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The Apothecary
Knew a challenge was coming, but not that Justice Light was about to make everything far more complicated.
Story so far
In the moment before Justice Light snapped the twine, the narration lays out who knew what. Porthus knew the plan. The Apothecary knew a challenge was coming, but everything was about to get much more complicated than it had been told.
The breaking of The Nothing, the freeing of the Bijou and the evicted demons, and the waking of Scolopendra all landed without the Apothecary being warned of their scale.
Role
A partly-informed power in the conspiracy, blindsided by the true scope of Justice Light's plan.
Relationships
Justice Light — Told it a challenge was coming, but not the whole plan.
Porthus — Better informed than the Apothecary was.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 6
- Donut's other sponsor, who follows the celestial tiara with a platinum universal charge pillow.
Chapter 16
- Sponsor Donut actually values, said to sponsor half the dungeon, and the benchmark for her next deal.
Chapter 36
- One of the competing powers Carl counts among those entangled in the residual crisis.
Chapter 53
- Cited by Houston as a known trans-dimensional entity comparable to the death-figure Juice Box impersonated.
Chapter 80
- A collective-mind entity, the galaxy's loudest advocate for shutting down the center system, secretly guiding Porthus's plan.
Chapter 87
- Sponsor whose benefactor box Donut secretly opened, since she still lacked a second sponsor.
Chapter 90
- Power with an in-game version whose ambassador, Paca, unknowingly carries the gate artifact in her stomach.
Chapter 98
- Benefactor whose gold box supplied Donut the weapon mount she uses to kill Huanxin Jinx.
Chapter 99
- Knew a challenge was coming, but not that Justice Light was about to make everything far more complicated.