Julian Winter
Julian Winter is the cataloged name for Julian Nergiar, the Fanatic Possession Specter who infiltrates Crimson Fungus City as a blue-haired human, embeds himself in its social and corporate networks, and eventually becomes Dark Dream's Chief Executive Officer. His apparent identity as a friendly Specialist conceals a body of mouths, a wager-based feeding power, and mental influence extensive enough to make much of the city regard him as a trusted friend. He is not human, and he dies conclusively when Simon Francium burns him away. The name “Julian Winter” belongs canonically to Nick's later disguise, created partly in memory of Julian Nergiar; late appearances under that name are therefore treated below as Julian's posthumous legacy rather than a continuation of his life. (Chapters 253, 324–325, 499–500, and 674)
Biography
Rival Manufacturers and the Dregs
Julian enters Nick's life under the plausible identity of a Kugelblitz Expert whom Wyntor Melfion has hired to teach fist-weapon combat. His slight build, gentle voice, and bright smile contrast with the compressed strength in his rough, heavily veined hand, while his advice about balancing harmony with the power to impose discord makes him appear both humane and worldly. He immediately uses that impression to establish authority without overt force: Nick falls into step behind him because Julian projects reliability, power, and trust, and Wyntor speaks to him with the warmth of an existing friend. (Chapter 127)
Once alone with Nick, Julian admits that the lesson is a pretext arranged through Albert, whose confidence has already given him knowledge of Nick's unseen ability. His deeper interest is Nick's unusual altruism. Julian invites the isolated teenager to discuss Horua, listens to his guilt, and then pushes him to imagine that the Dregs neither deserve nor truly want his sacrifice. This is not neutral counseling. While Nick is emotionally exposed, Julian reveals mouths across his face, speaks in an enchanting cadence, and secures a wager over whether Nick will preserve his ideals after gaining power. Nick leaves unable to remember much of the conversation and dreams of mouths urging him to kill, showing that Julian has made both a future feeding claim and an immediate intrusion into his mind. (Chapters 128–129)
Julian maintains the relationship by supplying enough genuine help to make dependence feel rational. He guides Nick toward the Fog and is remembered as knowledgeable, pleasant, and incapable of betraying trust; his arguments about Horua continue shaping Nick's internal debate long after their first meeting. The later revelation changes the meaning of this apparent friendship. Julian cultivates people through useful advice, repeated contact, and the conviction that everyone already knows and trusts him, so his assistance doubles as both social camouflage and preparation for further influence. (Chapters 182 and 191; later clarified in Chapters 253 and 347–348)
Years later, Julian returns when Nick is discouraged by the renewed pressure on the Dregs. He again frames compassion as irrational, floods Nick's head with Zephyx, erases the dangerous part of their exchange, and extracts every secret Nick holds about Envy, Aegis, and the threat approaching the city. His response exposes his actual priorities: he protects Nick only after realizing that the invading Prison has already consumed a Veteran and an Expert tied to his wagers. Julian would otherwise have surrendered Nick, but the intruder has taken what he regards as his food and challenged his ownership of the city. (Chapters 251–253)
Julian confronts the much stronger Prison by turning his dispersed mouths into a tree visible across the Outer City and demonstrating that the surrounding population will deny what they see whenever he wishes. He refuses compromise, forces the Demon to leave, and boasts that becoming a Demon will let him control the city's leadership before eventually feeding across all humanity. His claim that he may have been around humans long enough to imitate offense and irrational anger does not make him human; it shows a Specter consciously experimenting with human conduct while remaining driven by food, survival, and limitless advancement. (Chapters 260–262)
Anatomy and the Wider World
The original wager resolves after the Crimson Sea destroys the Dregs but Nick confirms that he would still have tried to improve its residents' lives. Julian cannot conceal his nature from a winner and must offer a wish, although he can refuse by accepting a severe Zephyx loss and killing the winner instead. He chooses the moment carefully, approaching when Nick is furious with Wyntor in the hope that revenge will be cheaper than an Adult Specter or repeated training. Nick instead asks for an alliance. Julian accepts because a human assistant, corporate foothold, and protected source of growth are more valuable than immediately consuming him. (Chapters 324–325 and 335–336)
That alliance directly reshapes Dark Dream. Julian fulfills the lethal part of Nick's design by manipulating a Veteran into shooting Wyntor, and he can penetrate the city's protected contract system well enough to replace the document governing ownership. After Nick inherits the company, Julian purchases a controlling share and publicly takes the name Julian Nergiar as its new CEO. Employees welcome the famous Specialist who knows their names, while unseen mouths spread through the walls and ceiling. The arrangement gives Julian legitimate income, an official explanation for his presence, and a Manufacturer whose people and Specters can strengthen both his social position and his Zephyx production. (Chapters 327 and 331–336)
Julian's protection is real but calculated. Dark Dream is too weak to survive the rival Manufacturers alone, yet his friendships among Kugelblitz's owners and the general fear of angering a Specialist deter attacks. He cannot reproduce that leverage against Anatomy, whose owners are powerful Specialists and a Hero, so he remains close to the company while sending Nick into the outside world for Specters. This limitation defines his strategy: he dominates Experts and weaker people through influence, avoids anyone able to detect or resist him, and uses Nick as the public negotiator and field operative whenever personal exposure would be dangerous. (Chapters 347–348 and 360–361)
As CEO, Julian also invests in Nick as an instrument. He supplies Zephyx that helps Nick advance, teaches him negotiation, finance, law, psychology, personnel management, Zephology, Specter behavior, and history, and gives him enough autonomy to run most internal operations. Julian's motive is not generosity: an educated assistant can act as his mouthpiece among Heroes and at the yearly meetings, protect his cover, and make Dark Dream profitable. The unintended consequence is that Nick learns to read Julian as well. Julian's contempt and arrogance cause him to lower his guard around the subordinate he considers beneath almost everyone else, allowing Nick to recognize that their alliance will end as soon as Nick becomes a credible threat. (Chapters 348–349, 360, 374–375, and 397)
Julian turns information and relationships into corporate weapons. He negotiates with the governor over an Old World ruin and the Spilling Bottle, obtains favorable trades for discoveries Nick makes outside the city, and uses friendships among Kugelblitz's shareholders to keep its divided ownership from acting decisively. Even his dealings with Anatomy's visiting leadership rely on Nick answering technical questions while Julian controls the frame of the negotiation. These successes broaden Dark Dream's reach, but they also confirm that Julian's rule depends less on direct strength than on keeping every human actor inside a carefully managed map of favors, assumptions, and selective information. (Chapters 375–378, 384–388, 418–419, and 427–429)
The war between Anatomy and Kugelblitz reveals both Julian's insight and his indifference. He correctly reads the governor's noncommittal ruling, the greed behind purchases of Anatomy's Specters, and the long manipulation of Kugelblitz's owners; he laughs while human institutions trade Extractors into slavery because their selfishness confirms his lessons. Nick uses those same lessons to destroy Anatomy and then returns with the Money Maker, intending to remove his teacher before Julian can remove him. Julian survives the Specter-derived shot, attacks with mouths and a conjured spear, and nearly kills Nick, but Simon arrives, destroys the attacking mouth with white fire, and suppresses the Fanatic. Julian's belief that Nick was safely inferior proves to be the precise blind spot that ends his control. (Chapters 457–462 and 487–488)
Exposure, Execution, and Aegis's Aftermath
Capture does not immediately neutralize Julian's social power. Experts and even Specialists repeatedly try to free him from Kugelblitz's Containment Unit, forcing Aria Light to station a Hero outside it. Julian attempts to survive by telling Simon that Nick knowingly colluded with him and by exposing Nick's crimes, correctly arguing that his own direct death toll is smaller than the damage Nick caused through the Crimson Sea. Those disclosures alter Simon's opinion of Nick but do not save Julian: the Left Arm has already accepted Nick's request that the Fanatic be killed because he knows too much and remains capable of controlling the city from confinement. (Chapters 494 and 498–499)
Julian's final confrontation with Nick completes their teacher-enemy relationship. Nick acknowledges that Julian taught him for more than a decade, then identifies the lesson Julian never intended to give: apparent control is not proof that every threat has been seen. Julian responds by summoning mouths inside the Containment Unit, but Simon's white fire consumes the room and leaves nothing behind. The narrative explicitly states that Julian is dead and that even a Fallen could not survive the attack, closing off the possibility that the Possession Specter escaped through another body or continued secretly under the later surname Winter. (Chapters 499–500)
Julian nevertheless remains present in Nick's training at Aegis. Nick's scores in history, warfare, Specter knowledge, and other fields depend partly on the education Julian gave him, and even under extreme mental pressure Nick retains a clear memory of his former boss. Encounters with mouths and unfamiliar Specter mechanics continue to call Julian to mind. These echoes are consequences of sustained mentorship rather than evidence of possession: Julian gave Nick a conceptual toolkit, and Nick carries it after rejecting Julian's authority and arranging his death. (Chapters 562, 596, and 606)
Later experience also lets Nick reassess why Julian was exceptional. Most Specters pursue power without learning broadly, whereas Julian had access to human knowledge and used it to approach control of an entire city without public recognition. Nick remembers his ability to obtain elite trades and favorable prices while studying other Specter-run companies, and he admits that some of his own worst acts were choices made under Wyntor's and Julian's orders rather than necessities. Julian's legacy is therefore double-edged: education, corporate competence, and strategic caution survive in Nick alongside a warning about using hierarchy to excuse deliberate wrongdoing. (Chapters 623–624, 631, and 656)
The Borrowed Name and Apparent Return
When Nick needs an identity that will hide his former humanity from most of Aegis, he introduces himself to the Shields as “Julian Winter.” The narrative explains the construction directly: “Julian” comes from Julian Nergiar, while “Winter” transforms Wyntor Melfion's first name into a common surname. Nick calls them the two largest influences on his life and describes the original Julian as teacher, mentor, and enemy. This is a commemorative and operational alias chosen after Julian's death, not a renamed stage of the Possession Specter's existence. (Chapter 674)
Nick later gains the ability to reproduce biological and Specter identities and deliberately assumes the appearance of the “long-dead Julian.” That wording preserves the distinction between model and imitator: the visible blue-haired form is Nick's transformation, supported by Nick's own Specter Core and abilities, while Julian Nergiar remains dead. Aegis personnel subsequently address Nick as Julian Winter because that is the identity they were given, and their trust, missions, and records belong to Nick's infiltration rather than to Dark Dream's former CEO. (Chapters 734 and 741)
Under the borrowed name, Nick becomes a public Specter partner of Aegis and later approaches the Sun, but his answers and goals remain rooted in Nick's campaign for humanity. The alias is useful precisely because Julian had taught him how a Specter could live among humans, cultivate repeat relationships, and turn apparently mutual business into protection. Nick adapts those lessons on a planetary scale while pursuing the opposite final purpose. The later “Julian Winter” can thus resemble the original in appearance and method without sharing body, continuity, feeding condition, or allegiance. (Chapters 769–782 and 798)
The Final War and Humanity's Future
Centuries later, Nick again assumes the guise of Julian Winter to contact Nurse Alice, but the text specifies that he creates a human body looking like Julian Winter rather than a Specter body. This distinction is tactically necessary for Nick's approach and confirms that the actor is still Nick manipulating his own form. The original Possession Specter neither returns nor participates in the preparations against the Sun; only his appearance and first name survive as components of Nick's operational identity. (Chapter 914)
The new Champion of Light eventually reconstructs the identity from damaged records. His investigation separately identifies a Specter called Julian whom Simon killed, notes that this Julian took over Dark Dream rather than founding it, and traces the company's human Chief Zephyx Extractor through the names Nick Nick and Nick Dusk. The apparent contradiction resolves when the Champion concludes that Nick Dusk became Julian Winter. This late revelation is the corpus's clearest correction to superficial continuity: the executed Julian Nergiar and the surviving Julian Winter are two different beings joined by deliberate name reuse. (Chapters 941 and 943)
During the final preparations, the Champion comes to trust Nick Dusk while continuing to use the public Julian Winter identity, and Nick himself later remembers Julian among the many people who are already dead. When the dying Champion sees “Julian Winter” over the ocean, the familiar figure is Nick watching him, not Julian Nergiar surviving the execution. The name therefore reaches humanity's final war only as a mask and memorial. Julian's actual contribution is indirect but significant: his education, his example of undetected infiltration, and the caution created by his downfall all remain embedded in the strategist who eventually turns those tools against the Sun. (Chapters 945–957)
Appearance and personality
Julian's public body resembles a young man about 170 centimeters tall, thin and agile, with calm blue hair, bright blue eyes, and an unusually innocent smile. He speaks softly and dresses in the uniform of a Kugelblitz Expert, later presenting himself as a Specialist. His hand disrupts the disguise's gentleness: it is rough, hard, heavily veined, and seems to contain enormous compressed strength. The exact human or object possessed to create this body is not identified in the supplied corpus, so its biological origin should not be assumed. (Chapter 127)
When the disguise loosens, Julian's eyes disappear and his face becomes a shifting collection of smiling mouths. He can expand that motif far beyond the apparent body, covering rooms and buildings or forming a tree whose trunk, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruit are all laughing mouths. The public body can still look normal while this larger presence occupies nearby surfaces, and people under his influence ignore manifestations that are obvious to an unaffected observer. (Chapters 128, 260–262, and 335–336)
Julian performs warmth, patience, embarrassment, concern, and friendship with extraordinary precision. Beneath that performance he is arrogant, acquisitive, and convinced that his growth will eventually make every risk temporary. He is genuinely interested in human reasoning and enjoys imitating such ideas as offense or irrational anger, but he consistently treats people as food, tools, or experiments. His curiosity makes him an excellent teacher; his contempt makes him underestimate the student. That combination explains both his success in conquering a city's trust and his failure to recognize Nick's long preparation against him. (Chapters 128–129, 253, 262, 349–360, and 487–499)
Abilities and Zephyx
Julian is a Fanatic Possession Specter whose abilities join three mutually reinforcing systems: wager-based feeding, pervasive mental influence, and a distributed body of mouths. Publicly he imitates the power and social standing of a Specialist Zephyx Extractor, but he does not gain his capabilities through human extraction. His latest confirmed state remains Fanatic before his execution; the corpus describes his ambition and rate of growth but does not narrate a complete sequence of formal attainments, so no chronological progression ladder is presented. (Chapters 253, 335, 399, and 499–500)
Possession Specter nature and false humanity
As a Possession Specter, Julian is not the blue-haired human he appears to be. The setting defines this class as a Specter without an independent body that takes control of a living or non-living entity, but the narrative never identifies Julian's specific possessed substrate or the origin of the name Nergiar. What is demonstrated is that his apparently ordinary body can pass casual scrutiny, enter corporate buildings, and interact physically while concealing Specter Zephyx. Strong observers do not automatically unmask him merely by seeing him; they must notice something suspicious or actively test whether he is human. (Chapters 10, 127–129, and 361)
The disguise gives Julian physical performance consistent with the Specialist identity he claims. He can restrain his strength during a handshake, move fast enough to catch Nick after a head start, sense Zephyx through obstructions, survive a large hole through his torso, and conjure a spear capable of breaking Nick's Barrier and driving him through buildings. These feats are not unlimited. A genuine Protector suppresses him immediately, and Simon's white fire erases both Julian and his manifested mouths. The Money Maker's Specter-derived effect also fails to convert him, since a Specter's power does not work on another Specter in that manner. (Chapters 127, 360–361, 487–488, and 499–500)
Wagers, debts, and feeding
Julian feeds and grows through wagers. The corpus does not narrate an awakening or acquisition event; it presents bargains as the condition on which his existence and power rely. He first draws a target into agreement using conversation and mental pressure, defines a future condition, and waits for the outcome. If the target loses, Julian's power against that person multiplies enough to make him nearly invincible to them; a remote mouth can then consume the loser without witnesses. He chooses Veterans, Experts, and Specialists because stronger victims provide meaningful growth, and the deaths of people with running wagers count as stolen food even when another Specter kills them before he can collect. (Chapters 128–129, 253, 340, 374, and 462)
A target who wins receives unusual protections. Julian must reveal his Specter identity to the winner and grant a wish, and killing that person before honoring the bargain costs him a substantial amount of Zephyx. The obligation is economic rather than absolute: he can refuse a wish when fulfilling it would cost more than the penalty for murder, and he normally kills winners after payment to preserve his secret. Those who survive cannot expose him safely; the few previous winners know the city's hidden ruler but die if they try to tell anyone. Nick survives because his wish establishes an ongoing alliance valuable enough for Julian to maintain. (Chapters 324–325 and 335)
The same rules limit Julian as much as they empower him. He avoids Nick after the Crimson Sea incident because speaking with him will confirm that Julian lost their wager, yet he cannot leave the debt unsettled forever. Fulfilling an expensive wish requires money, effort, or personally generated Zephyx, and Julian dislikes agreements because breaking them damages him. His growth plan also creates exposure: consuming Specialists after winning bets could bring him closer to Demon, but each disappearance provokes an investigation by people increasingly able to resist or identify him. (Chapters 325, 336, 374, and 399)
Mental influence and social control
Julian's principal non-wager ability changes perception, memory, judgment, and trust through speech and Zephyx. The exact origin of this power is not narrated; it is treated as an intrinsic Specter capability that operates similarly to the Crimson Sea's mental influence. Early effects include an irresistible aura of reliability, an enchanting cadence that leaves Nick's eyes unfocused, forgotten conversations, induced dreams, and the ability to overwrite a dangerous disclosure with a harmless remembered topic. He can also pour dense Zephyx into a target's head and weave it around the mind without nearby people noticing. Repetition lets him make controlled beliefs feel like ordinary friendship, which is why his victims defend him without realizing that any intervention occurred. (Chapters 127–129, 252–254, and 347)
At city scale, Julian says that everyone he has talked to is under his control. When he exposes a gigantic tree of mouths, controlled witnesses deny the transformation, dismiss unaffected observers as confused, and become calm as soon as a mouth speaks to them. His approach is not always blunt compulsion. He infiltrates ownership networks, creates the impression of accidental recurring meetings, and aligns decisions with existing self-interest, producing control that looks voluntary. This makes his business relationships, bargains, and mental ability difficult to separate in practice. (Chapters 260–262, 347–348, and 455–461)
Resistance rises sharply with power and preparation. Julian can completely manipulate Experts and weak Specialists, but strong Specialists may defeat the mental contest, attack him, and summon others able to suppress him. He therefore avoids Ghosty, Aria, Anatomy’s Specialist owners, Heroes, and diagnostic scrutiny; in public meetings he keeps encounters brief or uses Nick as representative. The Dreamer's influence can temporarily make Julian feel dangerous to Nick again, providing a partial counter to the trust and memory effects, but the corpus does not establish that it universally removes Julian's control from every victim. (Chapters 347–348, 361, 388, and 488)
Distributed mouths and combat applications
Julian's true manifestation consists of mouths that can separate from the apparent body, spread over surfaces, and operate at range. No separate origin or activation ritual is given: the mouths appear whenever he relaxes the human disguise, expands his presence, communicates, feeds, or attacks. He can fill an office or an entire Manufacturer with them, sense through the occupied structure, speak from multiple locations, consume Prephyx Matter, and form a vast visible tree. In combat, mouths open beneath or around a target to swallow it, appear inside an escape path, and keep pressure on a fleeing enemy while Julian's main body closes the distance. Their distributed nature makes his influence feel ubiquitous within his territory. (Chapters 128, 260–262, 335–336, 360–361, and 487)
The mouths have concrete limitations. They are slower than Julian's main body, sufficiently powerful attacks can destroy them, and extending them near Specialists or Heroes risks detection because their senses can perceive suspicious Zephyx and vibrations. After Dark Dream moves into the Inner City, Julian stops covering the lower floors and relies on the fortified building's design to keep his remote presence concealed. He can operate safely while still sensing the entrance, but he cannot casually spread across every location or leave the company undefended against Anatomy. (Chapters 348, 397, and 487)
Against ordinary humans and Extractors, concealment multiplies the mouths' lethality: a losing wager can leave a victim unable to see or defend against the mouth that consumes them, and surrounding witnesses may be unable to acknowledge what is happening. Against stronger Specters or Aegis, the balance reverses. The Prison could tear Julian apart in a direct fight and retreats only because public chaos would expose it to the city; Simon's fire destroys a mouth instantly and then annihilates Julian in confinement. Julian's most representative victories therefore come from making the city itself his weapon rather than overpowering superior enemies head-on. (Chapters 260–262, 340, 487–488, and 499–500)
Knowledge, teaching, and corporate strategy
Julian's broad education is not a separate supernatural power, but it is essential to how his abilities function. He knows Specter classes, markets, Prephyx Matter, Old World theories, corporate law, negotiation, psychology, Zephology, warfare, and the internal interests of major shareholders. That knowledge lets him choose plausible lies, recognize profitable discoveries, teach Nick how to read and manage people, and obtain goods from elite companies at unusually favorable prices. It also makes his mental influence harder to notice because he can persuade through accurate information and existing motives instead of relying on obvious commands. (Chapters 253, 349, 360–361, 374–378, 397, 455–462, and 631)
This expertise grows from his access to human society, not from omniscience. He has never traveled beyond Crimson City, initially misses the Spilling Bottle's strategic application to the forests, and depends on informants for developments inside the Manufacturers. His arrogance also corrupts his analysis: he reads institutions and strangers extremely well while assuming that Nick's lack of education signals low intelligence. Julian's latest legacy as a strategist is therefore inseparable from his limitation—knowledge nearly gives him a city, but confidence in the hierarchy built around that knowledge lets his closest subordinate arrange his capture. (Chapters 360–361, 399, 418–419, and 487–500)
Relationships
Nick
Nick begins as Julian's prospective food and becomes his most consequential winner, employee, student, ally, and enemy. Julian is interested in the teenager's altruism, wagers against its survival, and later accepts an alliance because Nick can represent him before people he cannot safely influence. For more than a decade he protects and educates Nick while keeping him subordinate, even supplying Zephyx that accelerates his growth. Nick learns genuine skills from him but understands that the arrangement ends when their relative power becomes threatening. (Chapters 128–129, 324–336, 348–360, and 397)
Nick ultimately turns Julian's methods against him: he supplies incomplete information, performs loyalty, exploits a crisis, and places Simon close enough to intervene when the assassination attempt fails. Julian responds by exposing Nick's crimes during his execution, while Nick openly credits his education and downfall as formative lessons. The later name Julian Winter memorializes that influence without reconciling them. Nick regards Julian as teacher, mentor, and enemy, and his later imitation of Julian's appearance is a tactical disguise rather than affection, possession, or identity continuity. (Chapters 487–500, 674, and 734)
Wyntor, Albert, and the Melfions
Wyntor Melfion, Albert, and Vernon Melfion all believe Julian to be a trustworthy friend. Albert's confidence gives Julian access to Nick's secret ability; Wyntor welcomes him into Dark Dream and later becomes the victim of a killing Julian arranges for Nick; Vernon publicizes Julian's apparent promotion and becomes an important route into Kugelblitz's ownership network. Julian exploits these connections differently, but the pattern is constant: friendship is a durable access privilege that lets him gather knowledge, enter protected institutions, and move decisions without making his power visible. (Chapters 127–129, 204, 252, 327, 331, 336, 348, and 418)
Dark Dream and Crimson City
Dark Dream gives Julian the official life he previously lacked. Its employees welcome him because his citywide influence makes familiarity feel natural, and his public Specialist strength shields them from immediate attack. In return, he improves the company's trades, security, education, and external relationships, but he also covers its building in mouths and treats its people as sources of control and Zephyx. Crimson City is similarly both home and feeding territory: he protects it from the Prison because the intruder stole his targets, then plans to use the city's institutions as the first stage of growth toward control over humanity. (Chapters 253, 260–262, 335–348, 391–399, and 462)
Simon and Aegis
Simon Francium is the power Julian's social defenses cannot answer. Simon encounters Julian only after Nick's trap has forced a public chase, then suppresses him before the Fanatic can kill Nick. Julian tries to influence the outcome indirectly by exposing Nick's collusion and crimes, but Aegis treats him as a continuing citywide danger rather than a negotiable corporate actor. Simon destroys him on the Left Arm's authority, ending the network that conventional local institutions had been unable even to recognize. (Chapters 487–500)
Items
- Zephyx Synchronizer — No genuine human Synchronizer is confirmed for Julian Nergiar. He is a Possession Specter whose Specialist identity imitates a Zephyx Extractor, and the setting states that Extractors cannot attune a Synchronizer to a Possession Specter. Later references to a Synchronizer under the name Julian Winter concern Nick's separate body and identity, not an item owned by the original Julian. (Chapters 73, 253, 335, and 674)
- Space Bag — The supplied corpus does not confirm that Julian Nergiar owns a Space Bag. Space Bags carried by “Julian Winter” after Chapter 674 belong to Nick while he is using the alias; for example, Nick stores Fallen-grade Containment Units in one and protects another during a mission. This inventory link records the name collision without transferring ownership backward to the executed Possession Specter. (Chapters 674, 771, and 795)
