Astrid
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 9 (9)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 9Astrid is a level 125 Bloodlust Sprite, Assistant Manager of the Desperado Club, wielding magic over circulatory systems.
- Ch 9Astrid apologises for the security failure and grants Carl and Donut complimentary security; Carl asks to keep Bomo and The Sledge.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 58Astrid, the club's level 125 Bloodlust Sprite assistant manager, boils Carl's blood to stop him without killing him.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 24Astrid is a level 125 bloodlust sprite with cardiovascular magic who heads Desperado Club security and the Naughty Boys Employment Agency.
- Ch 33Astrid, the club's fairy security chief, has 150 intelligence and spells that boil, suffocate or acidify blood.
- Ch 33Five times a day Astrid can instantly summon one to three club guards to her location.
- Ch 34Astrid takes the main stairs instead of the secret passage, ruining the ambush, likely warned by Cosmic Sense.
- Ch 34Astrid, a fairy, unleashed the 'vorpals' because a breach of the Nothing occurred in the casino and the demon Minge could not be killed.
- Ch 34Astrid reveals her husband is Hamed, known as the Night Wyrm, whose lair is hidden on the top floor of the club.
- Ch 34Astrid says she should have followed Orren's advice and permanently banned Carl from the club.
- Ch 34Astrid's dying words were a plea to save her children, saying she was almost done and would be free soon.
Connections
- leadsDesperado Clubassistant manager
- related toBloodlust Spritespecies
- member ofDesperado Clubassistant manager
- related toOrrenAstrid brought Carl to Orren at his request
- related toDesperado Clubassistant manager
- leadsNaughty Boys Employment Agency
- partner ofNight Wyrmhusband
- enemy ofKatia Grim
- family ofDamascus Steelson
- family ofAnacondason
- family ofNight Wyrmhusband and wife
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 9Aftermath of the attack on Donut
Elle kills the second attacker; Donut weeps over her first human kill; Astrid apologises and grants free security.
- Book 5 · Ch 58Meeting the changelings
Carl gives Pearson a map and the plan to bring the changelings into the high elf castle for Zerzura, before Astrid stops them by boiling Carl's blood.
- Book 6 · Ch 21Assassination job revealed
Carl reads Katia's Guild of Suffering job from the Night Wyrm: kill Astrid of the Desperado Club.
- Book 6 · Ch 24Scouting the Desperado Club
Carl and Katia secretly plan how to lure out and kill Astrid while meeting allied crawlers at the Desperado Club.
- Book 6 · Ch 33Setting the Astrid ambush
Carl disarms traps in a secret corridor, sets teleport traps and walls off a room of deadly monsters to prepare the ambush on Astrid.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Ambush on Astrid goes wrong
Astrid bypasses the trapped secret passage and heads down the main stairs as an alarm announces a containment breach in the casino.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Astrid reveals her secrets
In the kitchen, Astrid tells Carl she unleashed the vorpals and that the Night Wyrm, Hamed, is her husband.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Death of Astrid
Katia, shapeshifted and using totem cards, attacks Astrid; Carl rips off her wings to break her spell, and Katia kills her, then flees pretending to be a monster.
- Book 6 · Ch 36Damascus reveals his family
Damascus Steel tells Carl and Katia that Astrid was his mother and the Night Wyrm his father, then leaves with Anaconda to take revenge.