Melusina was a mermaid and Sh'eenaz's aunt. Unknown to most though, she was also a sea witch, allowing her to use magic and shapeshift.
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When she was younger, Melusina and Basim were in love. However, when they learned Melusina was barren and thus unable to have children, Basim ended up marrying her sister, Dahut, instead to continue the royal line.
This hurt Melusina, who directed her hatred towards her sister as a result. Many years later, this prompted her to secretly conspire with King Usveldt, who was unhappy with his son Agloval's relationship with Sh'eenaz. They worked together, provoking attacks on the divers, with Melusina transforming into a kraken, to make the humans believe that the vodnik were carrying out the attacks on the merpeople's orders. She disguised herself as a human princess to further drive a wedge between Sh'eenaz and Agloval and start a war between land and sea.
Melusina appears before the council, saying that she agrees with Sh'eenaz and her union with Agloval to bring peace, but clearly the kingdom does not agree with this, and her sister the queen tells her not to get involved in this matter, since it is something that does not concern her, while Melusina answers that she does, since she is part of the royal family. Melusina provokes her sister when she remembers her relationship with the king before disappearing in bubbles.
Secretly, Melusina traveled to the surface taking the form of Princess Nispen of Maribor, to be presented at a celebration of Bremervoord as a suitor for Prince Agloval. It was introduced when a fisherman arrived fatally wounded after his boat was attacked by what he claimed were vodnik, leading Agloval to hire the monster hunter, Geralt.
Later, when war was declared and both kingdoms began to enlist, Sh'eenaz went to her aunt to express her discontent with the war and her sad breakup with Agloval, to which Melusina understands what it feels like to not be able to be with the man she loves. Melusina mentioned that since the last council meeting, she had been working on a potion that would allow her to take the human form like her lover and live on the surface, and at the same time stop the conflict. However, Sh'eenaz hesitates to know that the transformation would be painful and could leave scars, but Melusina advised her to keep the potion in case he needed it.
Just as Agloval had decided to accept the Princess of Maribor as his wife, Melusina disguised herself as the princess once more. However, just at that moment, Geralt and Jaskier entered, with the witcher revealing that he had discovered the truth who was attacking the fishing boats. It was a mermaid who had take the form of a kraken to kill the fishermen, having found a peridot on one of the boats, which could only be carried by the royal mermaids family. The witcher explained that Melusina was only one who could work magic, who was among them exposing her. This prompted Melusina's revelation, and the king urged her to run. She attacked the guards, fighting Geralt, before escaping back to sea.
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