Character · from book 3
Astrid
A level-125 Bloodlust Sprite with cardiovascular magic — 'one of the most metal things ever' — who hovers over Donut at the Desperado Club on behalf of management, refunds four hundred of five hundred gold and grants complimentary security. The club's assistant manager.
Race and class, since book 5: Bloodlust Sprite · Assistant manager
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
As of book 6. The Desperado Club's level-125 Bloodlust Sprite of book 3, who set Carl's blood to boil in book 5, and the Guild of Suffering's contract in book 6: the Night Wyrm's wife, who takes the main stairs because she felt the Nothing tear, unleashes the vorpals, moves to shield Carl, and dies wingless and eyeless on a kitchen floor. 'I was almost done. I would be free soon.' Her sons go to avenge her.
Through book 3
Level 125, a Bloodlust Sprite with cardiovascular magic — 'one of the most metal things ever' — who refunds four hundred of five hundred gold on behalf of management and grants free security; Carl asks that Bomo and the Sledge be kept and unpunished (B3 ch. 9).
Through book 5
Through book 6
The Guild of Suffering's contract, and the Night Wyrm's wife: sized up by a cherry bomb (B6 ch. 31), she takes the main stairs because she felt the Nothing tear, unleashes the vorpals, moves to shield Carl, and dies wingless and eyeless on a kitchen floor — 'I was almost done. I would be free soon' (B6 ch. 32). Her sons hire out their crew and go to kill their father (B6 ch. 34).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 1/35 | Ch. 9 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 2/78 | Ch. 58, Ch. 59 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 11/74 | 19, 22, 27, 30–34, 48, 52, 54 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 5/89 | Ch. 10, Ch. 36, Ch. 37, Ch. 67, Ch. 82 · the book's own page |
By book
Astrid in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Level 125, cardiovascular magic, 'one of the most metal things ever.' She refunds four hundred of five hundred and grants free security; Carl asks that Bomo and The Sledge be kept and unpunished (ch. 9).
Astrid in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
The Desperado Club's level 125 assistant manager, a Bloodlust Sprite adept in cardiovascular magic, who sets Carl's blood boiling — not to kill him — at the door where he hides with Pearson (ch. 58), and delivers him to Orren, who has two things to discuss before he leaves for the collapse (ch. 59).
Astrid in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Sized up by Katia's cherry-bomb test: Intelligence 150, boiling blood, a heart animated as a mob, Cosmic Sense, Summon Guard five times a day (ch. 31). She takes the main stairs instead of her secret closet because she felt the Nothing tear (ch. 32); unleashes the vorpals; moves to shield Carl from a totem and dies with her wings in his hand and her eyes in a crow's beak — 'Save my children. I was almost done. I would be free soon' (ch. 32). Her sons weep for her; Damascus blames her husband, who wanted her dead; Carl thinks she got them jobs at the Penis Parade to keep them safe (ch. 33, ch. 34).
Astrid in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
Dead since the sixth floor, when Carl and Katia assassinated her; her last words still haunt him when Hamed, her husband, is named as the Night Wyrm (ch. 10). A painting of her hangs in the hallway of the liaison's office, where the cork Growler Gary spits leaves a mark on it (ch. 36, ch. 37). Zeynep's corpse brings back the assault on the Desperado Club in which she died (ch. 67), and Carl counts the moment Katia killed her among the moments that changed them (ch. 82).