Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Baroness Victory

Baroness Victory, esquire, formerly of the Skull Empire: half-sister of the late Queen Consort Ugloo, an attorney and judge with an hourglass carved on a tusk, who sentenced her own aunt to indentureship for unpaid taxes and is the only adjutant candidate the other teams sued to keep out. Chosen by Carl over Ripper Wonton and Drick: 'You'll do.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Arc

The adjutant, a 'non-combatant' in quotes after she puts a battle-axe through a suicide bomber's skull and argues with the ceiling until it apologises (ch. 13). She explains adjutants, the map and the phases (ch. 14), calls every foul including the Posse's (ch. 21, ch. 25), rules on the Lemig plot (ch. 18, ch. 19), and defines a 'non-team entity' that did not exist an hour ago (ch. 62). She stalls the war-mage trial on purpose and is out-manoeuvred (ch. 67, ch. 68). Her sister Ugloo lost herself in a royal marriage (ch. 14); her deal with Porthus and Rosetta, brokered before she was adjutant, is a yacht of orc children in exchange for a pin number (ch. 69). 'That's Nami' (ch. 69). 'It's genius. I would never have thought of that' (ch. 75). When her underage nieces and nephews die in orbit she is eligible for office again, and comes back acting Prime Minister of the Syndicate; Carl puts a hand on her soft shoulder and would kill her without hesitating, and she knows it (ch. 86). She leaves for the last time congratulating them on their victory and about to be yelled at for another dead CEO (ch. 86).