Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Astrid

A level-125 Bloodlust Sprite with cardiovascular magic — 'one of the most metal things ever' — who hovers over Donut at the Desperado Club on behalf of management, refunds four hundred of five hundred gold and grants complimentary security. The club's assistant manager.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 27 — Phase two rules
• Chapter 30 — Four drugs
• Chapter 31 — The corridor behind the shops
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 34 — Family business
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction

Arc

Sized up by Katia's cherry-bomb test: Intelligence 150, boiling blood, a heart animated as a mob, Cosmic Sense, Summon Guard five times a day (ch. 31). She takes the main stairs instead of her secret closet because she felt the Nothing tear (ch. 32); unleashes the vorpals; moves to shield Carl from a totem and dies with her wings in his hand and her eyes in a crow's beak — 'Save my children. I was almost done. I would be free soon' (ch. 32). Her sons weep for her; Damascus blames her husband, who wanted her dead; Carl thinks she got them jobs at the Penis Parade to keep them safe (ch. 33, ch. 34).