Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Areson the Wise

Apollon's brother, a level-45 ogre strongman and an elite in Signet's crew, in the Hunting Grounds when Scolopendra struck: he ranges north keeping the trail clear, comes back with an arrow in his head and a hunter over his shoulder ('Yummy'), carries the sacrifice, is last seen on the head of the boss Carl's Protective Shell launches into the sky, and names Big Tina. A third of a dead nodling, born a toddler.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
• Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
• Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
• Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
• Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
• Chapter 70 — Anaconda

Arc

Apollon's look-alike (ch. 13) and his brother, ranging north (ch. 14), back with an arrow in his head and a hunter to eat (ch. 15); carries the orc sacrifice (ch. 25), tells how the curse was cast (ch. 26), goes up into the sky on the boss, Carl assumes (ch. 27), names Big Tina (ch. 28). A third of a dead nodling, born a toddler (ch. 29); waiting at the stairwell town at the end (ch. 55).