Race
Human
53 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 → Agent Provocateur (B5 ch. 8) | 63 | B1 ch. 2 | Carl is level 63 after the castle battle. |
| 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 as the hunt begins. |
| Frank Q | crawler | Blood Assassin | 100 | B1 ch. 20 | Leveled-Up Frank, Sober Edition: a level-100 Night Elf Blood Assassin, a dead crawler as a card, stolen from Donut's inactive deck by Raid Stash and summoned by Ysalte. |
| 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 | Agent number 22, of a rare and ancient species that is not the Apothecary's: she killed an Apothecary residual and took over its body, a failing human shell, ten years in Wenatchee. |
| 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 talk-show host, a legless human beneath the bug head, who appears as a holo in the green room to reveal Bea. | |
| Elle McGibbons | crawler | Blizzardmancer → Tundra Princess (B5 ch. 8) | 51 | B1 ch. 31 | Elle has transformed from Blizzardmancer to Tundra Princess and reached level 51 by the time the party regroups at the guildhall. |
| 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 | A crawler whose demonic Changbi race lets her see which god anyone nearby is affiliated with, used to screen crawlers for Emberus worshippers. |
| 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 | 60 | B2 ch. 21 | Katia is level 60 after the castle battle. |
| 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, her race now Vampire. |
| 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 | 35 | B4 ch. 3 | A level-35 Hammersmith who has not been able to specialise and who co-pilots the flying house with Louis. |
| Louis Santiago 2 | crawler | Pest Exterminator → Extermination Professional (B5 ch. 8) | 42 | B4 ch. 3 | Louis has climbed to level 42, nearly double his level when Carl met him, and has to leave the guild to refill his blood bar. |
| Bogdon Ro | crawler | Legatus | 44 | B4 ch. 4 | Eighth on the leaderboard; killed by a hunter early on the floor. |
| 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 Swashbuckler who trains alongside Bautista for a team bonus, loots hunters after the church raid and loses his legs in the castle battle. |
| 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. |
| Ajib | crawler | Prodromoi | 29 | B5 ch. 1 | A level-29 human Prodromoi, a dexterity fighter missing the lower half of his left leg, who fist-bumps Carl in the specialisation queue in the staging area. |
| Keith H. | npc | — | B5 ch. 31 | A squat six-or-seven-year-old non-earth human at the CrawlCon art contest who repeats his father’s insults and places dead last. | |
| Cleiton | crawler | — | B5 ch. 72 | A human crawler who opens the talent show with humour from his homeland. | |
| Paz Lo | crawler | Santero → The God Predator (B6 ch. 72) | 101 | B6 ch. 5 | Paz's card after Ysalte: 'The God Predator. Level 101 Former Crawler.' Torn in half by Donut. |
| Anton Lopez | crawler | Fugitive | 47 | B6 ch. 5 | A level-47 human Fugitive, Crawler #8,199,451, tattooed, Paz's cousin, a guard at the women's prison. |
| Dong Quixote | npc | — | 45 | B6 ch. 23 | A level-45 human stripper of about seventy in a conquistador helmet, later a mercenary with a lance and then a sock. |
| Zeynep | crawler | Boring Ol’ Mage | 52 | B6 ch. 32 | A level-52 Boring Ol' Mage in her late fifties, dancing on the Desperado's top floor, who mutes her own teammate to protect Carl. |
| Robert the Human | npc | — | 40 | B6 ch. 37 | Donut's first phase-two opponent: a deranged seventy-year-old in a sailor suit, level 40, two stuffed-animal totems. |
| Asher | npc | — | B6 ch. 45 | Carl's half-brother, six years old, in a recorded summer at a trailer in Iowa: his father's nose and eyes and untameable hair. | |
| Tami-Lynn | npc | — | B6 ch. 45 | Carl's stepmother, a nurse in scrubs about Katia's age with a pitbull tattoo on her neck, who ends her husband with morphine. | |
| Alpha Male Carl | npc | — | 69 | B6 ch. 46 | A level-69 totem of the hydra ('Nice'): Carl with Grease hair, star boxers, a white gauntlet and his father's voice. |
| Khulan | crawler | — | B6 ch. 57 | A human on Ren's team who paralyses targets for the flamethrower; Chuluuna's wife. | |
| Chuluuna | crawler | — | B6 ch. 57 | A human with a strength class that turns his skin to stone, Ren's tank, who can withstand her flamethrower and see the invisible. |