Character · from book 5

Drick

A bald dream elf on a CrawlCon panel with Carl, a former crawler from some four hundred seasons ago, stabbed in the back after a bar fight at a waystation and now under the control of a Valtay worm, who looks straight at Carl while he recites the Ballad of Survival and gives the advice Carl takes.

Race and class, since book 6: Dream Elf · Former crawler

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

Through book 7

A worm in his head and a cat on it (B7 ch. 9, B7 ch. 10); foul called on his own team (B7 ch. 62).

Through book 5

Looks straight at Carl on a panel (B5 ch. 33); the Ballad of Survival (B5 ch. 34); the advice Carl takes (B5 ch. 35).

Through book 6

An adjutant candidate with a Valtay worm and a new referee's licence, refused on Carl's gut (B6 ch. 36); 'psychotic', says Odette (B6 ch. 37).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	3/78	Ch. 33, Ch. 34, Ch. 35 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	2/74	Ch. 36, Ch. 37 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	9/89	9–11, 23, 56, 62–63, 79, 85 · the book's own page

By book

Drick in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

An older, heavily scarred, bald albino moon elf on the CrawlCon panel — one of the Dream, a former crawler who tapped out — who says the AI is probably sitting in that chair listening to everything Carl says (ch. 33). He respects the pacifism of the Nebulars' religion and their Ballad of Survival (ch. 34); Carl takes his advice and creates chaos he can hide within (ch. 35).

Drick in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The bald Dream elf from the CrawlCon panel, a former crawler whose birth race was not elf, offered as an adjutant — a worm-head referee, and Carl's gut says no (ch. 36); psychotic and out to make a name for himself, per Odette (ch. 37).

Drick in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Team Retribution's adjutant, an elf with a Valtay worm in his head, solid to the touch and untouchable to a blade, panicking as a cat wearing toilet paper sells a town (ch. 9, ch. 10); he watches the southern assault from the best seat (ch. 23), calls foul against his own team when the war mages teleport to Juice Box (ch. 62), and heads for the eighteenth (ch. 85).