Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Justice Light

Author of the Cookbook's eighth edition, a skyfowl of the white cliffs, whose note confesses a mistake: an NPC killed in anger who did not deserve it.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• 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

A one-winged skyfowl Origamist with black feathers and horn-tufts, who has prepared the throne room with his sluggalos and needs nothing from Carl's tables: 'Danger lives in what they can't see' (ch. 20, ch. 32). Dante's interlude gives his crime, a shopkeeper killed, and an indenture served as the shopkeeper he killed (ch. 5). His own interlude gives the rest — the keeper of the only trap store on the level, killed in anger after an insult; the ice elves, the order, his brother erased for refusing, his wing taken as a warning after his one refusal, and the deed done out of fear; a changeling relay under the FUPA; the deduction that Juice Box's people are touching gods; and a trap designed the moment Carl found the Gate (ch. 56). 'I need it!' when the Gate is lost (ch. 62); 'GET THE GATE BACK, AND IT WON'T MATTER' (ch. 78); he retrieves it from Paca's stomach with the sluggalos and sets it in place: 'Juice Box, it is ready […] The trap is already turned on. It has been turned on for days now' (ch. 81, ch. 84). Alone on a burning floor with Emberus, having lied to Juice Box, he snaps a piece of twine with a talon: a bijou trap and a demon trap fall into a permanent portal made from the Gate's winding box, four planes fold together, and the Nothing breaks. 'I am not sorry. Peace to you all, brothers and sisters' (ch. 87). Eighth edition of the Cookbook. Rosetta's brother; of his story's end, 'He'd never told anyone the specifics. Not even Porthus' (ch. 56).