Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Rosetta Thagra

The Cookbook's ninth-edition author, a Crest, host of the talk show Shadow Boxer, taped in the underwater production trailer, where she hides two messages in plain sight — a yam, and a screen of television shows all set in Miami. A member of the Open Intellect Pacifist Network who vanishes with it after the Homestead box, she reappears in the cockpit of the Homecoming Queen, paranoid, a scrambler at her throat, telling Tipid he paid for neither the ship nor a Celestial box: 'Comrade.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• 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 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

Colonel Rosetta Thag, Crest Barn Burner, level 60, her floral tattoo glowing: she smacks Carl on the forehead as a self-correcting measure, kisses both cheeks, puts an ice-cold hand on the Bedlam Bride and, in chat because they are listening, demands the toraline, Shi Maria's ink, the orc credit chit, the studio and four million gold (ch. 11). Fifty thousand came with her (ch. 11). She rises out of the dirt behind King Rust in a tech cloak and takes his head off with a whip like a champagne cork, presses the head to a datapad for a retina scan, transfers billions through Colloid Bank, and collapses sobbing (ch. 34, ch. 35). Her interlude: a merchant in the mercenary guild on her own crawl; Brooks lassoed through the portal glass by then-Prince Rust; her mother dead to goblins on day one, 'Avenge us'; a documentary called The Other Side of the Glass; Porthus, whom she loves, and the Apothecary, whom she does not trust; the yacht of orc children the Homecoming Queen must shoot down; and the decision to fight anyway, for her friends (ch. 69). Theater Commander of Operation Ruin (ch. 59), she runs up the Nest with a tortoise strapped to her back and a pink Bic razor (ch. 73, ch. 74), tells Fopsy to get fucked (ch. 73), and hands Larracos's defence to Donut (ch. 60). Ninth edition of the Cookbook; took the deal at the start of the eleventh; alive (ch. 69).