Character · from book 3
York
A tenodera poet and Advocate, the Cookbook's tenth-edition author, whose hive-born loneliness Carl read in book 3: left alone to fly the Homecoming Queen in book 7, he vaporises the orc yacht of children and feels nothing until Boomer tells him the war is leaving the dungeon. Captain in the Open Intellect Action Network.
Race and class, since book 7: Tenodera · Advocate
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
Through book 7
Dante watched him on an ice-castle floor (B7 ch. 5); Ikicha wrote that he came from a hive and always felt alone (B7 ch. 12). The epilogue is his: alone aboard the Homecoming Queen, its ghost, writing bad verse; a tenodera bred long ago to feel nothing while cracking enemy hives, numb since his own ninth floor; he vaporised the orc yacht of children, the new orc king aboard, with a point-defence gun — a side mission Rosetta asked him point-blank if he had the fortitude for, though everyone assumed the orcs were caught in the crossfire — wanted to feel something afterwards, and did not. The ship is secretly the best-armed in orbit. Boomer's call, Porthus's broadcast, breaching suits and lasers — and he feels something, finally. Advocate, top level 71, deal at the end of the tenth, Poetry guild, tenth edition; captain in the Open Intellect Action Network (B7 ch. 88).
Through book 3
The one passage of York's rambling essays that stays with Carl — the book as a hive for the alone — recalled when Carl fears he is abandoning the crawlers stranded on the tracks (B3 ch. 15).
In the Cookbook
Author of the 10th edition, known from the narration at B3 ch. 15; no note of theirs has appeared in the text through book 8. 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 | 1/35 | Ch. 15 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 4/89 | Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 69, Ch. 88 · the book's own page |
By book
York in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The one passage of York's rambling essays that stays with Carl — the book as a hive for the alone — recalled when Carl fears he is abandoning the crawlers stranded on the tracks (ch. 15).
York in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
Dante watched him on an ice-castle floor (ch. 5); Ikicha wrote that he came from a hive and always felt alone (ch. 12). The epilogue is his: alone aboard the Homecoming Queen, its ghost, writing bad verse; a tenodera bred long ago to feel nothing while cracking enemy hives, numb since his own ninth floor; he vaporised the orc yacht of children, the new orc king aboard, with a point-defence gun — a side mission Rosetta asked him point-blank if he had the fortitude for, though everyone assumed the orcs were caught in the crossfire — wanted to feel something afterwards, and did not. The ship is secretly the best-armed in orbit. Boomer's call, Porthus's broadcast, breaching suits and lasers — and he feels something, finally. Advocate, top level 71, deal at the end of the tenth, Poetry guild, tenth edition; captain in the Open Intellect Action Network (epilogue).