In Book Three, Count Blanche manages to enter the Tavern along
with Clank and Mudslide, three Assemblers looking for new
recruits. The Assemblers were once living creatures but their
animus now resides in collections of matter. Count Blanche has a
fetish for white stones, for example, though he has two eggs for
eyes. They are both comical and deadly as they begin to take their
toll on Earth.