![[VeldanPaltaraPathfinder-v1.png]] # Veldan Paltara _Succubus Spy | [[Baldur's Gate]]_ ## Summary One half of the "Paltara siblings," the copper-haired, amber-eyed pair who ran [[Paltara's Exquisite Attire]] in the [[Upper City]]. With [[Viresse Paltara]] he built blackmail files on the city's patriars for [[Thalamra Vanthampur]] under cover of the tailor shop. After the succubi-and-assassin trap at [[Eomane House]], he fled in his true form; [[Lulu]] chased him across the rooftops and turned a tavern's patrons against him, and they beat the succubus back to [[Nine Hells|Hell]]. %% ## Now _Destroyed on the material plane. Like any slain fiend, he re-forms in the lower planes over time — but he is gone from [[Baldur's Gate]] for now._ ## Appearance Copper hair, amber eyes, and a supernatural beauty that made ordinary attractiveness seem like a defect. In true form: winged and fiendish, still beautiful. ## Personality Charming, vain, and duplicitous — worked through fittings and flattery to harvest secrets. Cornered, he relied on beauty and misdirection rather than a fight, and it wasn't enough against [[Lulu]]'s celestial nature. ## Connections **[[Viresse Paltara]]** — his "sister" and partner in the spy operation. **[[Thalamra Vanthampur]]** — his patron; the blackmail files served her. **[[Lulu]]** — ran him down across the [[Upper City]] rooftops and destroyed him. ## Background **The Cover:** [[Paltara's Exquisite Attire]] was an intelligence operation dressed as a tailor shop — every fitting and social event mined for leverage over the [[Upper City]]'s patriars. **The Ambush:** The siblings lured the party to [[Eomane House]] in devil masks and sprang the trap. Both fled in true form through the windows; [[Lulu]] pursued Veldan to a tavern, convinced the patrons he was a fiend, and they beat him back to [[Nine Hells|Hell]]. ## Stats **Base:** Succubus/Incubus (MM p.285). Charm, shapechange, flight; destroyed form re-forms on the lower planes. %%