Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
Waking the NPCs
What the dungeon's people know about themselves: Mordecai's distinction between naturals, whose memories cannot be altered unless they sign away their rights, and the printed and imprinted rest, and the question, whenever an NPC seems to know more than it should, of what waking would mean.
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Progression
Former crawlers with contracts, like Mordecai, are valuable and are not wasted in a city about to be razed (ch. 34).