Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Princess Formidable

The youngest child of King Rust, sister of Prince Stalwart and Prince Maestro, and Katia's sponsor from the fourth floor: her first gift is one crossbow bolt, 1 of 100, that pauses a god's invulnerability if it hits the eye. 'I'm starting to think the sister isn't a huge fan of her big brother.'

Segment appearances

• 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 38 — Relationship advice
• Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths

Arc

Rust's third child, 'the one you need to worry about': five hours from the Venus station with marines, to trip the failsafe by hand on a Nebular theory that the AI's insanity is contagious (ch. 34). Dropped upside down into Orren's office in a spacesuit, told the failsafe is dead, given four choices, she picks Earth's surface: 'I hope she knows how to swim' (ch. 37). Her crew press the button anyway, and Aryl goes dark (ch. 41). Tagg says she was right (ch. 78); her fate is unknown (ch. 86).