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Fleshers
Flesher · the-flesher
Burning enemies that scorched several crawlers as they woke from the ball, per Elle's casualty report.
Story so far
Cataloging the real cost of the battle for Princess Donut, Elle lists what happened when everyone woke up out of the ball: they lost people from the towers, some of them got burned by fleshers, and several lost limbs.
Her summary is unsparing but ends with the point she wants Donut to hear, that it wasn't pretty but Donut pulled through for all of them in a way nobody else could, not even Carl.
Appearance
Enemies capable of burning crawlers who come within reach.
Role
Battlefield hazards that inflicted burn casualties during the chaotic waking.
Relationships
Elle — Reports the burns they inflicted
The Battle Formation Ball — Crawlers were burned by them as they woke from it
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 71
- Creature born from a corpse's stripped skin that consumes and re-sleeves living beings, the seed of every war mage.
Chapter 75
- Skinned corpse-creatures produced by Donut's You're Not Done Yet, meant to swamp the Madness army by the thousand.
Chapter 81
- Level 1 sentient skins torn from corpses, flying onto targets and dissolving whoever they wrap around.
Chapter 85
- The creatures wrapping everyone inside the ball, and Carl's best guess for why they can't be marked.
Chapter 86
- Fire-resistant parasitic creatures wrapped around the enemy soldiers, needed intact to serve as the plan's finisher.
Chapter 87
- Creatures expected to fill the burning ground below the Nest once War Crime is cast.
Chapter 88
- Swarming devourers that coated Meatus and the trapped army, dissolving flesh and burning through cybernetic armor.
Chapter 89
- Burning enemies that scorched several crawlers as they woke from the ball, per Elle's casualty report.