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Adjutant

Assigned handler for a crawler or faction, whose rulings on the crawl's rules Carl treats as authoritative.

Story so far

Two adjutants confirm to Carl the fact that dooms Epitome Tagg: nothing can stop the action item that forces Tagg to die once his castle is taken. Carl cites both when refusing Tagg's body-swap demand over Warlord Chat.

Fopsy is revealed to be The Dream's adjutant, which Baroness Victory uses to needle him — you would think an adjutant would know if his client were a robot. Fopsy insists he had no idea whatsoever, though it makes sense now considering some clues.

Role

The rules-authority role whose confirmations close off Carl's options and expose Fopsy's conflict of interest.

Relationships

Fopsy — Serves as the Dream's adjutant.
Carl — Cites two adjutants to prove Tagg's death cannot be prevented.
Epitome Tagg — His own adjutant helps confirm the ruling that kills him.

Earlier in this series

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

Sources — 14 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 9
  • Pre-existing class whose name forced Florin to rename his sergeant tier to Sergeant First Class.
Chapter 13
  • Assigned handler role for a team; Drick is the NPC team's, and Carl and Donut recently chose their own.
Chapter 17
  • Carl's orc adjutant, cited by Tipid as the authority who can clarify the new mercenary and guildhall rules.
Chapter 18
  • System-assigned faction officer and observer, nominally non-combatant but able to enforce the rules.
Chapter 19
  • The advisor assigned to each warlord, able to referee rules, offer strategy, go invisible, but never fight.
Chapter 24
  • Official assigned to each warlord who advises them and sits on quorums adjudicating fouls.
Chapter 34
  • Faction handlers who attend crawlers and warlords as official presences, and who watch violence without intervening.
Chapter 41
  • Impartial alien officials assigned to warlords; the previous year's victor always draws the veteran Judge Deng Bao.
Chapter 51
  • Crawler-assigned handlers who, during the council broadcast, live-comment in a window the warlords themselves cannot see.
Chapter 62
  • Faction representatives who teleport freely into fights, immune to the freeze, and argue rules on their team's behalf.
Chapter 80
  • Official arbiter role in Faction Wars whose rulings must be relayed to the crawlers through their warlords.
Chapter 81
  • Non-combatant observers assigned to each warlord team, empowered to call fouls and read the rules.
Chapter 94
  • The Dream's tripod adjutant, invoked as the reference species for one of King Rust's harem girls.
Chapter 95
  • Assigned handler for a crawler or faction, whose rulings on the crawl's rules Carl treats as authoritative.
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