![[HarrenColdwellPathfinder-v1.png]] # Harren Coldwell _Dwarf Merchant Lord | [[Baldur's Gate]]_ ## Summary An [[Upper City]] dwarf merchant lord whose secret was one of the leverage points catalogued in the Paltara blackmail files. [[Char]] recognized him at the bathhouse, produced the secret, and used it to extract a promise that Coldwell would personally apologize to [[Thalamra Vanthampur]] for things he had said against her — leverage he hadn't known he owed. %% ## Now Hurrying to make amends with [[Thalamra Vanthampur]] to keep [[Char]]'s knowledge of his secret buried. ## Appearance A prosperous dwarf merchant lord, lowering himself into the perfumed water of the bathhouse. ## Personality A powerful man with a fragile foundation — the moment his secret surfaced he folded into profuse apology and eager compliance. Values his standing and his neck above his grievances. ## Connections **[[Char]]** — recognized him from the Paltara files and leveraged his secret. **[[Thalamra Vanthampur]]** — spoke against her; now compelled to apologize. ## Background **The Secret:** Three years ago on the docks his son killed a longshoreman in a drunken fight — one swing, the man's head caught a bollard, dead by morning. Coldwell paid to make it disappear, and someone filed the receipt. That receipt reached the Paltara files. ## Secret His son is a killer, and Coldwell bought the cover-up. Anyone holding the receipt holds him. %%