Mantis
Names: Mantismantis peoplemantidsmantisesmantis nymphsMantidSward Mantis
First appears in Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapter 6 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 34Panel audience members say poison hits mantids three times as fast, their necks are least armored, and loud sounds hurt them.
- Ch 35After the blast, Vrah is the last mantis warrior on the floor; one male salesman remains in Zockau.
- Ch 37A small, frightened male mantis arrives with Bomo, saying 'she' is coming for him.
- Ch 38Edict says a female mantis eats the male's head during mating; a secondary abdominal brain keeps him alive.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 48The AI reveals the mantises found ancient facilities in their Hive Home system and recently created 'stable' macro AIs with an error-replacement net.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 35Ambush at Alucarda
Carl teleports back into Alucarda amid mantis and Nebular hunters, triggers traps and an alarm ball, and turns the hunters against each other with explosives and a berserking potion.
- Book 5 · Ch 37A male mantis arrives
Bomo returns from Zockau with a small male mantis who urgently wants to talk to Carl.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Mantis swarm disrupts changeling evacuation
Mantis nymphs swarm the floor, forcing the Sledge's changeling escort to switch to entering the castle by airship.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Battle at the castle
Mounted elves, mantises and changelings clash outside the castle; mantises seize the Twister and the Sledge jumps to the roof with Bonnie and others.
- Book 8 · Ch 96The Primal history
Across the floats, the AI tells of the Primals' Resolution, Decision, the Betrayal of the doomsday collective, the war, the Eulogist and the Apothecary, then punishes the mantids and breaks Team Resolution's legs for a weak float.