Dungeon Crawler Carl characters

Princess Donut

Crawler · from book 1

A prize-winning tortoiseshell Persian show cat owned by Carl's ex-girlfriend Bea. A dungeon biscuit makes her a talking crawler, and she becomes Carl's partner and party leader.

Katia Grim

Crawler · from book 2

A shy crawler and friend of Hekla, who sends her to Carl and Donut to gain experience. The system calls her human, but she is a doppelganger who has to sculpt her own face.

Mordecai

NPC · from book 1

A level 50 non-combatant NPC who runs the guildhall on the first floors and teaches Carl and Donut how the dungeon works. He is a former crawler from a world taken long ago.

Mongo

Pet · from book 1

Princess Donut's pet dinosaur, a pink-feathered Mongoliensis that bites everyone at first and grows into her mount.

Carl

Crawler · from book 1

A 27-year-old Coast Guard veteran from Seattle who enters the World Dungeon in his boxers, a leather jacket and pink Crocs, carrying his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut.

Samantha

God · from book 4

Samantha is Psamathe, a banished minor deity whose spirit is stuck in a talking sex doll head. She joins Carl and Donut's crew and constantly threatens to kill people's mothers.

Louis Santiago

Crawler · from book 2

An overweight, balding young American crawler Carl first meets drunk in a bar with his best friend Firas on the fifth floor. He loves cartoons and pop culture jokes.

Imani C

Crawler · from book 1

A young, very thin care home worker in scrubs carrying a longsword. She is level 10 and has 12 crawler kills, from ending the suffering of residents.

Elle McGibbons

Crawler · from book 1

An elderly, wheelchair-bound resident of the Meadow Lark care home with memory problems, whom Carl helps move through the dungeon.

Prepotente

Crawler · from book 2

Prepotente is a walking, talking goat, a Caprid, who entered the dungeon as one of Miriam Dom's goats. An enhanced pet biscuit made him a full crawler, like Donut.

Odette

Show staff · from book 1

Odette hosts Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette, described as the most-tunneled private program in existence. She interviews Carl and Donut between floors.

Zev

Show staff · from book 1

Zev is a two-foot-tall kua-tin who works for the Borant Corporation as Carl and Donut's communications contact. She wears a water-filled diving helmet and suit.

Florin

Crawler · from book 2

A crocodile-headed crawler with a shotgun who sits high on the bounty top ten. He says he is from France, has an Australian accent, and was in Africa when the world ended.

Juice Box

NPC · from book 4

Juice Box is a changeling NPC who works as a prostitute at the Toe inn in Hump Town on the fifth floor. She can shift form at will and becomes Louis's partner and Carl's ally.

Li Na

Crawler · from book 1

Li Jun's sister. Carl helps save her, her brother and their friend Zhang during the Maestro's Death Watch segment.

Emberus

God · from book 4

Emberus is the god of sun and ash, a level 250 deity who rampages across the fifth floor looking for his dead son's puppy, Orthrus. Carl ends up as his worshipper.

Scolopendra

Boss · from book 2

Scolopendra is the giant centipede whose ancient nine-tier attack ruined the world of the dungeon's floor stories, killing most people and transforming the rest. She is described as the final boss of the whole dungeon.

Rosetta Thagra

Crawler · from book 3

Rosetta is a former crawler whose notes, signed 'Crawler Rosetta, 9th Edition', appear in the cookbook Carl reads. In book 6 she turns out to be a Crest talk show host.

Lucia Mar

Crawler · from book 1

Lucia Mar is a young crawler who fights alongside her two rottweilers, Cici and Gustavo 3. She tops the leaderboard for several floors and is known for extreme violence.

Tsarina Signet

NPC · from book 2

Tsarina Signet is an Elite NPC, a half naiad, half high elf summoner covered in living tattoos that she can call out as fighters. Her storyline is called Vengeance of the Daughter, and Carl and Donut become guest stars in it.

Chris Andrews

Crawler · from book 1

Brandon's quiet brother and one of the Meadow Lark care home night staff. Brandon says he rarely talks, but is worth listening to when he does.

Daniel Bautista

Crawler · from book 2

A tiger-like Tigran crawler on the third floor whose sisters and cousin were killed by lemurs. He shares stairwell locations with Carl.

Sir Rendlegore (Rend)

Pet · from book 5

Carl's pet tummy acher, a small round meatball creature that once belonged to the crawler Ren as Garret. Louis names him Sir Rendlegore, or Rend, in Ren's honor.

Hekla

Crawler · from book 1

Hekla is an Icelandic crawler with a huge crossbow who leads a large all-female party called Brynhild's Daughters. Katia joins her group.

Britney Proskurina

Crawler · from book 4

A grumpy Ukrainian crawler dressed as a fur-bikini barbarian, one of two survivors of the fifth floor's water quadrant. She was at a plastic surgery consultation when the world ended.

Tipid

Crawler · from book 6

Tipid is a Crest and former crawler who wrote the 4th edition of the cookbook. He re-enters the dungeon in book 7 to help Carl.

Larracos is the capital city of the disputed lands on the ninth floor, the prize the factions fight over in Faction Wars.

Sir Ferdinand

NPC · from book 1

Ferdinand is the orange tomcat Donut calls the love of her life. Carl knows him as Gravy Boat, the neighbor Marjory's cat who used to sit in the tree outside their window.

The galactic government whose rules allowed Earth's elements to be reclaimed and whose regulations the crawl must follow.

Baroness Victory

NPC · from book 6

Baroness Victory, esquire, is an orc judge formerly of the Skull Empire whom Carl picks as his adjutant for Faction Wars. She is blunt and enforces the rules.

Li Jun

Crawler · from book 1

A warehouse worker who entered the dungeon with his sister Li Na, his best friend Zhang and their manager. Carl helps them survive the Maestro's Death Watch.

The company assigned regency over the solar system that chose to turn Earth into the 18-level World Dungeon and owns the rights to broadcast it.

Shi Maria

Mob · from book 6

Shi Maria is a huge unique spider monster on the eighth floor, also called The Screamer, The Widow Endless and The Bedlam Bride. She swallows Samantha and says she is looking for her husband.

Prince Maestro

Show staff · from book 1

An orc prince of the Skull Empire who hosts the crude talk show Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, where Carl and Donut appear as guests.

Orren

Show staff · from book 4

Orren is a Syndicate liaison, a hooded, grim reaper-like figure who calls himself a neutral third-party observer retained by the Syndicate. He questions Carl and Donut in an office off the Desperado Club.

Zhang

Crawler · from book 1

Li Jun's bald best friend and coworker, who sees Li Na as a sister. He is on Death Watch with Li Jun.

Quasar

NPC · from book 5

Quasar is Carl's lawyer, a small gray alien with a fast, New York-style way of talking and loud novelty ties. He first appears when Carl asks for an attorney.

Agatha

Crawler · from book 1

A homeless old woman with a shopping cart who was camped outside the Meadow Lark care home. She was the first to go willingly into the dungeon, cackling as she pushed her cart down a ramp.

Eris

God · from book 1

Eris is the goddess of chaos, a deity in the Celestial Ascendency game who appears on the eighth floor and takes a personal interest in Carl.

Grull

God · from book 1

Grull is the war god worshipped by equine creatures such as centaurs and mantaurs. Carl's war gauntlet can summon him by punching his worshippers.

Krakaren

Boss · from book 1

A tentacled, octopus-like boss type in the dungeon, described as a parody of a real collective-mind entity that spreads across the universe. Krakaren bosses run moonshine and drug schemes on several floors.

Justice Light

Crawler · from book 4

A skyfowl crawler from an earlier season who wrote the 8th edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and was known as a trap master.

Bucket Boy

NPC · from book 6

Bucket Boy is a young crocodilian NPC who collects the tips at the Penis Parade club in the Desperado Club. Carl hires him with the club's strippers, and he becomes a low-tier healer for the crew.

Milk

NPC · from book 3

Milk is the crawler who wrote the 6th edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. Her notes focus on portals, maps and ink.

Porthus Hu

Crawler · from book 3

A High Elf rogue from a past season and the first crawler to receive the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, which he got on the ninth floor.

Miss Beatrice (Bea)

Other · from book 1

Carl's ex-girlfriend and Donut's original owner, who shows Donut at cat shows. Carl calls her Bea; Donut calls her Miss Beatrice. She was on vacation in the Bahamas with her ex-boyfriend when the world ended.

A members-only club with entrances across the dungeon floors. Carl and Donut get Desperado passes, which bar them from the rival Club Vanquisher.

Dong Quixote

NPC · from book 6

Dong Quixote is an elderly, Spanish-voiced stripper at the Desperado Club who calls himself a former adventurer turned entertainer turned mercenary. He carries a lance and later a magic sock full of coins.

Tran

Crawler · from book 4

A tired-looking human swashbuckler on Gwen's land-quadrant team with a metal-detecting ability. He is Vietnamese and a close friend of Gwen.

Paz Lo

Crawler · from book 6

Paz Lo is a human crawler who worships the god Ogun. He and Anton were guards at a women's prison before the collapse, and he teams up with Carl on the eighth floor.

Sister Ines Quiteria

Crawler · from book 6

Sister Ines Quiteria is a Cat Girl crawler who teams up with Carl and Donut on the eighth floor along with Paz and Anton. She turns out to be a murderer known as the Reaper of Havana.

Firas M

Crawler · from book 4

Louis's best friend, a young American crawler Carl first meets drunk in a bar on the fifth floor. He later joins Katia's group with Louis.

Eva Sigrid

Crawler · from book 3

Katia's friend from before the dungeon and a member of Hekla's Daughters. A four-armed, cobra-headed crawler with many player killer skulls.

Jamal

NPC · from book 7

Jamal is a 17-foot hammerhead shark who used to be one of Signet's paper tattoos and now breathes air. He talks about himself in the third person and walks on mechanical spider legs Carl built for him.

Miriam Dom

Crawler · from book 2

Miriam Dom is the human crawler Carl calls the goat lady. She entered the dungeon with a herd of goats, including Prepotente and Bianca.

The Sledge

NPC · from book 3

The Sledge is a rock monster (cretin) bouncer at the Desperado Club. He becomes Donut's favorite bodyguard, and she calls him Sledgie.

Bomo

NPC · from book 3

Bomo is a rock monster, a cretin, who works as a bodyguard at the Desperado Club alongside his friend The Sledge.

Big Tina

Boss · from book 5

Big Tina is a giant dinosaur on the 6th floor who wears a pink boa and carries a wand. Before the dungeon she was Tina, an 8-year-old girl who never got to dance her recital solo.

Kiwi

Mob · from book 5

Kiwi is the leader of a pack of female velociraptor-like dinosaurs called Mongoliensis on the sixth floor. She is Big Tina's mother and becomes Mongo's mate.

Quan Ch

Crawler · from book 2

Quan Ch is a half elf crawler who first insults Carl and Donut in a quest chat, then becomes a recurring enemy. Donut calls him a cheater.

Corcunda

NPC · from book 6

Corcunda is the half-mantaur stripper Dong Quixote loved and used to ride on stage. A spell split him into two living halves, Corky and Porky.

Brandon An

Crawler · from book 1

Night staff at the Meadow Lark eldercare home in Wenatchee who refuses to abandon the residents in the dungeon. Chris is his brother.

Queen Imogen

Boss · from book 5

Queen Imogen rules the high elves on the sixth floor and is the target of Signet's revenge story. She is Signet's half-sister.

Tserendolgor (Ren)

Crawler · from book 3

Tserendolgor, called Ren because few can pronounce her name, is a crawler who fights with a flamethrower and owns a tummy acher pet. Donut feuds with her and calls her a cheater.

Maggie My

Crawler · from book 1

Frank Q's wife, who kills other crawlers with him on the first floor and blames Carl for what happens to their daughter.

Vrah

NPC · from book 5

Vrah is a mantis and one of the regular hunters who come to the sixth floor every season to hunt crawlers. She wears the heads of those she kills on her body.

Gwendolyn Duet

Crawler · from book 3

A loud, profane human fighter who shares Carl's bubble on the fifth floor and leads the crawlers in the land quadrant. Carl shortens her name to Gwen in chat.

Chaco the Bard

NPC · from book 3

Chaco is a winged, wolf-headed former crawler champion who hosts The Prize Carousel inside the dungeon. He was once on Mordecai's crawl team.

Osvaldo

Crawler · from book 5

Osvaldo is a Brazilian crawler, a Curupira ranger, who loots Queen Imogen's memorial crystal at the end of the 6th floor.

The Reavers are a robotic megacorporation and system government that fields a team in the faction wars. They usually look like plastic-skinned android soothers and can change shape.

Frank Q

Crawler · from book 1

A crawler who murders other crawlers on the first floor with his wife, Maggie My. Carl first learns of him from the corpse of one of his victims.

Loita

Show staff · from book 3

Loita is a kua-tin Borant admin and a member of the Bloom party who represented Hekla's group. At the end of book 3 she replaces Zev as Carl and Donut's representative.

Jurgen

Crawler · from book 6

Jurgen is a large, blond human crawler with a barbarian class who talks about his pregnant wife Heidi as if she were with him.

Raul

Mob · from book 6

Raul is a level 70 red land crab in Cuba on the 8th floor who becomes one of Donut and Carl's totem cards. He is a strong fighter but constantly grovels and kowtows.

War mages are powerful, dungeon-born magic users created from fleshers, skeletons and stolen skins. Carl first fights one on a train on the 4th floor.

Bianca

Pet · from book 5

Bianca is a goat from Miriam Dom's herd who was turned into a fiery, winged hellspawn familiar by an enhanced pet biscuit. She travels with Prepotente.

Princess D'Nadia

NPC · from book 3

Princess D'Nadia of the Prism Kingdom is a Saccathian royal and Donut's early sponsor, who gifts her the Princess Donut goggles.

Hedy

NPC · from book 8

Hedy is a level 30 gremlin vehicle mechanic who runs Carl and Donut's garage during the 10th-floor races.

Epitome Tagg

NPC · from book 5

Epitome Tagg is a bald Dream elf leader who hunts Louis because Louis 'besmirched' his mother, Epitome Noflex. He becomes warlord of the Dream in the faction wars.

The Faction Wars team of the Viceroys, a masked people known for horrific battlefield spells and necromancy.

Astrid

NPC · from book 3

Astrid is a level 125 Bloodlust Sprite, a fairy in a tuxedo who is the assistant manager of the Desperado Club.

Apito

God · from book 2

Apito, the Oak Mother, is the mother goddess the elves worship. Mordecai calls her 'the mother of all gods'.

Cascadia

Show staff · from book 5

Cascadia is the kua-tin showrunner and executive producer of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth. She gives the daily dungeon announcements and is Zev's boss.

Edgar

NPC · from book 5

Edgar is a talking giant tortoise and Shell Mage who fights alongside Signet's forest rebels on the 6th floor. Donut quickly befriends him.

Princess Vinata

NPC · from book 7

Princess Vinata is a naga princess and warlord of the Blood Sultanate in the 9th-floor faction wars. In the game she is called the Whore (the Sepsis Whore).

The Scavenger's Daughter is a divine back patch Carl sews onto his jacket. It is also the name of a figure from dungeon myth.

Eileithyia

God · from book 5

Eileithyia is the level 250 Goddess of Childbirth and Female Pain, sponsored by Huanxin Jinx of the Grixist Swarm. She appears as a hairy alien rather than the Greek goddess.

Clown-faced, foul-mouthed slugs that burst out of anyone infected by Carl's Super Spreader disease, each one a level higher than the last.

Princess Chandra

NPC · from book 7

Princess Chandra, Esquire, is a Naga lawyer assigned to represent Donut. Quasar mentions her at the end of book 7; book 8 shows her plan to seize Carl's and Donut's money.

Pontiff

NPC · from book 8

A bull-headed Taurin mercenary and former Desperado Club dancer who once slapped Bucket Boy, met working for another team on the tenth floor.

Uzi Jesus

Mob · from book 6

A unique totem card in the eighth floor card game: an undead, gun-toting version of Jesus who heals, swears, and only sometimes obeys.

Architect Houston

NPC · from book 7

Architect Houston is the masked Viceroy who leads the Madness, one of the warlord teams in the 9th-floor faction wars.

Khepri

God · from book 7

Khepri is an obscure, bug-headed god of rebirth and the sunrise. Vinata uses his temple, an endless bug-covered buffet, as her hiding place.

Harpocrates

God · from book 7

Harpocrates is the level 250 god of silence, summoned on the 9th floor when the feral god Meatus escapes. He hates sound and can hear a fly's heartbeat from half a planet away.

Ringmaster Grimaldi

Boss · from book 2

The dwarf owner and ringmaster of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus on the third floor, transformed into a giant Pestiferous Vine that controls and revives his circus family.

Akuma

NPC · from book 7

Akuma is a level 100 war mage and leader of the War Mage Rebellion, a faction that joins the 9th-floor faction wars late.

Orthrus

Pet · from book 4

A giant two-headed puppy, the pet of Emberus's murdered son Geyrun, that Carl's group accidentally frees from the Nothing on the fifth floor.

Ifechi

Crawler · from book 2

A human healer on the bounty top ten. She is from Nigeria and was with the Red Cross before the dungeon; Carl first assumed she was a man.

Miss Quill

Boss · from book 2

An elderly skyfowl NPC on the third floor who guards the office of Magistrate Featherfall and collects stuffed toys.

Ysalte

God · from book 4

Ysalte, called the Vinegar Bitch, is a dwarf goddess worshipped by the citizens of Larracos, now known as the Goddess of Hopelessness and Insanity.

Fire Brandy

NPC · from book 3

Fire Brandy is a level 75 lesser demon who stokes the boiler of the Nightmare Express train on the 4th floor, constantly giving birth to babies that fuel it.

Growler Gary

NPC · from book 3

A drunk gnoll bartender at the Downward Dog on the fourth floor, the only one left after ghouls killed the rest of his station's staff.

Harbinger

Show staff · from book 6

Harbinger is a giant caprid (demon goat) liaison who watches Carl and Donut's interviews and says his job is to protect the integrity of the crawl.

King Rust

NPC · from book 1

King Rust is the orc ruler of the Skull Empire and the father of Prince Maestro, Prince Stalwart and Princess Formidable.

Rage Elemental

Mob · from book 1

A level 93 monster from the 13th floor that the showrunners set as a punishment for any human crawler who urinates outside a bathroom.

Volteeg

Other · from book 5

A former crawler from an earlier season and the author of the seventh edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, who left only a single entry in it.

A caprid (goat-like) people who invented and run the tunneling system used for real-time communication and travel across the galaxy.

Tummy Acher

Mob · from book 1

A tummy acher is a pet-class creature that looks like a round meatball with two legs and a mohawk.

Asher

Other · from book 6

Asher is Carl's younger half-brother, the son of Carl's father and his second wife. Carl did not know he existed until the 8th floor.

A mysterious power invoked by the Nebular cult and by the residual Agatha, whose followers say "May the Eulogist ever sleep."

Skyfowl are a winged, eagle-like people. Mordecai was born a skyfowl before becoming a Changeling.

Anton Lopez is a prison-tattooed human crawler on the 8th floor who travels with his cousin Paz and Sister Ines. He distrusts Carl and Donut because of Prepotente.

Penny

NPC · from book 8

Penny is the nickname of Penelope, the pig Taranis loves, whom Carl takes in and turns into a crawler on the 10th floor.

Mantaur

Mob · from book 3

A mantaur is a race, not a single character: half human and half human, with legs plus a lower set of arms, bred to work as Tangle Train engineers.

Holger

NPC · from book 5

Holger is a mulleted were-castor (Donut calls him a were-beaver) in Signet's forest group on the 6th floor, and the best friend of Clint.

Bonnie

NPC · from book 4

A small dirigible gnome girl, the daughter of Commandant Kane of the Wasteland. Carl finds her making lemonade beside her father's body.

Yolanda Martinez

Crawler · from book 1

A round Hispanic woman of about 50 in medical scrubs, one of the four Meadow Lark care home workers, armed with a bow.

Diwata

God · from book 5

Diwata is a minor nature goddess. Carl becomes an enemy of her church after he crashes through the roof of her temple and smashes her shrine.

Grigori the Placid

NPC · from book 8

Grigori the Placid is a thin, poised level 93 human Fleshmancer hired as a mercenary by Team Meadow Lark on the 10th floor.

Drick

NPC · from book 5

Drick is a scarred, bald, albino moon (Dream) elf and former crawler who appears as a pundit on a CrawlCon panel with Carl.

Dwight

NPC · from book 7

Dwight is a level 87 Sparkling Unicorn Enchanter racing for Team Sparkles on the 10th floor. The system describes him as 'a complete prick'.

Jasha

NPC · from book 8

Jasha is a level 65 bugbear NPC racer on Team Free Love, a hippie-style band with Radoslav and Alevtina. He sings and plays violin.

Zockau is the city in the far north of the 6th floor, the Hunting Grounds, where all the alien hunters are gathered before being released on the crawlers.

Olga

NPC · from book 8

Olga is a Grulke (a toad person) in a three-for-one mercenary squad with Finley and the fire fairy Quemada that Carl hires on the 10th floor.

Clarabelle

NPC · from book 2

Clarabelle is the crocodilian bouncer who guards the back door of the Desperado Club and an old friend of Mordecai.

Linus is a soother tourist on the 10th floor who claims to run a fan club for Elle and wins extra access to her team. He is actually an impostor.

Soothers, properly called the Forsoothed, are a tall, large-eyed alien race that looks like Earth's classic 'gray' aliens. Carl comes to see them as one of the most common aliens in the universe.

The Twister is the flying half house that Louis and Firas pilot. Louis named it after his old van, the Tiddy Twister.

Radoslav

NPC · from book 8

Radoslav is a level 75 bugbear 'Jack of All Trades' on Team Free Love, the pan-flute player of the trio with Jasha and Alevtina.

Caprid is the race of walking, talking goat creatures. The crawler Prepotente is one.

Madison

NPC · from book 3

Madison is a level 10 human NPC, a Human Resources Associate for the Iron Tangle railway on the 4th floor.

Brad

Other · from book 2

Brad is the ex-boyfriend of Bea, Carl's ex-girlfriend and Donut's owner. Bea went to the Bahamas with him.

Quint

NPC · from book 2

Quint is the Desperado Club's pharmacist, a floating half-opossum, half-tornado drug dealer and an old acquaintance of Mordecai.

Rory

NPC · from book 1

Rory is a goblin shamanka with facial piercings in a goblin engineers' workshop on the 1st floor. Donut gives her the name Rory, and her partner the name Lorelai.

Tish is the ex-girlfriend of Ghazi, the NPC who left her for Lika, the sex doll that becomes Samantha. Carl learns about her through angry letters.

Gideon

Crawler · from book 4

A crawler who is very active in the chats, some kind of human tank class. Carl has met him only once.

Heather the Bear

Boss · from book 2

Heather the Roller-Skating Bear is a level 19 neighborhood boss on the 3rd floor, an old circus bear from Grimaldi's Traveling Circus turned into a worm-infested monster.

Talon Strike is a melee skill Carl gets from the gem of his Skyfowl settlement necklace. It makes his kicks hit much harder.

Glurp Glurp

Other · from book 1

"Glurp, glurp!" is the chant of the Maestro's studio audience, a crowd of young teenage males, on his talk show.

Lajabless is the race Lucia Mar chooses. She spends half of each day as a beautiful woman and half as a skull-faced form.

The Ball of Swine

Boss · from book 1

The Ball of Swine is a level 15 borough boss on the 1st floor: a rolling battle formation of at least 30 tuskling knights and their partners.

The Kua-Tin are a fish-like species, the dominant species of the Borant System and principal owners of the Borant Corporation, which runs Earth's crawl.

A Bugaboo is the form Mordecai takes on the 2nd floor: a 7-foot, neckless, bear-like creature with huge owl eyes and thin limbs.

Vesper is a race, not a character: it is the birth race of Milk, author of the sixth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook.