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Merelda

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Merelda is the daughter of the Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Jena Orechiel and she serves in her mother's retinue.[1a]

History

She is also the sister of the Necromunda Bounty Hunter Kal Jericho, whose aid her mother needed[1a] to destroy a powerful Necron[1b] weapon aboard the Space Hulk Kronos[1c]. The Inquisitor used Hive Primus' Adeptus Arbites to flush Jericho out, but while the Bounty Hunter was able to escape from them, Merelda used her Cyber-Mastiff Wotan to subdue him. Afterwards Jericho agreed to aid his mother and learned that Merelda was his sister, though, she acted coldly to him at first[1a]. Inquisitor Orechiel and her retinue then boarded the Space Hulk, which contained many other Necrons which slowly began awakening to their presence. Acting quickly they located the chamber that held the slumbering Necron weapon known as a Setekh. However they were not the only ones who sought it out, as Inquisitor Malva and a Death Watch Kill-Team arrived for it as well.[1c]

Malva though, sought to recover the weapon instead and was aided in this by Orechiel's long time retinue member Vanyan Kloss, who revealed he had been working for Malva. As the two sides had a standoff[1c], however, the Setekh awoke and began attacking them. Orechiel stated, though, that the weapon was still not fully powered yet and ordered her retinue to attack the sarcophagus the Setekh was drawing power from. Merelda went to do so, but was severely wounded by the traitorous Kloss, in order to ensure the weapon was recovered by Malva. The former Adeptus Arbites was soon attacked by a vengeful Jericho in retaliation and was then killed by the rampaging Setekh[1d]. The Inquisitor and her surviving retinue then escaped from the chamber and teleported to Malvo's warship and ordered the destruction of the Space Hulk. Due to having warmed up to each other during the mission, a recovering Merelda gifted Wotan to Jericho who returned to his life of bounty hunting on Necromunda with the Cyber-Mastiff at his side[1e].

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