Character · from book 1
Prince Maestro
Host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, a gold-tusked orc in a pink silk shirt who calls his teenage audience 'piglets' and makes doomed crawlers guess who dies for the chance to save one another. A prince of the Skull Empire, bound for the ninth floor, and — after Carl humiliates him on air and an anonymous 'snick' goes viral — known across the tunnels as Carl's Naughty Little Piggie.
Race and class, since book 1: Orc
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
Through book 1
The first enemy who is not a mob or a crawler: a prince with a talk show, humiliated on it. Book 1 ends with his show on hiatus, his father King Rust in Earth orbit, and his intention to lead the Skull Clan on the ninth floor against a Blood Sultanate that includes Donut. Carl's challenge to single combat stands (B1 ch. 48).
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Crown of the Sepsis Whore and the ninth floor | B1 ch. 7 | open — Donut is bound to the Blood Sultanate; Mordecai calls it a challenge, the Maestro a death sentence. |
| Carl's challenge to Prince Maestro | B1 ch. 43 | open — Single combat, offered on the prince's own show; King Rust in orbit. |
All threads: Open threads.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 6/48 | Ch. 41, Ch. 42, Ch. 43, Ch. 44, Ch. 47, Ch. 48 · the book's own page |
By book
Prince Maestro in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem (ch. 42): a boar-black orc with one gold tusk, a pink silk shirt and an audience of twelve-year-olds who chant 'glurp, glurp' at deaths. His game is to freeze doomed crawlers and make them guess who dies for teleport points; his surprise guests for Carl are Frank and Maggie and their dead daughter (ch. 43); his parting gift is boots. Carl reads him as a bully with an audience — beaten not by strength but by being expensive — and takes his crowd away from him on his own live show. Muted, he explains himself: a prince of the Skull Empire, whose Skull Clan has won six of ten Faction Wars, on his way to Earth to lead them on the ninth floor. By the epilogue his show is on hiatus, his father King Rust is in Earth orbit and oddly quiet while a royal spokesperson asks people to stop, and the whole galaxy calls him Carl's Naughty Little Piggie.