Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Prepotente

Third on the first leaderboard: a Caprid Forsaken Aerialist, level 27, whom Carl does not know.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Arc

He wakes Milk on the fifth floor with his mother and burns her guild's linen (ch. 26); he reports trebuchets from the naga border with a score to settle against Blood Hunter's producer (ch. 18); and, level 99, he kills the naga standing army himself before a kangaroo court jails him for threatening a quorum, and returns to find the Posse 'pitifully and limply' doing his work: 'SHE WAS MY MOTHER […] I SPIT IN YOUR EYE!' (ch. 45). He is recruited as a colonel, sobs that Carl is his best friend and he has been so lonely, and screams in his face (ch. 48). He carries a perfect-recall map of Club Vanquisher, drinks Big Red five a day by his mother's rule (ch. 50), mutters names ending in 'Ragazzaccia' (ch. 52), and is ejected from a temple as tested (ch. 54). He shields Carl from mind magic and vanishes into a god's pile (ch. 64, ch. 65); drinks more vials than his allotment; holds the Memorial Crystal without a fight, which Emberus says he means to give to the Epicure (ch. 78); hugs Carl smelling of root beer (ch. 78); and enters the stairwell with 'I love you' (ch. 86).