Merim Leoc
Name: Merim Leoc
Race: Human
DoB: Zi’da 50, 679
Title: Second (Company of the Crow)
Moderation Type: Self Mod
Able/Willing to Mentor?: Yes, provided potential students have Ryeth’s approval.
Skills able/willing to Mentor in: Longbow (Expert), Blades (Competent), Hunting (Competent), Field Craft (Competent), Mount: Horse (Competent)
Other Information: Company scout and second in command of the Crows, Merim spends much of her time as Ryeth’s third arm. When the old man commands, it’s Merim who makes sure it gets done; whether it’s recruiting new faces on Yaralon’s streets or ensuring the new blood is bought up to speed on the order of march. A Yari by inclination rather than birth, Merim did not see the walls of Yaralon until she was nearly thirty and was taken in by the promises of a glory-hungry Duan. She loves the company as only a woman with no other home can and is fiercely protective of it.
Etzos-born, Merim resisted the faith in the Immortals that is so common in Yaralon. The company is family and deity both to her, and the subject of all her frenzied devotions. To see Duan destroying the company, and her hopes for a new beginning with it, was more than she could abide; and it was she who put an arrow in him in the hopes that his successor would steer it back onto a steadier course. She has no aspirations to command herself and it is a source of quiet despair for her that Ryeth has chosen her as his second. She would be quite content to continue as a scout and convince some other poor fool take charge. But, until that day, the company has need of her and she cannot bring herself to turn away from it.
A tall woman with her hair cut to stubble, lest an enemy grab hold of it. Merim has a fondness for bawdy jokes and has been known to pull new recruits aside to explain the finer points of Ryeth’s expectations for discipline and the consequences of ignoring them before the old man does.
Credit: Isania Tannan
