Odette
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 27 (27)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 27Odette wants to interview Carl and Donut on air about their progress.
- Ch 28Odette, the galaxy's most beloved host, is a crab-taur with a mantis-like head and a huge-breasted human torso.
- Ch 29Odette's crab-and-mantis look is a costume: she is a legless human woman of about sixty on a floating disc.
- Ch 29Odette was once a crawler who reached the stairwell to the thirteenth floor but struck a deal instead of descending.
- Ch 29Odette was Mordecai's trainer long ago and asks Carl and Donut to tell him to seek her out after this crawl.
- Ch 29Odette advises Donut never to change race from a cat, as fans love her as she is.
- Ch 29Odette says loot isn't random: the AI rewards whatever makes the show more profitable or entertaining.
- Ch 29Odette says she helps them because her audience loves them, and she loves money above all.
- Ch 36Odette holds first right of refusal on interviewing Carl and Donut at each floor opening while their numbers stay high.
- Ch 48Odette admits she pushed Mordecai too hard in the past and he paid dearly for it; she wants a chance to explain.
- Ch 48Odette stayed human in her own crawl, and advises Carl to get a pathfinder or mapping skill and let Princess Donut choose her class first.
- Ch 48Odette hints at a hidden class option, likely among Princess Donut's choices, that boosts survival but will make someone very angry.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 15Carl wonders why Odette knew Mordecai would be angry about being chosen as manager.
- Ch 26Odette reveals Carl's last-second detonation tempered the wild-magic blast, potentially saving thousands of NPCs and dozens of crawlers.
- Ch 26Odette's interview contract is voided if Carl dies and Donut joins Brynhild's Daughters, giving her a stake in warning Carl.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 25Odette has amended her contract so Katia must attend the post-floor interviews, and wants her to be 'zippier'.
- Ch 35Odette privately admits she, not her husband, sponsored Hekla, and hopes to explain why one day.
- Ch 35Odette is muted after starting to say she warned Carl's team about Chris, which Carl takes as a sign something is going on with him.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 19Odette filed a court appeal over the cancellation of Carl and Donut's appearance on her show.
- Ch 35Appearances by the crawler Dr. Hu backs on Odette's show draw more people to sign up for the cause.
- Ch 35Odette orders Brad left to die, the null framed for the fight, and Gravy Boat sent to Borant for the walk-on bounty.
- Ch 35Odette promises Beatrice won't be sold to Borant, saying she has a much better use for her.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 12Zev moves Carl and Donut's visit to Odette's show to later that day, with extra scrutiny for Carl.
- Ch 18Odette had Beatrice removed from Earth to stop her being used against Carl and Donut; she is now off planet heading for the inner system.
- Ch 18Odette hints her motives relate to something she once did to Mordecai, and tells Carl to get the story from him.
- Ch 18Odette is using Beatrice to blackmail Borant, gaining a higher revenue share in exchange for letting Borant take credit for saving her.
- Ch 19On air, Odette tells a cover story that Borant rescued Beatrice from pirates and handed them to the Syndicate.
- Ch 19Odette says the change is good news for Mordecai and other guides because existing contracts survive, but pities them having the Valtay.
- Ch 42Odette once had a warrant and is now married to the president of the corporation that bought her out.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 2Years ago Odette was game guide to Mordecai's skyfowl party; reaching the eleventh floor would free her from indentureship.
- Ch 2Odette lost her legs and her planet; the dungeon once forced her to choose between saving her friend Armita and her cousin Pieter.
- Ch 15Odette has made specials about Carl, Donut, Li Na and Katia to air while she travels to Earth orbit.
- Ch 22Odette has arrived in Earth orbit and plans to ask Carl and Donut something live on air.
- Ch 37Odette announces on air that she won't be able to serve as an adjutant this season.
- Ch 37Mordecai, Odette and Huanxin share an old feud that ended with Mordecai's brother dead and Odette arrested.
- Ch 38Odette is putting her show on hiatus to enter the dungeon, having sponsored a deity for the Celestial Ascendency.
- Ch 39Odette arranged the downing of a liaison spy probe to get fifteen unmonitored minutes to talk with Carl.
- Ch 39Odette entered the dungeon as a youth with her cousin Pieter and friend Armita, and was forced to choose Armita over Pieter.
- Ch 39Odette was once Mordecai's manager and made an illegal deal with Huanxin, facilitated by Armita, to rig the game.
- Ch 39Odette betrayed Huanxin by trapping the goddess Dodola, whom Chaco killed; Mordecai advanced but his brother Uzzi died.
- Ch 39Odette claims her purpose is guilt over Mordecai, and plans something extreme that will likely kill both her and Huanxin.
- Ch 39Odette says crawl planets exist to harvest elements as fuel, and she wants to shut the crawl down responsibly this season.
- Ch 39Odette has set aside trusts for Mordecai and Chaco, and urges Carl to make Katia eat the orchid soon.
- Ch 74Odette is going to play an immortal goddess, which changes the group's plans.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 52Odette, appearing without her costume in a floating wheelchair, replaces Chaco as host; she has onboarded into the Ascendency playing Nekhebit.
- Ch 98Huanxin says Odette has taken control of the zombies created by the city's landing, having already taken out Inpewt.
Connections
- leadsDungeon Crawler After Hours with Odettehost
- related toMordecaiwas his trainer
- enemy ofMordecaitestified against her when she was his manager
- related toLexisproduction assistant
- ally ofMordecaireached the sixth floor together
- related toLoitamutual hostility and old acquaintance
- related toBorant Corporationblackmails Borant using Beatrice
- ally ofLexis
- friend ofArmita
- family ofPietercousin
- enemy ofHuanxin Jinx
- related toNekhebitOdette will perform as the goddess Nekhebit
- related toSekhmetlikely controls her now
- enemy ofTemkilled him
- partner ofHarry Tischhusband
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 27Invited to Odette's show
Lexis tells Carl and Donut that Odette wants to interview them, and Donut is ecstatic.
- Book 1 · Ch 28Interview with Odette
Carl and Donut appear on Odette's talk show; Donut wows the audience, Carl is made to say 'Goddamnit, Donut', and clips of their fights are replayed.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Odette unmasks
After the taping, Odette removes her costume and privately advises Carl and Donut about fame, loot, races and Mordecai's indentureship.
- Book 1 · Ch 48Odette's interview
On Odette's show, Carl addresses the Pork Boy Snick and the Skull Empire, denying involvement while keeping his challenge to the Maestro open.
- Book 1 · Ch 48Odette's warnings and advice
After the show Odette warns Carl about the Valtay Corporation, reveals Mongo is a velociraptor and hints at a risky class choice.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Princess Donut becomes a Former Child Actor
Princess Donut stays a cat and, in a ruse planned with Carl, picks Former Child Actor, binding a furious Mordecai to them as manager.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Odette's post-floor interview
On Odette's show, Carl, Donut and Katia learn their blast tempered Remex's explosion, but Borant's veto denied them Celestial rewards; Quan Ch kept his.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Leaderboard revealed
Odette reveals the draft top-ten leaderboard, with Carl and Donut sixth and seventh, and explains the numbers are bounties on each crawler.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Odette's private warnings
Odette privately warns Carl about Grull, a possible Skull Empire deity sponsorship, and Hekla's designs on Donut.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Loita replaces Zev
In the production trailer, Loita announces Zev's 'reeducation' and takes over as PR agent, clashing with Carl and later censoring Odette's interview.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Odette interview after Floor 4
Odette discusses the Death Challenge, Borant's losses and the Maestro's humiliation; Carl needles her about sponsoring Hekla, and Loita mutes topics about Eva and Chris.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Odette's cover-up
Odette orders the scene staged as a fight over the cat, Brad left to die, and Gravy Boat handed to Borant, while Beatrice is kept for a better use.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Zev's heads-up
Zev contacts Carl and Donut to say they will appear on Odette's show, and that their Vengeance of the Daughter contract still applies.
- Book 5 · Ch 17Odette reveals Beatrice is alive
In Odette's trailer, with Zev present in person, Odette tells Carl that his ex-girlfriend Beatrice is alive.
- Book 5 · Ch 18Odette explains Beatrice's rescue
Odette reveals she had Beatrice taken off Earth to keep bounty hunters from selling her to Borant, and asks permission to bring her on the show before a rival program breaks the story.
- Book 5 · Ch 18Donut agrees to the reunion
Despite Carl's fury and refusal, Donut decides they will go on Odette's show and do the reunion with Beatrice.
- Book 5 · Ch 19Beatrice on Odette's show
Beatrice appears as a guest on Odette's show; Carl and Donut stay cold on air, then off air Donut confronts Beatrice for planning to give her away and they say goodbye.
- Book 5 · Ch 20Lexis's warning
While surveillance is down during the hand-off to Valtay control, Lexis warns Carl and Donut that the Butcher's Masquerade is being set up to wipe out the top crawlers and that Queen Imogen is a hidden country boss.
- Book 5 · Ch 39Zev's warning
Zev urges Carl to reach a saferoom for his last CrawlCon appearance and reveals Odette's interview tunneled, adding to attention on Carl.
- Book 6 · Ch 2Storm gods summoned on the tenth floor
Mordecai's party summons storm gods Dodola and Adad to open the stairwell; Huanxin, driving Dodola, banishes Adad and demands half of Odette's bonus.
- Book 6 · Ch 2Chaco kills Uzzi
At Odette's urging, Chaco worships Dodola and uses the Dart of Ophiotaurus on Uzzi, forcing Dodola to manifest in a containment circle where she dies and the key forms.
- Book 6 · Ch 2Mordecai's vow
Mordecai tackles Chaco into the stairwell and vows to escape and kill Odette, who is now free.
- Book 6 · Ch 9New interview and meeting scheduled
Zev books Carl and Donut on Shadow Boxer after Odette's show is postponed, and announces a Faction Wars preproduction meeting for Floor 9.
- Book 6 · Ch 19Eileithyia's secret deal
Under cover of a spider-killing quest, Eileithyia secretly messages Carl, demanding he accept Odette as Faction Wars Adjutant and tell no one, in exchange for protection and help until the twelfth floor.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Zev's secure briefing
In a secure sponsor conversation, Zev explains the adjutant role and urges Carl and Donut not to choose Odette, for Mordecai's sake.
- Book 6 · Ch 37Carl and Donut on Odette's show
On Odette's show, Carl and Donut defend the Desperado incident and learn that Empress D'Nadia tried to have them deleted via emergency action items.
- Book 6 · Ch 37Odette declines the adjutant role
Odette explains the adjutant role, then reveals she can't be one this season, threatening Carl's secret deal to save Katia.
- Book 6 · Ch 38Odette announces she will play Nekhebit
Odette reveals she has sponsored the re-ascended vulture goddess Nekhebit and will enter the dungeon for the Celestial Ascendency.
- Book 6 · Ch 39Odette's confession
In a private window, Odette tells Carl of her crawl, her betrayal of Huanxin, the deaths of Uzzi and Armita, her guilt over Mordecai, and her plan to end the crawl.
- 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 52Carl closes the communication loophole
Learning teams talk to the outside by renaming news programs, Carl spends an Emergency Action Item to close all such loopholes.
- Book 7 · Ch 52Juice Box's warning
Juice Box denounces the outsiders, transforms into a terrifying tentacled alien and warns that something is coming for everyone, then leaves.
- Book 7 · Ch 53Blood Hunter revelation
Odette reveals the Blood Sultanate made Blood Hunter; Carl realizes their troops are already dead and bursts out laughing, while Donut vows vengeance on Vinata.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.