Epitome Tagg
Names: Epitome TaggTaggWarlord Tagg
First appears in Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapter 22 (22)
Appearances
What you know
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 23Epitome Tagg of the Dream is one of the galaxy's richest men, controlling food-growing operations across many systems.
- Ch 23Epitome Tagg complains that the NPCs are becoming self-aware, making it impossible for anybody to win.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 29Epitome Tagg of the Dream likes to fight near the front and wears a ridiculous helmet, according to Boomer.
- Ch 52Tagg taunts Stalwart that the Dream has deactivated all Skull Empire hardware and that Stalwart faces a civil war.
- Ch 72Epitome Tagg abandoned his troops and fled the Dream castle into the woods with a small contingent on zebras, using a decoy.
- Ch 73The missiles fired at Epitome Tagg missed, and he escaped.
- Ch 85Carl's Ping shows Epitome Tagg and Warlord Fang are both inside Harpocrates's ball.
- Ch 89Both Epitome Tagg and Warlord Fang escaped the War Crime, and the remaining War Mages fled through a portal.
- Ch 90Tagg laments that the War Mages should have blown the failsafe weeks ago, as the orc princess urged.
- Ch 92Juice Box senses that Epitome Tagg is somehow hiding inside Louis, through the replacement organs.
- Ch 93Tagg says he controls Louis's vital organs and will shut him down if they try to remove him.
- Ch 93Tagg offers a deal: his mother on the 18th floor would trade Louis's life for his.
- Ch 93Carl concludes Epitome Tagg of the Dream is secretly a cyborg like Fang, a theory Mordecai and Rosetta find plausible.
- Ch 95Tagg demands to be taken to the 18th floor to swap into a new body, unaware the Reaver castle has been destroyed.
- Ch 95Tagg knows of the plan to use the Zerzura spell to move Larracos to the 12th floor.
- Ch 96Tagg stops Louis's heart in a rage, but the organs are pulled out and Mongo chews them up, killing Tagg.
Connections
- leadsThe Dream
- enemy ofLouis Santiago 2
- family ofEpitome Noflex of the Dreamhis mother
- enemy ofJuice Box
- member ofThe Dream
- enemy ofCrown Prince Stalwart
Key moments
- Book 6 · Ch 23Faction Wars preproduction meeting
Carl and Donut attend a meeting run by Cascadia with the other warlords, where Donut provokes Crown Prince Stalwart and they meet Rishi of the Blood Sultanate.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Viceroy beheaded at the meeting
The Madness's viceroy is decapitated and Juice Box, in Epitome Noflex's form, takes his seat, enraging Tagg and Stalwart; Cascadia says the AI won't let them intervene.
- Book 6 · Ch 24Juice Box's demands
Juice Box demands NPCs become their own Faction Wars team, Carl tables the motion, and her detonator blows up the Operatic Collective's representative before an arrow drops Stalwart.
- Book 7 · Ch 51The warlord council assembles
The warlords gather at the production facility; Carl meets the imposing naga warlord Princess Vinata, whom his team plans to kill.
- Book 7 · Ch 51Scolopendra stirs
A system warning that Scolopendra stirs silences the room; nobody has seen it before.
- Book 7 · Ch 52Odette hosts the warlord council
Odette takes over hosting after Chaco is knocked out, interviewing warlords while Cascadia sits drunk and Vinata whispers threats and offers to Carl.
- Book 7 · Ch 53Houston explains Juice Box's form
Architect Houston explains the many-named creature Juice Box impersonated, which Tagg dismisses as superstition.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Tagg flees
Edgar spots Epitome Tagg fleeing the Dream castle; Donut has Sledge fire missiles at him while he is marked.
- Book 7 · Ch 89Li Na storms the castle
Li Na maxes her stats and tears through the Larracos castle; the War Mages flee by portal, and the throne room returns to Team Retribution's control.
- Book 7 · Ch 90Akuma's warning
In warlord chat Akuma asks Carl and Donut to kill Agatha, saying the War Mages got the Scavenger's Daughter, then leaves the realm, ending the War Mage Rebellion.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Tagg found inside Louis
Juice Box discovers the Reavers replaced Louis's heart and lungs and that Epitome Tagg is present in them, so they keep Louis unconscious.
- Book 7 · Ch 93Tagg revealed as a cyborg
Carl deduces Epitome Tagg is a cyborg like Fang who grafted himself into Louis's mechanical organs, as Tagg threatens to kill Louis if removed.
- Book 7 · Ch 95Negotiating with Tagg
Victory confirms Tagg cannot surrender because Louis can't leave the floor; Carl stalls Tagg, who demands the Team Retribution soldiers leave his throne room.
- Book 7 · Ch 96Louis's transplant and Tagg's death
Mordecai, Edgar, Juice Box and others transplant Princess Lunette's organs into Louis while Donut taunts Tagg; Tagg dies and the Dream are defeated.