Empress D'Nadia is a Saccathian ruler, former sponsor of Princess Donut, head of the Prism Kingdom Clan, and a Ninth Floor warlord. Initially friendly toward Donut as a commercial partner, she turns against the Princess Posse once crawler participation threatens established power. Carl's forces capture, mark, and kill her during Faction Wars, ending the last heir of her trading dynasty. D'Nadia is a large, wealthy Saccathian with political authority and interests extending beyond entertainment. Her dynasty controls significant trade resources. She speaks with the confidence of a ruler accustomed to treating contracts, sponsorships, and military participation as extensions of personal power. D'Nadia sponsors Donut during the middle floors and supplies valuable loot while benefiting from the cat's popularity. Their relationship appears warm in public. It remains a commercial arrangement, and D'Nadia later sells the sponsorship when Donut's actions and Faction Wars proposals threaten her interests. As warlord of the Prism, D'Nadia commands Saccathian and allied troops on the Ninth Floor. She proposes deleting Larracos NPCs, excluding crawlers from Faction Wars, and removing or killing Carl and Donut. The system rejects these action items, exposing how quickly patronage becomes hostility when the sponsored performer gains agency. Carl's coalition infiltrates D'Nadia's small castle. Baroness Victory appears as an adjutant while clockwork Mongos and allied fighters keep the empress injured. Carl heals D'Nadia long enough to mark her with the Ring of Divine Suffering, then orders the team to maintain control until the mark forms. The coalition kills D'Nadia and bankrupts her estate. The AI describes her as the last living heir of a small but powerful trading dynasty and predicts major probate conflict. Her death defeats the Prism faction, releases or strands surviving mercenaries, and demonstrates that outside rulers can suffer irreversible consequences inside the crawl.
- Princess Donut
- Prism Kingdom Clan
- Faction Wars
- Baroness Victory
- Ring of Divine Suffering