Story so far
Tagg is riding Louis's flesh golem body toward singularity when Mordecai starts cutting. He panics into Warlord Chat — "What is happening. What are you doing? I swear I will kill him" — but Donut holds him in place by renaming herself EPITOME TAGG'S SEXY MOTHER and taunting him about his mother finding Louis attractive. He demands the name be changed back, threatens to starve out all of humanity, and is too enraged to shut the golem down while the transplant proceeds.
When the machine-like heart and lungs come out, his last message is pure surrender: "Fuck this existence. Fuck this life. And fuck all of you. You don't deserve singularity. None of you do." The system announces that Warlord Epitome Tagg of the Dream has fallen, giving the kill credit to Mongo as a baby shower present, and the Dream's assets pass to the Princess Posse.
Appearance
Never seen in person this chapter; present only as all-caps and clipped warlord chat messages, described by Donut as a bald CEO robot guy from another planet.
Role
Warlord of the Dream, defeated by surgery rather than combat.
Relationships
Louis — Rode his flesh golem body until the organs were removed.
Donut — Trolled into a paralyzing rage by her name change and mother jokes.
Mongo — Awarded the kill credit for his fall.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 21 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- Rich participant out of the Dream who, thanks to Carl's vote, can now actually be killed.
Chapter 29
- Elven head of the Epitome family who fights near the front in an absurdly ridiculous helmet.
Chapter 36
- Viceroy warlord Carl expects to grab the abandoned Prism throne and enrage the Madness in the process.
Chapter 51
- The bald elf warlord of the Dream, arriving at the council in blood-splashed battle armor despite never being seen fighting.
Chapter 52
- Bald warlord who mocks Stalwart's ruin at council and is exposed for using the feed directory loophole.
Chapter 53
- Tagg dismisses the apparition as a childhood jump scare and heckles Houston's theories about the death-entity.
Chapter 69
- Enemy figure Donut is personally hunting, still unspotted when the war begins.
Chapter 72
- Tagg abandons his attacking troops and hides near the Dream castle behind a decoy in a fancy hat.
Chapter 73
- Enemy leader who survives the missile strike aimed at him, remaining Donut's unfinished target.
Chapter 75
- Ruler of the Dream faction, reduced to hiding in the woods while three gods wreck his territory.
Chapter 81
- Warlord of The Dream, trapped inside the ball of flesh after fleeing into the forest.
Chapter 85
- One of the two missing warlords, confirmed trapped in the ball of flesh alongside Warlord Fang.
Chapter 86
- One of the two enemy leaders whose deaths would drop every enemy soldier dead at once.
Chapter 89
- Enemy warlord who was marked by Li Na's ring but escaped, leaving her unable to heal.
Chapter 90
- Missing warlord who breaks his silence to lament that they should have blown the failsafe weeks ago.
Chapter 91
- The Dream's warlord, in hiding, on a two-hour clock to drop dead when his throne room falls.
Chapter 92
- Elf whose biological pieces are discovered hiding inside Louis's replacement mechanical heart and lungs.
Chapter 93
- The Dream's warlord, revealed to be a cyborg now grafted into Louis's biomechanical heart and lungs, holding him hostage.
Chapter 94
- The absent threat whose possible control of Louis forces the crawlers to keep him unconscious and carried.
Chapter 95
- Disembodied Dream elf warlord riding Louis's heart and lungs, bargaining for a body swap he cannot be given.
Chapter 96
- Warlord of the Dream who loses his flesh golem host and rage-quits the Faction Wars entirely.