Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Damascus Steel

Assistant lead dancer at the Penis Parade, a level-75 Ifrit — metal to the touch, smoke from white eye sockets, baby-goat horns, faded ink and talon scars — Donut's favourite, and an NPC with the same spiderweb elbow tattoo as Carl. He walks Carl into the Guild of Suffering, weeps sizzling tears for his mother Astrid, hires his crew out to Carl for two floors, and goes with his brother Anaconda to fight their father and avenge their mother — 'This is family business,' says Anaconda.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Sister Ines
• Chapter 6 — Monk seals
• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 23 — The Molly Maguires
• Chapter 24 — Raul
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 34 — Family business

Arc

The other man with Carl's elbow web, reading in the dark end of the Penis Parade's bar (ch. 23); walks Carl into the guild through a purple-shag closet and makes him limp out (ch. 23, ch. 24). Weeps sizzling tears for his mother, hires his crew to Carl for two floors, and takes his brother to kill their father: 'There's more of us than you know […] two of thousands' (ch. 33, ch. 34).