Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Prince Maestro

Host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, a gold-tusked orc in a pink silk shirt who calls his teenage audience 'piglets' and makes doomed crawlers guess who dies for the chance to save one another. A prince of the Skull Empire, bound for the ninth floor, and — after Carl humiliates him on air and an anonymous 'snick' goes viral — known across the tunnels as Carl's Naughty Little Piggie.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
• Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
• Chapter 42 — Warrants
• Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Arc

Franchised to a subsidiary of a subsidiary the Skull Empire later acquired — a loophole for the ultra-rich (ch. 42). 'I am not the Maestro,' says Circe Took (ch. 33). His mother's photograph is one Carl holds up at the end (ch. 77).