Spoiler Warning
Spoiler warning. This guide covers the new and newly important characters of This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman, book seven of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It gives away who lives and who dies, the ending included. If you haven’t read it, come back after. Chapter numbers are from the ebook edition I read. I say when a name comes back from earlier in the series, and I only note what the text says about how someone dies.
The Quick Answer
Here is the short answer. Book seven has four groups of people worth knowing: the new faces in Carl’s army, the defenders of the city of Larracos, the rival warlords, and the gods who crash the party. The war is Faction Wars on the ninth floor, so most of these people are on one side or the other of it.
I’ll start with the army.
Carl’s Army
Rend is a tiny tummy acher, a creature with a meatball body, who first comes out in chapter five. He belonged to a crawler named Ren, who hands him to Carl on her deathbed. Louis names him Sir Rendlegore. He rides on Mongo, grows when he feeds, and is knee high by chapter twenty-nine.
Rosetta Thag and Tipid walk in at the end of chapter eleven. Both are level sixty colonels from the Crest, and both are cookbook authors with interludes of their own. Rosetta slaps Carl, then kisses him. She is the one who beheads King Rust in chapter thirty-four. Tipid loses his memory late in the book, in chapter eighty-two.
Colonel Boomer appears in chapter twenty-two. He is an elf, level sixty-two, with a face like a pickled bulldog, and he leads the Bloody Leeches. He lights an unlit cigar when the plan is ready.
Kandy Bigs Newton is a sluggalette who bursts out of Carl’s back in chapter fifty-four and kills the naga princess with a hatchet. After that she rides along with the team.
The City And Its Defenders
Baroness Victory is an orc, the aunt of the princes Maestro and Stalwart. She is the Princess Posse’s adjutant, a judge who cannot fight, and in chapter thirteen she steps in to kill Herman the Fleet, an ogre wearing bombs. Her sister Ugloo has been killed. By chapter eighty-six she is Prime Minister Victory.
Arief is a level eighty Semeru dwarf, the war leader of the Larracos defense force, and Carl meets him in chapter seven at the college tower. He is a despondent soul whose goddess has died.
Juice Box is a changeling, a shapeshifter, and the co-warlord of Team Retribution. She first shows up in chapter eight disguised as an old one-eyed gnoll named Hunger Hammy, and she kisses Louis. By chapter ten she marries him. In chapter eighty-six he is given divorce papers.
Drick is an elf with a Valtay worm in his head. He is Team Retribution’s adjutant, and Ferdinand the cat sits on him.
The Rival Warlords
Commander Stockade is a seven foot caterpillar and a warlord with a surfer accent. In chapter seventeen the goblin general Luke, who is his love, dies in a room where Shi Maria has taken control of Carl. In chapter nineteen Stockade smashes his face on the floor and dies.
Architect Houston leads the Madness, a masked Viceroy in white robes, first seen in chapter eighteen. In chapter sixty-eight he is unmasked, a many-limbed half-bug on a surgery table, and the room’s traps kill him.
Empress D’Nadia of the Prism is a tentacled saccathian. She is also Donut’s old sponsor, who gave her the glasses. In chapter twenty-six she tells Carl she did it for her people, and by chapter twenty-seven she is dead.
King Rust is the Bone Clan’s War Chief, level seventy-eight, who rides a swamp yak named Gonk and weeps at the parlay. His daughter is Princess Formidable, who teleports into Orren’s office in chapter thirty-seven and picks Earth’s surface.
Princess Vinata is a white naga with six arms and gold scales. She first sits at the council table in chapter forty-two, and dies in the temple of Khepri.
Akuma is a war mage, level one hundred, the leader of the War Mage Rebellion. Once a high elf cobbler, he has been re-sleeved twelve times. He arrives in chapter sixty-one and takes the Gate of the Feral Gods from Elle.
The Odd Ones
Volteeg is a gargoyle who commands a Weeper tank for the Operatics. In his own interlude he plays Mozart and sets off his tank. He dies, along with a warlord and more than ten thousand soldiers.
Milk is a xenopus, half frog and half bat, the keeper of the map and calligraphy guilds. She meets Pony and Miriam Dom in her interlude, and Carl in chapter fifty-five. In chapter seventy-five she gives him Stayfast ink.
Justice Light is a one-winged skyfowl, an origamist and a trap master. He is a shopkeeper in the Dante interlude, ten seasons into his contract. In chapter eighty-seven he springs the trap that breaks the Nothing, and the fire takes him.
The Gods
Khepri is the bug-headed god of rebirth and the sunrise, level two hundred fifty. In chapter fifty-three Vinata summons him, and in chapter fifty-four a banishing sends him from the realm.
Eris is the goddess of chaos, also level two hundred fifty. A streamer named Nami drives her, and in chapter sixty-five Eris casts Bear Witness, freezing everyone outside. In chapter seventy-six she bites Carl’s ear and tells him where the Gate went.
Meatus is a feral god with two parts, a gremlin and a loud, living piece he stole from Harpocrates, the god of silence. Harpocrates hates noise. Li Na conscripts him in chapter seventy-two. Yarilo, a god of lust, chases Samantha, and dies in chapter seventy-three.
Two More Warlords And A Sponsor
Warlord Fang leads the Reavers, a cyborg team. He shows up in the council in chapter forty-two as a young pink human form, and the text calls him almost all machine. His pet is a cybernetic drake named Calliope. In chapter eighty the castle explodes, the drake falls, and Fang is gone.
Epitome Tagg is the bald elf warlord of the Dream, bloodied when he first sits down. He runs from his own castle on zebras in chapter sixty-two. Louis’s mechanical heart and lungs, in chapter eighty, carry Tagg’s biological material. In chapter eighty-four, Tagg’s heart stops.
Huanxin Jinx is a sponsor, the chief of Icon Industries, who rides the goddess Eileithyia as soul armor. Katia has a deal with her. In chapter eighty-six Donut fires a bolt between her eyes.
Returning Faces With Big Changes
Several old friends change here. Prepotente, called Pony, is level ninety-nine by chapter forty-five, after wiping out the Blood Sultanate’s army with no magic. In chapter forty-eight he sobs on Carl and says he is lonely.
Li Na is a dread caster. In chapter fifty-one her spells make guards turn on themselves. In chapter seventy-one she installs her dead brother’s eye. In chapter seventy-seven she reaches three hundred in every stat, a first.
Donut gets the Deathbed Hellcat class in chapter one, the War Crime tattoo in chapter seventy-five, and level one hundred thirty-five in chapter seventy-seven.
Who Is Gone
Here are the losses. Herman, chapter thirteen. Luke and Stockade, chapters seventeen and nineteen. D’Nadia, by chapter twenty-seven. Rust, chapter thirty-four. Vinata, chapter fifty-four. Stalwart, chapter sixty-one. Houston and Li Jun, chapter sixty-eight. Yarilo, seventy-three. Fang, eighty. Tagg, eighty-four. Huanxin Jinx, eighty-six. Justice Light, eighty-seven.
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