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Residuals
Echo-beings of varying kinds; Paulie is a different sort than Agatha, and he hates the Eulogist.
Story so far
Piecing together what he knew about The Eulogist, Carl noted that Paulie is a different kind of residual than Agatha — and that Paulie clearly hated the Eulogist, whatever it turned out to be. The distinction mattered enough for Carl to remark on it: residuals are not all one thing, and their relationships to whatever sits at the Center System differ.
Role
A class of beings, of more than one kind, whose knowledge of the Eulogist predates Zev's admission.
Relationships
Agatha — One kind of residual
Paulie — A different kind of residual, who hates the Eulogist
The Eulogist — Known to at least some residuals before Carl learned of 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 2
- Body-riding beings found in every primal-engine civilization, long dismissed as harmless, now split by a war over whether to end the crawl.
Chapter 16
- Beings able to occupy other bodies, one of whom triggered the crackdown on Doctor Hu's nonprofits.
Chapter 36
- Hyperspatial aliens who possess host bodies to enter the dungeon, split into two rival kinds with unknown goals.
Chapter 45
- The hidden conversation between Carl and a residual is finally uncovered, triggering a kill order.
Chapter 50
- The entity Carl met with, used by Zev as a timeline marker for the Aryl AI's silence.
Chapter 80
- Strange persistent entities that ping around the dungeon; usually harmless, but a rarer Eulogist-aligned kind exists.
Chapter 81
- Ancient entities that normally proselytize to the AI; one is now steering the war mage team toward a system shutdown.
Chapter 85
- Echo-beings of varying kinds; Paulie is a different sort than Agatha, and he hates the Eulogist.