Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Herot

Author of the Cookbook's 16th edition, whose long essay at the back of the book — the 'Worn Path Method' — argues that quests and puzzles go easier when you deliberately break the fourth wall and wake the NPCs.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 54 — The blood bar
• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward

Arc

Herot's advice on choosing few, competent companions (ch. 24) and on waking elites (ch. 63) guides Carl; two notes print — a taxonomy of three castle types (ch. 54) and the trolley-and-pebble image for derailing an NPC (ch. 56).