Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Blood Sultanate
The faction Donut joined by putting on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in chapter 7: a naga royal house that, Mordecai warns, holds its members on the ninth floor until every other member is dead — and that the Maestro says is almost always the first of the nine eliminated.
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A poor faction that brings only twenty of its own people to the ninth floor (ch. 24); the Naga are not among the seven who sued, so Carl knows eight of nine teams (ch. 28); the Syndicate collected a large sum from them for Drakea's death (ch. 28).