Characters: Myriam

Myriam was another of those characters I threw in as flavor text and suddenly I find her in all four of my books. She was just suppose to be the spokesman for the slaves the party rescues, but suddenly I found her as a vehicle to move my plot along. Crazy how that happens.

Myriam is dark, chocolate colored skin, almost pitch black, her hair a similar color. She was a beauty in her younger years, but at the age of forty she is beginning to show her age. Her hair is starting to gray, though just slightly, her figure is a little rounder in a places, and her face has a few more lines of worry then before. But she is still a beauty. She also has a head on her shoulders. She has been trained in history, politics, math, and strategy. Her father wanted her trained in case he needed to sell her instead of marry her off. (In the empire girls in the middle and lower income levels are not seen as a benefit, but a burden. Thus many of them get sold into marriage or just sold as household slaves. Many fathers will train their daughters so they can get more for them if they have to resort to such things. It doesn't mean they don't love their daughters, they are just being practical for their place in the world.)

Myriam dresses conservatively, feels no pity for herself for what she has been through and takes no guff. She is like a school teacher of old who will look at a person once and know if they are telling the truth or not. She also knows how to make a deal, since her father was a minor lord on the edges of the Empire. Her father loved her greatly and she was married to a man her father thought would be a good match. It turned out he just liked pretty things to look at and when Myriam started to show her age she was sold into slavery by her husband. She had three children, luckily all boys, though she tells no one of this. She doesn't want to think on the past, even if that means forgetting about her beloved children.

In the time of the High King's Sword Myriam can be found at Tarkil's nicer inn, the Rolling Rooster. She will see through any lies, (in game terms she can not be bluffed unless on a natural 20 or the equivalent), but she does know many rumors. Even in her short time running the inn she has made many contacts and might be able to help find something or someone. Alternatively she runs a good inn/tavern and will have fine, clean rooms for a reasonable price.