Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
Chapter 3 — Quasar
Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 18 — Ten minutes, Odette
Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
Chapter 31 — The juvenile quickdraw
Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
Chapter 38 — Edict
Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
Chapter 42 — Warrants
Chapter 53 — Iota
Chapter 59 — The sheriffs of the wild west
Chapter 60 — The raids
Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
Epilogue — Epilogue

Progression

Blackmailed with Bea into looking noble (ch. 18); severed from its government by a court (ch. 19); an Emancipation Front inside it (ch. 20); civil war at home (ch. 21). All the lost money flows to it now (ch. 60); its appeals against gifts are denied (ch. 63); its holds on a goat are negated (epilogue).