Motif · from book 1
Borant
The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
Through book 1
The operator, seen as announcements, Admins and a slur. Book 1's politics, delivered in a whisper (B1 ch. 36): the Bloom controls the kua-tin government, the system is bankrupt, and Borant needs the season over fast. Odette's addendum (B1 ch. 48): a Valtay fleet is parked outside the Borant system, and the next season will be theirs.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Borant's bankruptcy and the Valtay fleet at the door | B1 ch. 36 | open — Mordecai's whispered politics; Odette: the next season is the Valtay's. |
All threads: Open threads.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 17/48 | 1–2, 4–5, 14, 20, 28–29, 33, 35–36, 39–40, 42, 44, 47–48 · the book's own page |
By book
Borant in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
The corporation's name is in the welcome text (ch. 2) and its voice is the daily announcement: patch notes, toilet bugs, the stasis rule (ch. 14), a language patch ('Sorry about that, New Zealand'), the Blender Fiends withdrawn (ch. 20), six days instead of ten and the Rage Elemental penalty (ch. 31), safe rooms closing early (ch. 39), the stairwell exploit patched (ch. 44). Its people are Zev and Mukta; its slur is mud skipper (ch. 29). Mordecai's whispered briefing (ch. 36) is the politics: the Bloom, the Party badges, a bankrupt kua-tin system that needs the season profitable and over, and 'the kua-tin government is working extra hard to get you killed.'