Flint Merrit

Flint is a half-orc sorcerer living in Emon with his family. As an NPC, he is played by Cass.

Appearance
Flint is a tall, fat half-orc man. He has dark brownish green skin, and coiled black hair that is often pulled into a ponytail or carefully made into dreads. He has thick tusks protruding from his lower jaw.

He takes meticulous care of himself and is often wearing the same make-up as his husband. His nails are usually painted black, and rarely painted brighter colors when his daughter wants to practice on him.

Personality
Flint has mellowed in his older age into a rather calm and patient gentleman. He chatters often to the cats in the Emon store when no one else is around. Outside of business and while with his family or friends, he can turn rather boisterous and competitive.

He's still a little awkward around most of Vox Machina and their children, due to the latter's heroics and his own feelings of inadequacy, but he remains cordial to everyone.

Backstory
Born into a small tribe of orcs and half-orcs, Flint was cast out as an infant and left for dead due to his sorcerous lineage being apparent at birth. He was found by a tiefling woman and her halfling wife, and was happily adoped into their family.

Solstice, the tiefling woman, was an aspiring wizard, and did her best to teach Flint how to control his magic and direct it positively. Adelaide, on the other hand, taught him more practical things such as baking and how to make repairs to the home.

He spent most of the start of his adult life with his mothers as Solstice's "apprentice" of sorts. When Vecna became a threat in Vasselheim, he joined his mother and several others in going to the aid of the city. Solstice was killed in the fray.

After Vecna's defeat and the burial of his mother, Flint decided to remain in Vasselheim to help rebuild the city. He met Gilmore not too long into the process, and the two became close friends. Gilmore offered him a job, which Flint accepted. After about a year, the two began a relationship, and married three years after that. After the marriage, Flint proceeded to take guardianship of Oracle, who Gilmore had already adopted four years prior.

The family remained in Emon and Westruun for the next eighteen-odd years, often jumping between cities with the help of teleportation spells, to keep an eye on their two business locations.

Five years ago after Oracle officially left their household, Flint and Gilmore ended up adopting the infant of a recently deceased family friend and named her Remora.