Tahlia Merrik - Co-owner, Hostess, and Reluctant Chaos Manager
If Garran is the Laughing Ledger’s anchor, Tahlia Merrik is its current.
Young, sharp-eyed, and endlessly in motion, Tahlia runs the inn’s front-facing operations with infectious enthusiasm and frightening efficiency. She remembers names, faces, drinks, arguments, and rumours with equal clarity, often while doing three other things at once.
Where her father diffuses tension by presence, Tahlia does it by momentum — redirecting conversations, seating rivals apart, dragging newcomers into safer circles before they realise they were about to make a mistake.
She loves the Sunward Market, understands it instinctively, and has no patience for those who disrespect its rhythms. Tahlia has strong opinions about performers, merchants, and adventurers, and she rarely hides them.
Those who mistake her cheer for naïveté usually regret it.
