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And the winner for best NPC name of all time goes to...

this brothel cook in Baldur’s Gate 3. Not only is Sauceman Chorizo perhaps the finest NPC name in all of video game history, his barks are unsubtle works of art.

Screenshot from Baldur’s Gate 3 featuring a close up on an NPC chef who works in a brother named “Sauceman Chorizo”
Screenshot from Baldur’s Gate 3 featuring dialogue from an NPC named Sauceman Chorizo saying “That was the finest strudel I’ve made, and they just ate it off each other’s arses!”
Screenshot from Baldur’s Gate 3 featuring the chef NPC Sauceman Chorizo saying, “Gods above, the cucumbers have been taken from the pantry. Again.”
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