Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Prince Stalwart

Crown Prince of the Skull Empire and the Maestro's older brother, who, Zev says, owns the production behind the Maestro's show. Carl wonders whether the voice that threatened to drown him and Donut when they tried to walk off it was his.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 34 — The king's message; Rosetta's whip
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
• Chapter 37 — Growler Gary, and Princess Formidable's four choices
• Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths

Arc

War chief after his father's death, in a gold crown at the council that Donut bet on (ch. 39, ch. 42); Tagg tells him his fleet's Skull hardware is deactivated (ch. 43); a 700-ton scorpion tank in Florin's flank, probably with him aboard (ch. 60). Fighting his own men, netted, teleported to Elle's clearing, he is torn apart by four war mages: 'My sister was right' (ch. 61). His brats in orbit, one of them the new king, die in a yacht (ch. 69, epilogue).