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Porthus

Resistance leader whose pre-recorded broadcast announces a militant campaign against Syndicate property across the universe.

Story so far

Porthus is the strategist behind the operation that ends the book outside the dungeon. He ordered the enhancement zone guns and beams installed aboard the Homecoming Queen - highly regulated, high-energy weapons that should only function in the center system - and predicted that enhancement zone suits and Cronus-class Power Armor would work as well. When York runs his boards at the epilogue, every one of those systems reads green, making the Homecoming Queen very likely the strongest ship in orbit.

His face arrives on the news as a Breaking News banner: Porthus behind a desk, announcing the formation of a new militant group and warning that it is moving against all Syndicate governmental properties and systems across the known universe. The demand, stripped of language, is stop the crawl or else, with a deadline of the end of the current crawl. York knows the video is old - he was present when Rosetta directed it - and that its release was timed for exactly this moment.

Appearance

Seen only as a news broadcast image, seated behind a desk in the manner of a head of state.

Role

Public face and planner of the new militant resistance against the Syndicate.

Relationships

Rosetta — Directed the pre-recorded broadcast that announces his militant group
York — Whose ship he armed with illegal enhancement zone weaponry
Syndicate — The government his new group threatens across the known universe
Open Intellect Pacifist Network — The pacifist organization whose militant successor he now fronts

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
  • The high-elf rogue who wrote the second edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, shown at the moment he quit the crawl and took an indenture deal instead of going back for his friend.
Chapter 16
  • Author of the cookbook's second edition and founder of the Crawler Project, organizer of the ex-crawler return.
Chapter 29
  • Public figure who disavowed Boomer after his Crawl Con outburst while secretly staying in close contact with him.
Chapter 43
  • Pacifist Network operative who shielded Volteeg from the Bone Clan purge and urged him to finally act.
Chapter 58
  • Pacifist Network figure explicitly ruled out as Theia's sponsor, and confirmed not to be in the dungeon at all.
Chapter 65
  • Justice Light's closest confidant, who has still never heard the full truth of the ice elves.
Chapter 80
  • The Pacifist Network's mastermind, Rosetta's beloved benefactor, whose plan outside the dungeon has unfolded exactly as predicted.
Chapter 99
  • One of the very few who knew Justice Light's full plan to break the Nothing.
Chapter 100
  • Resistance leader whose pre-recorded broadcast announces a militant campaign against Syndicate property across the universe.
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