Sakai (Dane the Coffee Merchant)

Sakai (Dane the Coffee Merchant) is a Drow man (currently disguised as a High Elf) who hails from Menzoberranzan (the Underdark). While his early life is unknown, it is understood through hints he has given that he was exiled from his homeland at a young age, and has not returned to the Underdark in any capacity since his banishment. 

Sakai is a Bard and was originally a member of the Bards Guild before forming the Neverwinter Resistance with Adamar and Brant.Bram. Following an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the White Council, the details of which have yet to be confirmed by those Guild members in the Resistance, he was sentenced to death and subsequently hanged before being decapitated, with body and head buried separately. Resurrected with help from Viola Hyslop, he spent the next sixteen years hiding in the Neverwinter Underground, using what time he had that was not spent plotting and spying on the White Council restoring the burned-out shell of the former Neverwinter Opera House. 

Following the resurgence of the resistance movement at the hands of Henry Lillen and Taran Miraleth, Sakai's appearance was changed from that of a badly-scarred Drow man to a High Elf with help from Eimar Daj. His current cover story is that he is a coffee merchant hailing from Amn, selling coffee to the College of Neverwinter after having successfully convinced Elen Blackburn it was in her best interests to purchase beans from him, as well as running a coffee cart in the Open Air market and providing coffee to the Barbarian Horde. 

Sakai has significant history with Ceva Valroyna, though it is unclear what this history is. What is known is that the two have recently been romantically linked, though if this is a true relationship or simply another part of his cover story remains to be seen, as he is currently bent on courting her in the "Amnish fashion".