Captain Pharis Noldstrom serves as the Commissar’s second-in-command in the elite group known as the Commissar’s Men. This battalion of extremely loyal soldiers followed the Commissar to Ptolus when he received this appointment, having served under him in the days when he was a general in the Gnoll War in the southwest.

Tall and ruddy, Pharis keeps his reddish-brown goatee neatly trimmed beneath his hawklike nose. Others often think of Captain Noldstrom as dour, but in truth he just takes his duty very seriously.