Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 4 — The Royal Chariot; Ifechi
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 18 — One
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the Walk-On List

Progression

Its saferoom rules explained by Mordecai (ch. 4); its admin's creed spoken aloud in a trailer — the Bloom, True Unity, the Great Consensus, a reawakening once the dry vermin are dead — and its admin dead by a toy (ch. 18). It chooses two crawlers over an admin, is punished with a teleport ban, and is called 'mudskippers' by the Syndicate's liaison (ch. 19). It lets the Gate method stand because the sixth floor is at a third of projected capacity (ch. 33); a politburo has replaced its board and approves what Carl is planning with a warning (ch. 34); a kua-tin underground is about to start a civil war (epilogue). Its walk-on bounty on a cat is collected through Odette's people.