The Grim Tales of Shelly the Barbarian

 is an American action-fantasy-comedy video game series, being developed by TBD and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since June 13th, 2001.

Synopsis
Set in a massive sprawling fantasy world, Shelly is a fight-loving barbarian who travels around Alzar searching for people to save and threats to fight.

Main

 * Shelly (voiced by TBD) - a fight-loving yet friendly barbarian who loves fighting and adventuring as she explores Alzar, facing numerous threats.

Supporting

 * Hargar (voiced by TBD) - Shelly's father who is a retired barbarian warrior as he decides to mentor his daughter, despite knowing it is dangerous.
 * Cynthia Swoonflower (voiced by TBD) - an eccentric bard who has been searching for someone to sing ballads about, soon finding Shelly and becoming her companion.
 * The Peddler (voiced by TBD) - a very strange and eccentric merchant who holds various oddities as he is very friendly to Shelly.
 * King Bertrand (voiced by TBD) - the friendly yet somewhat gluttonous king of Calphonia who was saved by Shelly in her first adventure.
 * Sir Matthew (voiced by TBD) - a slightly idiotic yet kind-hearted knight in Calphonia who is devoted to protecting the royal family as he forms an alliance with Shelly.

Antagonists

 * The Wanderer of the Shadows (voiced by TBD) - a mysterious and deranged dark God who wants to consume the world into primordial darkness and evil, being responsible for several foes Shelly fights.
 * Elizabeth Von Carnstein (voiced by TBD) - a vicious and dangerous noble in the kingdom of Calphonia as she has been secretly practicing in black magic, being obsessed with becoming queen.
 * The Black Knight (voiced by TBD) - a demonic knight brought to life by Elizabeth to be her right hand as he is extremely loyal to his creator.
 * Halkarr (voiced by TBD) - an idiotic yet megalomaniacal hobgoblin who constantly tries to take over the kingdoms but gets easily defeated by Shelly.

Common gameplay
The games play as a 3D collectathon platformer as you play as Shelly, a Barbarian who can climb up many surfaces, attack and throw enemies and items. The main gameplay loop revolves around helping people out to collect keys which can be used to unlock bosses and new areas. There are additional collectibles which vary across the games, except for silver (the primary currency), hearts (which heals Shelly) and heart containers (which increase Shelly's max health).