Character · from book 5

Everly

Author of the Cookbook's fifth edition, an insectile crawler ('a spark in my chitin'): her notes on mercenaries, on a sponsor's box that saved her party, and on hope — then 'I take it back. I take it all back', her sponsor Dictum Waystation Controls, Limited having steered her toward a watched and heartrending death. Carl cannot stop thinking of her last entry as the masquerade nears.

Race and class, since book 7: Primal · Explosives Engineer

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

Through book 7

The Everly interlude: a sward mantis who left her colony, refused her fellow mantises, and followed a sponsor's compass up fifty flights of an advertisement to a dead end; the Inevitable Ruin her mother the queen named; an ogre who was not an ogre saying 'Maybe it's not inevitable' as the ceiling met his face; fifth edition; crushed (B7 ch. 16).

Through book 5

On mercenaries (B5 ch. 6); three last entries — a saving box, a spark in her chitin, 'I take it all back' (B5 ch. 64). Her end is the shape Carl fears his own sponsors are steering him toward (B5 ch. 63).

In the Cookbook

Author of the 5th edition, known from a note at B5 ch. 6. 4 notes in the text so far: B5 ch. 6, 64 ×3. The register of every edition is on the Cookbook.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	3/78	Ch. 6, Ch. 63, Ch. 64 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	1/89	Ch. 16 · the book's own page

By book

Everly in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

On mercenaries (ch. 6); three last entries — a saving box, a spark in her chitin, 'I take it all back' (ch. 64). Her end is the shape Carl fears his own sponsors are steering him toward (ch. 63).

Everly in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin