Character · from book 5
Circe Took
A minor hive queen of the mantis people: a businesswoman who owns an amusement park and whose family runs a fantasy hunter camp on a moon the Dream rents once a cycle, once a famous hunter, moderator of CrawlCon's 'Crawling Through the Ages' panel, and mother of Hunter Xindy and of Vrah. She cleaves a table through Carl on camera, sues to free her daughter, sponsors the god Diwata (selling half of all she owns to do it, Empress D'Nadia tells Donut), and dies in the castle pit torn apart by the god's children, screaming Carl's name.
Race and class, since book 5: Mantis · Minor hive queen
First appears: Book 5
Series arc
As of book 6. A minor hive queen with an amusement park and a fantasy hunter camp, Vrah's mother, who moderates Carl's panel, sues to free her daughter, sells half of what she owns to sponsor a god, drives the god into the castle, and is torn apart by the god's children screaming Carl's name. In book 6 she, like her daughter, is the scale plotting is measured against.
Through book 5
Named as the moderator of Carl's panel: a minor hive queen, an amusement-park owner, once a famous hunter, mother of Xindy and of Vrah (B5 ch. 32). She cleaves a table through Carl on stage and storms out — 'I am not the Maestro' (B5 ch. 33); she is coming to the Earth system (B5 ch. 41); she sues to free her daughter and the AI overrules the court (B5 ch. 53). She sponsors a god (B5 ch. 55) who is born in a church and runs to her daughter (B5 ch. 62), and comes into the castle inside the god (B5 ch. 73). In the pit Laundry Day strips the god off her and a dozen of the god's children — her own — tear her apart, shrieking Carl's name (B5 ch. 76).
Through book 6
Named with Vrah as the kind of plotter Huanxin Jinx is, on a larger scale (B6 ch. 19).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 12/78 | 21, 32–34, 37, 41, 55, 62, 70, 73, 76–77 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 1/74 | Ch. 19 · the book's own page |
By book
Circe Took in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Named as the moderator of Carl's panel: a minor hive queen, an amusement-park owner, once a famous hunter, mother of Xindy and of Vrah (ch. 32). She cleaves a table through Carl on stage and storms out — 'I am not the Maestro' (ch. 33); she is coming to the Earth system (ch. 41); she sues to free her daughter and the AI overrules the court (ch. 53). She sponsors a god (ch. 55) who is born in a church and runs to her daughter (ch. 62), and comes into the castle inside the god (ch. 73). In the pit Laundry Day strips the god off her and a dozen of the god's children — her own — tear her apart, shrieking Carl's name (ch. 76).
Circe Took in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The scale of plotting that Huanxin Jinx exceeds, in Mordecai's comparison with her and Vrah (ch. 19).