Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Race and class

The third-floor choice that can never be unmade. Donut stays a cat and tricks Mordecai into being her manager by picking Former Child Actor; Carl turns down Hobgoblin and Sasquatch for Primal — a blank slate with every skill unlockable to 20 — and Compensated Anarchist. Eighty per cent of crawlers stay human.

Segment appearances

• Prologue — Prologue
• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 37 — Growler Gary, and Princess Formidable's four choices
• Chapter 38 — Relationship advice
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 77 — Not yet

Progression

Donut opens the book with a Former Child Actor accessory kit in the saferoom mailbox and a Deathbed Hellcat (ch. 1); Mordecai turns out to be a Canadian (ch. 2); a crest is a Barn Burner and a Liquid Dervish (ch. 11). Carl's card still reads Race: Primal (ch. 16), and Victory credits 'the communal nature of his Primal race' for what he can carry (ch. 18); the party leader of the Royal Court of Princess Donut is inevitable (ch. 27). At the end Donut keeps her Former Child Actor benefits, with the new Oak Fell class and the champion thing on top of them (ch. 77).