Vadim Zbar
Names: Vadim ZbarVadim
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 25 (25)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 25Vadim Zbar is a level-28 Kuhli Gut Rearranger, a healer/rogue, and was a cosmetic surgeon in Ukraine.
- Ch 25Langley says Vadim was a famous, often-sued Ukrainian surgeon rumoured to have fathered about 50 children with clients.
- Ch 27Vadim abandons the others inside Lusca's mouth, fleeing upstairs to the Akula's last escape pod and ignoring their messages.
- Ch 27Vadim, sealed in the Akula's escape room, launches the last escape pod but dies when pain-amplifier jellyfish get into it.
Connections
- ally ofBritney Proskurinalast two survivors of their party
- has memberBritney Proskurinalast survivor of Vadim's team
Key moments
- 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 27Vadim's death
Vadim fires the last escape pod through the dead shark and the jellyfish layer, then dies when pain amplifiers get inside.