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The Blood Sultanate

the naga faction · the Sultanate

The naga faction annihilated in the Temple of Khepri, leaving a single hidden survivor on the floor.

Story so far

After the massacre in the Temple of Khepri, Rishi is the sole remaining member of the original Blood Sultanate left alive on the floor — and only because he buried himself in the dirt outside the castle and waited for it all to be over. Every blood member of the court was bound into the Sepsis Whore quest; Rishi, married only to a distant cousin of the royal family, was not.

The faction's real-world backing is now unravelling. Princess Vinata's father, the naga king, insisted she compete in the Faction Wars to bring in tourist money and keep the Naga Shipyards running, while Vinata's private plan was to steal a fleet and leave the galaxy entirely. News of the naga intending to renege on their shipyard contracts broke just before the warlords' meeting, throwing their home system into chaos — and Rishi's brothers are meanwhile deposing the king in the Naga Uprising.

Role

The defeated naga faction whose collapse triggers a coup back home.

Relationships

Princess Vinata — Its leader, killed in the temple
Rishi — Its last surviving original member on the floor
The Princess Posse — The faction that destroyed and then conscripted its remnants

Earlier in this series

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

Sources — 17 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • The third team into the truce that became the Bloc.
Chapter 12
  • Naga faction of royal-family LARPers who never win the faction wars but whose leadership has never been touched.
Chapter 27
  • Attacking team holding Spot 4 in the Phase One standings of the Faction Wars.
Chapter 34
  • Rival faction used as the wealth yardstick; Rosetta claims D'Nadia's Prism is poorer than it.
Chapter 48
  • One of three factions left in the Bloc after the Bone Clan and the Dream both withdraw.
Chapter 51
  • The naga faction led by Princess Vinata, an unusually long-surviving team from a tourism-driven, factory-hosting system.
Chapter 52
  • Princess Vinata's paranoid faction, expecting Carl's imminent attack and ready to meet it.
Chapter 53
  • Carl deduces the Sultanate's missing army is dead and the faction has been hiding a near-total defeat.
Chapter 55
  • The naga kingdom whose entire line of succession Carl must exterminate to lift the Sepsis Whore curse.
Chapter 58
  • Vinata's naga faction, whose court of seven has quietly used a light-god temple as a war shelter for seasons.
Chapter 59
  • Naga power whose stronghold throne room is now occupied, six hours from total defeat.
Chapter 62
  • Rival crawler faction whose adjutant tries to stop the temple battle and is told its own team summoned the god.
Chapter 63
  • Naga power whose princess and two royal cousins are wiped out in a single bomb at the wedding feast.
Chapter 64
  • Naga royal house destroyed when the Sepsis Whore falls, its entire estate forfeited to the Princess Posse.
Chapter 65
  • Ninth-floor power whose security Juice Box claimed she could not breach — an obvious lie, per Justice Light.
Chapter 66
  • Faction eliminated in the Club Vanquisher battle, its sector four hills now Team Retribution's trap fields.
Chapter 68
  • The naga faction annihilated in the Temple of Khepri, leaving a single hidden survivor on the floor.
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