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The Banner Saga 2 is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Stoic Studio and published by Versus Evil. It is the sequel to The Banner Saga, and the second part of a trilogy of games. A crowdfunding campaign for the third game in the series concluded on March 7, 2017, with 8,086 backers raising $416,986 of its $200,000 goal.

Nikels is a Hero character, appearing in The Banner Saga 2.

Statistics
Base – Max	Stat
7 / 9
8 / 9
9 / 14
2 / 3
2 / 2
Start rank	Free points
3	0
Movement Range
4
Ability
Active	Passive
Nikels
Class: Mender

Background[edit | edit source]

Energetic and dedicated, Nikels is a naturally gifted Mender willing to help any way he can. Under the tutelage of ValkaZefr, Nikels is learning more about the world on their travels than he ever did in the Tower of Manaharr.

Active Ability: Mend[edit | edit source]

Nikels starts with Mend at Rank 2, as his starting Hero Rank is 3.

Menders are able to quickly Mend on the field of battle, restoring the Armor of any ally anywhere on the battlefield. The amount of Armor restored is half of the Mender's current Willpower (WP) rounded down.

Rank 1: Armor restored is (WP+0)/2, rounded down.

Rank 2: Armor restored is (WP+1)/2, rounded down.

Rank 3: Armor restored is (WP+2)/2, rounded down.

Joining the Party[edit | edit source]

Nikels always joins the Ravens caravan in Chapter 11.

Possible Deaths or Departures[edit | edit source]

Nikels sacrifices himself (at Zefr's 'request') in the Bindal mines so that the Ravens can escape Eyeless, during Chapter 11. However, that is not the last we see of him (spoiler)...

Playstyle[edit | edit source]

Nikels can be considered as the basic Mender class unit of the game. He is far weaker than Zefr or Eyvind, has only one active ability (Mend), no passive and cannot be promoted beyond Hero Rank 5 in order to earn a second active.
Calculating restored Armor when casting Mend may be difficult, partly because the ability description in the Heroes tent is vague. The following table shows the Armor restored for all ranks of the ability, given the mender's Willpower when Mend is cast. It is advisable to draw any unneeded Willpower from the Horn, before casting Mend.

Willpower	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Rank 1	0	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10
Rank 2	-	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10	10
Rank 3	-	-	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10	10	11

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Nikels holds Bolverk in great admiration and fancies joining the Ravens.

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The Banner Saga 2 is intense and unrelenting in its mission to make you feel like the worst leader alive.

The game opens amidst the aftermath of a massive battle from the first game — The Banner Saga 2 literally begins at Chapter 8 and goes from there. In this game filled with fantastical creatures, there’s an apocalypse coming. People are dead, lives are upended and you have to move forward into the story without any time to catch your breath.

Throughout the next 10 hours, as you lead a caravan of refugees to what is thought to be the last safe place in a world being swallowed by a Darkness, Banner Saga 2 weighed down on me more and more. And somehow, I welcomed it. As you negotiate through conflicts, a small slip of the tongue can result in the deaths of dozens, or even launch you into a battle that you can’t win.

For the uninitiated, Banner Saga 2 is a tactical, turn-based strategy game that features the end of a Viking-inspired world. The characters, a mixture of humans, Varl (giants) and, later in the game, centaur-like horseborn, are seeking Aberrang, the last safe haven from the oncoming 'Darkness.' As your caravan treads through the apocalyptic wasteland that was once your home, you face threats outside your understanding and within your own ranks.

Stoic has created a large, oppressive world

Banner Saga 2 revels in its foreboding atmosphere. Developer Stoic has created a large, oppressive world, where friends and enemies alike face the end of all things. The Dredge — the rocky, seemingly mindless foes that you commonly battle against — are also on the run from this Darkness and are just as desperate as you are. As you travel and shed members of your caravan, the situation becomes even more desperate. As I was racing to stop a Dredge sundr from bringing back the dead, it truly felt like the end of the world.

This is reflected in The Banner Saga 2's art direction. Your small clans and groups chug through large, abandoned and torn-up landscapes. Villages are empty and covered in smoke. The ground is rocky and broken, but elements are able to make it seem less dreary. One sequence that brings your caravan into the mines is dark and cramped, but the little bits of light that shine in through the cracks in the rock wall are placed exactly to illuminate your little group hustling.

Sometimes, however, the amount of detail in the environment gets in the way of the important aspects of a scene. A loose branch on a tree can obscure half of a battlefield. Natural obstacles in the path of characters can block out some of your smaller players, which becomes a bigger problem when you have giant Varl in your party that can block out part of the battlefield with its bulk. The darkness of the Dredge — figures almost entirely clothed in black — also can mess things up when they fade into objects or other characters.

However, it’s easy to forget little annoyances that appear in battle when everything else works to the game’s aesthetic advantage. When you come across any of the large, intricate Godstones depicting ancient legends