Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Miriam Dom

The woman who brought fifteen goats into the dungeon and, by the third floor, has five left, three unchanged, one an armoured biped and one a hellspawn familiar; a human Shepherd, fifth on the leaderboard.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
• Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
• Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 44 — The Recital
• Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
• Chapter 46 — Sierra
• Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
• Chapter 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse
• Chapter 69 — The prize counter
• Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Arc

A vampire now — level 52, still a Shepherd healer, floating, feeding only on Pony's kills — with ten boers in her inventory (ch. 6): 'Pony, I am not going to feed on Carl' (ch. 5). She reports the caravan roads trap-free (ch. 9), sleeps by day in a shadowed town (ch. 39), and is trapped in her son's frozen arm with ten hours to dawn while the floor's dead start to walk (ch. 43, ch. 44). A vampire hunter died fighting her (ch. 46); she is the prime of the outbreak, and her death cures thousands (ch. 47). She tells her life, asks Carl to kill her, and dies in the sunrise on her son's shoulder (ch. 47); everything she owned is left in the rain (ch. 48). Her boots explain the seventh floor (epilogue).