Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The Blood Sultanate
The faction Donut joined by putting on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in chapter 7: a naga royal house that, Mordecai warns, holds its members on the ninth floor until every other member is dead — and that the Maestro says is almost always the first of the nine eliminated.
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Progression
Donut's tiara upgrade needs a jeweler in the Desperado (ch. 2); the revolutionary look (ch. 4); Katia's message that she has the Crown and a way out through Yemaya (ch. 15, ch. 17, ch. 18); Donut going rigid at the purple tiara (ch. 19); Rishi at the warlords' table — 'Or your companion, Katia' (ch. 21); a terrorism doctrine (ch. 22); the Sultanate tries to quit (ch. 48).