Merelda
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 half-sister of the Necromundan 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's 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. Afterward, Jericho agreed to aid his mother and learned that Merelda was his half-sister, although she acted coldly toward 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 Deathwatch Kill-Team arrived for it as well.[1c]
Malva 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 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] Malva and her surviving retinue then escaped from the chamber and teleported to her warship and she 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]
