Character · from book 6
Baroness Victory
Baroness Victory, esquire, formerly of the Skull Empire: half-sister of the late Queen Consort Ugloo, an attorney and judge with an hourglass carved on a tusk, who sentenced her own aunt to indentureship for unpaid taxes and is the only adjutant candidate the other teams sued to keep out. Chosen by Carl over Ripper Wonton and Drick: 'You'll do.'
Race and class, since book 6: Orc
First appears: Book 6
Series arc
As of book 7. Chosen with a thumb in book 6; in book 7 the adjutant who puts an axe through a suicide bomber's skull and argues with the ceiling, rules on every foul including the Posse's, defines a non-team entity, stalls a trial on purpose and is out-manoeuvred, and calls Lucia's power-siphon net genius. Her deal with Porthus and Rosetta was a yacht of orc children for a pin number; when her underage nieces and nephews die in orbit she is eligible again, and returns as acting Prime Minister of the Syndicate. Carl puts a hand on her soft shoulder and would kill her without hesitating; she knows. Huanxin says the Maestro is claiming the crown.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Porthus's plan: the Apothecary's reason, the Impetus Point, and Menerva | B7 ch. 69 | open — A generation ship for the families, the goats and the forbidden gate; a reason the Apothecary helps that Porthus will not say lest the AI and then the Eulogist learn it; a missing crawler named Menerva from his own crawl. In the epilogue: the Open Intellect Action Network and 'stop the crawl or else'. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 6
An hourglass on a tusk; 'You'll do' (B6 ch. 36).
Through book 7
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 2/74 | Ch. 36, Ch. 37 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 21/89 | 1, 6, 13–14, 17–18, 21, 23, 25, 32, 45, 48, 56, 63–64, 67–69, 73, 78, 86 · the book's own page |
By book
Baroness Victory in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Baroness Victory, esquire, formerly of the Skull Empire, half-sister of the late Queen Consort Ugloo and the most experienced judge of the lot, with an hourglass carved on a tusk, is asked whether Carl has killed any of her family (ch. 36); a humorless bitch, per Odette, but the only one who will put up with him, and a fan of legal loopholes (ch. 37) — 'You'll do' (ch. 36).
Baroness Victory in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
The adjutant, a 'non-combatant' in quotes after she puts a battle-axe through a suicide bomber's skull and argues with the ceiling until it apologises (ch. 13). She explains adjutants, the map and the phases (ch. 14), calls every foul including the Posse's (ch. 21, ch. 25), rules on the Lemig plot (ch. 18, ch. 19), and defines a 'non-team entity' that did not exist an hour ago (ch. 62). She stalls the war-mage trial on purpose and is out-manoeuvred (ch. 67, ch. 68). Her sister Ugloo lost herself in a royal marriage (ch. 14); her deal with Porthus and Rosetta, brokered before she was adjutant, is a yacht of orc children in exchange for a pin number (ch. 69). 'That's Nami' (ch. 69). 'It's genius. I would never have thought of that' (ch. 75). When her underage nieces and nephews die in orbit she is eligible for office again, and comes back acting Prime Minister of the Syndicate; Carl puts a hand on her soft shoulder and would kill her without hesitating, and she knows it (ch. 86). She leaves for the last time congratulating them on their victory and about to be yelled at for another dead CEO (ch. 86).