![[Aldric Lightsworn.png]] # 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; privately coordinates with [[Carrota Alagondar]]'s militants after torture in the [[Gloomcellar]] broke something in his faith. [[Nira Mistwood]] saved his life once—the [[Gilded Gallows]] targeted him for assassination. %% ## At a Glance Salt-and-pepper hair, hazel eyes with unsettling intensity. Sunburst scar burned into his left cheek—[[Lathander]]'s symbol, branded by his torturers. He kept it. Traces it unconsciously when thinking. Weighs every word before speaking, like he's calculating cost. The party rescued [[Celeste Suncrest]] from the [[Gloomcellar]]—Aldric's fellow cleric and [[Carrota Alagondar|Carrota]]'s lover. He owes the [[Harpers]] for his own extraction, a debt he takes seriously. If the party returns to [[Neverwinter]] politics, he's their moderate contact who's secretly not that moderate anymore. ## Personality Compassionate but no longer naive. The warmth's 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. Some nights he believes it. ## Quote _"The dawn brings hope. But it's our actions in the darkness that shape what morning finds."_ ## Stats **Priest** (MM 348). Swap *cure wounds* for *shield of faith*; add *spirit guardians* (prepared but rarely used—saving it for when peace finally fails). %%