Bucca-Dhu

Bucca-Dhu were one of the tribes of Cornish sidhe, but the term, Bucca-Dhu, was taken by their former lord as his name after his people died out or were assimilated.

Among humans he called himself Nick Bottom. Once he was a sidhe who was worshiped as a god, he fought for centuries to keep sidhe blood pure, to mix with no one and nothing else. He would not let any of the pure Bucca-Dhu line go out amongst the other sidhe, but eventually all that remained of the Bucca-Dhu were those who were not pure. "They are lost, and it is my doing. I would not let any of our people join with others."

He could not die, and as the king of his people he could not fade into nothingness as some of them had, instead he changed. From a sidhe lord, he altered into something unrecognizable; tiny, misshapen, only about two feet tall, his body foreshortened, his head too big for the body, his eyes to large for his face, "...as if his eyes and nose had been left stranded while the rest of his face had grown smaller, meaner, pinched, and wasted."

He told Lucy and Meredith he had raised the starving ghosts, that had been responsible for the mass killings, it was the price he had to pay to rejoin the faerie courts. The price Taranis had demanded; the death of Maeve Reed. Bucca-Dhu had been promised enough power to recover some of what he had lost, but he realized that trying to save himself at the expense of any of his blood that might still be alive, was wrong.

He also told them that Taranis had raised the Nameless with just a little help from him. Taranis hoped to regain some of his power from it, ordered it to kill Maeve, then cloaked it from other magic, but he didn't control it any more than Bucca controlled the starving ghosts.