Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
Milk
A Cookbook author — sixth edition — whose note on portals Carl reads on the Iron Tangle: 'Portals are hard to understand', dozens of kinds that all work differently, and 'Teleport traps are the worst.'
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A sixth-edition note on country bosses: the Treasure Map they drop — 'My advice. Don’t pick it up' — and a fight in a low-ceilinged cave where over 400 faced the boss and fewer than 50 survived, distrusting each other afterwards; 'This was by design. Of that I am certain' (ch. 61).