Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25173123-20140816153701/@comment-24349637-20140817141507

You indeed can't lock on to merchants without provocation.

I think this is a valuable discussion to be had, and I realize my earlier post may not have conveyed that properly, to which I apologize. In a more general sense, we can all identify what we personally see as enemies, and the Wiki being consistent with that "common sense" wouldn't hurt, so we're in agreement there. However, if we're nitpicking, many of the NPCs and even merchants could be just as well be labeled "creatures" if that category existed, so right there we would need to make distinctions between friendly creatures and hostile ones, which seems awfully complicated to me.