Princess Formidable

An orc princess of the Skull Empire, youngest child of King Rust, who sponsors Katia Grim from the Fourth Floor with timely supply boxes. She wants her family deposed and tries to force the system failsafe, but the AI teleports her off her ship during Faction Wars and drops her on Earth. Her fate is unknown by the end of book 7.

1. On the Fourth Floor Formidable becomes Katia's sponsor. source
2. She sends Katia a silver box holding a bolt that can suspend a god's invulnerability; her brother Maestro mocks the gift, which Carl reads as a message to her brothers. source

1. On the Fifth Floor, when Maggie My threatens Carl with a grenade that can summon a god, Formidable sends Katia an emergency box of petrify bolts and Katia turns Maggie to stone. source

1. On the Eighth Floor Formidable's emergency box gives Katia a scroll of worship, through which Katia pledges herself to the goddess Eileithyia. source
2. Katia hands Formidable's bolt to a totem of the goddess Ysalte, who drives it into the goddess's eye and blows himself up. source
3. As the crawlers descend to the Ninth Floor, Formidable addresses the Syndicate Council from her cruiser in orbit around Earth and demands the failsafe be triggered; the council mutes her. source

1. During Faction Wars King Rust tells Carl and Donut that Formidable has taken a cruiser and marines toward the failsafe monitor station orbiting Venus; Rosetta kills Rust shortly after. source
2. The AI teleports Formidable off her ship, confirms her father's death, refuses her entry to Faction Wars, and sends her to the surface of Earth at her choice. source
3. Her crew reaches the monitor station and triggers the failsafe by hand; nothing happens in the Earth system, while the Aryl system goes dark. source
4. Her broadcast, revealing backdoors in Skull Empire failsafe satellites, fractures the Bloc and leads the Dream to deactivate all Skull Empire hardware in its fleet. source
5. Dying at the hands of rebelling war mages, her brother Stalwart tells Carl that his sister was right. source
6. Stalwart's children are killed in orbit, Maestro claims the crown, and Formidable's fate remains unknown. source

Enemy of

Prince Maestro, Stalwart

Allied with

Katia Grim