Marked for Death
Li Na's marking mechanic: unresolved marks leave her with a condition that will never allow her to heal.
Story so far
Li Na originally marked eighteen outworlders. Prepotente and his people hunted for the missing ones and failed to find them, and now know why: three survived long enough to escape to the Eighteenth Floor via the Cosmic Lounge. Because they were Non-Combatant NPC outworlders and not enemies captured by War Crime, marking them was legal — and now those marks can never be resolved.
The result is permanent. Li Na carries a condition that will never allow her to heal, though her health remains several times that of the whole party combined and her stats are massively increased. Only one mark remains within her reach: the one inside Louis. Donut tells Carl she warned him the Ring of Divine Suffering was bad news.
Role
The marking mechanic whose unresolvable targets permanently cripple Li Na's healing.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2
- The Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookBook 3
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
- Divine death-marks displayed as circling symbols above a target, held by individual gods against them.
- Divine mark Harpocrates lays on Donut after she mocks him one insult too many.
- The lethal mark Carl begins forming over Lucia Mar and cancels mid-cast when Diah speaks.
- Carl's marking mechanic fails entirely on the ball's occupants, for reasons he can only guess at.
- Status that, unexpectedly, hides its bearers from Li Na's hunting skills instead of exposing them.
- Li Na's marking mechanic: unresolved marks leave her with a condition that will never allow her to heal.