Story so far
Edgar takes charge of the plan for Louis's Surgery, laying out the full sequence: Mordecai cuts, Donut administers the healing potion, two people hold the chest open, Imani and Rosetta open Princess Lunette and expose her heart and pulmonary system, then thirty seconds to swap human organs for naiad ones with Juice Box activating and a graft to finish. He is the one who realizes the tiny Kua-tin Rebreather in Carl's inventory will fit — "not where we're going to put it."
He calls out when the heart stops and shouts for the potion at the critical moment, and it is Edgar who announces "It worked" when Louis's chest seals and the gills hold. His history with Lunette runs deeper than the surgery: he found Signet as a young, alone half-naiad after her mother's death at the hands of high elves.
Appearance
Bent over the operating cots calling instructions, hands in the work alongside Mordecai's.
Role
Coordinator of the transplant procedure and keeper of Signet's origins.
Relationships
Mordecai — Co-directs the surgery with him.
Signet — Found her as an orphaned half-naiad child.
Louis — Directs the operation that saves him.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 19 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 22
- Ancient tortoise advisor who lays out the rules of Katia's treatment and orders the two patients separated.
Chapter 27
- Tortoise tattooist who inked the sixth floor's dead onto Signet and now explains golem limitations to Clint.
Chapter 49
- A slow tortoise mage whose stealth and movement-sensing skills make him the perfect deep scout.
Chapter 50
- Tattoo authority who told Carl that expert quality is the second-highest rating a tattoo can earn.
Chapter 53
- Edgar accompanied Elle into naga territory and, like her, found no trace of the Blood Sultanate's army.
Chapter 54
- Scout whose scan discovered the naga army already dead and rotting in their own barracks.
Chapter 55
- Scout who mapped and cleared the circuitous trap-free route group three uses to reach the naga castle.
Chapter 57
- Sensor and spotter who detects the non-corporeal presence rising through the naga castle from below.
Chapter 58
- NPC with Carl's group whose level-15 Sense Movement lets him spot Bijou fairies climbing between floors.
Chapter 69
- Buried spotter stationed miles out to report the moment Epitome Tagg is sighted.
Chapter 72
- Edgar spots Epitome Tagg near the Dream castle and warns Donut that the rider in the fancy hat is a decoy.
Chapter 79
- The tortoise who shouts a warning as Carl and Katia join hands, and whose mind brims with recovered past lives.
Chapter 85
- The tortoise tattooist, carried up the Nest strapped to Rosetta's back to ink Donut's spell.
Chapter 86
- The tattooist who inks a dog onto Donut's flank using a new essence-capturing ink developed with Milk.
Chapter 87
- Tortoise tattoo artist who inks Donut's stolen god-tattoo and appraises the resulting animated dog art.
Chapter 90
- Tattooist tortoise who declares he cannot tattoo a rock or extract anything from the Sledge.
Chapter 94
- Edgar works the birth from the floor, dragging bloody water by mouth and explaining ursine birth customs.
Chapter 95
- Tattoo-artist ally who chairs the emergency meeting on saving Louis and recognizes his own work in Lunette's golem body.
Chapter 96
- Surgical director of Louis's operation and the man who once found the orphaned Signet.