Character · from book 5

Cascadia

A name on a stick — the Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams — and then a voice: the woman who gives the daily updates, to Prepotente 'a nasty little woman who thinks she's smarter than everyone', who screams over the announcement system as the seventh floor comes apart. Mordecai knows of one Cascadia connected to the crawl.

Race and class, since book 6: Kua-tin

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

As of book 8. The kua-tin whose seventh floor came apart under her; in book 8 'not feeling well' on air, losing flippers as she screams 'Why won’t you let me die?', drunk on the dungeon-wide about Cumberland, and 'accidentally' overdosed on medicine until the AI intervenes and a goddess appears in the wings.

Through book 5

A name on a stick (B5 ch. 63), then a voice: the daily updates, the rules of a floor read too fast, and a scream over the announcement system as the floor she built comes apart (B5 ch. 78).

Through book 6

Met in the flesh at the warlords' table with a rebreather: Zev's boss, kua-tin lead engineer and executive producer, 'recently divorced', aged by the job, 'one crisis shy of pulling the failsafe', daring Carl to squash her (B6 ch. 21, B6 ch. 40); the phase rules (B6 ch. 27, B6 ch. 53); out of the water beside Orren as Borant loses the crawl and gets most of it back (B6 ch. 48).

Through book 7

Drunk with the rules (B7 ch. 1); at the head of the table with her family dead, laughing at Scolopendra (B7 ch. 42, B7 ch. 43); gone (B7 ch. 44); 'kill, kill, kill!' (B7 ch. 59).

Through book 8

'not feeling well' on air, she screams 'Why won’t you let me die?' and loses a few flippers (B8 ch. 23); drunk on the dungeon-wide, she talks about Cumberland, blown out of orbit with his mother (B8 ch. 68). She 'accidentally' takes too much medicine, and when the AI intervenes a goddess appears in the submerged wings (B8 ch. 78).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	2/78	Ch. 63, Ch. 78 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	10/74	1, 8, 21–22, 26–27, 40, 48–49, 53 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	5/89	Ch. 1, Ch. 42, Ch. 43, Ch. 44, Ch. 59 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	5/99	Ch. 23, Ch. 54, Ch. 68, Ch. 78, Ch. 88 · the book's own page

By book

Cascadia in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

A name on a stick (ch. 63), then a voice: the daily updates, a talk show, the rules of a floor read too fast, and a scream over the announcement system as the floor she built comes apart (epilogue).

Cascadia in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Aged, clipped, 'one crisis shy of pulling the failsafe' (ch. 21); pops in physically with a rebreather and dares Carl to end them both (ch. 21); the phase rules (ch. 27, ch. 53); out of the water beside Orren (ch. 48); recently divorced, per an achievement (ch. 40).

Cascadia in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Sounding drunk as she reads the rules (ch. 1); at the head of the council table, really present, scales dulling and falling, tequila through a rebreather, her family dead in Borant's civil war, laughing at Scolopendra's warning: 'Why the fuck not?' (ch. 42, ch. 43). Simply gone (ch. 44). 'Now get out there and kill, kill, kill!' (ch. 59).

Cascadia in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

'not feeling well' on air, she screams 'Why won’t you let me die?' and loses a few flippers (ch. 23); drunk on the dungeon-wide, she talks about Cumberland, blown out of orbit with his mother (ch. 68). She 'accidentally' takes too much medicine, and when the AI intervenes a goddess appears in the submerged wings (ch. 78).