Harbinger

An enormous caprid liaison: a goat-creature of the Plenty twice Prepotente's height, with a line of red bug-eyes down a nightmare face, oily-black silk fur, and a deep, wall-rattling bleat. He attends the Shadow Boxer taping as the sponsor liaison, but his “demon language” won't run through the translator (Quasar suspects it could raise the dead), and he can barely turn his stiff neck. He is the same liaison who backed Maggie My's plot to kill Carl in league with the Skull Empire (already sanctioned for it) which makes his presence wildly improper, since a caprid is also one of Carl's own sponsors (Carl's attorney rages about it). He spends the interview a silent, looming threat, eyes locked on Carl, vetoing any moment Donut might be left alone with the host.

Book 6 appearances

• Chapter 12 — Looms over the Shadow Boxer taping as the sponsor liaison: the same caprid who backed Maggie My’s plot to kill Carl.
• Chapter 13 — Ends the interview mid-sentence, accusing Carl and Rosetta of talking in code; bans Rosetta from ever interviewing a crawler and openly vows to have Carl and the caprid “disposed.”
• Chapter 35 — Polices Carl and Donut’s Odette interview from the shadows, threatening to cut the broadcast if they leak privileged Faction-Wars or Juice Box intel.
• Chapter 36 — Abruptly blinks out of the studio mid-show without explanation, leaving even Quasar baffled.

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• The Plenty (Character)
• Quasar, the Null (Character)
• Zev (Character)
• Crawler Maggie My (Character)

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