Conner Conner was a human thief and conman in the mid – 14th century DR . He was the mentor of a young Vajra Valmeyjar and guardian of the kittenlord , and his cons embroiled him in the machinations of the gods . History . Conner and Vaji . Conner was a warrior , thief , and con - artist plying his trade in Tethyr early in its civil war ( which began in Eleint , 1347 DR ) . In a ruined market town , he spied the young orphaned street - kid Vajra Valmeyjar , or " Vaji " as she was nicknamed . Admiring her spirit , or so he would claim , he took her under his wing , and fed her , cleaned her , and made her his protégé . He trained her as a thief and cutpurse , used her as a distraction for his stealing , and taught her to fight . Together , they fled south to Calimshan . There , Conner and Vaji ran confidence tricks in all the major cities : Memnon , Teshburl , Calimport , and Keltar . In the great city of Calimport , they easily swindled small - time merchants and travelers out of modest amounts , then laid low in another part of the city . When the local authorities began to grow alert or suspicious , they moved on . In this way , they enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle , faced few serious risks and nothing life - threatening , and made it through a few escapades . Finally , the pair went to Manshaka , where law was loose and guards and authorities corrupt , so Conner and Vaji felt safe enough to attempt grander and more profitable cons . Thus , Conner approached Pasha Abon Duum ( in fact the tyrannical crime - lord ruler of Manshaka ) with a scam in which he claimed that Vaji was the intended bride of Hoar , god of retribution . So impressed was Duum by Vaji that he initially believed this outlandish tale , but even after he came to doubt it , he still desired her . Thus , when Conner ' s scheme at last went wrong , he was forced to sell Vaji as a slave to Duum , so that he could go free , with their money . She was only twelve years of age at the time . Duum made her a gladiator in the Arena of Blood . However , Conner had plans from the start to retrieve her . Six months later , Conner returned to Duum with a surefire scheme to rescue Vaji ; it failed , and Duum ' s men beat him and left him for dead in the desert . There he lay dying beneath a desert moon . Yet he was healed somehow , seemingly by divine intervention , and survived . Countless plans followed , all without success , and Conner grew broken - hearted and regretful . Conner and the cat child . His chance for redemption came when a mysterious woman foretold certain signs and sent him into the midst a vicious battle between the Catlord and the god Malar , the Beastlord , to rescue the kittenlord . Conner claimed to be on a mission from a god to protect the child . The Catlord agreed , and bought time for Conner to carry the child away . He was guided by the foretold signs . Thus Conner became the guardian of the heir to the great cat lord . Conner claimed to have at one point been trapped on the Astral Plane possessing only one item , but was cut off before he could tell . He also once claimed to have made a deal with beings from the Outer Planes , but Duum thought him a liar . In fact , at some point , the conman did rather more — he made a deal with no less than Tyr , god of justice . He promised to bring the god the Claw of Malar ( which Duum possessed ) , in exchange for some unknown service , debt , or crime . At the Selûne ' s Smile . In the Year of the Prince , 1357 DR , Conner and the boy were traveling on a moor a full day ' s march from the nearest settlement when fog swept in and they were beset by dire wolves . As he feared the end , a shaft of moonlight transported them to Waterdeep , outside the Selûne ' s Smile tavern , where they were greeted by the proprietress , Luna . Luna told the young kittenlord a bedtime story , the Song of Selûne . Conner overheard and remarked upon how poignantly she told it . It didn ' t take long for Conner to work out that Luna was the avatar of the goddess Selûne the Moonmaiden , and that it was she who had healed him in the desert outside Manshaka , guided him to rescue the kittenlord , and rescued them from the wolves . In fact , Vajra Valmeyjar had escaped Duum and the Arena all on her own , and was now a free woman living at the Smile , so Conner studiously avoided meeting her . He admitted this to Luna , saying their reunion would be unhappy , that Vajra would likely kill him on sight , and that he ' d deserve it . The final con . Later that year , Duum ' s bounty hunters drugged and kidnapped Vajra out of her room in the Smile . Conner discovered what had happened and alerted her friend Timoth Eyesbright , claiming to be an old friend of Vajra ' s , and they were joined by Salabak , a former gladiator comrade of Vajra ' s . Eventually , they caught up with the band , Salabak distracted them with the illusion of a dracolich , and Conner and Timoth slew them with arrows , rescuing Vajra . She struck Conner and accused him of being complicit in the abduction . Together , they related their past together for Timoth . However , returning to Waterdeep and the Smile , they discovered the patrons unconscious ; recovering , Kyriani explained that more bounty hunters and a mage had put a potion in their drinks and kidnapped the kittenlord . Conner , Vajra , and Salabak tracked the mage , Chancil Crystalheart , to Memnon in Calimshan . Conner had come to distrust and suspect Salabak . Although waylaid by his agents , Conner tricked one into leading them to Chancil ' s house , where they learned he had the cat child and served Abon Duum , while Conner met secretly with the Catlord . In order to steal back the kittenlord , Conner proposed that Vajra pretend to be his captive as he tried to collect her bounty from Chancil . Chancil disbelieved Conner ' s story and " summoned " a cyclops to beat him , relenting only when he was convinced by Vajra ' s hatred of Conner . Chancil gave Conner half the reward for Vajra . However , he tied her bonds too tightly , she couldn ' t escape and thought he had double - crossed her , and the plan failed ; Conner and Vajra only just got away , but without the kittenlord . The pair parted on bad terms again , and Conner kept the money he ' d gotten from Chancil . He left , but Vajra was knocked unconscious afterward and delivered back to Abon Duum , who also received the kittenlord . Conner followed her to Manshaka , but appeared to only indulge himself at a pleasure palace and appeared callous about Vajra ' s fate to Salabak . He later watched her fight in the Arena of Blood . After Vajra escaped again , he met her , Salabak , and the Catlord in the dungeons beneath the Arena . However , the Catlord confronted him over his failure to protect the kittenlord ; despite Conner ' s desperate claims to have another plan , the Catlord appeared to slay him for his failings . Eventually , Duum and his forces captured the Catlord and Vajra , and Salabak ' s treachery was revealed . Duum went on with his scheme , using the Catlord ' s power to take them all to the plane of Gladsheim to confront Tyr , god of justice — who revealed himself to have been Conner all along . In fact , the rogue had faked his death with the Catlord ' s aid , apparently to let Duum go ahead with his plans in false confidence : Duum could not predict what Conner was really up to , and Conner ' s boasts of having made a deal with beings of the Outer Planes meant Duum , although dubious , was reluctant to set foot there . Now Duum was too shocked to resist as the Catlord snatched away the Claw of Malar . Duum sent the kittenlord to attack Conner , but the boy broke the spell . Tyr took the Claw of Malar , and agreed that with Conner that they were " square " , but warned him he was watching the scoundrel . Duum was thwarted and left to face Justice itself , and Tyr sent Vajra , Conner , and the Catlord and kittenlord back to Toril . At last , Vajra had a showdown against her true betrayer , Salabak , who was devoured by a froghemoth . Conner comforted a grieving Vajra and admitted his guilt and failings in abandoning Vajra to slavery , and also revealed his many failed attempts to rescue her from the Arena of Blood . The two were reconciled . Later , back at the Selûne ' s Smile , as Vajra and her friends celebrated , Conner spoke with Luna , admitting he ' d deduced her to be the goddess Selûne who ' d been guiding and aiding him . He felt she ' d given him a chance to redeem himself for abandoning Vajra , but she explained she ' d done so , not to redeem Conner , but to open Vajra ' s heart again . Conner spoke of moving on to new cities and cons . Description . Conner had a muscular build with brown hair , which he typically wore long and tied back in a ponytail . As a young man , he had stubble around his chin and lip , but later in life grew thick sideburns that joined a moustache . Personality . Conner spoke like a honorable gentleman but this concealed a deceitful nature . He was often mistrusting and cynical , and always had a clever plan up his sleeve , or claimed to , at least . He played up the appearance of a callous thief who indulged himself with his ill - gotten gains , but he had a good nature and carried guilt for his abandoning Vaji . He professed himself not to be one of " the good guys " .