Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Cascadia

A name on a stick — the Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams — and then a voice: the woman who gives the daily updates, to Prepotente 'a nasty little woman who thinks she's smarter than everyone', who screams over the announcement system as the seventh floor comes apart. Mordecai knows of one Cascadia connected to the crawl.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin

Arc

Sounding drunk as she reads the rules (ch. 1); at the head of the council table, really present, scales dulling and falling, tequila through a rebreather, her family dead in Borant's civil war, laughing at Scolopendra's warning: 'Why the fuck not?' (ch. 42, ch. 43). Simply gone (ch. 44). 'Now get out there and kill, kill, kill!' (ch. 59).