Story so far
Katia Grim is the linchpin of the flood plan. Having fabricated a flawless facsimile winding box and watches (built in pieces inside her own inventory while pretending to learn the engineering table), she swapped the decoy for the real Gate during her farewell hug with Carl at the Desperado — so the pieces handed to Elle and back were fakes. Down in the half-drained water quadrant she shark-hunts with Tran for last-minute levels, then times and runs the real Gate: dropping a chum bomb to draw sharks and jellyfish and Carl's timed charges into the portal to flood Larracos.
Anchored to the temple wall against the draining current, she exits via the subterranean stairwell by the old Akula berth — the most dangerous part — and confirms she's out and away. She descends to begin her new life leading her own crew.
Appearance
A doppelganger in she-hulk tank form, anchored against a draining flood, then human again as she takes the stairs.
Role
The party's tank, executing the decoy swap and the Larracos flood before departing.
Relationships
Carl — With whom she swaps the real Gate for a decoy during their farewell hug.
Larracos — The city she floods by running the real Gate.
Tran — Her shark-hunting partner in the final water quadrant.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 14 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- The party's doppelganger super-tank and mapmaker, whose pathfinder skill guides the family to shelter through the fifth floor's sandstorm.
Chapter 4
- The doppelganger tank engineers the tracked Royal Chariot from salvaged parts, marveling at the 'downloaded' knowledge her Earth Hobby potion grants.
Chapter 9
- Katia pilots the Royal Chariot straight into a cyborg-boss dogfight, using her doppelganger mass to counterweight the buggy and loot the kill.
Chapter 14
- Katia's emergency petrify bolts from Princess Formidable freeze the Maggie-possessed Chris, buying the party time in an impossible standoff.
Chapter 19
- Left in charge for five days, Katia flies the house to the land quadrant, climbs above Carl on the leaderboard, and holds the party together in his absence.
Chapter 20
- Katia flew the whole house in her inventory, breached the sandcastle walls, and — refusing to be bullied — struck the hard-way deal Zev demanded, feuding with Gwen all the while.
Chapter 21
- Squeezing through the low glass halls, Katia saves Carl from the ooze and hauls the unconscious mage clear so he can be interrogated.
Chapter 22
- Katia works the ooze distraction, kills the fleeing mage for his winding-box note, and escapes the collapsing castle as the flood takes Carl and Donut.
Chapter 24
- Katia cracks the Psamathe mystery, drafts the ninth-floor map from Ghazi's notes, and eyes Carl's brewing scheme with wary resignation.
Chapter 25
- Katia shapeshifts into a 500-meter diving bell to ferry the raiders to the Akula, then camouflages over the hull as a leviathan bigger than the sub closes in.
Chapter 26
- Katia refuses to abandon Carl, flees into the sinking Akula, and squeezes through the airlock into the bridge just as Lusca swallows them.
Chapter 27
- Katia deploys the rocket-and-Leatherface buzzsaw to cleave the city boss Lusca apart, then teleports out through the Gate with Carl.
Chapter 33
- Katia decides to leave Carl and Donut's party to gather and protect Hekla's abandoned 'former daughters' before Eva gets them all killed.
Chapter 34
- Katia fabricates the decoy Gate, runs the real one to flood Larracos, and slips out through the subterranean stairwell to begin her own path.