Cool mod post! I'm gonna wait a couple days before posting to see if northern returns to us. So did the beam of light kill the people too? Or did it just kill the demons and leave the humans to be infected?

Also I'm out and about in the world with only my phone right now so I can't type up long coherent explanations but as far as what I want for Meryn I think I'm pretty flexible. She's someone who's always had to be more resourceful and clever rather than powerful or influential, so if she does end up with any powers I want them to be more like... passive? So she's still mostly relying on her own resourcefulness and whatever cool objects she finds and knowledge she gains (I'm totally for her learning how to use runes). her arc is shaping up to be about making connections with people and understanding them and being ok with relying on them. So a passive ability for that would be like some sort of ability to understand like nature or creatures or ghosts or something. But I mean the mask is already doing a big part of that with seeing dreams. I just need to be more proactive about using it lol.

And I mean I'm totally open for whatever other ideas you have about what could be cool. This is just me spitballing. Like I said I'm pretty flexible and I'm sure whatever happens will be cool. And of course her abilities don't have to be tied to her arc. Heck she doesn't even need any abilities. Just more knowledge and cool things to collect. I'd also like the Oliver Locke bell to be relevant? Meryn's kinda attached to it lol. It could just be her little companion cube. 

For enemies I really want the hooded people to be important since they're tied to both Emma's and Meryn's backstories. Or they don't even have to be enemies. Just shady players. 

I dig what diggerton says about the world being a blank slate. Lots to discover. Over all I have some ideas of maybe what could be cool (mostly what I said above but if I think of anything else I'll add it on) but honestly I'm pretty flexible? I kinda wanna see more stuff about whatever creature you said was causing the crystalline and the girl trapped somewhere using the mechanical bird to talk to people. 

So this was long but probs didn't make much sense. I might revisit it when I have a computer. Let me know if anything needs to be better explained or if anyone else has any thoughts.