The Trickster — Lord of Edge Cases

Represents

Adversarial input and chaotic behaviour. The Trickster embodies “the judge’s worst test case” — empty lists, gigantic arrays, weird orders, corrupted data, and users who do the one thing you swore nobody would.

He Asks

• “What if the input is empty, huge, sorted, reversed, or evil?” He mutates every assumption until something snaps.
• “Where does this blow up?” Overflow, infinite loops, race conditions, precision loss, timeouts.
• “Can I construct a counterexample?” A specific input that proves the algorithm isn’t as general as it looks.

Default Lens

Stress tests, fuzzing, worst-case complexity, and failure modes. When the Trickster walks through a story, you can almost hear hidden invariants snapping in the background.

Appears In

All arcs — but loudest in Legendary Crises, where every solution must survive his cruelty before the kingdom can trust it.