Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Princess Posse

Donut's name for her fans, first spoken on the fourth floor after a show that ran a video of her and Miss Beatrice winning a cat show: 'good for the Princess Posse to get some culture in with their daily Donut fix.' 'Princess Posse?' I asked.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 6 — Party Planner
Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
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 29 — The Bamboozle
Chapter 30 — Comrades
Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
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 72 — Diah
Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
Chapter 77 — Not yet
Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
Chapter 84 — And then there were two
Chapter 85 — Zerzura

Progression

A team of two with fifty-eight soldiers and no officers (ch. 1) that fifty thousand former crawlers join as level-60 mercenaries who keep nothing but what they know (ch. 11); battalions named in hours — the Bulwark, the Bloody Leeches, the Crocodiles, the Naughty Little Piggies, the White Dragons, the Scream Warriors, the Tenner Wraiths (ch. 15, ch. 20, ch. 29). Of 32,500 crawlers 20,221 reach the tenth, a record; of 50,000 veterans about 28,000 remain (ch. 85). 'Congratulations, Champions' (ch. 85).