Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two

Progression

Cascadia's home system in civil war, her family dead when a warship hit the habitation ring (ch. 43); in court with the Valtay over loot (ch. 56); Loita's kua-tin rebreather in Louis (ch. 84).