Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Prince Maestro

Host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, a gold-tusked orc in a pink silk shirt who calls his teenage audience 'piglets' and makes doomed crawlers guess who dies for the chance to save one another. A prince of the Skull Empire, bound for the ninth floor, and — after Carl humiliates him on air and an anonymous 'snick' goes viral — known across the tunnels as Carl's Naughty Little Piggie.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 33 — Parlay
• Chapter 34 — The king's message; Rosetta's whip
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Arc

Rust's disappointment (ch. 34); a sponsor reminded by Victory not to make his god act against its nature (ch. 55); by the end, Huanxin says, claiming the crown (ch. 86).