Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Epitome Tagg

Leader of the Dream and son of Epitome Noflex, whose photograph Louis snatched from Carl: he sends hunters onto the sixth floor, members of his family among them, not for the gear but to find Louis, who, a captured hunter says, besmirched his mother's honour.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• 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
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two

Arc

Blood on his armour at the council from nobody knows whom (ch. 42); a decoy in the fancy hat as he flees on zebras (ch. 62); in the ball (ch. 73). 'That orc princess was right. We should have blown the failsafe weeks ago' (ch. 78). He turns up as Louis's new heart and lungs — a Reaver-type cyborg after all, secretly on the post-physical path, which Glory apparently knew (ch. 80, ch. 81, ch. 83) — and bargains from inside: 'I control his vital organs […] My mother is on the 18th floor' (ch. 81, ch. 83). Donut's renaming enrages him past caution; 'Fuck this existence […] You don't deserve singularity'; the organs come out with a squelch and Mongo chews them to death (ch. 84).