Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The hunters

Tourists on the sixth floor, the Hunting Grounds, as Mordecai first describes them on the third: 'brave and insane' people who pay to go down and hunt crawlers — expensive and dangerous, with no protections for the hunters, so that 'every season a handful of rich dumbasses get themselves killed.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hills Cyclops
• Chapter 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
• Chapter 5 — Sister Ines
• Chapter 9 — The Mock Battle Arena
• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 12 — Shadow Boxer
• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
• Chapter 35 — Emergency action items
• Chapter 36 — Nekhebit
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 57 — Samantha's secret
• Chapter 59 — Velma
• Chapter 60 — The last rampart
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Progression

A Legendary Hunter Champion Box for killing the most of them and the last of them (ch. 2, ch. 3); a dagger icon for a hunter killed (ch. 5); the Nebulars, faced as hunters on the last floor, in the same hats (ch. 9); a Crest, a common hunter type (ch. 12); Mordecai wondering what families of dead hunters might lurk among the sponsored gods (ch. 19); their tech unlocked with Cracker Jack scrolls (ch. 52).