Race
Human
40 characters with this race in the books read so far.
| Name | Kind | Class | Level | First seen | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice | npc | — | B1 ch. 1 | Carl's ex-girlfriend and Donut's owner, whom he broke up with by phone days before; she is away in the Bahamas when the dungeon takes the planet. | |
| Mrs. Parsons | npc | — | B1 ch. 1 | The downstairs neighbour who leans out of her window to complain the moment before the buildings are crushed. | |
| Carl | crawler | Compensated Anarchist | 47 | B1 ch. 2 | First on the leaderboard at the end-of-floor reading. |
| The Hoarder | boss | — | 7 | B1 ch. 11 | The first neighborhood boss Carl and Donut fight, a human woman remade into a fifteen-foot boss in a lair of garbage; Carl guesses she was in her own house when the dungeon came. |
| Crawler Rebecca W | corpse | — | 3 | B1 ch. 13 | A crawler killed by Frank Q; her looted corpse is the first evidence Carl gets that crawlers are hunting crawlers. |
| Lucia Mar | crawler | Black Inquisitor General | 48 | B1 ch. 14 | Second on the leaderboard at the end-of-floor reading. |
| Frank Q | crawler | Blood Assassin | 17 | B1 ch. 20 | Carl's old enemy, now a one-handed drunk at the Desperado Club bar, who explains what Maggie did and why she is hunting Carl. |
| Maggie My | crawler | — | 9 | B1 ch. 20 | Frank Q's killer, who took the Infiltrator race - a Scree brain parasite - and has been riding inside Chris's body since the end of the third floor. |
| Agatha | crawler | — | 8 | B1 ch. 22 | The old woman with the shopping cart, still human and still classless, who walks past the assembled crawlers to the stairwell. |
| Brandon An | crawler | — | 6 | B1 ch. 22 | The maintenance man leading the Meadow Lark party and refusing to abandon the residents. |
| Chris Andrews 2 | crawler | Zulu Warrior | 35 | B1 ch. 22 | The former Meadow Lark crawler who arrives at Hump Town after escaping the Akula; the change in him is Maggie My, an Infiltrator who has taken over his body. |
| Imani C | crawler | Fire Spiritualist | 24 | B1 ch. 22 | A Meadow Lark crawler in another bubble, described as a healer, who relays messages between Carl and Chris; the book states no race or class for her. |
| Yolanda Martinez 13 | crawler | — | 5 | B1 ch. 22 | A CNA in the Meadow Lark party who fights with a bow; she shoots Jack to stop him and is killed by the rage elemental. |
| Lexis | npc | — | B1 ch. 27 | The associate producer, human but not from Earth, who preps Carl and Donut in the production trailer. | |
| Odette | npc | — | B1 ch. 29 | The legless human talk-show host, from a world other than Earth, who interviews Carl and Donut in her crab-taur costume. | |
| Elle McGibbons | crawler | Blizzardmancer | 47 | B1 ch. 31 | Seventh on the leaderboard at the end-of-floor reading. |
| Jack | crawler | — | B1 ch. 31 | An eldercare resident with a walker whose refusal to use a bathroom summons the rage elemental. | |
| Randall | crawler | — | B1 ch. 38 | Another of the elderly residents, thrown from the train and killed by the rage elemental. | |
| Li Jun | crawler | Street Monk | 25 | B1 ch. 42 | A crawler who finishes his bubble's last castle and, with his sister Li Na, stays behind to watch the neighbouring bubble for Carl; the book states no race or class for him. |
| Li Na | crawler | Slave Driver | 30 | B1 ch. 42 | Li Jun's sister, who fights with chains and becomes the sharpest critic of Carl's plans during the rescue. |
| Zhang | crawler | Earth Mover | 28 | B1 ch. 42 | Li Jun's best friend, a mage-tank who helps drive the portal cart during the rescue. |
| Yvette | crawler | — | B1 ch. 43 | Frank Q and Maggie My's teenage daughter, made to travel with their killings and refusing to take part. | |
| Nica | corpse | — | 8 | B2 ch. 6 | A second Bautista woman found dead beside Grace, from whom Carl loots two strength rings. |
| Fitz | npc | — | 30 | B2 ch. 14 | The human barkeep of the One-Eyed Narwhal, the inn the party uses as a base in the skyfowl village. |
| Burgundy | npc | — | B2 ch. 18 | A human clerk in the magistrate's building who passes the party on the stairs, later found to be a krasue by night, who names Miss Quill and Remex before Donut kills her. | |
| Tucker | npc | — | B2 ch. 19 | The human stand-up comedian on the Danger Zone panel whom Donut spends the show demolishing. | |
| Katia Grim | crawler | Monster Truck Driver | 37 | B2 ch. 21 | Carl and Donut's party member, a doppelganger who scouts, impersonates Henrik, and forms herself into the diving bell for the Akula dive. |
| Ifechi | crawler | Physicker | 29 | B2 ch. 26 | Tenth on the second leaderboard, still travelling with Florin. |
| Miriam Dom | crawler | Shepherd | 52 | B2 ch. 26 | Sixth on the leaderboard at the end-of-floor reading, now a vampire after being hit with a curse on this floor. |
| Ji-Hoon | crawler | Knife Sharpener | 21 | B3 ch. 9 | The crawler who tries to knife Donut on the Desperado Club dance floor after a woman stuns her guards and is killed by her, giving her a player-killer skull. |
| Tito | npc | Desperado Club Wheel of Fortune Croupier | B3 ch. 9 | The huge one-toothed croupier who runs the Wheel of Fortune where Carl spends his comp chip. | |
| Madison | npc | Iron Tangle Human Resources Associate | 10 | B3 ch. 17 | The human resources NPC the party rescues from the burning trainyard building; she reports on what is at the end of the line. |
| Firas M | crawler | Hammersmith | 22 | B4 ch. 3 | One of the two drunk crawlers Carl finds in Hump Town; his high-level Puddle Jumper spell gets the team onto the town hall balcony and he plays the throat-cutter in the staged killing of Henrik. |
| Louis Santiago 2 | crawler | Pest Exterminator | 22 | B4 ch. 3 | The other of the two drunk crawlers, whose legendary Cloud of Exhaust spell knocks out the town hall guards and who later flies the balloon house. |
| Bogdon Ro | crawler | Legatus | 44 | B4 ch. 4 | Eighth on the leaderboard at the end-of-floor reading. |
| Low Thi | crawler | D-Bag Geek | 25 | B4 ch. 6 | One of five crawlers who come up from the subterranean level chasing the temple map, and who kills Wynne to take it. |
| Chirag Ali | crawler | Sacred Paladin | 35 | B4 ch. 17 | Tenth on the leaderboard at the second reading; appears on this list only. |
| Gwendolyn Duet | crawler | Boring Ol' Fighter | 34 | B4 ch. 20 | The Canadian crawler running the land quadrant's crawler camp, who partners with Carl on the castle and the flood plan. |
| Tran | crawler | Swashbuckler | 28 | B4 ch. 20 | A crawler on Gwen's land-quadrant team whose metal-detecting and Pathfinder abilities support the castle plan and the Akula dive. |
| Ghazi | npc | Glass Mage | 43 | B4 ch. 21 | The Mad Dune Mage of the sandcastle, who opened a portal to the Nothing with the winding box seeking Yarilo and summoned Psamathe instead, and from whom Carl takes the winding box. |