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 8. Chosen with a thumb in book 6, the adjutant of book 7, acting Prime Minister at its end; in book 8 Prime Minister Victory in a Syndicate bunker in Florida, under fire from the natives. On the line during Plenty of Plenty she is level with Carl — the AI killed a Mantis system and nobody knows how it feeds — and calls his live question reckless. The AI curses her by name; she watches the Ascendency begin beside a sobbing scientist and thinks the centre system is not safe either.
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 · B8 ch. 38 — A Menerva named: a former crawler who built the seventeenth floor and the Pineapple Cabaret with Herot and runs the Backstage Death Maze (ch. 55); book 7 names Porthus's missing crawler Menerva (ch. 69), but this book does not say she is the same woman, and Rosetta knows the name and will not say. |
| The Ascendency begins, with the timers suspended until a winner | B8 ch. 99 | open — An hour's countdown; the winner 'supreme motherfucker number one', stronger than the AI by design; gods, crawlers, Agatha, Juice Box, Akuma, Samantha and the Unwashed among the contenders; Carl means to stay on the twelfth and stop anyone winning until everyone is out (B8 ch. 98). |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 6
An hourglass on a tusk; 'You'll do' (B6 ch. 36).
Through book 7
Through book 8
Prime Minister Victory now, in a Syndicate bunker in Florida under local fire (B8 ch. 27, B8 ch. 99). On the line with Orren during Plenty of Plenty she is level with Carl: the AI killed a Mantis system and nobody knows how it feeds; she calls his question reckless and admits he said it live (B8 ch. 28, B8 ch. 29). The AI curses her by name (B8 ch. 81); she watches the Ascendency begin beside a sobbing scientist and thinks the centre system is not safe either (B8 ch. 99).
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 |
| 8 — A Parade of Horribles | 7/99 | Ch. 14, Ch. 27, Ch. 28, Ch. 29, Ch. 54, Ch. 81, Ch. 99 · 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).
Baroness Victory in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles
Prime Minister Victory now, in a Syndicate bunker in Florida under local fire (ch. 27, epilogue). On the line with Orren during Plenty of Plenty she is level with Carl: the AI killed a Mantis system and nobody knows how it feeds; she calls his question reckless and admits he said it live (ch. 28, ch. 29). The AI curses her by name (ch. 81); she watches the Ascendency begin beside a sobbing scientist and thinks the centre system is not safe either (epilogue).