Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Dream

The dream elves' faction: Louis circled through the paper for a joke about a matriarch's photograph, Battleship over Point Mongo, an accountant caught, and a Faction Wars vote that might change. A powerful, galaxy-spanning group of elves with a stake in the ninth floor's Faction Wars.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
• Chapter 36 — Nekhebit
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up
• Epilogue — Homecoming Queen

Progression

Epitome Tagg of the Dream at the sixth seat — one of the richest men in the galaxy, indistinguishable from the elves slaughtered on the last floor — and Noflex's face on a changeling (ch. 21, ch. 22); Drick, a Dream elf, as a candidate adjutant (ch. 36); the Dream abdicates its spot and abandons Faction Wars (ch. 48); its action item for longer-range artillery (ch. 72); a nuke threatened (epilogue).