Character · from book 1

Prince Stalwart

Crown Prince of the Skull Empire and the Maestro's older brother, who, Zev says, owns the production behind the Maestro's show. Carl wonders whether the voice that threatened to drown him and Donut when they tried to walk off it was his.

Race and class, since book 2: Orc

First appears: Book 1

Series arc

As of book 3. The crown prince: a voice from a trailer ceiling in book 1, the yacht and the pulse in book 2, and in book 3 the one Carl assumes is inside Grull until the Maestro's portrait speaks. His sister arms Katia against the family.

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
Whether Manasa's death served Borant	B2 ch. 20	resolved · B5 ch. 77 — The text's account, from the photograph of the Skull Empire's dead Queen Consort Ugloo: the orcs killed Manasa the singer by accident, and the Valtay answered by blowing up Ugloo's yacht.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 1

Named by Zev as the Maestro's older brother and the owner of his show; Carl wonders whether he was the voice that threatened them in the rental trailer (B1 ch. 42, B1 ch. 44).

Through book 2

From a voice in book 1 to the face of the Skull Empire's malice: the ninth-floor statement, the pulse, the wrong trailer, the yacht (B2 ch. 19, B2 ch. 20). Carl thinks he was played too.

Through book 3

Presumed by Carl to be the one inside Grull; it is his brother (B3 ch. 29, B3 ch. 33). His sister arms Katia against the family.

Through book 4

Maggie's second sponsor (B4 ch. 14); Plaintiff #1 in the suit over the Gate (B4 ch. 28); the sole plaintiff in the final injunction, beaten with the Valtay's help (B4 ch. 34). His castle is the announced target of a feral god, and not the real one.

Through book 5

The son, with the Maestro, of Queen Consort Ugloo, whose photograph Carl holds up at the end: she died when the Valtay blew up her yacht after the orcs killed Manasa the singer (B5 ch. 77).

Through book 6

'I don't announce myself'; a codpiece; an arrow in the eye (B6 ch. 21, B6 ch. 22).

Through book 7

War chief in a crown Donut bet on (B7 ch. 42); a scorpion tank (B7 ch. 60); torn apart by his own war mages — 'My sister was right' (B7 ch. 61); his children dead in a yacht (B7 ch. 88).

Through book 8

Killed by Akuma's men, as Carl recalls when the war mage returns (B8 ch. 24).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl	1/48	Ch. 44 · the book's own page
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	2/26	Ch. 19, Ch. 20 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	3/35	Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 29 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	4/35	Ch. 3, Ch. 14, Ch. 28, Ch. 34 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	1/78	Ch. 77 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	4/74	Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 35, Ch. 36 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	17/89	1, 23, 31–32, 34–37, 39, 42–44, 60–63, 69 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	2/99	Ch. 24, Ch. 37 · the book's own page

By book

Prince Stalwart in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl

A voice from the rental trailer's ceiling threatens to drown Carl and Donut if they will not sit (ch. 42). Zev later names the show's owner, Crown Prince Stalwart of the Skull Empire, the Maestro's older brother (ch. 44), and Carl wonders whether the voice was his. 'That name is almost as bad as ‘the Maestro.’'

Prince Stalwart in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

A voice threatening to drown them in book 1's rental closet; in ch. 19 a face: leaner than his brother, cruel-eyed, seated on the ninth floor with an army drilling outside, announcing a summary execution for sedition that killed a pop star instead. Carl thinks the statement was too ready — that Stalwart was set up too (ch. 20). The Valtay destroy his yacht, Queen Consort Ugloo and his brother the Maestro believed aboard.

Prince Stalwart in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Presumed by Carl to be walking around in Grull's skin (ch. 29); it is his brother instead (ch. 33). His sister sponsors Katia.

Prince Stalwart in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Maggie's second sponsor (ch. 14); Plaintiff #1 in the suit over the Gate, whose mother's portrait the AI gives Carl as a prize (ch. 28); the Skull Empire, sole plaintiff in the final injunction, beaten with the Valtay's help (ch. 34). The pre-built castle he made his video from is the target Carl announces for the feral god, and does not use.

Prince Stalwart in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

The son, with the Maestro, of Queen Consort Ugloo, whose photograph Carl holds up at the end: she died when the Valtay blew up her yacht after the orcs killed Manasa the singer (ch. 77).

Prince Stalwart in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Maestro's older brother, seen once in a video wrongly claiming he had assassinated Carl and Donut, when he had killed Manasa the singer instead (ch. 21); 'We know who you are, you fucking imbecile' at the warlords' table (ch. 21); Juice Box turns into a facsimile of him with an arrow in his eye, and then a real magical arrow from a shooter nobody sees sprouts from his eye (ch. 22); a codpiece threat (ch. 21) that returns as 'Captain Enormous' on Odette's screen (ch. 35).

Prince Stalwart in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

War chief after his father's death, in a gold crown at the council that Donut bet on (ch. 39, ch. 42); Tagg tells him his fleet's Skull hardware is deactivated (ch. 43); a 700-ton scorpion tank in Florin's flank, probably with him aboard (ch. 60). Fighting his own men, netted, teleported to Elle's clearing, he is torn apart by four war mages: 'My sister was right' (ch. 61). His brats in orbit, one of them the new king, die in a yacht (ch. 69, epilogue).

Prince Stalwart in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

Killed by Akuma's men, as Carl recalls when the war mage returns (ch. 24).