Motif · from book 1
The Blood Sultanate
The faction Donut joined by putting on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in chapter 7: a naga royal house that, Mordecai warns, holds its members on the ninth floor until every other member is dead — and that the Maestro says is almost always the first of the nine eliminated.
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
As of book 2. A fuse: a tiara in book 1, chapter 7, that binds Donut to a ninth-floor faction the Maestro calls a death sentence. Book 2 burns the tiara to ash under wild magic — and leaves the claim standing, since the item said she would still be a princess and Odette's naga story suggests the Sultanate is not about a hat.
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 · B2 ch. 25 — The tiara is ash under wild magic; the description said she would still be a princess. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 1
A tiara in chapter 7 and a death sentence on the ninth floor, according to the Maestro; Mordecai calls it 'a challenge'. A fuse lit in book 1 for the ninth floor.
Through book 2
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 2/48 | Ch. 7, Ch. 43 · the book's own page |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 3/26 | Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 26 · the book's own page |
By book
The Blood Sultanate in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Donut puts on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in ch. 7 and Carl reads the price: a permanent place in the royal line of the Blood Sultanate on the ninth floor, bound there until every other member is dead, including the Sultan. It gives her attacks a 15% chance of Sepsis. Carl names it as the only thing before the Rev-Up moonshine that clues them in about the deeper floors (ch. 32). The Maestro, a Skull Clan prince, laughs at it: the Sultanate is almost always first of the nine factions eliminated, 'You idiots have been dead since the moment she put on that crown' (ch. 43). Donut heard Mordecai say Carl could leave her over it (ch. 44).
The Blood Sultanate in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Odette's history: the Naga ran the first crawl to lose money, 250 cycles ago, and hold their Faction Wars seat only because they bought it early (epilogue). The tiara narrows Donut's class list (ch. 1), is 'fleeting' — remove it and it passes to another crawler (ch. 25) — and is destroyed by the third pulse just after she agrees to take it off. She is still a princess, the description said.