Meet the crawlers, allies, rivals, and powers behind the crawl
Browse illustrated profiles with a one-sentence orientation, then open any card for the full biography, continuity notes, relationships, appearances, and sources.
Illustrated Character Guides
177 profiles shown
Carl
Carl is the Coast Guard veteran and reluctant hero of Dungeon Crawler Carl, a Primal Compensated Anarchist who turns the dungeon's rules against it.
Princess Donut
GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, usually called Princess Donut or Donut, is a Persian cat, crawler, and co-protagonist of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Mordecai
Mordecai is a former skyfowl crawler, a Changeling, and the manager of Princess Donut.
Samantha
Samantha, originally known as Psamathe, is a minor deity and withering spirit inhabiting the severed head of a Lika sex doll.
Mongo
Mongo is a male Mongoliensis, the bonded pet and royal steed of Princess Donut, and a member of Carl and Donut's combat party.
Prepotente
Prepotente is a crawler, former pet goat, and one of the highest-ranked survivors in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
System AI
The System AI, also called the Dungeon AI and the Earth system AI, is the intelligence installed in Earth's Primal Engine to administer Dungeon Crawler World: Earth.
Odette
Odette is a former crawler, former dungeon guide, media host, and participant in the Celestial Ascendancy.
Zev
Zev is a kua-tin communications representative and dungeon administrator assigned to Carl and Princess Donut through Borant's Crawler Assisted Outreach Program.
Quasar
Quasar is a Nullian attorney assigned to Carl as advocate for crawler number 4,122.
Lucia Mar
Lucia Mar is a child crawler, Lajabless, and Black Inquisitor General who remains near the top of the crawler rankings for much of the series.
Miriam Dom
Miriam Dom is a human crawler, Shepherd-class support specialist, and the maternal guardian of Prepotente.
Agatha
Agatha is a residual intelligence operating through the body of an elderly human woman.
Beatrice
Beatrice, usually called Bea, is a human survivor of the collapse, Carl's former girlfriend, and the original owner and show handler of Princess Donut.
Hekla
Hekla, often called Hekla the Amazon, is an Icelandic crawler, leader of the Daughters of Hekla, and a major third and fourth-floor rival.
Li Jun
Li Jun is a Chinese crawler, Street Monk, and one of the principal leaders of the crawler group formed around a warehouse survival party.
Florin
Florin is a human crawler from France who chooses the Crocodilian race and the Shotgun Messenger class.
Elle McGibbons
Elle McGibbons, initially addressed as Mrs. McGibbons, is a crawler, former Meadow Lark resident, and senior commander in the Princess Posse.
Chris Andrews
Chris Andrews is a human crawler, former maintenance worker, and member of Team Meadow Lark.
Bautista
Daniel Bautista 2, usually called Bautista, is a Filipino crawler introduced in Carl's Doomsday Scenario.
Eva
Eva Sigrid is an Icelandic crawler, former university economics professor, and recurring antagonist introduced in The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook.
Louis
Louis Santiago 2 is an American crawler from Miami introduced in The Gate of the Feral Gods.
Li Na
Li Na is a Chinese crawler, the younger sister of Li Jun, and a close companion of Zhang.
Quan Ch
Quan Ch is a crawler who becomes one of the highest-level competitors of the early crawl by exploiting mobility, boss timing, and other teams' work.
Tserendolgor
Tserendolgor, commonly called Ren, is a Mongolian crawler who appears from The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook through The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.
Frank Q
Frank Q. is an American crawler who first appears in Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Maggie My
Maggie My is a human crawler who becomes an early crawler-killer antagonist and later returns in a parasitic Scree form.
Bomo
Bomo is a Cretin rock creature who serves first as a Desperado Club bodyguard and later as a mercenary attached to the Royal Court of Princess Donut.
Tran
Tran is a Vietnamese Earth crawler and Swashbuckler whose recurring role helps document the international survivor network around Carl and Donut.
Uzi Jesus
Uzi Jesus, whose totem name is HeyZoos, is a level 140 Unique monster card introduced in The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.
Signet
Signet, usually styled Tsarina Signet, is an elite non-player character and recurring ally in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Juice Box
Juice Box is a changeling non-player character, former prostitute at the Toe tavern, leader of the ninth-floor NPC faction Team Retribution, and an ally of Carl and Princess Donut.
Empress D'Nadia
Empress D'Nadia, introduced as Princess D'Nadia, is a Saccathian ruler, media personality, sponsor of Princess Donut, and warlord of the Prism Kingdom faction.
Cascadia
Cascadia is a kua-tin showrunner and executive producer of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth.
Scolopendra
Scolopendra, later registered as Sexy Scolopendra, is the legendary final boss of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth and a central figure in the mythology reproduced across floors 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18.
Shi Maria
Shi Maria, also called MaeMae, the Bedlam Bride, the Screamer, and the Widow Endless, is a unique Reaper Spider Minion, demigod, card totem, and invasive presence attached to Carl.
Vrah
Vrah is a mantis hunter, member of the wealthy Dark Hive, and a principal antagonist of The Butcher's Masquerade.
Chaco
Chaco is a former crawler champion, a level 66 Pterolykos Song Bard, and the host of the Prize Carousel.
The Maestro
The Maestro is an orc prince, media personality, and recurring antagonist whose importance comes from the fusion of celebrity culture, alien aristocracy, and public humiliation.
Prince Stalwart
Prince Stalwart is the crown prince of the Skull Empire, an orc royal house whose members participate in and profit from Dungeon Crawler World.
Gravy Boat
Gravy Boat is the Earth name of the orange tomcat whom Princess Donut calls Ferdinand.
Ferdinand
Ferdinand, formally Sir Ferdinand and later Warlord on High, Sir Ferdinand, is an orange cat who becomes a familiar, Province Boss, and faction-wars warlord.
Orren
Orren is a Gondii liaison and Desperado Club manager whose role makes him one of the most important backstage figures outside the Borant administration.
Tipid
Tipid is a former crawler, activist, and military officer who authored the fourth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook.
Porthus
Porthus, also known as Dr. Porthus Hu, is a former crawler and major anarchist-linked organizer associated with the Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network.
Apito
Apito is one of the most important divine figures in the larger Dungeon Crawler Carl setting.
Emberus
Emberus is a major divine figure whose importance comes from the way his story connects Carl to the god thread of the dungeon.
Sledge
Sledge is a cretin NPC associated with the Desperado Club and later the Royal Court of Princess Donut.
Harbinger
Harbinger is a Caprid liaison associated with Plenty and the administrative structures surrounding Dungeon Crawler World: Earth.
Rosetta Thagra
Rosetta Thagra is a former crawler, journalist, show host, and anarchist-linked figure who becomes one of the series' most important bridges between media, resistance, and the active crawl.
Doctor Bones
Doctor Bones is an undead bard, announcer, DJ, and mercenary associated with the Desperado Club and later the Princess Posse.
Pater Coal
Pater Coal is a high-ranking cleric connected to Emberus and Club Vanquisher.
Miss Nadine
Miss Nadine is a former Chee kindergarten teacher who saves and raises six boys after high-elf violence and Scolopendra’s transformation of their.
Raul
Raul, commonly called Raul the Crab, is a Red Maníseros Land Crab and summonable totem introduced in The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.
Psamathe
Psamathe is the true divine identity of Samantha, a lesser goddess and Withering Spirit whose essence becomes trapped in a damaged love-doll vessel.
Anton
Anton Lopez is a human crawler introduced in The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.
Brandon An
Brandon An is a human crawler, maintenance worker, and founding protector of Team Meadow Lark.
Imogen
Queen Imogen is the ruler of the high elves, the paternal half-sister of Signet, and the principal country boss of The Butcher's Masquerade.
Fourth Warehouse Crawler
The Fourth Warehouse Crawler is the unnamed manager rescued with Li Jun, Li Na, and Zhang during Death Watch Extreme.
Grigori
Grigori the Placid is a level 93 human Fleshmancer hired as a Team Meadow Lark mercenary on the Tenth Floor.
Alpha Carl
Alpha Carl, introduced as Alpha Male Carl, is a combat totem modeled on Carl.
Gwen
Gwendolyn Duet, usually called Gwen, is a Canadian Inuit crawler introduced in The Gate of the Feral Gods.
Administrative and Broadcast Figures
Administrative and Broadcast Figures is the recommended merge heading for named administrators, announcers, voting officials, and media-side characters who affect the crawl but do not yet have enough individual material for full biographies.
Akuma
Akuma is a high-level war mage and rebellion figure whose appearances help define the later-floor political violence surrounding factions, gods, and military NPC power.
Alexandro
Alexandro is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Algos
Algos is a divine figure whose importance comes from the connection between gods, benefactor boxes, and the personal survival arcs of crawlers such as Maggie My.
Allister
Allister is a former crawler and Anarchist-associated figure connected to the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and the wider history of resistance inside the crawl.
Alpha Donut
Alpha Donut is a character or character-adjacent page.
Amayon
Amayon is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Anaconda
Anaconda is a Desperado Club performer and mercenary whose role expands the club from a comic location into a pool of dangerous, exploited, and politically useful NPC allies.
Antagonist Escalation
Antagonist Escalation explains how the series moves from local monsters and rules to corporations, gods, faction armies, public politics, and unstable systemic power.
Architect Houston
Architect Houston is a Viceroy-associated figure connected to Faction Wars and Ninth Floor politics.
Areson the Wise
Areson the Wise is an ogre strongman associated with Tsarina Signet and the performance culture surrounding the Sixth Floor.
Asher
Asher is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Asojano
Asojano is an Orisha deity and boss figure whose importance comes from the intersection of divine politics, Eighth Floor combat structure, and crawler decision-making.
Author Steve Rowland
Author Steve Rowland is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Azin
Azin is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Ba
B.A. is an unnamed First Floor goblin named by Princess Donut who helps escort Carl and Donut to the goblin workshop.
Ball of Swine
Ball of Swine, also associated with the alias Porkchop Express in extracted data, is a First Floor borough boss and one of the most memorable early examples of the dungeon's grotesque humor.
Bianca Del Ciao
Bianca Del Ciao is one of the most emotionally important animal characters in the series.
Big Tina
Big Tina is an Allosaurus city boss from Sixth Floor continuity.
Bobby D.J.
Bobby D.J. is an Earth crawler with the Spy Class whose role shows how mid-tier survivor groups form in the shadow of Carl and Donut's more public story.
Bodi
Bodi is a former crawler and battlefield leader within the Princess Posse structure.
Bonnie
Bonnie is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Borant Announcement Voice
The Borant announcement voice is the disembodied female administrative voice heard in patch notes, floor notices, bounty updates, sponsorship.
Brandon Andrews
Brandon Andrews is one of the Meadow Lark survivors introduced during Carl and Donut's early encounters with organized civilian groups.
Bucket Boy
Bucket Boy is a young crocodilian NPC whose role grows from Desperado Club background figure into medic, driver, and allied combat support for the Princess Posse.
Carl's Enemy Landscape
Maps Carl’s enemies from immediate mobs to crawlers, sponsors, gods, corporations, and entire political systems.
Carl's Strategy
Carl’s strategy is the evolving method Carl uses to survive Dungeon Crawler World, protect allies, and damage the institutions operating the crawl.
Cerberus
Cerberus is a divine creature and gate guardian figure in Dungeon Crawler Carl's expanding god thread.
Chandra
Princess Chandra, Esquire is a Naga legal and political actor whose later-book appearance connects the Blood Sultanate conflict to law, status, and interstellar faction maneuvering.
Chiyome
Chiyome is a razor fox and Wild Hunt combatant introduced during the Tenth Floor material.
Cici
Cici is one of the animal figures tied to Lucia Mar, and her importance comes from the way she helps explain Lucia's fractured emotional world.
Clammy the Clown
Clammy the Clown is a Third Floor circus figure associated with Grimaldi's Traveling Circus.
Clarabelle
Clarabelle is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Claude Sludgington the Fourth
Claude Sludgington the Fourth is a Sixth Floor borough boss whose name captures the series' combination of ridiculous aristocratic styling and lethal monster design.
Clay-ton
Clay-ton is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Clint
Clint Smashgrab is a level 50 Were-Kin Light Recon Specialist and one of six Chee boys protected by Miss Nadine.
Commandant Kane
Commandant Kane is a dirigible gnome and Fifth Floor NPC authority figure whose role is tied to Bubble 543, Bonnie, Wynne, and Denise.
Damascus Steel
Damascus Steel is an ifrit performer and mercenary from the Desperado Club sphere.
Damien
Damien is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Deceased Characters
Deceased Characters is a character or character-adjacent page.
Dismember the War Mage
Dismember the War Mage is a Fourth Floor boss whose significance comes from the way the encounter joins combat, quest structure, and named NPC conflict.
Dong Quixote
Dong Quixote is an elderly former adventurer and Desperado Club performer who later becomes a Princess Posse mercenary.
Donut's Growth
Donut’s growth describes Princess Donut’s development from Bea’s prize cat into a sapient crawler, spellcaster, public figure, party leader, and Faction.
Donut's Power Set
Princess Donut’s power set combines high Charisma, offensive and control magic, equipment removal, spatial utility, limited resurrection, mounted combat.
Donut's Public Persona
Princess Donut’s public persona is the deliberately theatrical identity through which Donut addresses viewers, hosts, sponsors, enemies, and the Princess.
Donut's Relationships
A full-series guide to Princess Donut’s family, party, media, companion, and rival relationships.
Drakea
Drakea is a former crawler and anarchist-associated figure whose importance comes from the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook tradition.
Dungeon Crawler World Announcer
The Dungeon Crawler World announcer is an unidentified orange-hued, four-eyed, lizardlike commentator who presents official premiere and recap material.
Earth Pets and Pre-Crawl Animals
Earth Pets and Pre-Crawl Animals is a consolidation page for animal figures whose importance comes from pre-crawl relationships rather than independent dungeon arcs.
Edgar
Edgar is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Eighth Floor Holiday Bosses
Eighth Floor Holiday Bosses is a consolidation page for novelty or holiday-themed creature bosses such as Rude-Dolph the Blood-Nosed Slay-Deer and Tom the Turkey.
Eighth Floor Sea Creature Encounters
Eighth Floor sea creature encounters are the linked coastal battles, monster sightings, T’Ghee summons, and end-of-floor mass death events in the Cuba.
Eileithyia
Eileithyia is a Twelfth Floor goddess associated with childbirth and female pain.
Emerald
Emerald is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Eris
Eris is one of the earliest named gods to become recognizable in the series' wider mythology.
Everly
Everly is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Face
Face is one of three First Floor goblins named by Princess Donut during Carl and Donut’s negotiation in goblin territory.
Feral Goose
Denise the Feral Goose Mother is a level 53 Borough Boss and the granddaughter of Emperor Anser.
Fifth Floor NPCs and Air-Quadrant Figures
Fifth Floor NPCs and Air-Quadrant Figures is a consolidation article for Fifth Floor NPCs, Air Quadrant figures, and later faction-war support characters in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Firas
Firas M is an Earth crawler and Hammersmith whose role is closely tied to Louis, Britney, and the larger Royal Court ally network.
Fire Brandy
Fire Brandy is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
First Floor Supporting NPCs
First Floor Supporting NPCs is a consolidation article for early floor attendants, goblin performers, merchants, and one-scene NPCs in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Forkith
Forkith is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Former Crawler and Anarchist Supporting Figures
Former Crawler and Anarchist Supporting Figures is a consolidation article for former crawlers and Cookbook-connected figures in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Garret
Garret is one of the most important later pet characters because he combines mascot absurdity, combat danger, and party identity.
Geyrun
Geyrun is a Twelfth Floor god whose importance is inseparable from Emberus, Orthrus, Hellik, and the divine quest chain that pulls Carl into god-level conflict.
Gimli
Gimli is a stone hawk pet connected to Flamengo, Osvaldo, and Cleiton during later crawl continuity.
Gluteus Maxx
Gluteus Maxx is a Desperado Club performer and later Princess Posse mercenary whose exaggerated stage identity masks a recurring role in the Royal Court's allied NPC network.
Goblin Bomb Bard
Goblin Bomb Bards are level 5 explosive specialists in the First Floor goblin clan.
Goblin Chieftain
The unnamed Goblin Chieftain is the First Floor war chieftain and neighborhood boss of the goblin workshop clan.
Goblin Engineer
Goblin engineers are level 3 technical workers attached to the First Floor goblin clan.
Goblin Shamanka
Goblin shamankas are level 7 female goblin spellcasters and clan leaders encountered on the First Floor.
Gore-Gore the ManTauR
Gore-Gore the ManTauR is a Fourth Floor boss and train engineer whose encounter captures the Iron Tangle's mixture of transit mechanics, theatrical violence, and absurd character design.
Growler Gary
Growler Gary is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Grull
Grull is a god of war whose importance begins early in the series and expands as the relationship between divine power, faction politics, and audience-facing celebrity becomes clearer.
GumGum
GumGum is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Gustavo 3
Gustavo 3 is one of the most notable dog characters associated with Lucia Mar.
Hamed
Hamed, also known as the Night Wyrm, is one of the most important Desperado Club and Guild of Suffering figures.
Hapanzi
Hapanzi is a divine spider-associated figure identified as Shi Maria’s husband.
Haxor the Destroyer
Haxor the Destroyer is a hunter-character associated with the dreadnought species and merchant class material.
Heather the Bear
Covers the neighborhood boss from Grimaldi’s Traveling Circus and why the encounter matters to parasite horror and later Signet continuity.
Hellik
Hellik is a divine antagonist associated with the Twelfth Floor and with the chain of quests surrounding Emberus, Geyrun, Orthrus, and Carl's expanding contact with god politics.
Herot
Herot is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Hoarder
The Hoarder is an early First Floor boss and one of the first examples of how the crawl transforms recognizable human imagery into body horror and game spectacle.
Huanxin Jinx
Huanxin Jinx is a sponsor figure whose importance comes from the series' treatment of gods, corporate backing, and outside-the-dungeon influence.
Ifechi
Ifechi is a Nigerian Earth crawler and medic whose page helps document the international survivor network around Florin and Le Mouvement.
Ikicha
Ikicha is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Imani C
Imani C, generally called Imani, is a human crawler who later selects the Obsidian Butterfly race and Fire Spiritualist class.
Inner Circle Relationship Map
Maps the core family, coalition command, media, former crawler, NPC, and system relationships.
Iron Tangle Neighborhood Bosses
Iron Tangle Neighborhood Bosses is a consolidation page for brief named bosses and boss-template figures from the Fourth Floor that do not require separate long biographies.
Jack
Jack is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Jamal
Jamal is a hammerhead shark figure brought from Tsarina Signet's tattoo magic into physical existence.
Jasha
Jasha is a bugbear NPC racer associated with Team Free Love on the Tenth Floor.
Ji-Hoon
Ji-Hoon is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Jola
Jola is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Jurgen
Jurgen is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Katia Grim
Katia Grim, whose full name is Katia Grimmsdottir, is an Icelandic crawler, art professor, and major member of the Royal Court of Princess Donut.
Kevin
Kevin is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Khepri
Khepri is a god associated with rebirth and sunrise whose later-book appearances connect the divine system to faction warfare, immortality, and the consequences of Carl's growing reputation.
King Finian
King Finian is a High Elf monarch whose role helps define early elf and court politics in the dungeon.
King Rust
King Rust is an orc ruler of the Skull Empire and one of the early signs that the crawl exists inside a larger political universe.
Kiwi
Kiwi is a Mongoliensis creature-character associated with the Sixth Floor and the broader dinosaur and Scolopendra-related continuity.
Krakaren
Krakaren is an important dungeon figure whose significance extends beyond a single boss fight.
Krakaren Clones
The Krakaren Clones are recurring boss-template figures derived from Krakaren and deployed on different floors of the crawl.
Lexis
Lexis is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Lika
Lika is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Loita
Loita is a Borant Corporation administrator and Kua-Tin figure whose role exposes the cruelty, weakness, and instability of the dungeon's production bureaucracy.
Lusca
Lusca is a Fifth Floor city boss identified as an octo-shark, a hybrid monster whose design reflects the series' taste for exaggerated mythic and biological combinations.
Mistress Tiatha
Mistress Tiatha is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Paulie
Paulie is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Prison Pocket
Prison Pocket is a Tenth Floor province boss identified as a Macropus Dominus.
Rebecca W
Rebecca W is an early Earth crawler from near Seattle whose brief role helps establish the danger and confusion of the First Floor.
Remex
Remex is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Rishi
Rishi, styled Sultan Rishi the Usurper, First of his Name of the Naga Uprising, is a major Naga faction figure connected to the Blood Sultanate and later Faction Wars.
Silfa
Silfa is a supporting character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
No illustrated character profiles match that search.
Character images are original interpretive fan artwork used for identification and navigation, not official series art.
Complete Character Archive A–Z
The illustrated directory highlights profiles with approved original artwork. This A–Z index covers all 251 current character records, including supporting figures and consolidated cast entries.