Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Edgar

A talking tortoise Donut chats with at Signet's camp — a Shell Mage whose secrecy spell hides an army, who sinks with the assault team, comes up with blood on his jaws like strawberry, and is the tattooist with the silver stick who sucks up the dead and inks them onto Signet's skin. He drew the castle map the whole plan runs on; Signet met him the night her mother died.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
• Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
• Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
• Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies
• Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again

Arc

A tortoise Donut chats with (ch. 15); a Shell Mage whose secrecy spell hides an army (ch. 25); sunk with the assault team (ch. 26); blood on his jaws like strawberry; to Signet's 'Do we have enough moonlight left?', 'We do' (ch. 28); the silver stick that inks the dead (ch. 29). His map of the castle, down to the control room, is the plan's foundation (ch. 56, ch. 65).