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Dismember

Dismember the War Mage · the war mage

A silver-haired war mage aboard the Dismemberment Limited, building a skin-and-bone army one flayed rider at a time.

Story so far

Dismember is the war mage who stalks the rear cars of the Dismemberment Limited on The Iron Tangle, commanding hordes of Fleshers to claim Levi's bones and grow his own army. Taunting through Carl's metal barricade, he boasts of flaying prior parties and promises to peel and keep the party alive in endless agony. He hints at a hidden identity — "I am not an elf" — needing eight more iterations to reveal what he truly is.

Carl ends him with the "Surprise Three" trick: opening a Hole in the barrier, seizing his silver hair, and snapping the hole shut to behead him. Recap footage suggests such war mages haunt every named train.

Appearance

An elf-like war mage with long silver hair, glimpsed mostly through a barricade; other war mages of his kind share the silver hair across orc and other forms, hinting he is something other than an elf.

Role

Named-train boss war mage building an army from flayed crawlers.

Relationships

Levi the Seventh — The symbiote he repeatedly kills for his bones.
Flesher — His skin-minions loosed on the crawlers.
Carl — Beheads him through a Hole in the barricade.

Earlier in this series

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Chapter 12
  • A silver-haired war mage aboard the Dismemberment Limited, building a skin-and-bone army one flayed rider at a time.
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