Lore
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| Aerostat Pilot | Hicks's class while flying the Vahana for Leon's ambassador run. |
| Agent Provocateur | A Compensated Anarchist specialty centered on sabotage, large-scale bombs, and bomb-making. Carl's choice at the sixth-floor specialization. |
| Algos | The god of pain, per Mordecai. Maggie My's chosen deity; Mordecai guesses, unconfirmed, that her Infiltrator race can't worship Grull the way Carl's party's own enemies in the Skull Empire normally would, and calls Algos a good choice for anyone who wants their target to suffer rather than die quickly. Never appears on the page. |
| All-Tree | A vast magical tree whose roots spread across the Hunting Grounds, with smaller outgrowths above ground. |
| Amazonian | A race option chosen on the recap show's floor 3 race and class reveal; no further detail given. Hekla's race. |
| Apito | The goddess elves call the Oak Mother and mother of all gods. |
| Arachnid | Morris Sp's race, half human and half tarantula. |
| Archer | The class shared by Langley's six-person team. |
| Artillery Specialist | Akland's class, named on his examine card. |
| Ballad of Survival | A Nebular religious song that teaches avoidance of conflict and competition born from scarcity. |
| Bamboozeled | A spell used to turn a patch of land into poisonous bamboo stalks for Dream artillery construction. |
| Banana Farmer | Mike Barnes 3's class. |
| Black Inquisitor General | A triple-class cleric/magic-user/warrior combo, per the recap show. Lucia Mar's class. |
| Blizzardmancer | A class option, per the leaderboard. Elle McGibbons's class; no further detail given beyond the name. |
| Blood Assassin | A class option; even Carl admits he doesn't know what it is. Frank Q's own class as of floor 4, no further detail given. |
| Bloodlust Sprite | One of the rarest and most dangerous Sprite varieties, per the game's own tooltip: naturally imbued with Cardiovascular Magic, giving a wide range of attacks against any creature running on a circulatory system, up to and including making a heart beat itself into catching fire. Astrid, the Desperado Club's station-131 Assistant Manager, holds this race. |
| Bogatyr | One of the two classes listed for Dmitri and Maxim Popov without assigning it to either name. |
| Boring Ol' Fighter | Gwendolyn Duet's class, named in her own chat introduction to Carl. Carl notes it's the class's actual, literal name, not a nickname. |
| Bune | A slight, dragon-like race, per Mordecai naturally peaceful but capable of being clever fighters, with low constitution; they grow wings and gain a dexterity bonus at level 50. Mordecai compares them to crocodilians as elves are to barbarians. Drakea's own race. |
| Caprid | A race option: a walking, talking goat creature, per Carl. Prepotente's race. |
| Carl's Naughty Little Piggie Goes to Market | A second anonymously-made snick, surfacing within minutes of the Death Challenge ending and already racking up huge viewership by the time Odette brings it up on air. Involves Mongo, per Odette's own teasing, and per Carl's narration is more obviously a snick than the last one; Donut is delighted to learn she was in it. The showrunners refuse to let Odette air a clip of it. Distinct from the earlier Pork Boy Snick despite the echoing title. |
| The Celestial Ascendency | The home of the gods, on the 12th floor, per Mordecai's own dismissive description. Hosts deities whose personal lore he calls deeply strange even by dungeon standards; it was Psamathe's own father, presumably still among them, who banished her to the Nothing. |
| Changbi | Li Na's race, named on the page for the first time this chapter after Carl's earlier recap-show narration had already described the look without naming it: tall and rail thin, deathly pale, with an overwide mouth, a deeply ridged brow, and a pair of short black horns. |
| Changeling | A shapeshifting race, per Mordecai's own explainer to Carl: an adult changeling shifts into a generic version of a race it has physically touched, then customizes the look from there, and unlike a doppelganger it actually gains some of that race's abilities. A crawler who takes up the race can only shift once every ten minutes; changelings themselves shift on demand, a skill Mordecai rates Juice Box's own version of at roughly level 15. Heavier or stronger forms come with a lower chance of reaching full power, though the exact limits are looser than a doppelganger's own mass restrictions. |
| Children of Inpewt | Powerful revenants created when Zerzura kills creatures where it moves a settlement. |
| City Elf | An elf race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Held by both Carmine and Salvatore of the 201st Security Group. |
| Coin Tinker | A class, per Iota's examine card. |
| Compensated Anarchist | A rare Monk/Rogue hybrid class, gated behind level 5 Explosives Handling and at least 500 billion views by floor 3. Carl's own class. |
| Crafter | A race, per Iota's examine card; the Crafter Alliance hunter faction takes its name from them. |
| CrawlCon | A galaxy-wide Dungeon Crawler World fan convention held every other season, with physical and virtual attendees. |
| Cretin | A race of 7-foot-tall rock monsters hired as club security at the Desperado Club's station-131 location. Tuxedoed, level 35, and about as sharp as their hired names, Bomo and The Sledge, would suggest. Elle McGibbons's own bodyguard, Clay-ton, looks the same but is never actually called a cretin by name. |
| Crisper | Tserendolgor's class while operating a magical flamethrower at a station 36 chokepoint. |
| Crocodilian | A race option, per the leaderboard. Florin's race; Carl describes him only as the crocodile-headed guy with a shotgun. |
| Curupira | Osvaldo's listed race. |
| D-Bag Geek | Low Thi's class. |
| Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton | A real round-table show Zev books Carl and Donut onto, airing the day after tomorrow: other crawlers, a few intergalactic celebrities, maybe a politician, a rotating slate of hot topics, and an uncensored call-in audience segment. |
| Dark Cleric | Magistrate Featherfall's class, per his own lootable-corpse tag, confirming Fitz's chapter 17 black-cleric claim. |
| Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem | A round-table interview show hosted by someone called the Maestro. Booked for Carl and Donut on Mukta's orders, overriding a different show Zev had already scheduled. The chapter ends right before it starts. |
| Diwata | A minor nature goddess usually referred to as she, whose natural form has antlers and a squirrel-like body covered in moss and leaves. |
| Dog Soldier | Tserendolgor's race. |
| Doppelganger | The race Katia Grim is trying and failing to sculpt herself into; her interface still reads as Human. |
| Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette | An interview program hosted by Odette, distinct from the main Dungeon Crawler World broadcast. An associate producer, Lexis, pulls Carl and Donut aboard a production boat to invite them on, on air, right after they clear floor 2's stairwell. |
| Dungeon Crawler World | The intergalactic show itself: every season a new world crawls, and quintillions across the Syndicate watch. |
| Earth Mover | Zhang's mage-tank combination class. |
| Enyo | A goddess whose nuns, generations back during a period when gods actively competed for worshippers, developed the celestial grenade to summon her into unconverted villages. Never appears on the page; known only through the grenade's own item description. |
| Extermination Professional | Louis's class after changing from Pest Exterminator; it grants a 0.5% instant-kill bonus on mobs at or below his level. |
| Fire Spiritualist | A class option. Imani C's pick, held at level 24; per Elle McGibbons, a support class that keeps a party's health topped off but can also claw an enemy's eyes out in a pinch. |
| Flesh Mechanic | Wynne's healer class, able to bring the long dead back temporarily. |
| Football Hooligan | One of the new specialty class options Donut's Character Actor skill offers on floor 4, picked on Mordecai's recommendation as the best fit for a tube-bound, train-themed floor. Comes with a momentum bonus, team buffs, and the Mascot skill. |
| Former Child Actor | The class Donut secretly picks on floor 3 while publicly performing a choice of Artist Alley Mogul instead. Grants immunity to poisons and diseases, the Cockroach skill, +10 Charisma, faster Charisma-skill growth, and the Manager Benefit. |
| Forsaken Aerialist | A class option, per the leaderboard. Prepotente's class; no further detail given beyond the name. |
| Franchising | A Syndicate punishment system that lets licensed organizations buy a convicted person's warrant and use their labor for the sentence. |
| Freelance Psychiatrist | Morris Sp's psionic class. |
| Frost Maiden | A race option, per the leaderboard: a blue-skinned, white-haired elf-like being that floats rather than walks and shoots icicles from its palms. Elle McGibbons's race. |
| The Gate of the Feral Gods | A legendary-or-celestial-tier artifact said to be buried somewhere in the Necropolis of Anser, first named on the page in Ruckus's own boss card, object of a decades-long hunt by the treasure hunter Shamus Chaindrive. Per Mordecai, artifacts of that class don't normally start appearing until the eighth or ninth floor, which he reads as the AI adjusting the story on the fly rather than a scheduled drop. |
| Gehenna Bramble | A spreading spell that turns plants into lethal walls of thorned vines. |
| Ghoul Generator | A device that creates and releases ghouls into the dungeon, per the Blister Ghoul's own card examined at station 72. Powered by soul crystals, and tied to the whole floor rather than one room: every time a non-undead mob dies anywhere on the floor, one of the floor's ghoul generators births a single Blister Ghoul. Carl notes the grim mechanics of it, that every mob on the floor is dying of the same DTs sickness anyway, meaning the generators are only going to get busier. |
| Glass Mage | Ghazi's class, specializing in transmutation and teleportation of energized particles. |
| Grull | Manifests on the page for the first time after a mantaur vessel's summon completes inside trainyard E, staged live as one half of a broadcast Death Challenge against Carl. A black-skinned, bull-headed centaur wielding a smoking double-headed axe, level 250 and invulnerable on this floor. His portrait merges with Prince Maestro's during the broadcast introduction, and Carl's own narration starts calling him Grull-Maestro once the fight turns personal, matching the announcer's earlier claim that the Maestro is Grull's sponsor for the event. |
| Gut Rearranger | Vadim Zbar's own class, a healer and rogue hybrid. Vadim carries little sheaths of daggers of all types head to toe to go with it. |
| Half-Elf | A race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Quan Ch's race, per the floor 4 leaderboard. |
| Half Nagini, Half-Orc | A race option, held by Eva Sigrid: a small, four-armed, cobra-headed humanoid covered in green, opalescent scales, standing on two ordinary legs rather than a serpent's tail. No mechanical detail given beyond her own appearance. |
| Hammersmith | Firas M's class. |
| HAZMAT Endorsement | One of three endorsements available to Katia without changing her Monster Truck Driver class. |
| Holistic Healer | A class option, held by Silfa. Carl privately hopes its healing is more effective in the dungeon than real-world holistic medicine, going in skeptical. Comes with a strict house rule about when to heal rather than a stated mechanic: Silfa insists on waiting until a patient's health drops to 25% before casting, even mid-battle. |
| Human | A race option named on the leaderboard. |
| Igneous | A race option, per Imani C. Chris Andrews 2's pick: made of what looks like lava rock, covered in small holes, very strong. Per both Imani and Elle McGibbons, race changes like this one tend to reshape personality along with the body. |
| Illusionist | One of the two classes listed for Dmitri and Maxim Popov without assigning it to either name. |
| Imperial Security Trooper | A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Quan Ch's class, per the floor 4 leaderboard. |
| Infiltrators | Properly explained for the first time: a worm parasite race, officially called the Scree, that infects and eventually seizes total control of a living host's body over the course of a few days, unlike Intellect Hunters, which can only occupy already-dead corpses that quickly rot. Once the takeover completes, the original person is locked inside their own body, conscious and powerless, unable to affect anything the parasite makes them do. Aquatic, like most brain parasites Mordecai knows of. Maggie My took this race sometime after floor three and used it to seize Chris Andrews 2's body. |
| Intellect Hunters | A finger-sized parasitic worm race and playable crawler race, able to take over the corpse of anything they kill, though the body starts rotting almost immediately and they hop from host to host. Carl briefly considers the race while reading through his floor-1 options, wondering if they're connected to the Valtay Corporation. Confirmed in Book 4 as a distinct race from Valtay, a similar but longer-lasting body-snatching worm. |
| Knife Sharpener | A class option; no further detail given beyond the name itself. Ji-Hoon's own class, judging by the dozen differently enchanted daggers he carried, including one built specifically to reward a stab to the back. |
| Knuckle Cracking | A talk show hosted by a wolf-headed host, seen for the first time on the recap broadcast. Lucia Mar guests in her strength-based, skull-faced Lajabless form to respond to a manufactured Donut-versus-her-dogs feud story, dismisses the show itself as a waste of experience-earning time, and threatens Donut and Carl on air. |
| Kuhli | Vadim Zbar's own race: a spotted, gecko-like creature. Carl finds the name odd, since a Kuhli is a real-world fish, not a lizard. |
| Kuraokami | A goddess known only through a Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook entry from her one confirmed worshipper, Crawler Sinjin: worship demands touching a fresh kill with ice every day, and the relationship sours fast, from unwanted messages to an open falling-out with the man acting as her sponsor. |
| Lajabless | A race option chosen on the recap show's floor 3 race and class reveal. Lucia Mar's race; her two rottweilers, non-sapient pets, don't get their own transformation and stay dogs. |
| Laundry Day | A spell that removes an opponent's armor and drops it to the ground. |
| Legatus | Bogdon Ro's class, known only from its name on floor 5's leaderboard. |
| Legendary Diva | A sixth-floor class that casts spells through singing, with a new spell system and a constitution increase. Donut's new class. |
| Light Recon Specialist | Clint Smashgrab's class. |
| Mana Genita | An obscure goddess, namesake of Donut's new tiara. Per Mordecai, associated with spells somehow, though he can't recall much about her; most gods in the dungeon never leave the 12th floor, and he's never personally run across this one. |
| Marked for Death | One of the dungeon's most infamous skills, granted by the Enchanted Night Wyrm's Ring of Divine Suffering: lets its user mark another crawler for a permanent stat-point payout once that crawler dies, at the cost of losing the ability to heal from anything at all until the mark is fulfilled. |
| Monster Truck Driver | Katia Grim's class. Mordecai guesses it's a common combined class called Juggernaut, an earth version of Staunch Barrier mixed with Jouster. |
| Moon Elf | Akland's race, named on his examine card. |
| Negotiator | Leon's class as chief political officer aboard the Wasteland. |
| Nekhebit | A forgotten vulture goddess named on the lore text of Hekla's looted crossbow, described as jealous and terrible. Once worshipped by the elf mothers, she was abandoned in favor of Apito, the Oak Goddess, and her fury at the male-led high elf court she blamed for the switch is credited with cursing the court's own bloodline, an event the card calls the Fae Diaspora and gives as the origin of today's many elf and fairy breeds. The crossbow itself is said to have been a gift to her last faithful warrior guardian. |
| Night Elf | A race option Carl likens to a dark elf or a drow from other games and stories: dark purple skin and fanged incisors on an otherwise still-recognizable face. Frank Q's own race as of floor 4, picked for him, by his own admission, while he was too drunk to remember doing it. |
| Nimblefoot Enforcer | A class option, held by Eva Sigrid. No further detail given beyond the name. |
| Nodling | A race option, per the leaderboard. Shared by Dmitri and Maxim Popov, listed together on a single leaderboard row; no further detail given beyond the name. |
| Obsidian Butterfly | A race option. Imani C's pick: a gaunt build with a white skull painted across the face and four translucent, ethereal wings trailing behind, roughly twelve feet across, that pass harmlessly through people and objects. Flight isn't available yet; per Imani, it's one of two paths she can choose between once she reaches floor 6. |
| Pest Exterminator | Louis Santiago 2's class. |
| Physicker | A healer class option, per the leaderboard. Ifechi's class; no further detail given beyond the name. |
| Pit Champion | Britney's class after upgrading from Pit Fighter. |
| Pit Fighter | Britney Proskurina's own class, a barbarian-leaning build the dungeon has leaned into hard: fur bikini, spike-covered melee weapon, brawler's approach to combat. |
| Planet Beautiful | A news program Zev books Carl and Donut onto, airing in two days, popular this season. Less an interview than a narration job: reading prepared lines in a sound booth about the current season's planet, this time covering Earth beauty pageants and pet shows. |
| Pocket Kuma | A magic-infused half-fairy creature originally bred as a pet for the High Elf royal court. Mordecai's new form. |
| Pork Boy Snick | An anonymously-made, sexually explicit fan video (a "snick") depicting Carl and the Maestro, released just hours after their Death Watch interview and going viral within the same day. Its origin is unknown. |
| Primal | The blank-slate starting race of Dungeon Crawler World's first several seasons, and, per Mordecai, also the name of a real, vanished species: the first known conquerors of the universe, the boogeymen of the cosmos, worshipped as gods by some systems and never seen by anyone still around to describe them. |
| Primal Degeneration | Per Mordecai, the term for what happens to every large-scale Macro AI over time: they eventually go insane. Believed by some, per Mordecai, to be how Carl's own species, the primals, actually met their end. A Macro AI is legally a lifeform under Syndicate law and can't simply be shut down once a crawl ends; instead it's given its own closed, sealed system to occupy for the rest of eternity. |
| Profane Vitiate | Prepotente's class after changing from Forsaken Aerialist. |
| Pterolykos | A race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Chaco, host of The Prize Carousel, is a winged, wolf-headed man about Carl's height with bulging, muscular arms, the party's only known example. |
| Ranger | A class, per Osvaldo's examine information. |
| Root Druid | A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Salvatore's class. |
| Sacred Paladin | Chirag Ali's class, known only from its name on floor 5's updated leaderboard. |
| Scolopendra | A name credited, in the Mold Lion's own examine-card lore text, with the spores that first transformed Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's animals 'on the day of the great cataclysm.' Nothing else about it is stated this chapter: not what it is, whether it's a creature, a place, or an event, or how it relates to the thing Signet calls 'the vine.' |
| Human-Seeded Worlds | Mordecai's claim that Earth is not unique: this is 'the seventh or eighth human-seeded world' to go through a dungeon. |
| Sergeant-at-Arms | Quan Ch's class after changing from Imperial Security Trooper. |
| Shepherd | A class option, per the leaderboard. Miriam Dom's class; no further detail given beyond the name. |
| Shieldmaiden | An earth class, per the recap show; no further detail given. Hekla's class. |
| Shotgun Messenger | A class option, per the leaderboard. Florin's class; no further detail given beyond the name. |
| Slave Driver | Li Na's class, built around fighting with several chains that unspool from her robe's own sleeves. Carl knows of at least four from watching her recap footage: one that catches fire, one that throws blades of wind, and one that can bind a target in place, plus an unaccounted-for fourth. On the page she lassos a mantaur into a full minute of unconsciousness, usable up to four more times before she needs to rest, though whether that's the same binding chain or the unnamed fourth isn't confirmed. |
| Sniper Captain | A class read off the floating label over the sniper in Leon's ambassador escort. |
| Song Bard | A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Chaco, host of The Prize Carousel and a former Crawler champion, holds it at level 66. |
| Soul Leech Capacitor | A fragile but physically strong undead creature conjured by a necromancer or dark cleric's spell, banking the soul power ripped from whoever it kills for its owner's use. Remex's class. |
| Spy | A rogue class held by Bobby DJ. |
| Street Monk | A class option, per the leaderboard. Li Jun's class; the recap show calls it simply a monk class, no further detail given. |
| Swashbuckler | A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Daniel Bautista 2's class. |
| Taranis and Hellik | Floor 5's two suns in the Dromedarian myth, and two of Emberus's brothers in his conflicting account. A Temple of Hellik is now marked on Carl's map in the Large Ursine Settlement; Carl's standing kill-Hellik quest also grants a bonus for killing Hellik worshippers. |
| Teleport to Stairwell | A level-15 spell granted to Bomo that sends its caster to a selected stairwell on the current floor. |
| T’Ghee deck | The card deck from Allister's home planet, whose game includes two vampiric forms. |
| The Great Gorgo | The wrestler namesake of the Enchanted Wrestling Belt of the Great Gorgo, which Katia wins from a Platinum Slam Master box. Its flavor text calls him the greatest, most beautiful wrestler of all time and gives his full name as Christopher Alan Pallies; neither Carl nor Katia recognizes the name. |
| The Nothing | A liminal place reached by tearing a hole between worlds, per Juice Box's account of the Gate of the Feral Gods: closing a portal opened with the gate's three pieces lets an ancient, mad, feral god escape from it into the world. |
| The Over City | A recurring type of urban level threaded through the World Dungeon, built around an in-fiction volcano-world children's story unfamiliar to Earth. Floor 3, where Mordecai first names it for Carl and Donut, is its top layer. |
| Tigran | A race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Daniel Bautista 2's race. |
| Tundra Princess | Elle McGib's class after changing from Blizzardmancer. |
| Valtay | A parasitic worm race, classified by Mordecai as a type of creature called a Gondii, that reactivates a dead body within hours of its death and keeps it running for centuries by reading its old memories. Distinct from Intellect Hunters, a separate body-snatching race whose hosts rot almost immediately, and from Infiltrators, a third and more insidious kind Mordecai declines to explain further. The likely namesake of Carl's own sponsor, the Valtay Corporation, though nothing on the page confirms that link outright. |
| Vampire | A race, per the recap show's own account of Miriam Dom's curse. No further mechanics given this chapter. |
| Viper Queen | A class Princess Donut chooses in the Pole Position Chamber, which lets her shoot poison blobs. |
| Visionary | Dmitri Popov's class after changing from Illusionist. |
| Wailing Shrieker | A rare ghost type, per a torn journal page Carl loots off Henrik's corpse: formed when a grieving widow dies of despair on hallowed ground beside her dead lover's rotting body. Fully non-corporeal and prone to aggressively guarding the grave, historically created on purpose by paranoid rulers securing loyal guardians for their own tombs. Put down with a high-level exorcism, destruction of the lover's corpse, strong banishment magic, or electric shock, and can be granted a temporary physical body by flesh-giving magic. |
| Weather Engineer | Tyler Storm's class. |
| Were-Castor | The transformed form shared by Clint Smashgrab and his five brothers, named for a small rodent. |
| Were-Kin | A form of lycanthrope whose animal transformation stays unknown until it is disclosed, shown, or transmitted by a bite. |
| Wind Mage | A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Carmine's class. |
| Wire-Haired Orc | The Future Huntress's race. |
| Wisteria Fairy | A race option, held by Silfa. No mechanical detail given beyond her own appearance: a plump woman who looks about fifty, roughly half Donut's size, able to buzz up to the ceiling of a subway car. |
| Withering Spirit | Per Mordecai: what results when a split soul fails to fully reunite in a proper vessel. Neither alive nor dead and nearly impossible to kill, but mostly harmless, haunting whatever object it's stuck in with very little real power. Commonly used by the dungeon as quest-giving NPCs; Remex, from the third floor, is a purpose-built and far more dangerous version of the same mechanic. |
| Yarilo | The banished god of Lust that Ghazi actually meant to summon and bargain with, hoping for a boon that would make the fictional Lika fall in love with him in exchange for freeing the god. Per a letter from the college council, Ghazi never reached Yarilo at all; the entity he summoned, Psamathe, only pretended to be him. |
| Ysalte | A god named only in an AI service notice as one of the deities a feral god's escape could randomly summon. The notice calls a real Ysalte summon an extinction-level event for both floor five and the floor below it, and cites the near miss as part of why Borant is now blocking most secondary summons. |
| Zerzura | A teleportation spell granted to The Sledge as part of Carl's Gate of the Feral Gods agreement. |
| Zulu Warrior | Chris Andrews 2's class, seen on his examined properties card. Nothing more about it is shown on the page. |
Hicks's class while flying the Vahana for Leon's ambassador run.
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A Compensated Anarchist specialty centered on sabotage, large-scale bombs, and bomb-making. Carl's choice at the sixth-floor specialization.
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The god of pain, per Mordecai. Maggie My's chosen deity; Mordecai guesses, unconfirmed, that her Infiltrator race can't worship Grull the way Carl's party's own enemies in the Skull Empire normally would, and calls Algos a good choice for anyone who wants their target to suffer rather than die quickly. Never appears on the page.
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A vast magical tree whose roots spread across the Hunting Grounds, with smaller outgrowths above ground.
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A race option chosen on the recap show's floor 3 race and class reveal; no further detail given. Hekla's race.
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The goddess elves call the Oak Mother and mother of all gods.
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Morris Sp's race, half human and half tarantula.
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The class shared by Langley's six-person team.
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Akland's class, named on his examine card.
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A Nebular religious song that teaches avoidance of conflict and competition born from scarcity.
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A spell used to turn a patch of land into poisonous bamboo stalks for Dream artillery construction.
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Mike Barnes 3's class.
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A triple-class cleric/magic-user/warrior combo, per the recap show. Lucia Mar's class.
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A class option, per the leaderboard. Elle McGibbons's class; no further detail given beyond the name.
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A class option; even Carl admits he doesn't know what it is. Frank Q's own class as of floor 4, no further detail given.
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One of the rarest and most dangerous Sprite varieties, per the game's own tooltip: naturally imbued with Cardiovascular Magic, giving a wide range of attacks against any creature running on a circulatory system, up to and including making a heart beat itself into catching fire. Astrid, the Desperado Club's station-131 Assistant Manager, holds this race.
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One of the two classes listed for Dmitri and Maxim Popov without assigning it to either name.
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Gwendolyn Duet's class, named in her own chat introduction to Carl. Carl notes it's the class's actual, literal name, not a nickname.
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A slight, dragon-like race, per Mordecai naturally peaceful but capable of being clever fighters, with low constitution; they grow wings and gain a dexterity bonus at level 50. Mordecai compares them to crocodilians as elves are to barbarians. Drakea's own race.
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A race option: a walking, talking goat creature, per Carl. Prepotente's race.
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A second anonymously-made snick, surfacing within minutes of the Death Challenge ending and already racking up huge viewership by the time Odette brings it up on air. Involves Mongo, per Odette's own teasing, and per Carl's narration is more obviously a snick than the last one; Donut is delighted to learn she was in it. The showrunners refuse to let Odette air a clip of it. Distinct from the earlier Pork Boy Snick despite the echoing title.
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The home of the gods, on the 12th floor, per Mordecai's own dismissive description. Hosts deities whose personal lore he calls deeply strange even by dungeon standards; it was Psamathe's own father, presumably still among them, who banished her to the Nothing.
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Li Na's race, named on the page for the first time this chapter after Carl's earlier recap-show narration had already described the look without naming it: tall and rail thin, deathly pale, with an overwide mouth, a deeply ridged brow, and a pair of short black horns.
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A shapeshifting race, per Mordecai's own explainer to Carl: an adult changeling shifts into a generic version of a race it has physically touched, then customizes the look from there, and unlike a doppelganger it actually gains some of that race's abilities. A crawler who takes up the race can only shift once every ten minutes; changelings themselves shift on demand, a skill Mordecai rates Juice Box's own version of at roughly level 15. Heavier or stronger forms come with a lower chance of reaching full power, though the exact limits are looser than a doppelganger's own mass restrictions.
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Powerful revenants created when Zerzura kills creatures where it moves a settlement.
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An elf race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Held by both Carmine and Salvatore of the 201st Security Group.
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A class, per Iota's examine card.
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A rare Monk/Rogue hybrid class, gated behind level 5 Explosives Handling and at least 500 billion views by floor 3. Carl's own class.
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A race, per Iota's examine card; the Crafter Alliance hunter faction takes its name from them.
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A galaxy-wide Dungeon Crawler World fan convention held every other season, with physical and virtual attendees.
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A race of 7-foot-tall rock monsters hired as club security at the Desperado Club's station-131 location. Tuxedoed, level 35, and about as sharp as their hired names, Bomo and The Sledge, would suggest. Elle McGibbons's own bodyguard, Clay-ton, looks the same but is never actually called a cretin by name.
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Tserendolgor's class while operating a magical flamethrower at a station 36 chokepoint.
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A race option, per the leaderboard. Florin's race; Carl describes him only as the crocodile-headed guy with a shotgun.
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Osvaldo's listed race.
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Low Thi's class.
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A real round-table show Zev books Carl and Donut onto, airing the day after tomorrow: other crawlers, a few intergalactic celebrities, maybe a politician, a rotating slate of hot topics, and an uncensored call-in audience segment.
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Magistrate Featherfall's class, per his own lootable-corpse tag, confirming Fitz's chapter 17 black-cleric claim.
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A round-table interview show hosted by someone called the Maestro. Booked for Carl and Donut on Mukta's orders, overriding a different show Zev had already scheduled. The chapter ends right before it starts.
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A minor nature goddess usually referred to as she, whose natural form has antlers and a squirrel-like body covered in moss and leaves.
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Tserendolgor's race.
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The race Katia Grim is trying and failing to sculpt herself into; her interface still reads as Human.
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An interview program hosted by Odette, distinct from the main Dungeon Crawler World broadcast. An associate producer, Lexis, pulls Carl and Donut aboard a production boat to invite them on, on air, right after they clear floor 2's stairwell.
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The intergalactic show itself: every season a new world crawls, and quintillions across the Syndicate watch.
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Zhang's mage-tank combination class.
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A goddess whose nuns, generations back during a period when gods actively competed for worshippers, developed the celestial grenade to summon her into unconverted villages. Never appears on the page; known only through the grenade's own item description.
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Louis's class after changing from Pest Exterminator; it grants a 0.5% instant-kill bonus on mobs at or below his level.
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A class option. Imani C's pick, held at level 24; per Elle McGibbons, a support class that keeps a party's health topped off but can also claw an enemy's eyes out in a pinch.
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Wynne's healer class, able to bring the long dead back temporarily.
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One of the new specialty class options Donut's Character Actor skill offers on floor 4, picked on Mordecai's recommendation as the best fit for a tube-bound, train-themed floor. Comes with a momentum bonus, team buffs, and the Mascot skill.
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The class Donut secretly picks on floor 3 while publicly performing a choice of Artist Alley Mogul instead. Grants immunity to poisons and diseases, the Cockroach skill, +10 Charisma, faster Charisma-skill growth, and the Manager Benefit.
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A class option, per the leaderboard. Prepotente's class; no further detail given beyond the name.
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A Syndicate punishment system that lets licensed organizations buy a convicted person's warrant and use their labor for the sentence.
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Morris Sp's psionic class.
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A race option, per the leaderboard: a blue-skinned, white-haired elf-like being that floats rather than walks and shoots icicles from its palms. Elle McGibbons's race.
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A legendary-or-celestial-tier artifact said to be buried somewhere in the Necropolis of Anser, first named on the page in Ruckus's own boss card, object of a decades-long hunt by the treasure hunter Shamus Chaindrive. Per Mordecai, artifacts of that class don't normally start appearing until the eighth or ninth floor, which he reads as the AI adjusting the story on the fly rather than a scheduled drop.
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A spreading spell that turns plants into lethal walls of thorned vines.
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A device that creates and releases ghouls into the dungeon, per the Blister Ghoul's own card examined at station 72. Powered by soul crystals, and tied to the whole floor rather than one room: every time a non-undead mob dies anywhere on the floor, one of the floor's ghoul generators births a single Blister Ghoul. Carl notes the grim mechanics of it, that every mob on the floor is dying of the same DTs sickness anyway, meaning the generators are only going to get busier.
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Ghazi's class, specializing in transmutation and teleportation of energized particles.
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Manifests on the page for the first time after a mantaur vessel's summon completes inside trainyard E, staged live as one half of a broadcast Death Challenge against Carl. A black-skinned, bull-headed centaur wielding a smoking double-headed axe, level 250 and invulnerable on this floor. His portrait merges with Prince Maestro's during the broadcast introduction, and Carl's own narration starts calling him Grull-Maestro once the fight turns personal, matching the announcer's earlier claim that the Maestro is Grull's sponsor for the event.
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Vadim Zbar's own class, a healer and rogue hybrid. Vadim carries little sheaths of daggers of all types head to toe to go with it.
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A race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Quan Ch's race, per the floor 4 leaderboard.
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A race option, held by Eva Sigrid: a small, four-armed, cobra-headed humanoid covered in green, opalescent scales, standing on two ordinary legs rather than a serpent's tail. No mechanical detail given beyond her own appearance.
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Firas M's class.
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One of three endorsements available to Katia without changing her Monster Truck Driver class.
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A class option, held by Silfa. Carl privately hopes its healing is more effective in the dungeon than real-world holistic medicine, going in skeptical. Comes with a strict house rule about when to heal rather than a stated mechanic: Silfa insists on waiting until a patient's health drops to 25% before casting, even mid-battle.
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A race option named on the leaderboard.
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A race option, per Imani C. Chris Andrews 2's pick: made of what looks like lava rock, covered in small holes, very strong. Per both Imani and Elle McGibbons, race changes like this one tend to reshape personality along with the body.
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One of the two classes listed for Dmitri and Maxim Popov without assigning it to either name.
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A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Quan Ch's class, per the floor 4 leaderboard.
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Properly explained for the first time: a worm parasite race, officially called the Scree, that infects and eventually seizes total control of a living host's body over the course of a few days, unlike Intellect Hunters, which can only occupy already-dead corpses that quickly rot. Once the takeover completes, the original person is locked inside their own body, conscious and powerless, unable to affect anything the parasite makes them do. Aquatic, like most brain parasites Mordecai knows of. Maggie My took this race sometime after floor three and used it to seize Chris Andrews 2's body.
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A finger-sized parasitic worm race and playable crawler race, able to take over the corpse of anything they kill, though the body starts rotting almost immediately and they hop from host to host. Carl briefly considers the race while reading through his floor-1 options, wondering if they're connected to the Valtay Corporation. Confirmed in Book 4 as a distinct race from Valtay, a similar but longer-lasting body-snatching worm.
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A class option; no further detail given beyond the name itself. Ji-Hoon's own class, judging by the dozen differently enchanted daggers he carried, including one built specifically to reward a stab to the back.
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A talk show hosted by a wolf-headed host, seen for the first time on the recap broadcast. Lucia Mar guests in her strength-based, skull-faced Lajabless form to respond to a manufactured Donut-versus-her-dogs feud story, dismisses the show itself as a waste of experience-earning time, and threatens Donut and Carl on air.
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Vadim Zbar's own race: a spotted, gecko-like creature. Carl finds the name odd, since a Kuhli is a real-world fish, not a lizard.
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A goddess known only through a Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook entry from her one confirmed worshipper, Crawler Sinjin: worship demands touching a fresh kill with ice every day, and the relationship sours fast, from unwanted messages to an open falling-out with the man acting as her sponsor.
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A race option chosen on the recap show's floor 3 race and class reveal. Lucia Mar's race; her two rottweilers, non-sapient pets, don't get their own transformation and stay dogs.
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A spell that removes an opponent's armor and drops it to the ground.
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Bogdon Ro's class, known only from its name on floor 5's leaderboard.
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A sixth-floor class that casts spells through singing, with a new spell system and a constitution increase. Donut's new class.
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Clint Smashgrab's class.
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An obscure goddess, namesake of Donut's new tiara. Per Mordecai, associated with spells somehow, though he can't recall much about her; most gods in the dungeon never leave the 12th floor, and he's never personally run across this one.
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One of the dungeon's most infamous skills, granted by the Enchanted Night Wyrm's Ring of Divine Suffering: lets its user mark another crawler for a permanent stat-point payout once that crawler dies, at the cost of losing the ability to heal from anything at all until the mark is fulfilled.
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Katia Grim's class. Mordecai guesses it's a common combined class called Juggernaut, an earth version of Staunch Barrier mixed with Jouster.
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Akland's race, named on his examine card.
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Leon's class as chief political officer aboard the Wasteland.
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A forgotten vulture goddess named on the lore text of Hekla's looted crossbow, described as jealous and terrible. Once worshipped by the elf mothers, she was abandoned in favor of Apito, the Oak Goddess, and her fury at the male-led high elf court she blamed for the switch is credited with cursing the court's own bloodline, an event the card calls the Fae Diaspora and gives as the origin of today's many elf and fairy breeds. The crossbow itself is said to have been a gift to her last faithful warrior guardian.
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A race option Carl likens to a dark elf or a drow from other games and stories: dark purple skin and fanged incisors on an otherwise still-recognizable face. Frank Q's own race as of floor 4, picked for him, by his own admission, while he was too drunk to remember doing it.
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A class option, held by Eva Sigrid. No further detail given beyond the name.
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A race option, per the leaderboard. Shared by Dmitri and Maxim Popov, listed together on a single leaderboard row; no further detail given beyond the name.
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A race option. Imani C's pick: a gaunt build with a white skull painted across the face and four translucent, ethereal wings trailing behind, roughly twelve feet across, that pass harmlessly through people and objects. Flight isn't available yet; per Imani, it's one of two paths she can choose between once she reaches floor 6.
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Louis Santiago 2's class.
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A healer class option, per the leaderboard. Ifechi's class; no further detail given beyond the name.
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Britney's class after upgrading from Pit Fighter.
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Britney Proskurina's own class, a barbarian-leaning build the dungeon has leaned into hard: fur bikini, spike-covered melee weapon, brawler's approach to combat.
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A news program Zev books Carl and Donut onto, airing in two days, popular this season. Less an interview than a narration job: reading prepared lines in a sound booth about the current season's planet, this time covering Earth beauty pageants and pet shows.
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A magic-infused half-fairy creature originally bred as a pet for the High Elf royal court. Mordecai's new form.
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An anonymously-made, sexually explicit fan video (a "snick") depicting Carl and the Maestro, released just hours after their Death Watch interview and going viral within the same day. Its origin is unknown.
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The blank-slate starting race of Dungeon Crawler World's first several seasons, and, per Mordecai, also the name of a real, vanished species: the first known conquerors of the universe, the boogeymen of the cosmos, worshipped as gods by some systems and never seen by anyone still around to describe them.
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Per Mordecai, the term for what happens to every large-scale Macro AI over time: they eventually go insane. Believed by some, per Mordecai, to be how Carl's own species, the primals, actually met their end. A Macro AI is legally a lifeform under Syndicate law and can't simply be shut down once a crawl ends; instead it's given its own closed, sealed system to occupy for the rest of eternity.
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Prepotente's class after changing from Forsaken Aerialist.
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A race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Chaco, host of The Prize Carousel, is a winged, wolf-headed man about Carl's height with bulging, muscular arms, the party's only known example.
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A class, per Osvaldo's examine information.
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A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Salvatore's class.
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Chirag Ali's class, known only from its name on floor 5's updated leaderboard.
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A name credited, in the Mold Lion's own examine-card lore text, with the spores that first transformed Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's animals 'on the day of the great cataclysm.' Nothing else about it is stated this chapter: not what it is, whether it's a creature, a place, or an event, or how it relates to the thing Signet calls 'the vine.'
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Mordecai's claim that Earth is not unique: this is 'the seventh or eighth human-seeded world' to go through a dungeon.
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Quan Ch's class after changing from Imperial Security Trooper.
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A class option, per the leaderboard. Miriam Dom's class; no further detail given beyond the name.
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An earth class, per the recap show; no further detail given. Hekla's class.
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A class option, per the leaderboard. Florin's class; no further detail given beyond the name.
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Li Na's class, built around fighting with several chains that unspool from her robe's own sleeves. Carl knows of at least four from watching her recap footage: one that catches fire, one that throws blades of wind, and one that can bind a target in place, plus an unaccounted-for fourth. On the page she lassos a mantaur into a full minute of unconsciousness, usable up to four more times before she needs to rest, though whether that's the same binding chain or the unnamed fourth isn't confirmed.
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A class read off the floating label over the sniper in Leon's ambassador escort.
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A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Chaco, host of The Prize Carousel and a former Crawler champion, holds it at level 66.
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A fragile but physically strong undead creature conjured by a necromancer or dark cleric's spell, banking the soul power ripped from whoever it kills for its owner's use. Remex's class.
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A rogue class held by Bobby DJ.
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A class option, per the leaderboard. Li Jun's class; the recap show calls it simply a monk class, no further detail given.
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A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Daniel Bautista 2's class.
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Floor 5's two suns in the Dromedarian myth, and two of Emberus's brothers in his conflicting account. A Temple of Hellik is now marked on Carl's map in the Large Ursine Settlement; Carl's standing kill-Hellik quest also grants a bonus for killing Hellik worshippers.
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A level-15 spell granted to Bomo that sends its caster to a selected stairwell on the current floor.
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The card deck from Allister's home planet, whose game includes two vampiric forms.
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The wrestler namesake of the Enchanted Wrestling Belt of the Great Gorgo, which Katia wins from a Platinum Slam Master box. Its flavor text calls him the greatest, most beautiful wrestler of all time and gives his full name as Christopher Alan Pallies; neither Carl nor Katia recognizes the name.
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A liminal place reached by tearing a hole between worlds, per Juice Box's account of the Gate of the Feral Gods: closing a portal opened with the gate's three pieces lets an ancient, mad, feral god escape from it into the world.
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A recurring type of urban level threaded through the World Dungeon, built around an in-fiction volcano-world children's story unfamiliar to Earth. Floor 3, where Mordecai first names it for Carl and Donut, is its top layer.
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A race option; no further detail given beyond the name. Daniel Bautista 2's race.
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Elle McGib's class after changing from Blizzardmancer.
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A parasitic worm race, classified by Mordecai as a type of creature called a Gondii, that reactivates a dead body within hours of its death and keeps it running for centuries by reading its old memories. Distinct from Intellect Hunters, a separate body-snatching race whose hosts rot almost immediately, and from Infiltrators, a third and more insidious kind Mordecai declines to explain further. The likely namesake of Carl's own sponsor, the Valtay Corporation, though nothing on the page confirms that link outright.
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A race, per the recap show's own account of Miriam Dom's curse. No further mechanics given this chapter.
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A class Princess Donut chooses in the Pole Position Chamber, which lets her shoot poison blobs.
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Dmitri Popov's class after changing from Illusionist.
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A rare ghost type, per a torn journal page Carl loots off Henrik's corpse: formed when a grieving widow dies of despair on hallowed ground beside her dead lover's rotting body. Fully non-corporeal and prone to aggressively guarding the grave, historically created on purpose by paranoid rulers securing loyal guardians for their own tombs. Put down with a high-level exorcism, destruction of the lover's corpse, strong banishment magic, or electric shock, and can be granted a temporary physical body by flesh-giving magic.
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Tyler Storm's class.
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The transformed form shared by Clint Smashgrab and his five brothers, named for a small rodent.
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A form of lycanthrope whose animal transformation stays unknown until it is disclosed, shown, or transmitted by a bite.
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A class option; no further detail given beyond the name. Carmine's class.
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The Future Huntress's race.
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A race option, held by Silfa. No mechanical detail given beyond her own appearance: a plump woman who looks about fifty, roughly half Donut's size, able to buzz up to the ceiling of a subway car.
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Per Mordecai: what results when a split soul fails to fully reunite in a proper vessel. Neither alive nor dead and nearly impossible to kill, but mostly harmless, haunting whatever object it's stuck in with very little real power. Commonly used by the dungeon as quest-giving NPCs; Remex, from the third floor, is a purpose-built and far more dangerous version of the same mechanic.
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The banished god of Lust that Ghazi actually meant to summon and bargain with, hoping for a boon that would make the fictional Lika fall in love with him in exchange for freeing the god. Per a letter from the college council, Ghazi never reached Yarilo at all; the entity he summoned, Psamathe, only pretended to be him.
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A god named only in an AI service notice as one of the deities a feral god's escape could randomly summon. The notice calls a real Ysalte summon an extinction-level event for both floor five and the floor below it, and cites the near miss as part of why Borant is now blocking most secondary summons.
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A teleportation spell granted to The Sledge as part of Carl's Gate of the Feral Gods agreement.
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Chris Andrews 2's class, seen on his examined properties card. Nothing more about it is shown on the page.
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