Armour-Mistress of the Carapace Foundry · female
Scarabaeus designs the armour the elephants wear to war. As Armour-Mistress of the Carapace Foundry she builds the resin plate of the Resin Guard's bulls – honeycomb cast in amber, laid over bamboo, braced with ivory from the Bone Road – and the Bridle that keeps their musth asleep. She is the living answer to the Mandate's founding question: the strength of the city's elephants is, quite literally, her structure. She was born too heavy. Her chitin is so dense that the nurses thought she was a ...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.