Nedra's dad is the Onrush.
Not a guess: In the conversation with Lock it was revealed that Nedra's father was a Balor that was responsible for the Onrush. The Onrush being an event, not an individual.- Confirmed. Nedra's father is in fact the Balor demon responsible for the Onrush and the current state of the north.
Nedra is related to whoever destroyed Wake's village.
Because Rule of Drama. In the Foolproof campaign, the murderer is...
- Undecided, in-universe. The world of Fiction is stated by Zito to affect its denizens in order to make the most compelling stories (i.e., robbing a bank for money instead of investing wisely). As a story that ends with "the detectives failed and the killer got off scot-free" would not make for good entertainment, when the party fingers a culprit, the gods will make them retroactively the killer all along.
- Mancatcher. When investigating prints at the scene of the crime, one set depicts both large hand and footprints along the ground and spaced far enough apart to depict running, evocative of a large ape. The director's previous film was of the king being victorious over a large ape, giving apes a motive against the royal family (and the actor playing the king, the first victim, in particular). Of all the characters met in the first episode, Mancatcher is the most monkey-like. As people on Fiction can gain influence and power based on their own notoriety, playing both hero and villain gives her double the potential fame. Finally, given that the setting has a primary aesthetic of 1920's-30's cartoons, a potential reference to King Kong (1933) would be quite entertaining.
- Ford Money. He's known for making low quality films that are inexplicably successful, it's possible that he uses dark magic to make his movies succeed. Dark magic that could require some kind of sacrifice, like of an actor. And he's an ogre, meaning he's probably strong enough to kill someone with just his hands (and the victim died through blunt force trauma).
- One of these was Confirmed, and it's Ford, including the part about Dark Magic and sacrifices.
