Prepotente
Names: PrepotentePonythe goatPrepotente Lorenzo De La Rosa
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 26 (Epilogue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 4Prepotente and Miriam Dom drew the air quadrant of a cave bubble, targeting a spider nest hanging from the ceiling.
- Ch 25After Miriam Dom lost her Club Vanquisher membership for becoming a vampire, Prepotente set his hellspawn goat on the clerics, earning the trio a Holy Crusade Bounty.
- Ch 33Prepotente kills the feral turkey god, gaining eight levels to 55, the highest in the dungeon.
- Ch 34Prepotente, a level-55 caprid Forsaken Aerialist, ranks third on the top ten list.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 5Pony is a crawler who resents Carl for ruining his spell and urges his mother to feed on Carl's blood.
- Ch 6Prepotente, called Pony by Miriam, is a goat turned crawler, level 55 and number three, whose class changed to Profane Vitiate.
- Ch 6Prepotente and Miriam kill by stacking debuffs; they had been debuffing the drunk hunters in Zockau when Carl's attack interrupted them.
- Ch 6Prepotente is highly sensitive; he treats Carl's trap-clearing as an insult and bursts into tears when Carl calls him Pony.
- Ch 6Prepotente says only Miriam may call him by his special name, Pony.
- Ch 47Prepotente is frozen with the Fragile debuff; ten of Miriam's surviving goats, including Bianca, are in his inventory.
- Ch 48Woken by Donut, Prepotente swallows his Ring of Divine Suffering and grieves Miriam, whom he calls mother.
- Ch 48Prepotente receives an emergency benefactor box from his sponsor after Miriam's death.
- Ch 49Prepotente, grieving his mother Miriam, opens a legendary benefactor box and receives a magical spray applicator and an herbicide recipe.
- Ch 49Prepotente vows to kill everyone remotely responsible for his mother's death, or die trying.
- Ch 50Prepotente is hunting Odious Creepers and has already killed three of them.
- Ch 52Prepotente killed ten Odious Creepers, gaining ten levels.
- Ch 57Prepotente has reached level 70 and bears fifteen hunter-killer marks; Bianca now looks like a dragon.
- Ch 57Prepotente delivers a benefactor potion meant for Donut, tagged to be used when the time is right and never given to Tina.
- Ch 65Prepotente, now level 70, asks to join Carl's party for the rest of the floor, interested in Donut's hammer and stick.
- Ch 67Prepotente spent 33 hands and bought the Seventh Floor Pole Position boon from the prize counter.
- Ch 74Prepotente, riding Bianca, delivers the final potion attack on Imogen as Carl passes out, and the battle is won.
- Ch 75Prepotente is now leader of a party with Carl and Donut, formed because he needs Donut's help.
- Ch 76Prepotente uses sponsor-provided items to shatter the seventh floor like a Prince Rupert's drop, sending every crawler straight to the stairs.
- Ch 76Prepotente learned the floor's secret from the description of his mother's Boots of Kiznet's Final Flight.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 3Prepotente caused the crawlers to skip a floor, left Carl's party, and is in the Bahamas.
- Ch 4Mordecai thinks Prepotente will be fine for breaking the last level, since the Borant engineers built it to be breakable.
- Ch 10The top ten list has Prepotente first, Donut second and Carl third.
- Ch 63From the Bahamas, Prepotente reports a red, sunset-like tinge to the sky and blames Carl for zombies killing his opponents.
- Ch 64Prepotente backs Carl's plan but estimates only a 35–50 percent chance it will work, undercutting Carl's pitch.
- Ch 66Before going down, Prepotente tells Carl he won't kill him over his mother, but Carl must help avenge her on the true culprits.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 24Prepotente, scouting with Bianca, warns of enemy movement and plans to settle a score with the Blood Hunter program's lead producer first.
- Ch 33Prepotente, a caprid crawler, calls Miriam mother and fights the club guards in outrage over her expulsion.
- Ch 54Prepotente, now level 99, single-handedly killed most of the naga army without magic before the Princess Posse arrived.
- Ch 54The naga called foul, claiming Prepotente acted as an agent of Carl's army; he won but was given a penalty stasis for threatening the quorum.
- Ch 54Prepotente says the naga own the drama that caused his mother's death and claims the right to vengeance against the sultana.
- Ch 57Prepotente, now level 99 and by far the strongest crawler, asks Carl to recruit him into the army; Carl makes him a Colonel.
- Ch 57Prepotente breaks down sobbing, calling Carl his best friend and admitting how lonely he's been, then screams in Carl's face.
- Ch 59Prepotente has perfect recall of a full interior map of Club Vanquisher, given to him by a guildmaster there.
- Ch 59Prepotente drinks Earth soda pop before battle and is limited to five a day by a rule his mother gave him.
- Ch 61Before battle, Prepotente recites a litany of names including Miriam, Bianca and Ragazzaccia.
- Ch 75Prepotente was taken by Eris's ritual, leaving his enraged mount Bianca to search for him.
- Ch 94Prepotente appears to be drinking far more potions than his daily allotment.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 5Prepotente warns crawlers not to kill opponents, since losing two or more teams in a heat may force crawler-versus-crawler races later.
- Ch 5Prepotente chose a biological mount and is now paired with Jurgen.
- Ch 18Prepotente still carries several regular goats in pet carriers, but is evasive about how many.
- Ch 18Prepotente got the Paramour biscuit and two other enriched biscuits from a celestial box.
- Ch 18Prepotente confesses he is lonely and has nobody to ask for advice about how people are supposed to act.
- Ch 41Prepotente is thrown out of the Lollipop for bringing outside sodas after screaming at the bartender.
- Ch 49Prepotente is moved from the water park, whose tunnels he had mapped, to the jungle track.
- Ch 56Prepotente notes Chalchiuhtlicue mirrors the Aztec goddess of the same name, linked to a flood myth and human sacrifice.
- Ch 64Prepotente calls the plan a surefire suicide method but asks to attach his personal space to the guild.
- Ch 66Prepotente devised the plan for his familiar Bianca to snatch Corky from the Lady Dominators' back seat once their shield fell.
- Ch 68Prepotente discovers that adding any non-molten metal to a slag elemental makes it collapse back into the river temporarily.
- Ch 73The Midnight Epicure told Prepotente to obtain the crystal and hold on to it, saying he will know when to use it.
- Ch 79In apartment 130 Prepotente's mother is playing the piano, and he has jumped off Sweety and won't return.
- Ch 80Prepotente breaks down at his mother's what-if life, feeling unwanted and wishing he had never taken the pet biscuit.
- Ch 80After Carl's comfort, Prepotente hugs him and tells him he may call him Pony.
- Ch 82Prepotente reports nobody who entered the Outreach Guild has come back out, and that fewer than three hundred crawlers remain.
- Ch 87Prepotente stays because he can't leave without Jurgen, and Jurgen won't leave until Lucia Mar is safe.
- Ch 96Prepotente goes off script and sings Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" beautifully, with Sweety stamping the beat.
Connections
- ally ofMiriam Dom
- ally ofHellspawn familiar
- enemy ofCarl
- family ofMiriam Domshe is called Mother
- family ofBianca Del Ciaosiblings
- related toCarlfeuding but reconciled under Miriam's prodding
- related toPrepotente Town Number Fourtown named after him
- related toThe Plentysponsors him
- related toBianca Del Ciaoin a pet carrier in his inventory
- ally ofThe PlentyCarl believes they favour him
- enemy ofOsvaldoPrepotente stole the memorial crystal from him
- ally ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- enemy ofCascadia
- ally ofCarl
- ally ofBianca Del Ciao
- related toMiriam Domher pet before his pet biscuit
- enemy ofBlood Sultanate
- member ofPrincess PosseColonel
- friend ofCarl
- enemy ofMork
- ally ofLi Na
- ally ofJurgensame team
- related toSweetytheir mount
- partner ofRagazzacciagirlfriend before the dungeon
- friend ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- related toMidnight Epicureworshipper
- enemy ofGimliPrepotente killed Gimli
- related toMemorial Crystal: Apitoowns
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 25Hekla tribute recap
The recap honours Hekla, shows Eva abandoning Katia, frames Katia's kill as rage, and reshuffles the leaderboard with Carl third.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Meeting Prepotente and Miriam Dom
The goat crawler Prepotente, whose kill was stolen, confronts Carl through the noodle until his shepherd Miriam Dom smacks him into line.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Rescued at the border
Carl collapses with bleeding bolts in the jungle beyond Zockau, and a group of crawlers including Pony and his mother find him and Donut.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Carl recovers in Miriam's cart
Carl wakes from a coma in a cart pulled by Bianca as Miriam heals his bleed debuff and Donut scolds him for his plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Trap squabble
Carl triggers every trap at the town entrance, Prepotente takes offence, and Miriam forces the two to apologize and hug before they enter town.
- Book 5 · Ch 7Parting with Miriam's group
Carl and Donut separate from Miriam and Prepotente in a looted bugbear town and head to their saferoom.
- Book 5 · Ch 44Miriam Dom calls for rescue
Miriam reveals she is pinned by paralyzed Pony far east of town; despite Mordecai's suspicion of a vampire trap, Carl sews on his anti-vampire patch and sets out.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Miriam's story
Carl and Donut reach paralyzed Prepotente and exhausted Miriam; she explains Viscount Fog's hunt, the bounced Community Pool spell and the ring that marked her.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Death of Miriam Dom
Carl refuses to kill Miriam but guards her; at dawn he marks her with his own ring, and she turns to dust in the sunlight beside Prepotente.
- Book 5 · Ch 48Prepotente wakes
Donut wakes Prepotente, who swallows his Ring of Divine Suffering and screams over Miriam's ashes as Kiwi and other dinosaurs close in.
- Book 5 · Ch 49Prepotente's vow of vengeance
After opening his loot boxes in a temporary safe space and receiving a spray applicator and herbicide recipe, Prepotente takes healing potions from Carl and flies off on Bianca, vowing to kill everyone responsible for Miriam's death.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Creepers begin to fall
System messages report Odious Creepers being killed across the map, including by Prepotente and Eva.
- Book 5 · Ch 56Planning the castle
Carl and his allies study Edgar's castle map and learn Donut's contest entries were accepted, while Prepotente heads their way with a present.
- Book 5 · Ch 57Prepotente's delivery
Prepotente brings Donut a potion from his benefactor that reverses Scolopendra's Transmutation, the second benefactor gift meant for Donut sent via someone else.
- Book 5 · Ch 67Pet show begins
The masquerade pet show runs, with Gimli and Prepotente's Bianca on stage, before Louis dramatically announces Mongo's appearance.
- Book 5 · Ch 74Imogen defeated at heavy cost
The crawlers wear down Imogen with coordinated blunt attacks; the Popovs, Gwen and Cleiton die, Zabit falls to his own trap, and Prepotente lands the final strike.
- Book 5 · Ch 75Aftermath of the battle
Carl wakes to find many dead; Osvaldo and Prepotente quarrel over the memorial crystal, and Katia claims Eva's bounty.
- Book 5 · Ch 75Descending the stairs
Prepotente forms a party with Carl and Donut, reveals the memorial crystal is Apito's, and leads the survivors down the stairs.
- Book 5 · Ch 76Prepotente breaks the seventh floor
From the pole position chamber, Prepotente cracks the glass with an enchanted stick and hammer, shattering the whole Great Race level and sucking every crawler into the stairwell portals.
- Book 6 · Ch 42Book of Voodoo distributed
Nearly every crawler receives a Gold Prepotente Box containing the Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo, a messaging book with ominous hints.
- Book 6 · Ch 54Return to Cuba
On December 26th Carl and Donut are dropped in a Cuban church with a key; Carl's stairwell traps fire and other squads report in, many having set traps.
- Book 6 · Ch 63Sluggalos versus demons
Imani releases the Sluggalos Doctor Bones bred in the training arcade to feed the demons' portals around the church, while Carl begins forming a larger plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 63Carl gathers intel on Sheol
Mordecai briefs Carl on Sheol's queen and princes, and Prepotente reports the reddening sky as Carl seeks ideas for making the event global.
- Book 6 · Ch 64Carl's mass appeal
Carl messages all crawlers to stop fighting over keys and clear around stairwell chambers; after doubts and infighting, Katia, Elle, Li Na and many others agree.
- Book 7 · Ch 24Enemies prepare an early assault
Prepotente, Elle and Florin report enemy troops and tanks moving on both borders despite the ceasefire; Carl orders a code red and tells Louis to launch the bomber.
- Book 7 · Ch 33Miriam and Prepotente flee into Milk's guild
Fighting Club Vanquisher's guards after Miriam's access is revoked, Miriam, Prepotente and Bianca burst into Milk's hidden guild; Bianca burns it, but Miriam heals Milk.
- Book 7 · Ch 33Milk offers a way out
Ashamed of years of inaction, Milk invites the crawlers to 'threaten' her so she can give them a map of the club's secret exits.
- Book 7 · Ch 54Operation: Snake Pit goes sideways
Carl returns to find Prepotente already killed most of the naga army, insulted the team, and drew off the sluggalos, forcing a change of plan.
- Book 7 · Ch 56Katia's promise
After arguing with Bautista, Katia tells Carl she'd give him the flower for Donut if needed, as Prepotente arrives on his dragon.
- Book 7 · Ch 57Prepotente joins the army
Prepotente lands on Bianca and asks Carl to recruit him; Carl makes him a Colonel and the goat sobs that Carl is his best friend.
- Book 7 · Ch 59Infiltrating Club Vanquisher
Carl and Prepotente take aura potions and pass through the Temple of The Dagda while Bautista distracts the cleric and Li Jun and Zhang trail wire.
- Book 7 · Ch 59The fake bounty ruse
Carl pretends to have captured Prepotente, persuading the ram guard Mork to summon Club Vanquisher's guards.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Breaking into Club Vanquisher
Katia's fake demon alarm and Bautista's pyxies sow chaos; Carl hits Mork with Black Nimbus and the team kills the guards and holds the portals open.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Li Na's dread massacre
Li Na's wire-amplified Dark Purpose makes guards and trophy heads destroy themselves, their ghosts dragged away by chains, defiling the lobby.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Race to the temple portal
Carl, Katia, Prepotente and Samantha cross the blood-soaked club to the temple portal and dial Khepri's temple, where Vinata is visible.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Entering Khepri's temple
Samantha opens the door and the team storms in, only to find Vinata immortal-tagged and Khepri himself present.
- Book 7 · Ch 62Vinata's trap sprung
Carl's team storms Khepri's temple and realizes Vinata anticipated them, summoning Khepri so they'd trespass in a god's presence.
- Book 7 · Ch 62Temple Battle Grudge Match
The AI declares a boss-style temple battle against Khepri and six naga, drags in Li Jun, Bautista and Zhang, and opens betting.
- Book 7 · Ch 64Carl meets Milk
Prepotente leads the team into a hidden guild where Carl finds Milk, the sixth-edition cookbook author, and breaks down in her embrace.
- Book 7 · Ch 74Carl's team is discovered
Elle's Subterfuge is negated and half the Madness forces charge Carl's group on dune buggies; Carl calls in reinforcements and Prepotente while missiles pound the Madness castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 75Eris's Chaos Ritual
Eris casts Bear Witness and Bring Forth the Witnesses, freezing almost everyone outside structures on the floor and lifting them into the sky, including Carl's army and the Madness soldiers.
- Book 7 · Ch 90Setting out to rescue Louis
As cleanup proceeds in Larracos, Carl, Donut and others prepare to raid the Reaver castle to rescue Louis while Prepotente joins Li Na's hunt.
- Book 7 · Ch 94Li Na's marks escape
Prepotente reports that three of King Rust's harem, marked by Li Na, fled to the 18th floor, leaving her permanently unable to heal.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Samantha is thrown to Emberus
With Prepotente spotting, Carl launches Samantha to Emberus at the volcano to stall him while crawlers flee down to the 10th floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 5Prepotente's warning
Prepotente warns in chat that killing more than one opponent per heat could force crawler-versus-crawler races; Zhang hints Li Na may already have killed one.
- Book 8 · Ch 16Jurgen's mystery meat
Outside the Lollipop, Prepotente and Jurgen argue over their Perriso mount Sweety and Jurgen's street food until Jurgen vomits.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Crawler gathering at the Lollipop
Carl and Donut join the other crawlers at the Lollipop karaoke bar and compare vehicles, results and upgrades from heat one.
- Book 8 · Ch 18Prepotente asks about the Paramour biscuit
Prepotente shows Carl and Donut an Enriched Pet Biscuit that would make his former girlfriend Ragazzaccia a humanoid crawler hopelessly in love with him. Donut firmly tells him never to use it and offers to be his daily adviser.
- Book 8 · Ch 35Friends check in
Other crawler teams report their heat results: most won or placed, while Louis's team survived last again and Zhang fears crawler rivals conspiring.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Carl tells the group about Eris
Carl explains Eris's visit and coin in chat; friends react, and Carl proposes talking to the war mages before sharing a half-formed plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 41Planning around Akuma's offer
After leaving Akuma, Carl sets plans to verify his claims and find routes to the Pineapple Cabaret while Donut explains it all in chat.
- Book 8 · Ch 41Tipid finds the guild entrance
Tipid sings karaoke at the Lollipop and a gauge appears, confirming the hidden performance guild requires a perfect song to enter.
- Book 8 · Ch 43Osvaldo explains the memorial crystals
Carl messages Osvaldo, who reveals he had two memorial crystals for Tupa and Ysalte, both rejected, and gave one to Prepotente.
- Book 8 · Ch 49Race tracks rerolled at the pit stop
Zev reveals that each heat rolls a new track for the second half; Carl and Donut get Satan's Water Park while Elle and Imani get the eternal slum.
- Book 8 · Ch 56Researching Chalchiuhtlicue
Rosetta, Mordecai and Prepotente share what they know about the goddess Donut nicknames Chachi.
- Book 8 · Ch 58Dwight's drunken outburst
A drunk Dwight shoves Prepotente at the Lollipop's DJ booth; Imani separates them and Dwight sits sobbing on the floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 60Brawl at the Lollipop
Dwight's attack sparks a bar-wide fight and a fire; Imani knocks Dwight out, Mongo and Dong join in, and Louis and Britney put out the flames.
- Book 8 · Ch 66Racing through the factory
Carl tails the Lady Dominators' GTO through the factory, rocket-jumping a gap between conveyor belts over vats of molten metal amid crashing rivals.
- Book 8 · Ch 66Dominators' shield taken down
Sweety fires rockets into the Lady Dominators' car and Prepotente reports their shield is down, sending Bianca in to grab Corky.
- Book 8 · Ch 72Guild meeting in the pet stables
Carl outlines the plan for the last two heats and Floor 11, including leaving the party to deal with Hellik, while Donut and Imani object.
- Book 8 · Ch 73Examining the Memorial Crystal
In the god-proof stables, Prepotente lets Carl inspect Apito's Memorial Crystal and explains his quest from the Midnight Epicure.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Farewell gathering in Hungry Eyes
About five hundred crawlers gather in Hungry Eyes as two hundred, including Bautista, Tran, Zhang and Archie, prepare to leave for the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 79Team Free Love killed
To go help Prepotente without risking last place, Carl detonates a bomb hidden in the bugbears' beer, eliminating Team Free Love.
- Book 8 · Ch 80Carl comforts Prepotente
In apartment 130, Carl runs on foot to Prepotente, who is transfixed by his mother's what-if life, and persuades him to leave before time runs out.
- Book 8 · Ch 82Mass exodus to the Outreach Guild
715 crawlers take deals, stripping their vehicles of upgrades for those staying; Osvaldo and others refuse.
- Book 8 · Ch 86Donut destroys the Russian Cadillac
As others retreat to use the Pineapple Cabaret holding plan, the Russian crawlers make a run for the exit; after allies drop its shield, Donut crushes the car with Astral Paw.
- Book 8 · Ch 87Crawlers gather at the Hairpin
About thirty crawlers wait outside the Hairpin; seeing Carl as a dachshund, they all collapse laughing before he proposes robbing a casino.
- Book 8 · Ch 88Chris and Britney enter the Nothing portal
Carl bribes Mitch to open the Nothing portal for a test; after a farewell with Imani, Chris goes in, and Britney jumps in after him uninvited.
- Book 8 · Ch 92Chaco announces the parade
Chaco, made parade Grand Master, explains the 90-minute float build, judging and arena; garages merge and Carl and Donut join Prepotente and Jurgen under the theme Vengeance.
- Book 8 · Ch 94Building the Vengeance procession
The team decorates five vehicles and three giant mounts with dahlias and Gurkha gear, assigning drivers and riders for the parade.
- Book 8 · Ch 96Approaching the judging stand
As the processions reach the arena, a huge tentacled tree looms inside and Prepotente prepares the Vengeance presentation.
- Book 8 · Ch 96Prepotente sings
At the judging stand, Prepotente abandons the plan and sings "In the Air Tonight", stunning everyone.
- Book 8 · Ch 102The arena battle ends
The gods and monsters are gone and the crawlers are declared winners even though neither boss died. Hedy and several crawlers are dead, nineteen crawlers remain, and the 18th-floor exit opens.
- Book 8 · Ch 102Carl unites everyone in one party
After Prepotente warns that the level 250 gods are too strong one-on-one, Carl sends party requests until every remaining crawler is in a single party.
- 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.