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Priestly's Final-War Note

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A fourteenth-edition cookbook entry records Priestly's conscription, terror, and mental collapse before a final Faction Wars bloodbath.

Story so far

Crawler Priestly writes while forcibly serving a bugbear army facing the numerically and brutally superior Skull Empire. Conscripted crawlers plan to flee, but previous escapees were hunted down.

Priestly fixates on stabbing, the expected destruction of Larracos, and the possibility that enough dungeon death summons gods into battle. With only roughly three hundred of his people remaining from millions, he interprets the absence of real-world divine rescue as proof of cosmic solitude.

Drakea adds that this is Priestly's second-to-last entry and advises Carl not to read the final one. Priestly never reaches the battle after seeing what happened to Larracos.

Appearance

A frantic cookbook page filled with repeated stabbing marks, a ruined city sketch, and fading musical notation.

Role

The note warns Carl about Conscript, Faction Wars brutality, divine casualty thresholds, and the psychological cost of Larracos's destruction.

Relationships

PriestlyBk 4 — He authors the entry shortly before his death.
Skull EmpireBk 5 — Its orc army is expected to win through brutality and numbers.
Larracos — Its destruction breaks Priestly before the battle.
Crawler DrakeaBk 5 — Drakea annotates the entry and suppresses the final one.
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Chapter 56
  • A fourteenth-edition cookbook entry records Priestly's conscription, terror, and mental collapse before a final Faction Wars bloodbath.
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