Residuals
Names: ResidualsResidual
First appears in Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, chapter 52 (50)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 52Zev believes Carl's mysterious errand concerns the Residuals, but is forbidden from telling him what a Residual is.
- Ch 53Residuals exist in almost every civilization with a primal engine; their purpose is to teach a new dungeon AI to speak with its ancestors.
- Ch 53According to Goff, dungeon monsters will not attack Residuals until they pass their knowledge to the AI, and there's now a war among them.
- Ch 53Orren describes Residuals as a homeless, hyperspatial collective-mind alien race that blends into others' bodies; Agatha is a different kind of Residual.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 2Residuals exist in almost every civilization with a primal engine and teach infant system AIs to speak with their ancestors.
- Ch 2The Residuals are split by a war between two sides; a more extreme faction exists beside Goff's own.
- Ch 36Residuals are hyperspatial lifeforms that enter the dungeon in host bodies; Agatha is one, of a different kind than Paulie.
- Ch 36Paulie's kind of residual wants the crawl ended and tries to turn the system AI against its captors.
- Ch 36Because Mantis scientists can now build more controllable AIs, this may be the residuals' last chance to act.