Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Madness

The Viceroys' team: mind magic and Atrocity magic, the invisible Monkeywrenchers, an amplification table, Nurse Yugoslav, and Architect Houston's operating theatre, which nobody has entered — until Carl does.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
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 27 — Gavrilo Princip
Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
Chapter 30 — Comrades
Chapter 33 — Parlay
Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
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

Progression

The season's strong contender: a hundred invisible Monkeywrenchers who once took two castles with twenty men (ch. 22), mind magic and Atrocity magic (ch. 65), an amplification table nobody has come back from (ch. 8, ch. 19), an operating theatre that turns out to be a Viceroy's life's work (ch. 68). Defeated with its warlord, and its assets to the Posse (ch. 68).