The pragmatic mercenary

When the City of Baldur's Gate was on the verge of disaster as Grand Duke Valarken and his lycanthrope allies of the Band of the Red Moon tried to overthrow the leaders of the city, Grand Duke Portyr, struggling for his life, come accross this strange man offering the services of himself and a handful of his men, known then as the Blood Raven.
Untrusting, but desperate, Grand Duke Portyr grudgingly accepted his offer, for an outrageous amount of gold and titles. If at first, Portyr had doubts, they evaporated at the gruesome efficiency with which the Blood Raven could find and mow through the werewolves renegades within the Flaming Fist. Ever since Valarken retreated with his followers, Galarnok Partak has been serving the Flaming Fist with great efficiency, defending the city proper and the regions around, keeping his closest man as his eyes and hears along the sword coast. Even if Grand Duke Portyr is worried that such capable individuals might want to try grab the leadership of the Flaming Fist for themselves, nothing they have done leads to believing they would.

Now Force Lieutenant of the Flaming Fist, Galarnok Partak, the Blood Raven, has started a new chapter in his own dark agenda. His recent meeting with adventurers from Waterdeep brought him news of undeath crawling along the Sword Coast and turning whole ship crews into the living dead. And for reasons unknown to Grand Duke Portyr or others, Galarnok Partak seems to take these signs of undeath metamorphosis very seriously.