Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Larracos

'The capital city of the disputed lands. It is the prize over which the factions fight,' says a crocodilian guard at the Desperado Club's casino, where a staircase leads down to it and the faction armies party until the crawlers reach the ninth floor.

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 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• 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 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• 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 funnel city of sixty-six rings numbered from the bottom, a waterfall stepping ring to ring, the college of magic three-quarters up, the Piccadilly on nine still full of jellyfish, the castle at the bottom under water — 'City of Broken Dreams', a real, living place that after Havana's ghosts makes what has already been done to it worse (ch. 7, ch. 8). Priestly went mad at the sight of its ruin (ch. 7, ch. 78). Inaccessible until four teams remain, then the Peeling (ch. 1, ch. 68); besieged by zarogoths, its hundred towers turned on Carl, an aqueduct falling, lava on the top rings (ch. 70, ch. 71); the Semeru's castle a ruin of rot and acid puddles at the end (ch. 78); the rings full of crawlers throwing flowers (ch. 85). Zerzura takes it whole to the twelfth floor, and leaves a pit of stairwells and dead roots over a hole (ch. 85, ch. 86).