Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Luke

The goblin-like, surfer-voiced proxy of the Lemig Sortion at the warlords' table, whose 80%-to-undo democracy cannot leave the game: 'We shoulda bugged out when the mantids did… We all gonna die here.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends

Arc

The Lemig representative at the warlords' table, dragged legless across Queen Imogen's ballroom and dead, killed by a fellow soldier under Shi Maria's control (ch. 17); Stockade's beloved, whose name the caterpillar screams as he smashes his own face (ch. 19).