Herot
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 17 (17)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 17Herot, writer of the cookbook's 16th edition, proposed the Worn Path Method of breaking NPCs out of their reverie.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 10Herot's essay in the cookbook warns that NPCs who know from the start they are in a dungeon are more dangerous.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 24Herot, author of the cookbook's 16th edition, advised surrounding yourself with a few trustworthy, competent companions.
- Ch 54Herot's cookbook entry describes three types of dungeon castle: obstacle buildings, conquerable governments, and self-contained villages that can be owned.
- Ch 56Herot's cookbook note urges showing others the seams of the false path, derailing minds as a pebble derails a trolley.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 28Herot hypothesised that self-awareness spreads contagiously among NPCs, which Samantha's knowledge appears to confirm.
- Ch 63Herot's cookbook notes say stairwells cannot be removed from the playing field, and that fan focus shifts to the Ascendency after Faction Wars.
- Ch 64Herot's cookbook note warns that the unstable AI listens to crawlers and reshapes the game around what they say, sometimes lethally.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 40Herot, a skink former crawler and author of the cookbook's sixteenth edition, is alive and trapped in the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Ch 58Herot, trapped in the Pineapple Cabaret with a shop interface, has a standing order buying every cleaner bot in the store.
- Ch 64Herot is to buy the cleaner bot and empty it out at the Pineapple Cabaret, a place outside the playing field.
- Ch 86Carl hopes Herot will keep god-worshipping crawlers in stasis and release them as the gods lose power.
Connections
- related toThe Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbookwrote the 16th edition
- createdPineapple Cabaret
- ally ofMenerva
- related toAkumataught by Herot
- inPineapple Cabaret
Key moments
- Book 8 · Ch 40The Pineapple Cabaret revealed
Akuma reveals Herot and Menerva secretly built the Cabaret behind the seventeenth floor, and that the war mages need crawlers to retake it.
- Book 8 · Ch 58The cleaner bot plan is a go
After Mordecai's test succeeds, Carl approves a plan to send Li Na to the Pineapple Cabaret via Herot's cleaner bot purchases.
- Book 8 · Ch 64Li Na sent out of the dungeon
Zhang sucks Li Na into an XL pet carrier, the cleaner bot Suckira stores it, and Donut sells Suckira at the shop terminal so Herot can take her to the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 82Pontiff's casino discovery
Pontiff reports the Wheel of Fortune now shows a quoted 'Nothing', casting doubt on Akuma's casino escape plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 83Pontiff volunteers to test the portal
Pontiff tells Carl he will step into the new Nothing slot portal to learn whether it leads outside the playing field, and Carl asks him to pass a message to Herot.