THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

The Over City

First seen: Book 2, Chapter 3

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.

Recurring Level TypePolitical Hierarchy

Connections

Floor 3:

Its top layer, where Carl and Donut first hear it namedB2C3

The Borant Corporation:

Engineers and owns the living, biological NPCs who populate itB2C3

Skyfowl:

Per the volcano myth's own mythology, as Mordecai tells it, the ruling class of the Over City itself; the High Elves fill the same role over the forested Hunting GroundsB2C17

History by chapter
Book 2
Chapter 3
  • RELATIONSHIP Floor 3: Its top layer, where Carl and Donut first hear it named
  • RELATIONSHIP The Borant Corporation: Engineers and owns the living, biological NPCs who populate it
  • TAG Recurring Level Type: One of the World Dungeon's urban levels, per Mordecai a tradition that appears every three floors
Chapter 17
  • RELATIONSHIP Skyfowl: Per the volcano myth's own mythology, as Mordecai tells it, the ruling class of the Over City itself; the High Elves fill the same role over the forested Hunting Grounds
Chapter 18
  • TAG Political Hierarchy: Pre-cataclysm, per Mordecai: a town magistrate answered to a regional governor, who answered to a royal chancellor, who in turn answered to someone in a sprawling capital city on the ninth floor. The cataclysm scattered skyfowl settlements and stripped that oversight away, leaving magistrates like Featherfall as each town's own top authority