![[AldricLightswornPathfinder-v2.webp]] # Brother Aldric Lightsworn _Human Cleric of [[Lathander]] | [[Sons of Alagondar]] | [[Neverwinter]]_ ## Summary A [[Lathander]] cleric leading the moderate [[Sons of Alagondar]] resistance against [[Dagult Neverember]]. Publicly advocates peaceful reform. [[Nira Mistwood]] saved his life once, when the [[Gilded Gallows]] targeted him for assassination. %% ## Now Publicly the face of moderate resistance in [[Neverwinter]]; privately coordinating with [[Carrota Alagondar]]'s militants. If the party returns to [[Neverwinter]] politics, he's their moderate contact who's secretly not that moderate anymore. ## Appearance Salt-and-pepper hair, hazel eyes with unsettling intensity. A sunburst scar of [[Lathander]]'s symbol branded into his left cheek by his torturers, which he traces unconsciously when thinking. ## Personality Compassionate but no longer naive. The warmth is still there, but something cold lives behind it now. Occasionally paralyzed seeking perfect solutions that don't exist. Tells himself funneling intelligence to militants serves the greater good, and some nights he believes it. ## Quote _"The dawn brings hope. But it's our actions in the darkness that shape what morning finds."_ ## Connections **[[Nira Mistwood]]** — saved his life when the [[Gilded Gallows]] came for him. **[[Carrota Alagondar]]** — militant leader he secretly coordinates with. **[[Celeste Suncrest]]** — fellow cleric; the party rescued her from the [[Gloomcellar]]. **[[Harpers]]** — owes them for his own extraction, a debt he takes seriously. ## Background **Broken in the Gloomcellar:** Torture in the [[Gloomcellar]] broke something in his faith, turning his peaceful convictions toward quiet complicity with the militants. ## Stats **Base:** Priest (MM p.348), modified. - Swap *cure wounds* for *shield of faith*. - Add *spirit guardians* (prepared but rarely used — saved for when peace finally fails). %%