User blog comment:Call me Nappa/Allusion/@comment-24828824-20140625170344

Jericho Corey is supposed to alude to Carl Corey, the alias of Corwin from the Chronicles of Amber series, and the old canaanite word for moon (it's debatable this is the origin for Jericho but it's all i could find) not my best name.

Merel Serac was easier, using the dutch name for the common blackbird and the word for the pillars of ice formed in glaciers. These names alude to both her source characters, one associated with Ice and the other with black birds and storms (Fun fact, if I had been born a girl i would have been named Merel)