Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Dream

The dream elves' faction: Louis circled through the paper for a joke about a matriarch's photograph, Battleship over Point Mongo, an accountant caught, and a Faction Wars vote that might change. A powerful, galaxy-spanning group of elves with a stake in the ninth floor's Faction Wars.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
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 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
Chapter 33 — Parlay
Chapter 34 — The king's message; Rosetta's whip
Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
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 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
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 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
Chapter 77 — Not yet
Chapter 79 — Tart
Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
Chapter 82 — Ursensus
Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
Chapter 84 — And then there were two
Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Progression

Sensation Entertainment bought and a third season demanded (ch. 1); artillery on both fronts and 'pasty cousin fuckers' who run (ch. 22); a warlord in a ridiculous helmet with blood on his armour (ch. 22, ch. 42); a fleet's orc hardware switched off (ch. 43); mass-teleported battalions, a collapsed castle, a warlord in a ball and then in a heart (ch. 59, ch. 63, ch. 80); a cruiser down over Australia (epilogue). Food, to the Reavers' everything else (ch. 83).