Character · from book 3

Drakea

Author of the Cookbook's 22nd edition and its most prolific annotator, a famous trap-builder of the final Naga-run season partly responsible for what happened to the nagas: hunters avoid elites, 'When one values coin above life, you should target the coin'; 'Fuck everything about this place'; 'Gone is gone'; and, under Everly's last entry, a request to future authors to be as detailed as they can. Carl obeys.

First appears: Book 3

Series arc

Through book 8

Mordecai's warning to Carl: Drakea set up the same god-against-god plan, the Nagas cheated it into failure, nothing changed, and he died (B8 ch. 71).

Through book 3

The first note Carl reads — the saferoom restrooms are a safe place to read (B3 ch. 8); the book's most prolific commenter, whose one back-page paragraph is a vow of vengeance from beyond the veil that comforts Carl more than he expected (B3 ch. 13); the tied-to-the-shield anecdote (B3 ch. 26).

Through book 4

A loot box yields Drakea's Enchanted Kerchief of Disorder, and Mordecai remembers him as a famous, trap-building crawler partly responsible for what happened to the nagas (B4 ch. 28).

Through book 5

Coin over life (B5 ch. 24); 'Fuck everything about this place' (B5 ch. 47); 'Gone is gone' (B5 ch. 52); be as detailed as you can (B5 ch. 64).

Through book 6

A tenth-floor observation that the AI seems to enter mobs at the point of death (B6 ch. 42); a one-line 'don't hesitate' (B6 ch. 50); he closes Priestly's entry (B6 ch. 54); Carl recalls Mordecai's account of how Drakea died — one of his own traps, made to blow early (B6 ch. 59).

Through book 7

His naga notes underpin Carl's briefing (B7 ch. 8); a consoling note to Justice Light (B7 ch. 20); 'Beware the naga' (B7 ch. 42); Carl addresses him directly after the day's events (B7 ch. 55). Not met in person; no interlude.

In the Cookbook

Author of the 22nd edition, known from a note at B3 ch. 8. 11 notes in the text so far: B3 ch. 8, 26 · B5 ch. 24, 47, 52, 64 · B6 ch. 42, 50, 54 · B7 ch. 20, 42. The register of every edition is on the Cookbook.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	3/35	Ch. 8, Ch. 13, Ch. 26 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	1/35	Ch. 28 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	4/78	Ch. 24, Ch. 47, Ch. 52, Ch. 64 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	4/74	Ch. 42, Ch. 50, Ch. 54, Ch. 59 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	5/89	Ch. 8, Ch. 20, Ch. 42, Ch. 47, Ch. 55 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	1/99	Ch. 71 · the book's own page

By book

Drakea in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The first note Carl reads — the saferoom restrooms are a safe place to read (ch. 8); the book's most prolific commenter, whose one back-page paragraph is a vow of vengeance from beyond the veil that comforts Carl more than he expected (ch. 13); the tied-to-the-shield anecdote (ch. 26).

Drakea in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

A loot box yields Drakea's Enchanted Kerchief of Disorder, and Mordecai remembers him as a famous, trap-building crawler partly responsible for what happened to the nagas (ch. 28).

Drakea in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Four notes from the 22nd edition on this floor: coin over life (ch. 24); one Carl thinks of after Volteeg's one and only entry (ch. 47); 'Gone is gone' (ch. 52); and the request to be as detailed as you can, which Carl answers by documenting a plan he does not think will succeed (ch. 64).

Drakea in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

A tenth-floor observation that the AI seems to enter mobs at the point of death (ch. 42); a one-line 'don't hesitate' (ch. 50); he closes Priestly's entry (ch. 54); Carl recalls Mordecai's account of how Drakea died — one of his own traps, made to blow early (ch. 59).

Drakea in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

His naga notes underpin Carl's briefing (ch. 8); a consoling note to Justice Light (ch. 20); 'Beware the naga' (ch. 42); Carl addresses him directly after the day's events (ch. 55). Not met in person; no interlude.

Drakea in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

Mordecai's warning to Carl: Drakea set up the same god-against-god plan, the Nagas cheated it into failure, nothing changed, and he died (ch. 71).