Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Krakaren

A second-floor neighbourhood boss: a clone of a 'cosmic octopus collective' running a moonshine pyramid scheme, whose card says there are many of her and that a Prime births two for every one killed. Mordecai will not say her weakness.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 10 — Landmines on the ochre line
• Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
• Chapter 15 — The Abyss
• Chapter 17 — Station and Repair Hub E
• Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
• Chapter 24 — Brynhild's Daughters is no more
• Chapter 26 — Growler Gary
• Chapter 27 — Physical
• Chapter 28 — Plan C
• Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
• Chapter 31 — The Iron Tangle, signing off
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente
• Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy

Progression

A borough boss brewing race-specific opiates at every fifth station, per Imani (ch. 10, ch. 12); 'a Krakaren nest' per Growler Gary (ch. 26); a story-time description when the first stage-three monster hatches — a lonely creature who could brew anything and wanted a child, the ghouls her failures, these her clones, the collective mind to come (ch. 27); Juvenile Clonelings, monkey-sized, screaming, caustic (ch. 31); a neighbourhood boss slopped across a platform (ch. 32); and the eruption from under every stairwell room (ch. 31). Mordecai: real, spreading, better translated as the Apothecary, and caricatured by Borant for politics (ch. 30).