Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Zabit

A level-66 Beastmaster hunter of the Atoll — a tall, thin, four-armed race with three fingers a hand, a shovel face, a dozen nostrils and no mouth, speaking through a device by sign — whose invisible night-weasel gang is the first attack on the floor. He hunts to pay for his people's habitat: 'No, it doesn't make me feel tough or powerful.' Twenty-five scalps; a trap-module bandolier; the last hunter alive in the castle pit, torn in half by his own mine when Carl casts Tripper.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Night weasels
• Chapter 69 — The prize counter
• Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
• Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme

Arc

Named first on a night weasel's card (ch. 2). At the prize counter he explains himself — the Atoll are not citizens, oxygen and land are not a right, the money pays for the habitat, 'I would object, too, were the situations reversed' — and buys a drop shield and invisibility potions for twenty-three of his twenty-five scalps (ch. 69). The last hunter standing in the pit, he goes invisible; Carl remembers the trap belt and casts Tripper (ch. 76).