Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Fopsy

Former Prime Minister Fopsy, a tripod — a basketball on three legs, emotionless — adjutant for the Dream, who theorises about the residual's purpose and will not say more before a combatant; passed over for prime minister because nobody is sure what he knew of Tagg.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Arc

Former Prime Minister Fopsy, a tripod — a basketball of eyes on three legs — adjutant for the Dream, who appears at the ball, theorises that the residual means to trigger the system's hard-coded shutdown, and will not voice more before a combatant (ch. 69, ch. 73); invisible at Tart's shoulder (ch. 79); passed over for prime minister because nobody is sure what he knew of Tagg (ch. 83, ch. 86).