Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Edgar

A talking tortoise Donut chats with at Signet's camp — a Shell Mage whose secrecy spell hides an army, who sinks with the assault team, comes up with blood on his jaws like strawberry, and is the tattooist with the silver stick who sucks up the dead and inks them onto Signet's skin. He drew the castle map the whole plan runs on; Signet met him the night her mother died.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Arc

The tortoise who says waking Katia early could be fatal (ch. 16); who scouts naga territory unseen with a level-15 Sense Movement that sees the invisible and the non-corporeal through walls, finds the dead army, and sees a Bijou's light leave the ground — the tell the whole raid turns on (ch. 40, ch. 45, ch. 48, ch. 49). Strapped to Rosetta's back up the Nest — 'At least you have your dignity' — he tattoos a dog on Donut's flank with a new ink that captures a fallen crawler's essence (ch. 73, ch. 74). In ursine culture the father's presence lends strength (ch. 82). He cannot tattoo a rock (ch. 78). He runs Louis's surgery to the second (ch. 84) and goes to the twelfth floor with the city (ch. 86). Carl's dream glimpsed him remembering hundreds of past lives (ch. 69).