Remex
Names: RemexRemex the Grand
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 22 (22)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 22Remex, Miss Quill's husband and a former magistrate, is neither alive nor dead and is casting a great spell to fully restore himself.
- Ch 22Remex hides on the upper floor of the swordsmen guards' building, where the guards don't notice him.
- Ch 24Remex is not a lich or boss but a level-1 Soul Leech Capacitor, a bereft minion of the dead Miss Quill.
- Ch 24Remex says he must restart his story if killed before finishing it, and that an orc once killed him mid-story.
- Ch 24Carl deduces Remex was a crawler who escaped on the tenth floor and became an NPC; Remex longs to rejoin his son.
- Ch 25After the contained blast, Remex becomes the source of a bigger wild-magic explosion due in twenty minutes, preceded by four precursor bursts.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 56Remex used Zerzura during his crawl; it skipped from the sixth to the ninth floor and his army was slaughtered.
Connections
- partner ofMiss Quillhis wife
- related toBurgundyone of his krasue servants
- related toCity Elfhas glamoured the city elves into his control
- inSwordsmen depot
- related toMiss Quillbereft minion and soul capacitor
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 22Burgundy's confession
The dying krasue Burgundy reveals that Miss Quill ran the city, Featherfall was a long-dead fetish, and Quill's undead husband Remex transforms women into krasue. Donut kills her at her request.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Preparing to confront Remex
With a crowd of townsfolk watching, Carl wires the swordsmen depot with dynamite, hands Katia the detonator, and climbs up with Donut to face Remex, who turns out not to be a lich.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Remex tells the story
Remex reveals Miss Quill's plot to cast The Final War and reclaim the Over City for the skyfowl, completing the quest The Sex Workers Who Fell from the Heavens.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Containing the soul gem
Instead of fleeing to the Desperado Club, Carl and Donut return and Carl encloses the cracking Soul Crystal in the Sheol Glass Reaper Case, hoping it holds.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Bracing for the blast
With seconds left on the countdown and the gem sealed in the glass case, Carl and Donut sit together, share confessions, and brace for the explosion.
- Book 2 · Ch 25The contained explosion
The soul gem explodes silently inside the Reaper Case, becoming Carl's Doomsday Scenario, which Carl stores in inventory. Remex becomes the source of a bigger explosion.
- 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 5 · Ch 56Quasar explains Zerzura
Fifteen days earlier, Quasar explains the Zerzura spell and its dangers as a way to move the changelings' town downward, and plans to negotiate for mercenaries.