Cadderly Bonaduce Cadderly Bonaduce is a priest and Chosen of Deneir . Appearance . Standing 6 feet tall and weighing a bit under 200 pounds , Cadderly is a handsome man in his late 20s with striking gray eyes , curly brown hair and a sincere , warm smile . If he is angered , his glare can be unrelenting . Due to the extensive use of magic in the construction of the Spirit Soaring , Cadderly aged rapidly . By the time the church was completed , his body was as that of a 100 - year old man . As a reward from Deneir though , Cadderly gradually returned to his normal age over the course of several years . During the battle of Spirit Soaring against the Crenshinibon infused Dracolich Hephaestus , the Spirit Soaring took considerable damage . With Cadderly ' s life - force tied into the Spirit Soaring , every inch of damage the Spirit Soaring took aged Cadderly . Cadderly now appears as a 60 - year - old man that walks a sealing ward around Spirit Soaring in between the Material Plane and the Plane of Shadow . His favorite accessories are a blue silken cape and a blue wide - brimmed hat with a red band adorned with a porcelaine brooch showing the holy symbol of Deneir : a single candle burning over an open eye . Personality . Growing up sheltered at the Edificant Library in the Snowflake Mountains , he was a likable young man who was intensely curious about life , living and things unusual . Now Cadderly is a changed person ; taking so seriously the charge of being a Chosen of Deneir , he has made it his foremost commitment , greater even than that to his beloved wife and traveling partner Danica . While retaining his gentle and warm personality , Cadderly believes in justice tempered with mercy . Evidence of this became apparent when the wizard Dorigen was helpless before him after causing great destruction . Cadderly ' s friends urged him to kill her , but the young priest could not . He broke her fingers with his walking stick instead , so that she could not again cast spells . This act of compassion would prove to be for the better , as Dorigen later became a powerful ally and friend . Combat / Tactics . Never intending to become embroiled in combat as a priest of Deneir , Cadderly has , through the course of his adventures , found fighting to become an eventual necessity . He has faced foes such as vampire s , greater demon s , ancient dragon s and even the evil artifact Ghearufu . In battle , Cadderly prefers to let allies who have a better grasp of strategy and tactics lead , though he is certainly not a coward , and can disarm or incapacitate foes with his walking stick or other melee weapons . Eventually Cadderly ' s connection with Deneir became so powerful spells became his most potent weapon . As the chosen of the Father of All Literature and Image , Cadderly need not pray in advance for his spells , for through the Song of Universal Harmony he can access any spell he chooses when he wishes to cast it . Cadderly ' s crossbow . Cadderly ' s hand - held crossbow , constructed by dwarven brothers Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder after Cadderly ' s own concept , is of dark elf design , inspired by a tapestry depicting the legendary war whence the drow split from the surface elves . He arms the crossbow with unusual bolts containing " oil of impact " , darts constructed so the small vial of oil inside is crushed and explodes upon hitting a target . His bandoleer holds up to 50 of them . Cadderly ' s first kill with this weapon was against the evil cleric , Barjin . Cadderly ' s spindle - disks . In an ancient halfling treatise , he found in the Edificant Library , Cadderly read of the spindle - disks , an archaic weapon used by ancient halfling tribesmen of southern Luiren . In effect an ancient , deadly yo - yo , it consists of two circular rock - crystal disks , each a finger ' s breadth wide and a finger - length in diameter , joined in the center by a small bar about which a string is wrapped . ( Cadderly improved it , giving the metal bar a small hole through which the string can be threaded and knotted . ) The string is then coiled around the bar with the other end hanging loose . To use the spindle - disks , one slips a finger through a loop on the string ' s loose end ; with a flick of the wrist the disks are sent rolling down the length of the string ; with a light jerk of the finger , they spring back to one ' s hand . Cadderly originally considered the spindle - disks a game to pass time ; however , they proved a formidable weapon when Cadderly had to use them against the ogrillon Ragnor , who was attacking the elves of Shilmista . Out of desperation , the young priest dipped the disks in " oil of impact " and threw them against Ragnor , hoping to at least distract him from his fight with Elven prince Elbereth . The explosion blasted the ogrillon straight off the ground , impaling him onto a tree branch and rendering him helpless to the finishing strikes of Elbereth ' s sword ; it destroyed the spindle - disks , however . Ivan Bouldershoulder fashioned a new pair of spindle - disks for Cadderly out of semi - precious crystal centers with black adamantine borders . This improved weapon could break an exposed limb , or crush a man ' s jaw , cheekbones , and forehead and knock out every tooth he had in a single blow . Cadderly ' s Ring of Sleeping Poison . Cadderly wears a feathered ring whose hollowed - out center he fills with potent drow sleeping poison , a recipe he discovered in an ancient tome . The potent poison ' s ingredients , such as fungus from the Underdark , are exotic and hard to come by , and the alchemist brewing it must himself work in the Underdark . Cadderly keeps his stock of poison in a box enchanted with a globe of absolute Darkness , as it quickly becomes useless when exposed to sunlight . The ring also includes feathered catclaws ; Cadderly can dip these in the poison , then use his walking stick as a blowgun to sting an enemy with them . Background . Cadderly was born in Carradoon at the shores of the Impresk Lake , as the son of Aballister Bonaduce and a woman of unknown name . He grew up at the Edificant Library in the Snowflake Mountains . During his time at the Edificant Library Cadderly befriended a white squirrel , which he named Percival . His life goal was to build a cathedral where priests of every goodly deity can congregate and worship . This cathedral was known as the Spirit Soaring , which Cadderly constructed solely with his god - given cleric al magic energy . Cadderly had aged greatly while constructing the Spirit Soaring to a point where everyone expected him to die with Cadderly accepting that as the sacrifice necessary for the completion of the monumental library . Soon after completing the main building the aging process had reversed , Cadderly growing younger almost as fast as he ' d aged until he seemed at his late twenties again . During the battle against the Ghost King ( Crenshinibon infused Dracolich Hephaestus ) , the Spirit Soaring took massive damage , resulting in Cadderly ' s aging to the look of a 60 year old . After said battle , Hephaestus retreated to the Plane of Shadow ( Shadowfell ) to recover and heal . Cadderly chased him into that Plane , and took over the mantle of Ghost King as Hephaestus retreated from Cadderly ' s divine light . Now walking between the Material Plane and Shadowfell , Cadderly is of both worlds and neither . He has condemned himself to walk this ward eternally to prevent Hephaestus terrorizing the Material Plane if ever the dracolich decides to return to the Prime Material Plane . Appearances . The Sellswords Series . He also makes a cameo near the end of Baldur ' s Gate , inside Candlekeep .