Story so far
Before the veterans onboarded into Faction Wars, leaving York alone to watch over and fly the starship, Rosetta asked him point-blank whether he had the fortitude to complete a little side mission: to kill The Orc Yacht, a small ship carrying children including the new king of The Orcs. She and the others saw only York's endless poetry and assumed he had grown weak; they had no idea of the hollowness inside him, and he was careful to look faintly reticent while accepting.
Rosetta also directed the pre-recorded broadcast in which Porthus announces the new militant group, filmed well before the epilogue and timed for release the moment Faction Wars ended. Her fingerprints are therefore on both halves of the ending: the atrocity nobody attributes to the resistance, and the declaration of war everybody sees.
Role
Resistance handler who assigns the yacht assassination and stages the movement's public declaration.
Relationships
York — Recruited him for the yacht killing, misjudging his poetry as weakness
Porthus — Directed his timed broadcast announcing the militant group
The Orc Yacht — Ordered its destruction as a deniable side mission
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 60 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 16
- Crest former crawler and cookbook author who returns to the dungeon as a Colonel in the Princess Posse.
Chapter 17
- Ancient former crawler Donut is impatient to get back and help, and Carl's benchmark for Tipid's apparent age.
Chapter 19
- Ally who briefed Mordecai on the spider in Carl's chest before Carl worked it out himself.
Chapter 20
- Crawler whose season serves as the timeline marker for when Griffin and Morales tapped out as tenners.
Chapter 22
- Former crawler overseeing Carl's wake-up sequence, whose mind Carl reads as exhausted and full of familiar rage.
Chapter 23
- Rosetta laughs herself sick alongside Mordecai at the news of the Lemig massacre.
Chapter 24
- Crawler hovering over Carl's cot during the demon treatment when the teleport request fires.
Chapter 25
- Present with Mordecai during the emergency brewing, the one he tells his cover story about the Shock Wake salve to.
Chapter 27
- Ally at the base tasked with helping Jamal get his new automaton harness while Katia is at the front.
Chapter 30
- Outside ally who, with Tipid, brought the prepared contingency plans that made the assault possible so quickly.
Chapter 32
- Source of the intelligence that D'Nadia spent every penny getting to the battlefield and lost her officers.
Chapter 34
- Intelligence source who reports that Empress D'Nadia is poorer than the Blood Sultanate — an assessment Carl doubts.
Chapter 36
- Source who, with Tipid, told Carl that Mantis scientists can now build controllable AI systems.
Chapter 37
- Crawler stationed near the mage bunkers, sent by Carl to kill the brain-wormed Reid Gunn.
Chapter 38
- Colonel hunting worm-compromised soldiers inside the castle and racing to stop the coming edifice explosion.
Chapter 39
- Ally who confirms the mage incursion is over and pushes to isolate or destroy the compromised safe room door.
Chapter 40
- Colonel and alchemist who manages base spending, hides her reaction to King Rust, and must leave to refill her blood bar.
Chapter 42
- Rosetta bursts from the dirt in an invisibility cloak and decapitates King Rust with a whip.
Chapter 43
- Newswoman and cookbook author who teleports into the Bloc line and decapitates King Rust.
Chapter 44
- Former television host turned crawler who robs King Rust's bank account moments after his death.
Chapter 45
- Offstage, Rosetta's killing of King Rust is revealed to have also emptied billions of credits from his accounts.
Chapter 46
- Crawler who killed and looted the orc king of the Skull Empire as revenge for an old murder.
Chapter 48
- Recently enriched ally Donut sarcastically offers as a lender, and whom Carl needs to speak with.
Chapter 49
- The crawlers' tattoo authority, whose rules about theming and quality govern Carl's new ink.
Chapter 50
- Builder and tattoo artist Donut would escalate to if Tipid won't install the army's showers.
Chapter 51
- Ally who already knew about the hidden tunnels around the Posse's base that saved them during the fighting.
Chapter 52
- Source of Carl's reassuring intelligence that the twelfth floor is actually a relatively safe posting.
Chapter 55
- Former crawler whose deep knowledge of past naga seasons produced the theory underpinning Carl's entire castle raid.
Chapter 56
- The party's source for blood tattoo lore, including the dark rule about spells taken against their owner's will.
Chapter 57
- Author of most of the assault plan, monitoring from FUPA and confirming the non-corporeal movement she predicted.
Chapter 58
- The ally whose deity-mechanics theory cracks how the Sultana keeps vanishing from her own besieged castle.
Chapter 59
- Source of the intelligence on the Prospect spell's one-hour lockout, which sets the raid's timing.
Chapter 61
- Remote handler feeding Carl the codex address for Khepri's temple and tactical orders during the portal breach.
Chapter 64
- Carl's information source on the sponsorship behind Theia, revealing it was a crawler activist he doesn't know.
Chapter 65
- The one leader who gave Justice Light's warning about the NPC team a realistic assessment.
Chapter 66
- Advisor who told Carl point-blank to kidnap Milk, now interrogating her in the FUPA.
Chapter 67
- Rosetta joins Mordecai in a research frenzy triggered by the platinum box's blatantly instructional name.
Chapter 69
- Designated Theater Commander of Operation Ruin, coordinating every front from the officer band.
Chapter 70
- Crawler commander overseeing the campaign who formally hands the southern front to Donut once the Dream castle falls.
Chapter 72
- Rosetta supplies the sponsorship gossip behind Eris, explaining Nami's bid and her surgical resemblance to Hekla.
Chapter 73
- Holder of overall operational command for the multi-front battle while Carl runs his own infiltration.
Chapter 75
- Coordinator running fire support and comms who recognizes the Chaos Ritual first and rallies the survivors.
Chapter 76
- Advisor who corrects the party about the witnesses being awake and warns of the crush if invulnerability drops.
Chapter 78
- Relays that Eris has woken inside the ball and stripped everyone's invulnerability, including Carl's.
Chapter 79
- Rosetta is one of the minds Carl brushes during the dream bleed, and what he finds there is tired rage.
Chapter 80
- Former crawler, journalist and Princess Posse colonel whose secret mission for the Pacifist Network is finally complete.
Chapter 81
- Veteran crawler running the defense of Larracos by chat and diagnosing the war mages' monster generator.
Chapter 82
- Backs Carl over chat, warning Donut that even a decent god will eventually cast a level-20 Sonic Boom.
Chapter 85
- Arrives at the Nest on foot with Milk and Edgar, bringing a tattoo kit instead of the promised spellbook.
Chapter 86
- The tactician who designs the Bijanbi-plus-Wall-of-Fire War Crime plan and shaves Donut's flank for the tattoo.
Chapter 87
- Silent companion who carries Edgar, grunts at Milk's talk of lost recipes, and feather-falls from the tower.
Chapter 89
- Broadcast personality who complains on-air that Meatus's remains are in her teeth and she can taste it.
Chapter 90
- Skyfowl who beheaded King Rust; she wipes her eyes and consents when Carl reveals the artifact's location.
Chapter 91
- Rosetta stays behind at Larracos but explains the Champion system's benefits and dangers to Carl.
Chapter 93
- Rosetta confirms the cyborg theory, explaining that Reavers can isolate processing systems anywhere in their bodies.
Chapter 94
- Rosetta explains Tipid's ruined brain repairs and stays behind to tell him a story about a brave Crest.
Chapter 96
- Explains where the stairwells will appear and helps harvest the naiad organs for Louis.
Chapter 97
- The changeling intelligence source who confirms Zerzura worked and provides the layout of the Court of Ascendency.
Chapter 98
- Former crawler who reports Justice Light's disappearance and reacts oddly to Victory's promotion.
Chapter 100
- Resistance operative who directed Porthus's broadcast and personally tasked York with destroying the orc children's yacht.