Harald the Paladin

[Hamish]

I found this guy begging for me to end him... I mean it's obvious that doing this would constitute an act of evil.

Here is what I am really interested in - does anyone know a good or neutral way to resolve his situation? I did manage to pick his pockets and get yet another ring of free action (I think I managed to get 4, plus a belt, so stuns in this game are pretty easy to avoid). I would like to "liberate" more of his items without actually killing him... I have seen something to do with Dire Charm and letting monsters eating him, but that is too cheesy even for me...

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

"Icewind Dale Harald" is a common search on the Internet. What's the point of asking again, if the horse has been beaten to death already?

Not limited to: --> https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/65478/killing-harald-in-totlm-without-losing-reputation-strategy

[Hamish]

Well, considering I haven't seen anything about picking his pockets, I thought someone might no more?

What's the point in replying if you have nothing to bring to the table at all?

That last comment about knocking him out might be fun to try though.

[a_delo3]

His items are not so great (I remember a sword of action +4 being the only noteworthy piece of stuff) but in truth neither losing rep truly matters (you should be drowning in gold already and the best items are to be purchased by blood and not by money).

If are roleplaying then you have to accept losing either rep or items; if not, mind that summoned demons attack everyone not under a protection from evil spell, friends or foe alike: if doing so sounds less cheesy to you may try this route (from a RP perspective summoning demons does not sound too "good" in any case but the game does not care...)

[Hamish]

you are right, there is nothing particularly good on him at this point - considering the amount of loot in this game's expansion is saturated worse than even Watcher's Keep. I managed to steal his ring of free action, arguably his best items, at no expense of any rep.

I had a go at summoning a Nabusa using the level 7 spell summon cocofiend while my party was under protection from evil, just to see. He killed the demon then I killed him, lost 5 rep and went well that wasn't worth it and reloaded. He also turned red.

After playing through more of the dungeon, I am now near the end, you are right, I am loaded. I even sold that wee guy in the shed 30x Longswords +1 for 1000g each - and that is just trash items! I now have 3 Bags of Holdings (which is just mental if you ask me) and like stuff I don't even know what to do with. My Paladin can pretty much solo this dungeon at level 24, and I read about some more exp bombs in Lonelywood I missed - my bard is already level 30... Harald can float about that castle for all eternity.