![[AetanMorrowPathfinder-v1.png]] # Sir Aetan Morrow _Human Knight | [[Cult of Zariel]] | [[Baldur's Gate]]_ ## Summary The man behind [[Tarquin Belmont]]. He issued written orders to move [[Hellriders]] out of [[Elturel]] before its fall and to kill any surviving oath-bound knights, members of the [[Order of the Companion]], and their descendants. The party has never met him — they know him only from a stolen letter and Tarquin's confession — but he is still at large in the city, and still hunting. %% ## Now Free and operating somewhere in [[Baldur's Gate]]. He does not know his agent [[Tarquin Belmont]] is dead or that the party has his letter. The heroes have his name and his handwriting; he is a loose end that walked away. ## Appearance _Unknown to the party — never seen in person. Known only through a firm, decisive hand in a stolen letter and Tarquin's account of a mentor who found him in the ashes of Millhaven._ ## Personality A recruiter of the broken. He found [[Tarquin Belmont]] at his lowest — kneeling in the ruins of his sister's room — and gave his grief a direction, gradually feeding him [[Zariel]]'s philosophy that defeating evil requires harsh necessities. He works through orders and cutouts, not his own blade, and frames murder as duty. Patient, deliberate, and insulated. ## Connections **[[Tarquin Belmont]]** — his agent and protégé; drew him into [[Zariel]]'s service, then handed him the kill-list. **[[Zariel]]** — the archdevil he serves. ## Background **The Mentor:** He was the hand on [[Tarquin Belmont]]'s shoulder in the ruins of Millhaven, and the one who over years turned a grieving idealist into a fanatic. **The Orders:** He produced military orders moving Tarquin and his men outside [[Elturel]] on a "sanctioned training exercise" the day it fell. A second letter — signed by him, referencing "the day that was promised" and closing "For Her glory" — ordered the killing of surviving oath-bound and their descendants. He claims not to have known [[Elturel]] itself would fall. ## Key Info - The stolen letter in [[Char]]'s possession is physical proof of the conspiracy and ties the murders to a named [[Baldur's Gate]] figure. ## Secret His current whereabouts, cover identity, and standing in [[Baldur's Gate]] society are unknown to the party. %%