Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Faction Wars
The ninth floor's war, named by Prince Maestro on his own show: nine factions, the Skull Clan victorious six times in the last ten, the Blood Sultanate almost always the first eliminated, and a War Leader's seat the prince intends to take.
Segment appearances
Arc
Mordecai, over the Ring of Divine Suffering: every Faction Wars winner's champion has one of these rings, the factions get idiots to hunt them on the sixth floor, and crawlers do not get involved — they ride the ninth floor 'like it’s a tornado passing by overhead' (ch. 30). The Cookbook's note on deities adds that the big gods are sponsored by rich players of a separate game on the twelfth floor (ch. 32).