Nikki Merit
A halfling woman and member of the thieves' guild The Handgun in the Sabhan city of Orem. In 908 she gave a band of adventurers a tour of the city, promising them potential work if they'd be interested to work as thieves.
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Personal history
Nikki grew up in the final years of the Elflands Empire, fleeing north to Sabha during the Sunken God's Reign of Terror in 897. Her parents struggled to make a living for themselves in the big city of Orem, oftentimes leaving Nikki to fend for herself on the streets. She joined bands of petty criminals and often ran into trouble with the law, eventually catching the attention of The Handgun.
The thieves guild was interested in expanding into the nations of Pescat, and Nikki's experience in Sabha offered the group the perfect opportunity to form a new cell in Orem capable of stealing from the goliath aristocracy. First hired in 907, she needed plenty of resources to amass an operation large enough to regularly perform heists. Which is why she recruited a band of freelance adventurers to perform a heist on the estate of a renowned goliath nobleman in town. The adventurers managed to pull off the heist, but not without killing several guards in the process and revealing their identities to every aristocrat in Orem during the getaway.
Nikki successfully fenced the stolen goods, but a complication arose a week later when Balasar Norixius named her as the mastermind of the heist in an interrogation with the city's chief of police. She was thrown into prison by the city's dragonborn guards, and after hours of ruthless interrogations she named the adventurers that had been hired for the robbery. If any of the other conspirators could be captured she would be charged with a lighter sentence, otherwise they'd be throwing the book at her. The adventurers were never found, and she spent a decade behind bars before the Handgun helped orchestrate her release in the summer of 918.
She operated out of Orem for another two decades, but in 935 her safehouse was broken into by a band of adventurers who stole the Handgun's ledger of transactions in the city. The ensuing scandal led to the arrest of the many low-ranking Handgun agents, but she managed to escape on a boat to Gameth where she would lay low at Handgun HQ in Oftin. Given the group's recent history of setbacks and embarrasments, the Handgun's leadership would not take kindly to losing Sabha's capital.
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Year of Birth
888
48 Years old
Birthplace
Ardin
Children
Gender
Female
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