Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Valtay Corporation

A name Carl finds in his inventory's history tab attached to a pulse pistol, a personal shield and an illegal communications relay that passed through his hands inside Agatha's shopping cart. Odette says they are a parasitic corporate government with a fleet parked outside the Borant system, and the next season will be theirs.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — Gore-Gore
• Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
• Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
• Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the wheel

Arc

Carl's sponsor, a corporation Borant hates (ch. 11, ch. 12); 'Keeping the Best of You Alive'; a pill that rewrites his interface so he can see through portals (ch. 13) — which finds the hat-key, the yard, the mimic and the way home (ch. 15, ch. 28). Tin's note: the aliens wear gods like the Valtay wear bodies (ch. 32). They wiped out the H'lene with the orcs (ch. 30).