Character · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The earlier editions

The twenty-four crawlers whose notes fill the Cookbook: Porthus the Rogue who received it as a blank sketchbook; Forkith, an Urgyle sapper who lost his sister Barkith and asked readers to kill an enemy in her honour; Drakea under the Naga — 'Once lit, a fire is easier to stoke than it is to extinguish'; York on the hive that never meets except in the book; Herot's Worn Path Method; Coolie on deities. Carl is the twenty-fifth.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente

Arc

Read in bathroom stalls and on trains: Sinjin and Forkith on healing-infused smoke (ch. 8); Rosetta, Allister and Forkith on backpacks, and Forkith's grief for Barkith (ch. 13); Drakea's rage at the Naga and the rats (ch. 13); York's hive (ch. 15); Azin and Drakea on indestructible NPCs (ch. 26); Milk on portals (ch. 27); Coolie, Forkith and Tin on deities (ch. 32); Herot's Worn Path (ch. 17). 'You are me. That is who this book finds.' Carl's own entry closes the book (ch. 34).