The Syndicate
The higher authority that would never let the new owners re-skin the dungeon in chrome and laser pistols.
Story so far
The Syndicate appears as a limit on what the new owners can do. Working through what The Valtay takeover means, Mordecai argues that the fantasy theme of the dungeon will hold: a Valtay-style floor of androids, hovercars, laser pistols and mechanical death machines would not make sense, would not go over well with the fans, and — decisively — the Syndicate would never allow it, nor would the AI.
That places the Syndicate above the corporations squabbling over Borant, an authority whose consent shapes what the game is even permitted to look like, whatever the ownership stake says.
Role
The overarching authority whose rules constrain how far a new owner can remake the dungeon.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Dungeon Crawler CarlBook 1
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2
- The Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookBook 3
- The Gate of the Feral GodsBook 4
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
- The governing body overseeing the crawl, whose council now unanimously regards Carl as a problem.
- Vast galactic government of bureaucrats and committees whose machinery is greased by blood, tears, taxes, and lawyers.
- The interstellar legal order whose rules freed Beatrice and whose court just rewrote who owns the crawl.
- The higher authority that would never let the new owners re-skin the dungeon in chrome and laser pistols.