Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Elites

A kind of boss Mordecai sets apart from the six main types — 'There are also others, but those are called elites' — and tells Carl not to worry about yet. On the second floor the Laminak Rev-Up Consultants carry the word in their name.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Monk seals
• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 23 — The Molly Maguires
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four

Progression

Donut prefers to offer her talents to everyone, not an elite few (ch. 6); the ninth floor is the playground of governments and the rich, the twelfth where the true elites play (ch. 19); the ultra-elite on an island eating panda bears (ch. 23); Hereford War Machines outfits the most elite mercenary squads (ch. 52); the elites' scheming for the Ascendency, with the crawlers as sand in an hourglass (ch. 61). The dungeon's elites: Shi Maria as a city boss; the Madre; a hydra made for the Royal Court (ch. 26, ch. 46, ch. 55).