Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Porthus

Porthus the Rogue: the High Elf crawler of the fifteenth season to whom the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook was first awarded, on the ninth floor, disguised as a blank sketchbook.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

The interlude that opens the book: a shaking high elf rogue in a zero zone, twenty down to one, Menerva's foot stuck — 'Go. Run' — taking game guide for a hundred seasons for the pride of adding to a book; second edition; missing, wanted by Syndicate Security (ch. 1). Dr Porthus Hu's campaigning made released crawlers citizens; his Open Intellect Pacifist Network refitted a garbage freighter into a liner and called for volunteers (ch. 11). He hid Volteeg among the mercenaries (ch. 35), brokered Victory's yacht deal (ch. 69), trusts the Apothecary for a reason he will not tell Rosetta lest the AI and then the Eulogist learn it (ch. 69), and is obsessed with finding a missing crawler from his own crawl, Menerva (ch. 69). His families board a generation ship for the Plenty and the forbidden gate of the Impetus Point (ch. 69). In the epilogue he announces the Open Intellect Action Network on the news, recorded earlier: stop the crawl or else (epilogue).