Character · from book 5

Bianca

Prepotente's goat dragon, a hellspawn familiar whose hooves set the gravel alight: she screams for her missing rider when the Witnesses rise, kills a war mage's meteor in the air, and crashes in purple smoke.

Race and class, since book 5: Hellspawn Familiar

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

Through book 8

Prepotente's hellspawn familiar, the child of a Hellspawn Familiar biscuit (B8 ch. 16). She is sent to lift Corky after Sweety's missiles (B8 ch. 63), is left 'strung out' by the toddler cocaine (B8 ch. 64), and circles the arena during the final fight (B8 ch. 96).

Through book 5

Bianca Del Ciao, Hellspawn Familiar, level 32: Prepotente's goat dragon, who pulls the cart Carl wakes in after the coma, black flames rising off her at a threat (B5 ch. 6); Carl tries not to make eye contact (B5 ch. 7). The Dom family goat, encased in a soul-protection spell and dead anyway, reborn as a hellspawn the size of a draft horse (B5 ch. 6); in Pony's inventory with the rest of Miriam's ten surviving goats (B5 ch. 47); level 40, winged, saddled and rhinoceros-sized when Carl next sees her (B5 ch. 49). She burns the masquerade stage (B5 ch. 69), cuts through the nymph swarm like a shark with Prepotente on her back throwing potions (B5 ch. 76), and eats Gimli, Osvaldo's stone hawk (B5 ch. 77).

Through book 6

She ate Gimli, a stranger's pet hawk, at the end of the Masquerade (B6 ch. 5); a floor that sizzles reminds Carl of her (B6 ch. 11).

Through book 7

Full-sized, four-winged, level 70, with glowing rocks under her feet (B7 ch. 48); she screams for a rider the Witnesses took (B7 ch. 65), kills a war mage's meteor in the air, and crashes in purple smoke (B7 ch. 69). Prepotente says she is fine company but does not speak (B7 ch. 48).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	13/78	6–7, 9, 41, 44, 47–49, 57, 60, 69, 76–77 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	3/74	Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 20 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	12/89	18, 26, 48, 50, 52, 55–56, 65, 69, 73, 78, 82 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	9/99	16, 40, 63–64, 87–88, 90, 92, 96 · the book's own page

By book

Bianca in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Bianca Del Ciao, Hellspawn Familiar, level 32: Prepotente's goat dragon, who pulls the cart Carl wakes in after the coma, black flames rising off her at a threat (ch. 6); Carl tries not to make eye contact (ch. 7). The Dom family goat, encased in a soul-protection spell and dead anyway, reborn as a hellspawn the size of a draft horse; in Pony's inventory with the other surviving goats (ch. 47); level 40, winged, saddled and rhinoceros-sized by the end (ch. 49). She burns the masquerade stage (ch. 69), cuts through the nymph swarm like a shark with Prepotente on her back throwing potions (ch. 76), and eats Gimli, Osvaldo's stone hawk (ch. 77).

Bianca in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

She ate Gimli, a stranger's pet hawk, at the end of the Masquerade (ch. 5); a floor that sizzles reminds Carl of her (ch. 11).

Bianca in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Full-sized, four-winged, level 70, with glowing rocks under her feet (ch. 48); she screams for a rider the Witnesses took (ch. 65), kills a war mage's meteor in the air, and crashes in purple smoke (ch. 69). Prepotente says she is fine company but does not speak (ch. 48).

Bianca in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

Prepotente's hellspawn familiar, the child of a Hellspawn Familiar biscuit (ch. 16). She is sent to lift Corky after Sweety's missiles (ch. 63), is left 'strung out' by the toddler cocaine (ch. 64), and circles the arena during the final fight (ch. 96).