Character · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

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.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
• Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
• Chapter 20 — Planet Beautiful
• Chapter 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
• Chapter 24 — Brynhild's Daughters is no more
• Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
• Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente
• Chapter 33 — Death Challenge
• Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the wheel

Arc

Reported dead with his mother in book 2 and not: 'my brother had already brought me into the dungeon […] rest well, mom' (ch. 33). He makes his debut as Grull's sponsor in a Death Challenge, four storeys of minotaur-centaur with the Maestro's face, cleaves a city boss in half, promises Carl's planet will be forgotten, chases a decoy, and is ejected by a second summoning with an attack half-formed. 'Glurp, glurp, motherfucker.' A new snick within minutes (epilogue). 'You're lucky it wasn't somebody who knew what he was doing' (ch. 34).