The Sledge
Names: The SledgeSledgie
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 8 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 14The Sledge bought a protection spell with his own money to guard Princess Donut, whom he now carries on his shoulder.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 5The Sledge casts protective magic shells on Carl and Donut, while Bomo casts Shield, before they flee Zockau.
- Ch 65During the pet show, the Sledge leads changelings into the castle's secret entrance to seize the four towers for the Twister.
- Ch 68The Sledge is escorting the changelings toward the castle but is swarmed by mantises and switches to entering by airship from above.
- Ch 71The Sledge crashes the Twister into two castle guard turrets, destroying both and the airship.
- Ch 71The Sledge and Bonnie escape when the mantises surrounding them turn out to be changelings.
- Ch 72The Sledge begins casting his big spell from inside the castle; Carl warns he will be transferred to the ninth floor.
- Ch 73The Sledge's spell completes, teleporting the castle away from the battle.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 97The Sledge casts Zerzura to transfer Larracos and Shanty Town to the 12th floor, then disappears as a hired mercenary.
Connections
- friend ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- ally ofBomo
- related toCarlbodyguard at the Desperado Club
- member ofThe Royal Court of Princess Donut
- friend ofBomo
- member ofPersonal Guard
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 8Reunion with Elle at the Desperado Club
With hired bodyguards, Carl and Donut meet Elle, now a Frost Maiden, at the Desperado Club.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Donut attacked at the Desperado Club
While Carl talks with Imani and Elle, a human crawler attacks Princess Donut on the dance floor; she survives near death and kills him.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Building a crawler network
At the Desperado Club Carl persuades about twenty crawlers to exchange chat details so they can share intelligence about the floor.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Frank gives Carl the ring
In the Desperado Club a drunk Frank Q. explains Yvette's death and Maggie's vendetta, then gives Carl the Ring of Divine Suffering as revenge.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Frank killed by Chris
The Sledge reports Chris killed Frank in the Desperado Club; Donut then reassures Carl she discarded the PVP coupons.
- Book 5 · Ch 3Mercenaries as collateral
Carl gives up the Gate of the Feral Gods until the ninth floor in exchange for four mercenaries, two of whom carry the teleport spells Teleport to Stairwell and Zerzura.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Escape from Zockau
After the bombs level the block, Carl and Donut flee invisibly through trap-strewn streets while an invisible flying hunter, the town's Grand, shoots Carl with crossbow bolts.
- Book 5 · Ch 35Decoy tricks Lucia
Clockwork Sledges with a fake Donut trigger Lucia's teleport, sending her into Vrah's ambush; Lucia escapes.
- Book 5 · Ch 64The masquerade begins
Inside Ballroom A, Donut meets her sponsor Empress D'Nadia, Chaco runs the prize counter, Vrah charges toward Carl, and Carl signals Bomo, the Sledge and Britney to start the plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Mantis swarm disrupts changeling evacuation
Mantis nymphs swarm the floor, forcing the Sledge's changeling escort to switch to entering the castle by airship.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Battle at the castle
Mounted elves, mantises and changelings clash outside the castle; mantises seize the Twister and the Sledge jumps to the roof with Bonnie and others.
- Book 5 · Ch 71The Twister destroyed
The Sledge crashes the Twister into the castle's guard turrets, destroying both.
- Book 5 · Ch 73The castle teleports away
Carl stores Princess Lunette's golem and drinks Feather Fall as the Sledge's spell moves the castle, freezing everything else in place.
- Book 7 · Ch 37Assault on the Posse castle
Enemy flyers drop paratroopers, saboteurs destroy the anti-air battery and hangar, Reavers enter via a saferoom door, and worm-controlled mages kill defenders from within.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Tagg flees
Edgar spots Epitome Tagg fleeing the Dream castle; Donut has Sledge fire missiles at him while he is marked.
- Book 7 · Ch 97Larracos is sent to the Ascendency
The Sledge casts Zerzura, transferring Larracos and Shanty Town with their NPCs to the 12th floor while mercenaries and outworlders vanish from the dungeon.