Castle of the Madness
Names: Castle of the MadnessMadness castleThrone Room of the Madness
First appears in Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin, chapter 77 ([ 67 ])
Appearances
What you know
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 77The Madness castle is a small rectangular building with buried barracks; Carl forces open a back garage door to enter.
Key moments
- Book 7 · Ch 77Carl breaches the Madness castle
Carl, Dong, Jamal, Bigs and Rend cross the trapped field, are deshrouded, and force a back door into the Castle of the Madness, finding about twenty soldiers inside.
- Book 7 · Ch 77Madness guards confront Carl
Eighteen guards, including two conscripted crawlers, rush Carl's group; their psionic attacks fail and they meet the invulnerable Carl and Dong.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Madness castle guards defeated
Carl's group kills the Madness guards and two Viceroys, captures the conscripted crawlers Selvi and Tuba, and Bigs occupies the Madness throne room.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Houston's surgical theater
Carl finds Houston fusing himself with a dead changeling, Zeynep's mutilated corpse, and a captive Burcu, all ringed by Sheol-fire traps; Carl jumps between tables to free Burcu and loses his invulnerability.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Death of Architect Houston
The fused changeling transforms; Carl's rescue of Burcu goes wrong, the Sheol-fire traps fire, and Houston and Burcu die while Carl phases out, earning the kill and defeating the Madness.