Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Drakea
Author of the Cookbook's 22nd edition and its most prolific annotator: a crawler of the final Naga-run season whose notes — where to read safely, what the Nagas patched, a vow of wrath from the other side of the veil — are, Carl finds, borderline unhinged and a comfort.
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Arc
A tenth-floor observation that the AI seems to enter mobs at the point of death (ch. 42); a one-line 'don't hesitate' (ch. 50); he closes Priestly's entry (ch. 54); Carl recalls Mordecai's account of how Drakea died — one of his own traps, made to blow early (ch. 59).