Nebulars
Names: Nebularsnebsnebularnebular priestsNebular team
First appears in Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapter 33 (33)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 33The Nebulars are camped out too, claiming the right to hunt Carl because he is in their territory.
- Ch 34The Nebulars are a nomadic, self-augmenting religious cult of many species, generally pacifistic but long at odds with the mantids.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 62Carl suspects the Nebulars, a cult who worship the thing running the center system, deliberately pushed Sister Ines back into madness.
- Ch 66The Nebulars worship an ancient, stable AI at the galaxy's center and seek to shut down crawls by eradicating crawl-capable planets and their people.
- Ch 66The Nebulars keep trying to win the Celestial Ascendency to gain a seat on the Syndicate crawl council.
Connections
- includesNebular Sin Patrol
- enemy ofMantis
- ally ofSister Ines QuiteriaNebulars are her sponsor and patron
- ally ofYsaltesponsors her
- related toAgathaaligned with the Nebulars
- related toThe Eulogistworship the Eulogist
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 6 · Ch 66Ysalte and the Nebulars
Mordecai identifies Ysalte as the deadly Vinegar Bitch and reveals that the Nebulars sponsor both her and Sister Ines, explaining the cult's genocidal aims.