Thadeus Candleglow

 is a halfling in his fifties and the owner of the Candleglow Inn in Alfield. As an NPC, is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
A halfling in his fifties, Thaddeus has ashy-blond hair. His face appeared cracked by smiling, but it was "too dour and soot-covered" when the party met him due to the trauma of a gnoll attack the night before.

Personality
When the party encountered Thaddeus after the destruction of his inn, he was grief-stricken from the recent trauma but still eager to help the strangers. Before leaving, Caleb Widogast expressed concern to Thaddeus for his well-being:

Background
Thaddeus lived most of his life in Alfield, and he inherited the Candleglow Inn from his grandfather, Reedus, around 815 P.D. A man named Lehman used to frequent the Candleglow Inn.

The Candleglow Inn was at the center of a gnoll attack the previous night. Thaddeus was washing dishes when the attack started, and he fled.

In the aftermath of the gnoll attack on Alfield, the party spent the night at a different inn. They emerged the next day to assess the status of the town, which is when they encountered Thaddeus amidst the rubble of the Candleglow Inn, trying to salvage his life from the charred remains of the building. Mollymauk Tealeaf helped him move a few of the bigger beams. When Jester heard that Thaddeus would likely abandon the inn and move north, she asked how much money he needed to rebuild—only to be stunned by an estimate on the order of thousands of gold pieces.

Mollymauk advised Thaddeus to keep the inn while he and his group set off to fight the gnolls, and Jester chimed in with the possibility that maybe they would find all the gold needed for Thaddeus to rebuild.