Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Ferdinand

Someone Donut loved from the moment she first saw him, whom she invokes on her deathbed after the Juicer and in her drunken confession under the Krakaren, and ranks above Carl. Carl asks, 'Who the hell is Ferdinand?' She will not say.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
• Chapter 33 — Parlay
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura

Arc

Warlord on High, Sir Ferdinand, level 100, on Drick's bald head in a toilet-paper turban: 'Hey, baby girl' (ch. 10). the system's workaround to let Juice Box's people take part, who must be kept alive (ch. 9); mayor of Shanty Town until Carl buys it for a bowler hat (ch. 10); a live-feed blackout by emergency action item (ch. 19); a rambling action item that forces sponsors to pilot their gods (ch. 61); in the rafters at the trial (ch. 63). He dives into Carl's ditch, tail scorched — 'Why are you lying down on the job? […] Juice Box hates me. She’s meaner than Bill' — and is told he is from Earth and wanted alive (ch. 71). 'Thanks for trying to come save me in the tower.' 'Anytime babe' (ch. 85). He goes to the twelfth floor and forfeits the war (ch. 85).