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The War Mages

War Mages

Warlord faction that vanishes from the ninth floor after admitting they only ever wanted the Scavenger's Daughter.

Story so far

With the cleanup underway in Larracos, there is still no sign of the The War Mages anywhere on the floor — nor of Epitome Tagg or Fang. In Warlord Chat, Akuma finally explains: they never wished to keep the falling-down Reaver Castle. They came to test the potions they had gathered and to find The Scavenger's Daughter hidden within it, and having taken her, they left.

Akuma insists the war mages had no hand in the so-called action items other than Conscription, blaming Agatha — a warlord forced upon them in exchange for system access — for the rest. He tells Carl they are no enemies to him and offers alliance in exchange for Agatha's death, then departs the realm, at which point a Warlord Message declares the War Mage Rebellion defeated with no assets to award.

Role

Departing warlord faction whose true objective was a hidden captive, not the castle or the floor.

Relationships

Akuma — Their warlord and spokesman.
Agatha — Forced on them for system access; now their enemy.
The Scavenger's Daughter — The prize they came for and took.
Reaver Castle — Held it only long enough to search it.

Earlier in this series

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

Sources — 17 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 42
  • The record-setting corps of combat casters assembled by Prince Stalwart for the Skull Empire horde.
Chapter 48
  • Frightening enemy mage group whose spellbooks Donut has begun reading despite her own unease.
Chapter 52
  • Stalwart's magical shock troops, whose numbers he loudly boasts about while Odette grills his finances.
Chapter 67
  • Enemy war mages Carl expects to pounce on the team once the operation begins.
Chapter 70
  • Enemy casters crewing the synergy tower death ray and riding aboard Stalwart's scorpion tank.
Chapter 71
  • Dungeon-born fusions of skeleton, flesher, and sapient magic; enormously powerful casters and, universally, complete dicks.
Chapter 75
  • Dangerous mage-entities the crawlers are actively trying not to create any more of.
Chapter 78
  • Mage force that turns on its supposed allies the moment the Peeling opens Larracos.
Chapter 80
  • The rogue mage faction holding the Gate under warlord Agatha, unallied with the NPCs and trying to end the crawl fast.
Chapter 81
  • Underwater-breathing insurgent casters delivering themselves onto gods by meteor and dying to do it.
Chapter 82
  • The mage corps Carl is looking for as he plans the bombing run, possibly still in the castle.
Chapter 83
  • The enemy spellcasters Donut insists Carl must stop, and the source of the hell-kissed conscription potions.
Chapter 84
  • Rival faction that has worked out how to break conscription and is fielding conscripted gods of its own.
Chapter 86
  • The enemy team holding the castle, roughly five hours from winning Faction Wars outright.
Chapter 87
  • Powerful enemy casters holding the flooded Larracos castle and, Carl believes, controlling the goddess Eris.
Chapter 88
  • Controllers of the sponsored gods who lost Eris entirely and traded away the Gate of the Feral Gods.
Chapter 90
  • Warlord faction that vanishes from the ninth floor after admitting they only ever wanted the Scavenger's Daughter.
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