Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

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 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
• Chapter 91 — The horribles
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
• Chapter 93 — The arena: 'I choose Scolopendra'
• Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 97 — Eris; the wrong biscuit; the gods leave
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2

Progression

A Plenty goat on the show calls Krakaren Prime in Scolopendra's club 'a parody of our partner' (ch. 28); the AI brings her to the arena as floor boss for what someone else is planning (ch. 94); Taranis tears her tentacles off and takes her, as a piece of Apito (ch. 96, ch. 97), and she is at his temple in the epilogue (epilogue). The AI's history tells the Apothecary's: the last physical Primal, born near the end and engineered to meld, who joined the resistance, took the brunt of the final attack so nascent life could live, was cocooned a millennium and emerged as the thing she had fought; she sheds Residuals too (ch. 91, ch. 92). Sydnee Iglacia: many believe she is the one who stopped the nine-tier attack (epilogue).