> [!tip] Profile > **Meren Thaldris** > > ![[meren.png|300]] > --- > **Species:** Human > **Role:** Guild Handler > **Affiliation:** Clifftop Adventurers' Guild ## Profile Meren Thaldris is a Clifftop handler. Late thirties, lean, dark coat, leather gloves. Guild badge worn inside his lapel — not for show, for access. Four years as a handler. Competent at logistics, good at institutional politics, ambitious in the way people are when they believe they deserve more than they have. He runs his own teams but gets the routine commissions while Lhara's teams get the high-value work. He doesn't know about Faurious's capture of the guild. He just knows Lhara's been acting strange and he smells opportunity. ## Reputation Known within Clifftop as reliable but unremarkable. Runs clean operations, files on time, doesn't make waves — which is exactly why he resents being passed over for the interesting work. Handlers who've worked with him describe someone who does everything right and still ends up second tier. ## Relationship to the Party Meren encountered the party in the alley behind the Cardamom Club while tailing Lhara. Whether he becomes a future asset, a quiet threat, or a non-factor depends entirely on how they handled him.