Borant Corporation
Names: Borant CorporationBorantBorant systemmudskippersBorant governmentBorant System Government
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 1The Borant Corporation was given regency over Earth's solar system and chose the 18-level World Dungeon as the reclamation method.
- Ch 4Borant makes some money mining, but its real income is the dungeon broadcast, ads, a Syndicate stipend and patron commissions.
- Ch 4The organisers are always listening; Mordecai says they know they're sadistic but don't want crawlers saying so on camera.
- Ch 4Mordecai implies the uneven distribution of entrances was deliberate, to hit a target of around ten million crawlers.
- Ch 14Borant's patch notes fix exploits including exploding shared bathrooms, unlimited toilet paper, and using inventory to kill mobs.
- Ch 20Borant's daily update says language support now covers all languages, with native speech cross-translated between crawlers.
- Ch 20Borant warns that crawlers who take the stairs days early won't be featured on recap episodes.
- Ch 29Odette says Borant was forced into an early release, and some doubt Borant will survive politically; bankruptcy would freeze indentureships.
- Ch 36Mordecai says the kua-tin government is forcing Borant to end the game fast for cash, and is working to get crawlers killed.
- Ch 36A committee has put Borant on notice over game 'bugs'; too many violations could cost Borant everything.
- Ch 39A new rule closes all safe rooms one hour before floor collapse, teleporting any crawlers inside to just outside.
- Ch 44Borant announces non-sapient mobs will no longer dissolve at stairwells, closing the exploit Carl used against the Rage Elemental.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 3Most NPCs are engineered and owned by Borant; their memories are rewritten each time the floor is regenerated.
- Ch 7Borant sets experience for killing non-combatant citizens to zero and boosts city guards' stats.
- Ch 14In Borant's last season the fourth floor was inside a living creature that caught a bacterial infection, collapsing the level into gore.
- Ch 20Carl reasons Borant benefits most from the incident, since a Valtay–Skull Empire rift distracts Valtay from taking over the Borant system.
- Ch 26Borant spent its single season veto, never used this early, to deny Carl, Donut and Katia the Celestial-box rewards a Syndicate court had upheld.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 30Borant, which had stakes in obsolete communication relays, built the floor as a racist political cartoon against the Krakaren and the Plenty.
- Ch 35Borant likely lost significant money on the Death Challenge and has appealed the AI's odds.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 18Borant had to choose between saving the admin Loita and keeping its two highest-grossing crawlers alive.
- Ch 19As punishment, Borant may not let third parties teleport crawlers away for the rest of the floor, cancelling Carl's Odette appearance.
- Ch 33Borant allows gate escapes to continue but blocks some secondary god summonings, after one summoned Ysalte, an extinction-level threat.
- Ch 34Borant's politburo, which replaced its board of directors, approves Carl's plan but warns that sponsor-harming antics won't be tolerated again.
- Ch 35Borant started the crawl early, so the planet's records and location data were two days stale.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 8Borant announces 1,002 hunters are in the dungeon and ends viewers' paid access to crawlers' private messages.
- Ch 21The system announcer insists the Valtay deal changes nothing, mentions a civil war in her home system, and says this crawl is her life project.
- Ch 33Drick says Borant still runs the crawl with mercenary support; the Valtay are not running it.
- Ch 53Rumour says the Mantis sold Borant a used amusement-park AI for the crawl, explaining why it is going primal early.
- Ch 60Mordecai says everyone else is losing money on this season, but the losses are flowing into Borant.
Connections
- createdWorld Dungeon
- related toThe SyndicateOperates as regent under Syndicate rules
- led byKua-Tinprincipal owners
- createdDungeon Crawler World
- part ofThe Syndicate
- has memberMordecaihis employer
- createdDungeon Crawler World: Earthproduces this season
- has memberZev
- enemy ofValtay Corporation
- led byThe Bloom
- enemy ofThe Plenty
- ally ofVeritan Linkage
- ally ofValtay Corporationassisted in court despite being at odds
- has memberOrren
- related toOdetteblackmails Borant using Beatrice
- related toValtay Corporationowns 51% of Borant Corporation
- related toLexison loan as an assistant
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1The Syndicate announcement
A Syndicate observer AI announces Earth has been seized and that survivors may enter the Borant Corporation's 18-level World Dungeon within one hour.
- Book 1 · Ch 4The dungeon seals
A female announcer declares the dungeon sealed: about 13 million humans entered, under 10 million survive, and Floor 2 opens after the introductory episode airs.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Post-episode announcement
The female announcer gives boss tallies and patch notes, and opens the staircases to Floor 2 with stasis rules for early descent.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Day two announcement
Borant's daily update patches toilets, languages and Feral Rabies, removes Blender Fiends and upgrades the Street Preacher to a borough boss.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Second floor announcement
Borant announces the six-day timer, activates follows and favorites, explains the new patronage auctions and threatens bathroom violators.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Safe rooms to close before collapse
An announcement says all safe rooms will now close one hour before floor collapse, so the group can't simply wait out the elemental.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Stairwell exploit patched
After the recap shows the elemental dissolving, Borant patches the stairwell rule and says guides can now explain race and class selection for Floor 3.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Third floor announcement
The system welcomes crawlers to the third floor, announces early sponsor bids, and warns against violence toward non-combatant NPCs.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Borant's announcement
Borant permits the gate escapes but limits god summonings, and previews sixth-floor specializations, guilds and tourist hunters.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Borant's warning
Zev relays a failed Skull Empire lawsuit and a politburo message approving the plan but forbidding future sponsor-harming antics.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Borant's fury
Zev relays that the sponsors are enraged as Larracos floods; Carl insists they approved the plan and descends with Donut and Chris.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Odette's cover-up
Odette orders the scene staged as a fight over the cat, Brad left to die, and Gravy Boat handed to Borant, while Beatrice is kept for a better use.
- Book 5 · Ch 8Borant's announcement
The system announces over a thousand hunters, incoming final sponsors, and the end of the paid subscription to crawlers' private chats.
- Book 5 · Ch 13Negotiating the license for Vengeance of the Daughter
Quasar negotiates with a kua-tin Borant admin and Orren, securing bodyguards, spells and a secret emergency license extension for Vengeance of the Daughter.
- Book 5 · Ch 19Valtay takes control of Borant
A planet-wide notice announces a Syndicate court has made the Borant Corporation independent of the Borant System Government, executing a ruling that gives the Valtay Corporation 51% ownership.
- Book 5 · Ch 21Hunter communication cut off
A system announcement downplays the Valtay takeover and reveals that hunters can no longer communicate with anyone outside the dungeon, following a court injunction.
- Book 5 · Ch 41The Plenty revealed as sponsor
Before the press, Borant announces The Plenty as Carl's new sponsor; a huge goat appears briefly and Carl is awarded a gold benefactor box.
- Book 6 · Ch 50Orren announces settlement with the AI
Orren says the system AI has handed most controls back to Borant and will follow the rules in exchange for concessions; Cascadia says crawlers have one day left to get keys.
- Book 6 · Ch 75Borant starts the Earth season early
Years before, sleeper agent Agatha in Wenatchee receives the alert that the crawl is starting early and lights a fire hoping a dungeon entrance generates.