The Bartender is an employee, and perhaps the proprietor, of the Gnawed Noble Tavern.
Background
Trivia
- Whether by accident or deliberate design, the Bartender's voice is exactly the same as that of Bodahn, the dwarf who resides in your camp, and Danal, the bartender in Lothering; if the Warden asks him about any rumors, he will respond in the dwarf's voice, accent, and inflection, sometimes even using Bodahn's catchphrases like "I don't know what to tell you; nothing I can think of at the moment." and "That's what I've heard on the road, anyhow. Take it for what it is" (This appears to have been fixed in a patch - he now additionally tells tales of a freeholder who is brutally murdered by Loghain's men for burning her own crops rather than allow his men to feed off them, and a 1000-man battle in a place called "Wintersbreath" against Loghain)