| race | human, hag (untransformed) |
| gender | female |
| class | alchemist, wizard |
| profession | pyrotechnician |
| case | 08, 09, 10 |
Meroe was an alchemist wizard, and pyrotechnician of the Zombozo circus. She orchestrated a double homicide and plotted to frame her mentor Zombozo for the crime, in retribution for his role in the death of her parents when she and her twin sister Panthea were children. When her plot was in danger of being sussed out by the SPI, she unsuccessfully tried to murder the SPI investigators using explosives and the circus monsters.
After being exposed to a pathogen circa the time of travel within the crystalline Flux, Meroe became increasingly ill, eventually transforming into a shell of her former self. She disintegrated into dust just before she reached the Cornucopia’s of Life’s sacred waters of healing.
Chronicle
- 08e01
Busy circus performer who runs the light show. Talking privately with Freki, she revealed she believed the circus would be more profitable with her in charge.
- 08e02
Angry at the surgery on Squatch, but reluctantly thankful when Callie mended him. Pressed hard by the agents, she grew agitated and triggered her trap: wired bombs beneath her desk exploded, collapsing the ground into the lair of the landsharks Fair and Foul.
- 08e03
Tried to kill everyone with magic, casting obscuring mist, and confusion on the owlbears Fuzzy and Wuzzy. After she was critically injured, Panthea surrendered.
- 09e03
After the agents’ group dispel magic went awry, she and Panthea tried to escape HQ; Callie shot at them, and Ozborn stabbed Meroe, nearly killing her, before Callie saved her life with a wand of healing.
- 10e01
Suffered a resurgence of Flux taint, and was willing to do anything to get healed.
- 10e02
Grew steadily sicker crossing the desert, with an affliction resembling mummy rot or undeath, but neither; she even threw up dead bees. She confessed to framing Zombozo for the circus murders, because he had killed her parents when she was 13. Carried comatose to the Cornucopia, she woke, insisted she was fine, and reached to drink from it; when a Luminous Defender laid a hand on her shoulder, it passed through her like sand, and she dissolved into dust.