Motif · from book 6
The Eulogist
The AI's name for the engine that runs the centre system — the stable, personality-less intelligence the mantises mistake for a primal engine and the Nebulars worship — which the eighth floor's system AI lets slip in a boss description: 'one step closer to replicating the Eulogist, even though they don't know what that really is.' The epilogue's residuals part with 'May the Eulogist ever sleep.'
First appears: Book 6
Series arc
As of book 7. A slip in a hydra's description in book 6, a universe swept clean so it can sleep. In book 7 Zev says it plainly — 'another name for the AI in the center system' — and the name gathers everything: the Nebulars who worship it, Agatha's kind who serve it, the reason Porthus cannot tell Rosetta the Apothecary's plan, and Lucia Mar with her last dog dead: 'Now the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon'
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Two kinds of Residual, and a hidden upgrade | B6 ch. 73 | open · B7 ch. 69 — Agatha is the rarer kind, in line with the Nebulars; the Apothecary's thousands the other; Fopsy's shutdown theory. |
| Lucia Mar cannot die: 120,000 children and the Eulogist's new ally | B7 ch. 72 | open — Diah, Alexandro and the others take turns in the dark; one wing of the kinder facility goes with her; the AI cannot extract her; with Gustavo dead 'the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon'. Florin and Jurgen will not take deals while she lives; she said she would and nobody believes it. |
| Agatha: a residual of the Eulogist's kind, to be found on the tenth | B7 ch. 78 | open — Warlord of the Rebellion by system fiat, author of the action items that restored the original rules, removed for abandoning her post; she jumps to the Waiting Room and reappears outside open stairwells. Fopsy: she means to end the Ascendency and trigger the shutdown before the spreading AI threatens the Eulogist. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 6
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 3/74 | Ch. 9, Ch. 46, Ch. 73 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 4/89 | Ch. 0, Ch. 69, Ch. 72, Ch. 73 · the book's own page |
By book
The Eulogist in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Donut's personal-space arena is called Arena of the Eulogist or something like that (ch. 9); in a hydra's description the AI lets slip that the mantises are one step closer to replicating the Eulogist without knowing what it is, mistaking the centre system's engine for a stable primal engine (ch. 46); Mordecai on the inner system's AI, 'the only one like it' (ch. 64); Agatha's feed signs off 'May the Eulogist ever sleep' — a universe swept clean so it can sleep (epilogue).