![[ViressePaltaraPathfinder-v1.png]] # Viresse Paltara _Succubus Spy | [[Baldur's Gate]]_ ## Summary One half of the "Paltara siblings," the impossibly beautiful pair who ran [[Paltara's Exquisite Attire]] in the [[Upper City]]. Behind the tailoring, she and [[Veldan Paltara]] built blackmail files on the city's patriars for [[Thalamra Vanthampur]]. She charmed and slipped away from the party repeatedly — at the shop, at the [[Eomane House]] ambush, and at the bathhouse — before finally being destroyed in the [[Dead Three]] dungeon by [[Rowan]]. She burst apart promising it wasn't finished. %% ## Now _Destroyed on the material plane by [[Rowan]] — but a slain fiend reforms in the lower planes. Her parting words ("this isn't finished") were a promise. She may return._ ## Appearance Copper hair, amber eyes, and a supernatural beauty that made ordinary attractiveness "seem like a birth defect." In her true form: winged and unmistakably fiendish, still beautiful. ## Personality A predator who works through charm and information rather than force. Toys with prey — she watched [[Mortlock Vanthampur]] and [[Vaaz]] fight to the death purely for sport. Vain, patient, and unbothered by loss, treating her own destruction as an inconvenience rather than an end. ## Quote _"This isn't finished."_ ## Connections **[[Veldan Paltara]]** — her "brother" and partner in the operation; destroyed at [[Eomane House]]. **[[Thalamra Vanthampur]]** — her patron; the blackmail files were built for her. **[[Rick]]** — she tried to charm him at the bathhouse after probing about his family's lumpkins; the spell failed. **[[Rowan]]** — charmed him in the dungeon, then was destroyed by him. ## Background **The Cover:** [[Paltara's Exquisite Attire]] used fittings, social events, and supernatural charm to catalogue every secret and leverage point in the [[Upper City]] — an intelligence operation dressed as a tailor shop. **The Ambush:** The siblings lured the party to [[Eomane House]] in devil masks, sprang the succubi-and-assassin trap, then took flight. [[Veldan Paltara]] was run down and destroyed; Viresse escaped. **The Bathhouse:** She approached [[Rick]] knowing his family made the lumpkins — something he hadn't told her — tried to charm him, failed, and vanished behind a locked door. **The End:** She turned up in the flooded [[Dead Three]] dungeon watching two men kill each other, charmed [[Rowan]], and was torn apart when the charm broke. ## Stats **Base:** Succubus/Incubus (MM p.285). Charm, shapechange, flight; destroyed form re-forms on the lower planes. %%