but the most infamous is the Masked Man, a benevolent NPC that got hacked and converted into a player character bent on causing havoc and harm to the game and, more broadly, Mythic Quest Studios itself.