Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Mordecai

The tutorial guide assigned to Carl and Donut: a former crawler, born skyfowl, who chose Changeling and reached the eleventh floor of his own season, now serving out an indentureship as a shapeshifting NPC in a guild room with his mother's ashes and a photograph of his brother. He is bound by rules about what he may say, and he says as much as he can.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
• Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• 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 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• 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 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• 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 Canadian in a snowsuit and a raccoon hat this floor, level 50, whose alchemy table now reads a potion's recipe off the potion (ch. 2); he makes Glory Bound into a rehab and a trap for a spider (ch. 16), brews earplug potions by the gallon (ch. 23), lines up hundreds of Black Nimbus balls for a floor about to be 'neck deep in gods' (ch. 45), and announces one salve aloud while brewing another because he knows he is being watched (ch. 19). He reads Anne of Green Gables to Ruby in what he thinks are his last hours (ch. 70), explains the Ceremony of Chaos and a ball of swine made out of everyone (ch. 66), theorises robot flies (ch. 81), and cuts Louis's chest open under the non-combatant code — 'what I'm aboot to do is a surgical procedure' (ch. 84). He cannot touch Huanxin Jinx, so he flicks the tip of a crossbow bolt built with his mother's ashes — a funeral rite — loads it into the crossbow on Donut's back, says goodbye to Katia, and walks out (ch. 86). 'But I think I gained more. Thank you, Donut, for setting that up' (ch. 87). Ruby goes to the twelfth floor without him (ch. 85).