Portraits revealed through your current reading position.
Barefoot ex-Coast Guardsman and bomb-happy Crawler #4,122, sixth on the leaderboard entering the train floor.
Carl arrives on the fourth floor, "The Iron Tangle," thrown into a filthy Moscow-metro subway car with Princess Donut, Katia Grim, and Mongo. A former US Coast Guardsman and Seattle marine electrician, he survived three floors of the Borant Corporation's dungeon by out-thinking bosses and blowing things up, and now sits at leaderboard rank six with a 100,000-gold bounty on his head. Reverted to the title "Royal Bodyguard," he immediately sets to work reading the deadly logic of the trains — mapping cars, testing barricades, and improvising defenses against the Drek and Jikininki that swarm the platforms.
A big, powerfully built human man in his late twenties, six-foot-three and around 230 pounds, perpetually barefoot and dressed only in boxer shorts under a cloak, with a weathered, stubbled face and a calm, calculating stare.
Protagonist; the party's strategist, engineer, and demolitions expert, and its reluctant public face on the broadcast.
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings: