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Baroness Victory lingered on the doomed ninth floor waiting to be onboarded onto the Syndicate's temporary forward headquarters on the surface, her ship having been shot down. She explained her sudden promotion: with her underage nieces and nephews killed in orbit she was again eligible for political office, and since nobody was certain about former Prime Minister Fopsy's relationship with The Dream, he was passed over and she became acting Syndicate Prime Minister — chosen partly because she was stuck down here with everyone else. She insisted it changed nothing; she has less power than she had as a judge, and the council is as gridlocked as it was in the Lemig Sortion days.
Carl put a hand on her still-protected shoulder, wished her luck, and admitted he'd kill the Syndicate Prime Minister without hesitation anyway; she knew it. She explained the frozen-god exploit to Donut — a choice option, a sponsored god, a two-minute expiry — watched Huanxin Jinx die at her feet, congratulated the team on their victory, and left expecting to be yelled at for allowing the murder of another CEO, even though it was all within the rules.
Appearance
An orc noblewoman in a projected, softly incorporeal form that a fist would pass straight through.
Role
The newly minted acting Prime Minister of the Syndicate, and the rules lawyer who explains the god-freezing exploit.
Relationships
Carl — He wishes her luck while admitting he'd kill her office
Fopsy — Passed over for the post she now holds
Rosetta — Arrives with her; strangely irritated by her news
Syndicate — Now its acting Prime Minister, pending a real vote
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 40 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
- The Princess Posse's adjutant: an orc noblewoman, a judge outside the dungeon, and aunt to two orc princes - the one person Carl is told by everyone to listen to.
Chapter 10
- Orc adjutant assigned to the Princess Posse, expected to know the fine print of the Faction Wars timetable.
Chapter 18
- Orc adjutant for the Princess Posse who axes a suicide bomber and then argues down the AI.
Chapter 19
- The orc adjutant assigned to the Princess Posse, who briefs Carl and Donut on the war's rules and phases.
Chapter 23
- Carl's adjutant, who calls a minor quorum to protect him and reports the massacre back to his team.
Chapter 24
- Carl and Donut's adjutant, who winks at Carl, refutes Stockade's cheating claim, and keeps the hearing on the rails.
Chapter 25
- Adjutant who explains the teleport-split to Carl, votes not culpable, and teleports him home as the ceasefire dies.
Chapter 28
- Allied noble who teleports into the southern trench and explains the banned Gurgles debuff to Carl and Donut.
Chapter 30
- Carl's orc adjutant, arbiter of legal trap modules, who arrives in the trench with Drick in tow.
Chapter 32
- The normally stoic orc adjutant appears beside Carl, shaken by the acid-trench slaughter he engineered.
Chapter 34
- Donut's adjutant, present in the throne room, greeted by name by her Prism counterpart Nihit.
Chapter 35
- Adjutant who, amused by the carnage, informs Carl of tomorrow's live warlord roundtable before leaving to observe the north.
Chapter 36
- Host pushing the mandatory roundtable show Carl claims he has no time for.
Chapter 39
- Adjutant who appears at the corner of the barracks roof to quietly observe the battle, joined by an unfamiliar second adjutant.
Chapter 40
- Orc baroness who confirms King Rust's identity and relays his request for a registered parlay.
Chapter 41
- Carl's lawyer walks the parlay out personally, raises the shield, and explains the etiquette of talking to King Rust.
Chapter 42
- Carl's adjutant, King Rust's estranged sister, who watches her niece's doomsday broadcast at the parlay.
Chapter 51
- Carl's source on faction-war history, who reports that the Blood Sultanate's survival this deep is nearly unprecedented.
Chapter 54
- Quorum adjudicator who explains the rules on unaffiliated crawlers and reveals why Prepotente was jailed.
Chapter 57
- Stoic orc noble who teleports in, watches the family drama unfold, and shares a wry joke with Carl.
Chapter 61
- Aghast observer who crackles into existence at the portal desk to witness the slaughter Carl has caused.
Chapter 62
- Carl's adjutant, who zaps silently into Khepri's temple and coolly denies the Blood Sultanate's foul claim.
Chapter 64
- Non-corporeal observer who returns to watch Carl bomb himself and lectures on faction war cheating rules.
Chapter 66
- Adjutant pressed into hosting live battlefield updates she plainly hates, with a startling newscaster persona.
Chapter 71
- Adjutant who cracks into the burning woods to tell Carl the action item blindsided everyone, AI included.
Chapter 72
- Carl's attorney parses the War Mage Rebellion's illegal defection, then teleports away to a full quorum hearing.
Chapter 73
- Ally stuck in an adjudication meeting who explains Paint the Target's range limit over chat.
Chapter 74
- Adjudicating authority who warns Carl not to tempt her after he messages an unaffiliated crawler mid-battle.
Chapter 77
- She tells Carl the trial is being stalled on purpose, to drag on until the AI itself gets angry enough to end it.
Chapter 78
- Apologizes for the failed effort to delay the Peeling, admitting they were outmaneuvered.
Chapter 80
- Skull Empire noble and dungeon adjutant secretly partnered with the Pacifist Network in a money-for-murder deal.
Chapter 81
- Team Retribution's adjutant, running beside Carl and briefing him on the war mages' impossible new play.
Chapter 85
- Stands silently in the corner of the Nest observing, praising Carl's shooting and disclaiming the Agatha message.
Chapter 87
- Adjutant on the tower who diagnoses Lucia Mar's hidden net as a Power Siphon trap and calls it genius.
Chapter 89
- Figure who disappears from the parapet unnoticed during the aftermath, alongside Fopsy.
Chapter 90
- Production official who ignores Carl's question about Akuma and only notes his team is no longer her authority.
Chapter 91
- Victory cracks into existence at the Reaver castle alongside Drick and the adjutant Tart.
Chapter 95
- Rules-lawyer noble who returns from the Syndicate Council to close every legal loophole that might have saved Louis.
Chapter 96
- Refuses to tell Carl where the stairwells will appear, leaving Rosetta to answer instead.
Chapter 98
- Victory becomes acting Syndicate Prime Minister and witnesses Donut's execution of a CEO.