Character · from book 6
Rosetta Thagra
The Cookbook's ninth-edition author, a Crest, host of the talk show Shadow Boxer, taped in the underwater production trailer, where she hides two messages in plain sight — a yam, and a screen of television shows all set in Miami. A member of the Open Intellect Pacifist Network who vanishes with it after the Homestead box, she reappears in the cockpit of the Homecoming Queen, paranoid, a scrambler at her throat, telling Tipid he paid for neither the ship nor a Celestial box: 'Comrade.'
Race and class, since book 7: Crest · Barn Burner
First appears: Book 6
Series arc
As of book 7. Cookbook bylines from book 3, the host of Shadow Boxer in book 6, and in book 7 Colonel Rosetta Thag on the ground: she smacks Carl on the forehead, takes a king's head off with a whip and empties his bank through Colloid, and runs Larracos as Theater Commander. Her interlude gives her crawl — a merchant in the mercenary guild, Brooks lassoed through the portal glass by then-Prince Rust, her mother dead on day one — her documentary, her love for Porthus, her distrust of the Apothecary, a yacht of orc children in her deal with Victory, and the choice to fight anyway. Ninth edition; took the deal at the start of the eleventh; alive, and staying.
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'. |
| Tipid's memory, wiped to a game guide's last day | B7 ch. 82 | open — The nuke's pulse ruined the Viceroys' repairs; fine in the dungeon, mush outside; he cannot take a deal and stays with the Posse. |
| Fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter | B6 ch. 73 | resolved · B7 ch. 85 — They came: fifty thousand as level-60 mercenaries, three Cookbook authors among them (Tipid, Rosetta, Justice Light), Milk having been in Club Vanquisher the whole season; about 28,000 go back to the ship under the embargo, which is armed and about to bring the war out of the dungeon. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 6
Through book 7
A smack on the forehead and four demands in chat (B7 ch. 11); a whip through a king's neck and his bank emptied (B7 ch. 34, B7 ch. 35); her interlude — Brooks, her mother, the Apothecary, a yacht of children — and the choice to fight anyway (B7 ch. 69); a tortoise on her back up the Nest (B7 ch. 73); ninth edition, alive (B7 ch. 69).
In the Cookbook
Author of the 9th edition, known from a note at B3 ch. 13. 6 notes in the text so far: B3 ch. 13 · B5 ch. 33 · B6 ch. 12, 13, 31, 61. The register of every edition is on the Cookbook.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 9/74 | 12–13, 31–32, 37–38, 49, 61, 73 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 57/89 | 11–12, 14–20, 23, 25–26, 28–32, 34–37, 39–43, 46–50, 52, 55–57, 59–60, 62–63, 65–70, 73–75, 77–79, 81–82, 84–86, 88 · the book's own page |
By book
Rosetta Thagra in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Rosetta Thagra in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
Colonel Rosetta Thag, Crest Barn Burner, level 60, her floral tattoo glowing: she smacks Carl on the forehead as a self-correcting measure, kisses both cheeks, puts an ice-cold hand on the Bedlam Bride and, in chat because they are listening, demands the toraline, Shi Maria's ink, the orc credit chit, the studio and four million gold (ch. 11). Fifty thousand came with her (ch. 11). She rises out of the dirt behind King Rust in a tech cloak and takes his head off with a whip like a champagne cork, presses the head to a datapad for a retina scan, transfers billions through Colloid Bank, and collapses sobbing (ch. 34, ch. 35). Her interlude: a merchant in the mercenary guild on her own crawl; Brooks lassoed through the portal glass by then-Prince Rust; her mother dead to goblins on day one, 'Avenge us'; a documentary called The Other Side of the Glass; Porthus, whom she loves, and the Apothecary, whom she does not trust; the yacht of orc children the Homecoming Queen must shoot down; and the decision to fight anyway, for her friends (ch. 69). Theater Commander of Operation Ruin (ch. 59), she runs up the Nest with a tortoise strapped to her back and a pink Bic razor (ch. 73, ch. 74), tells Fopsy to get fucked (ch. 73), and hands Larracos's defence to Donut (ch. 60). Ninth edition of the Cookbook; took the deal at the start of the eleventh; alive (ch. 69).