Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Skull Empire

One of the oldest and largest Syndicate governments, orcish, mawkish, and — through Prince Maestro's show and his boast that his family's Skull Clan has won six of the last ten Faction Wars — the first outside power to take a personal dislike to Carl. King Rust is in Earth orbit by the end of the book.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Banshee Station
• Chapter 11 — Gore-Gore
• Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
• Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Chapter 33 — Death Challenge

Arc

Princess Formidable sponsors Katia and sends a bolt for a god's eye (ch. 12, ch. 29); the Maestro is alive and drives Grull (ch. 33); 'rest well, mom.' The Skull Empire's expansion, in a mob card, hunted the Lepus to near-extinction (ch. 6).