Tran
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 20 (20)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 20Tran, a level 28 human Swashbuckler with metal detection, finds a ring under the drainage wheel.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 5Tran lost his legs at the end of the last floor and mourns his friend Gwendolyn Duet; he received a floating wheelchair.
- Ch 9Tran, who lost both legs and his friend Gwen on the previous floor, is learning to use a floating wheelchair.
- Ch 13Tran is adjusting to life without his legs and, Bautista says, is resilient.
- Ch 24Tran lost both legs during the Butcher's Masquerade and now uses a floating magical wheelchair.
- Ch 69Tran kills Amayon's level-120 rock-monster totem by blowing up his wheelchair, but is injured and stuck.
- Ch 72Tran is in Katia's squad and is trapped with Imani in a collapsed pocket of the FOSCA building.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 28Tran commands the southern defense using Katia's two-part wheelchair: a mechanical crab body plus full-plate battle armor.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 53Tran reports Li Na cast a dread during his race, making racers kill each other; only five of twenty-four teams survived.
- Ch 57Tran insists the deaths aren't Zhang's or entirely Na's fault, since the racers attacked her and her dreads made them kill each other.
- Ch 77Apartment 712 contains Tran's parents, Hoa and An, as human shells; Tran's photo is the only one without crossed-out eyes.
- Ch 77The System AI says that even if Tran's father had not died, his mother would still have disowned him.
Connections
- ally ofGwendolyn Duet
- ally ofKatia Grimon Katia's team
- friend ofGwendolyn Duet
- friend ofDaniel Bautista 2
- member ofTeam Katia
- member ofKatia Grimin Katia's squad
- related toKatia Grimbuilt his wheelchair armor
- leads102nd Bulwark Battalion
- family ofHoamother, as depicted in apartment 712
- family ofAnfather, as depicted in apartment 712
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 22Flushed into the sea
Tran opens the drainage valve, the water washes away the sandcastle and blasts Carl and Donut into the water quadrant, where Carl keeps them alive as a predator feeds nearby.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Planning the submarine dive
At the Death Stalker tavern Carl meets water-quadrant survivors Britney and Vadim; Vadim agrees to guide Carl, Katia and Tran to the Akula's pump controls.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Chum bombs and the dive
From the flying house, Donut detonates chum bombs to distract the concierge sharks, then Katia becomes a diving bell and drops Carl, Tran and Vadim onto the Akula's hull.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Into the drowned Akula
Carl, Tran and Vadim swim through the flooded Akula, drain an airlock, and loot the neighborhood map from the sentinel gun boss's hidden control box.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Quetzalcoatlus attacks
The ghost of Quetzalcoatlus screams through the bulkhead, nearly killing Vadim, while a gigantic creature approaches the sub and reaches for it as Katia flees.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Henrik's body found
As the Akula is dragged to the sea floor, Carl reaches the bridge and loots Henrik's corpse, briefly triggering a Syndicate court lock over the gate items.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Lusca boss battle begins
Lusca swallows the Akula in a live-commentated special event; Carl orders the depth charges dropped and everyone topside to saferooms as a ten-minute timer starts.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Bloodlust bomb in the Akula
Trapped as Lusca's babies flood the bridge, Carl seals himself, Katia and Tran in the stateroom and detonates a bloodlust-potion bomb that makes the juveniles devour each other.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Protective Shell and Leatherface vs Lusca
As Lusca swallows, Carl's Protective Shell breaks open her jaw, and Katia's rocket-propelled buzzsaw spins through the octo-shark's head.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Lusca killed
Lusca's tentacle stops the spinning buzzsaw, but she is already dead; Carl, Katia and an injured Tran trudge across the crushing sea floor.
- Book 4 · Ch 27The feral god is released
With everyone in saferooms, Carl uses the Gate of the Feral Gods to teleport to Pandinus, flooding the town wall, and shelters as a feral god arrives.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Orthrus in the bubble
Carl's team finds the giant two-headed puppy Orthrus trapped in their bubble, hurt by lightning and sharks, triggering the group quest Where the Red God Glows.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Connecting the lightning trap
While Carl's team fights feral pazuzu, Morris reconnects the electrical panel as Low Thi decoys Quetzalcoatlus; both die, and lightning strikes the towers.
- Book 6 · Ch 5Crawlers reel from the last floor
Over chat, Carl learns Britney and Louis are grieving Firas, and Tran lost his legs and his friend Gwendolyn Duet.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Friends arrive in Cuba
Imani leads over twenty crawlers, including Elle, Katia, Louis and Li Jun, out of the church via a Doggie Door to help Carl with his plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 69Ysalte's Raid Stash
Ysalte steals cards from every crawler and summons stolen totems including Zhe and Frank Q against them, as Tran kills Amayon's last totem below.
- Book 6 · Ch 72Digging for Imani and Tran
Elle, Bautista and others dig through rubble to reach the trapped Imani and Tran as demons swarm from all sides.
- Book 7 · Ch 28Rot sticker assault on the southern trenches
The Reavers unleash about 1,000 diseased rot sticker behemoths against the Posse's southern trenches; mages raise an earthwork and the Moles blow it up, but Gurgles-infected soldiers die in the trench.
- Book 7 · Ch 28Carl prepares the counterattack
With Louis in position in Party Planner and Elle watching the enemy lines, Carl tells Tran it is their turn to strike.
- Book 7 · Ch 29Planning the southern assault on the Nagas
Carl, Tran and Colonel Boomer review Elle's scouting of the enemy trenches, trebuchets, cavalry, tanks and invisible Madness troops before attacking the Naga territory toward the Blood Sultanate castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 54Carl prepares the assault
Carl checks in with his commanders, then collects hundreds of potion balls from Mordecai and sets off with Samantha.
- Book 7 · Ch 55The plan to kill the line of succession
Carl recounts the four-group plan built on Tipid and Rosetta's intelligence to kill the four naga in Vinata's line of succession.
- Book 8 · Ch 19Zhang reports Li Na's killings
Zhang messages that Li Na killed five teams and her heat's replacements include two crawler teams, including Tran's; Li Na sits unresponsive while Zhang drives.
- Book 8 · Ch 53Li Na's dread in Tran's race
Tran's messages reveal Li Na cast a dread that made racers kill each other, leaving only five surviving teams.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Zhang's despair at the Lollipop
At the Lollipop, Zhang breaks down over Li Na's killings and reveals his plan to kill Torpedo so the system kills them both; Carl says it won't work.
- Book 8 · Ch 58The cleaner bot plan is a go
After Mordecai's test succeeds, Carl approves a plan to send Li Na to the Pineapple Cabaret via Herot's cleaner bot purchases.
- 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 76Cabaret escape completed
227 crawlers are sent to the Pineapple Cabaret, and the Garden of Deliverance is set up to track whether each has died or escaped.
- Book 8 · Ch 77Racing through the what-if apartments
Carl's team clears gates one and two in apartments depicting crawlers' alternate lives, including Tran's parents' home, using Hole spells to drop between floors.