Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Krakaren

A second-floor neighbourhood boss: a clone of a 'cosmic octopus collective' running a moonshine pyramid scheme, whose card says there are many of her and that a Prime births two for every one killed. Mordecai will not say her weakness.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Progression

The Apothecary sends a purple pillow (ch. 3); the Paulie incident was 'one of several actions' that brought the crackdown on the non-profit (ch. 11); a tentacle monster that takes over minds, Rosetta says, whom Porthus trusts for a reason he cannot tell (ch. 69). Krakaren Prime brews hell-kissed potions in the Nothing for a war she considers inevitable, and the in-dungeon Krakaren sells them to the war mages (ch. 71); Paca is her ambassador (ch. 76, ch. 78); a benefactor box for Donut (ch. 75, ch. 86). The Apothecary knew Justice Light's plan (ch. 87).