Motif · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

The Blood Sultanate

The faction Donut joined by putting on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in chapter 7: a naga royal house that, Mordecai warns, holds its members on the ninth floor until every other member is dead — and that the Maestro says is almost always the first of the nine eliminated.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 7 — The Royal Court
• Chapter 43 — The Maestro explains himself

Progression

Donut puts on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in ch. 7 and Carl reads the price: a permanent place in the royal line of the Blood Sultanate on the ninth floor, bound there until every other member is dead, including the Sultan. It gives her attacks a 15% chance of Sepsis. Carl names it as the only thing before the Rev-Up moonshine that clues them in about the deeper floors (ch. 32). The Maestro, a Skull Clan prince, laughs at it: the Sultanate is almost always first of the nine factions eliminated, 'You idiots have been dead since the moment she put on that crown' (ch. 43). Donut heard Mordecai say Carl could leave her over it (ch. 44).