helper (The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear) to editor and illustrator (Ensel and Krete, The City of Dreaming Books) to second-tier editor (The Alchemaster's...

companion, the night-mare Catastrofel Opal [de]. As with the novels Ensel and Krete and The Alchemaster's Apprentice, the novel's in-universe author is...

(although not Bluebear himself) return in Moers' second Zamonia novel Ensel and Krete, in which they are shown as having established a touristic paradise...