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The Dream
Dream Elves · The Dream cruiser
Elven power whose cruiser crashes onto Earth over Australia, one of the disasters filling the epilogue's news feeds.
Story so far
The Dream's presence at the end of the book is a wreck. Among the headlines competing for attention on York's news feeds - a new Prime Minister, a mass suicide in one of the Nebular colonies, and above all a mantis system going boom - is the crash of a Dream cruiser onto the surface of Earth, over the continent of Australia.
Zander, watching the same news from Squirties, sees it as one item in a general collapse: ships shooting at each other again, a Dream cruiser down on the planet, a number of other ships crashed as well, and a fringe former-crawler group mouthing off with more shooting probably to come. He has seen war before, and knows what it means for someone who sells fuel - war fleets do not buy it, they take it.
Role
A great power reduced, in the epilogue, to a headline about a cruiser burning on Earth.
Relationships
Earth — Their cruiser crashed onto its surface over Australia
York — Watches the crash play out on his news feed
Zander — Reads the crash as one more sign that war is coming
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
Sources — 33 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- The elite outfit or world Epitome Tagg comes from, named as shorthand for money and privilege.
Chapter 4
- The elite outfit of money and privilege - a faction-wars team inside the Bloc, and now, through a subsidiary, the owner of the company that holds Carl's television contract.
Chapter 14
- The faction of Dream elves, represented here by Team Retribution's harried adjutant Drick.
Chapter 18
- Rival power that bought Sensation Entertainment and stands accused of ordering the bombing.
Chapter 19
- Rival Faction Wars team siting long-range artillery batteries on two of the Princess Posse's borders.
Chapter 27
- Attacking team holding Spot 6 in the Phase One standings of the Faction Wars.
Chapter 28
- Enemy coalition whose artillery opens the southern front bombardment against the crawler trench line.
Chapter 29
- Elven team supplying the war's heavy artillery, its bombardiers dismissed as cowards by Boomer.
Chapter 35
- Rival warlord faction that fielded Mange, and whose leader the achievement text urges Carl to assassinate next.
Chapter 36
- Faction slated to inherit the Prism castle and its land if Carl fails to reclaim the throne in six hours.
Chapter 42
- The galaxy-spanning entertainment and logistics network that will go dark if the failsafe detonates the star.
Chapter 43
- A Bloc faction whose familiar bickering with the Madness continues as Formidable's revelation breaks the larger alliance.
Chapter 48
- Faction of bald dream elves that quits the Bloc and is ceded the former Prism castle.
Chapter 51
- Epitome Tagg's faction, whose warlord arrives bloodied despite never having been seen on the battlefield.
Chapter 52
- Warlord team that owns several entertainment studios and channels, giving it extra bandwidth for smuggled messages.
Chapter 66
- Unaffiliated team holding spots 5 and 6, lobbing artillery at Team Retribution across the old Blood Sultanate border.
Chapter 67
- Enemy faction whose troop positions remain unknown as the operation's countdown reaches one hour.
Chapter 69
- Elf faction targeted by Donut's offensive, which gambles everything on a mass teleport at the FUPA.
Chapter 70
- Elf faction whose castle loses its shields when Meatus swats Harpocrates into it, sending survivors fleeing.
Chapter 72
- The faction whose castle Epitome Tagg lingers near, and whose forces are fighting heavily at FUPA.
Chapter 73
- Enemy faction whose castle collapses mid-battle while NPCs hold its throne room through a three-way god fight.
Chapter 80
- A Faction Wars team still technically standing but, in Rosetta's assessment, as good as defeated.
Chapter 81
- Rival team whose castle is occupied, whose warlord is trapped in the ball, and whose soldiers the fleshers hunt.
Chapter 85
- None of their number appear in the ball; their adjutant Fopsy arrives at the Nest to witness the end.
Chapter 87
- Enemy faction whose army is mixed with the Reavers inside the ball and slated for destruction by War Crime.
Chapter 89
- Rival team whose castle the NPCs are besieging, projected to fall in about four hours.
Chapter 91
- Epitome Tagg's faction, its castle in ruins and its throne room hours from capture.
Chapter 93
- Tagg's faction, its warlord now hiding inside Louis and its headquarters under two hours from being captured.
Chapter 94
- Referenced through its tripod adjutant, the yardstick Prepotente uses to describe one of Rust's harem girls.
Chapter 95
- Galactic food-production power led by Tagg, now suspected of a secret alliance with the Reavers.
Chapter 96
- Epitome Tagg's faction, defeated when his flesh golem host is surgically severed from him.
Chapter 98
- Uncertainty about Fopsy's relationship with the Dream cost him the Prime Minister's post.
Chapter 100
- Elven power whose cruiser crashes onto Earth over Australia, one of the disasters filling the epilogue's news feeds.