Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The Popov brothers

Dmitri and Maxim Popov, two Nodlings — an Illusionist and a Bogatyr — who share ninth place on the leaderboard after Hekla's death, to Donut's outrage.

Segment appearances

Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
Chapter 42 — Warrants
Chapter 61 — Marked for death
Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies
Chapter 70 — Anaconda
Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
Chapter 74 — All Eyes on Me
Chapter 75 — Sic 'em
Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme
Chapter 77 — The mask

Arc

Knocked flat by a giant foot mid-swing on the recap (ch. 8); at CrawlCon, two men in one nodling with a meteor hammer and a kitten named Kapitan Whiskers (ch. 40, ch. 41); Dmitri delivers a stick to Donut, starstruck (ch. 63). The hammer clears a ballroom (ch. 75) and brains an elf over Carl's head before a burning sambhur goes through them both — 'I miss my cat' (ch. 76). Dug out of the gore as two yearlings, Ineligible, free (ch. 77).