Character · from book 5

Epitome Tagg

Leader of the Dream and son of Epitome Noflex, whose photograph Louis snatched from Carl: he sends hunters onto the sixth floor, members of his family among them, not for the gear but to find Louis, who, a captured hunter says, besmirched his mother's honour.

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

Through book 6

'You're not even real' (B6 ch. 22).

Through book 4

A photograph among the seven the AI gave Carl, one of each plaintiff's mother: Epitome Noflex of the Dream, 'a very angry-looking, bald elf woman', whom Louis asks Juice Box to impersonate (B4 ch. 28).

Through book 5

A handcuffed hunter: 'Epitome Tagg doesn't even care about the gear […] He just wants us to find that crawler' (B5 ch. 22); the Dream's leader, whose mother's photograph Carl carries (B5 ch. 15).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	1/78	Ch. 22 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	2/74	Ch. 21, Ch. 22 · the book's own page

By book

Epitome Tagg in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

The Dream's leader, whose mother's photograph Carl carries (ch. 15); a handcuffed hunter: 'Epitome Tagg doesn't even care about the gear […] He just wants us to find that crawler' (ch. 22).

Epitome Tagg in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

'I am Epitome Tagg of the Dream,' from the sixth seat at the warlords' table, and nothing more; Stalwart rages that Tagg said he had taken care of this (ch. 21). On his feet, he shouts at Cascadia that Carl and the orc are planning right in front of her, and answers Juice Box's 'I’m my own team': nine teams, eight really, plus the chaff — 'You’re not even real' (ch. 22).