Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Imani

A young nurse from the Meadow Lark eldercare facility in Wenatchee, ninety pounds and level 10 with twelve crawler-killer skulls when Carl meets her: she had to put down the residents the monsters would otherwise have burned. Says almost nothing. Shows Carl how to use the pedicure kit.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
• Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
• Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Arc

Guild leader, and the one who marks the airports (ch. 6); the healer who pulls Carl and Katia apart too late (ch. 16) and slaps him awake from a psionic collapse (ch. 65); wings that give Blessings, a buff nobody has felt before, and a hug for Chris with her wings, not her arms (ch. 23, ch. 65). She casts Carl's Tripper from an ankle tattoo drawn in his blood (ch. 47), refuses Li Na the second ring (ch. 57), delivers Kiwi's twins ('Bucket Boy, if you're going to vomit, do it outside') and forbids a word about drowning them (ch. 82), and shields Elle, Holger and the strippers from a nuke with a wing-shield Carl has not seen before (ch. 80). In the dream's backsplash Carl sees what she carries: Detroit, a family that blamed her, a nursing certificate in the middle of nowhere, being the youngest in the room and always in charge, and Chris (ch. 69).