Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
Allister
Author of the Cookbook's 13th edition, whose notes correct the earlier recipes: the fifteen-second inventory wait is gone, backpacks still keep explosives stable — until Forkith's note beneath it says they only slow the loss.
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A note on protection spells — Immortality shields from death but not from pain; pair it with Numb (ch. 54) — whose image of the crushed-but-living plays out the same chapter.