Jernah, Halidar & Melania
Status: Jernah alive (spared, informant); Halidar and Melania alive, at large, and now being actively hunted — by name, by Nucko himself Affiliation: The Ghostbloods (rogue cell)
Overview
Three names, one crime: these are the Ghostbloods who murdered Nucko’s off-world parents thirty years ago and then quietly let the frame fall on a five-year-old boy who grew up believing he’d killed them himself with an unblown candle. That’s the kind of debt that doesn’t go away just because the organization moved on to other business. It didn’t, for the two of them still breathing free.
Key Moments
- Jernah, found weeping and apparently genuinely remorseful, folded under interrogation, gave up both remaining names, and was spared — Nucko’s mercy, delivered once, with an explicit warning that it doesn’t repeat.
- Also unloaded a wealth of lore on Sebarial’s true nature as a Returned Nalthian Awakener — useful intelligence, extracted the hard way.
- Halidar and Melania are still out there, and as of Nucko’s departure from the party, they’re no longer just an “open thread” — they’re the whole reason he left. He’s hunting them personally, alongside Vesper (Blue), on the way to taking the Ghostbloods apart from the inside.