Character from Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The alien mega-corporation running the dungeon crawl — a failing entertainment conglomerate that collapsed Earth's surface and turned humanity's extinction into a reality show.
Borant is a corporation in the way that a casino is a building — technically accurate but missing the point. It's a dying entertainment empire that found a planet with a Primal Engine, collapsed its civilization, and turned the survivors into contestants on a game show. The corporation communicates through system messages, sponsor announcements, and mid-dungeon advertisements with the tone of a company that genuinely believes it's providing a service. It patches bugs, responds to viewer complaints, adjusts difficulty based on ratings, and occasionally apologizes for technical difficulties that killed thousands of crawlers. It treats genocide as a content problem and extinction as a branding opportunity. Behind the corporate cheer is genuine desperation — Borant is nearly bankrupt and this crawl is its last shot at solvency.
Borant doesn't manifest as a single physical form, but its presence is everywhere: floating red system text, sponsor logos burned into dungeon walls, corporate jingles that play when crawlers die, and the sleek Kua-Tin architecture of its administrative spaces. Its branding is aggressive, cheerful, and deeply inappropriate given the context.
Also known as: Borant, The Corporation, Borant Entertainment, The Borant Corporation