The Hunters

The registered participants of the Hunt: alien big-game hunters of dozens of races (Mantis, Draconian, Saccathian, orc and more) who pay to track and kill crawlers for their gear and the spectacle. They can’t leave the named city until the grace period ends, but their pets and traps deploy early. A core group of about 20 regulars returns every season: apex killers like the mantis Vrah, whose personal death counts run into the thousands. The book’s ‘Masquerade’ centers on this annual carnival of slaughter.

Book 5 appearances

• Chapter 1 — 360 hunters on deck, boosted to level 50; Ian names the worst of the regulars: the head-collecting mantis Vrah.
• Chapter 5 — Caught drunk and sequestered in Zockau, dozens die in Carl’s pre-emptive bombing.

Related entries

• The Hunt & the Grace Period (Notification)
• Vrah (Character)
• Hunter Xindy (Character)
• The Hunting Grounds (Floor 6) (Place)
• Zockau (Place)

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