Novalyst.
Spoiler-aware compendium Sign in
Library/ A Parade of Horribles
Reading position Whole book
Whole book
← The Compendium
Original Novalyst illustration
Earlier appearances

Portraits revealed through your current reading position.

character

Zev

the party's agent · mudskipper Zev

The party's kua-tin agent, now on lockdown in a chaos-stricken headquarters as an unknown goddess erupts and a satellite HQ seizes control.

Story so far

Zev, the two-foot kua-tin Borant admin and Carl and Princess Donut's loyal secret ally, has been sidelined from the announcer's booth (replaced by Damien) as the dungeon's headquarters descends into chaos. She reassures a worried Donut that she's fine, then explains the pandemonium: the showrunner Cascadia 'accidentally' took too much of her medicine, and when the AI intervened, a goddess 'nobody has heard of' appeared inside the submerged wings and caused an uproar. Zev is now on lockdown while it's sorted out, with control of the whole operation temporarily handed to one of the satellite headquarters on Earth's surface.

Rattled but unhurt, she remains the crew's frayed lifeline to what's happening behind the curtain as the AI's grip and the loose gods make the production increasingly ungovernable.

Appearance

A small, roughly two-foot-tall kua-tin — a squid/fish-like alien administrator with large expressive eyes.

Role

The party's kua-tin agent, locked down amid headquarters chaos as unknown gods and the AI destabilize the whole production.

Relationships

Princess Donut — Frets over her safety; Zev reassures her she's fine despite the lockdown.
Cascadia — The fellow announcer whose medicine overdose triggers the headquarters crisis.
Damien — The replacement announcer who takes over her loudspeaker duties.
the AI — Whose intervention in the Cascadia crisis draws an unknown goddess into the submerged wings.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • The party's loyal kua-tin agent, now coerced into announcing the tenth floor beside the AI's cruel scripts.
Chapter 25
  • The party's loyal kua-tin agent, coerced into reading the AI's cruel scripts live — and forced to watch Cascadia tortured.
Chapter 81
  • The party's kua-tin agent, now on lockdown in a chaos-stricken headquarters as an unknown goddess erupts and a satellite HQ seizes control.
Character sheet
LitRPG stats — unique to this series. Other books surface a different panel here.
Kua-tin Borant admin / agent LVL unknown
Character portrait