Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Eulogist

The AI's name for the engine that runs the centre system — the stable, personality-less intelligence the mantises mistake for a primal engine and the Nebulars worship — which the eighth floor's system AI lets slip in a boss description: 'one step closer to replicating the Eulogist, even though they don't know what that really is.' The epilogue's residuals part with 'May the Eulogist ever sleep.'

Segment appearances

• Prologue — Prologue
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 72 — Diah
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty

Progression

The Nebulars worship it; Agatha's kind serve it; Porthus will not tell Rosetta the Apothecary's reason lest the AI learn it and then the Eulogist (ch. 69). Lucia: 'Now the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon' (ch. 72). Zev: 'another name for the AI in the center system' (ch. 73).