Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario
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.
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Progression
Odette's history: the Naga ran the first crawl to lose money, 250 cycles ago, and hold their Faction Wars seat only because they bought it early (epilogue). The tiara narrows Donut's class list (ch. 1), is 'fleeting' — remove it and it passes to another crawler (ch. 25) — and is destroyed by the third pulse just after she agrees to take it off. She is still a princess, the description said.