Once You find the cave in the farmlands with barrels of poison You have to fight an orc called Tipsix who apparently does the "dirty work". He drops the key to a room in the Blue Boar Inn. If You open the door in the basement of the Inn You shall discover more poison and questioning the owner of the Inn may result in gaining rather interesting info. I do not want to spoil Your game so "the rest is silence". And as for Your question: nay, he is not. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />