Character · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Prince Maestro

Host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, a gold-tusked orc in a pink silk shirt who calls his teenage audience 'piglets' and makes doomed crawlers guess who dies for the chance to save one another. A prince of the Skull Empire, bound for the ninth floor, and — after Carl humiliates him on air and an anonymous 'snick' goes viral — known across the tunnels as Carl's Naughty Little Piggie.

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Arc

Host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem (ch. 42): a boar-black orc with one gold tusk, a pink silk shirt and an audience of twelve-year-olds who chant 'glurp, glurp' at deaths. His game is to freeze doomed crawlers and make them guess who dies for teleport points; his surprise guests for Carl are Frank and Maggie and their dead daughter (ch. 43); his parting gift is boots. Carl reads him as a bully with an audience — beaten not by strength but by being expensive — and takes his crowd away from him on his own live show. Muted, he explains himself: a prince of the Skull Empire, whose Skull Clan has won six of ten Faction Wars, on his way to Earth to lead them on the ninth floor. By the epilogue his show is on hiatus, his father King Rust is in Earth orbit and oddly quiet while a royal spokesperson asks people to stop, and the whole galaxy calls him Carl's Naughty Little Piggie.