Place · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Larracos

'The capital city of the disputed lands. It is the prize over which the factions fight,' says a crocodilian guard at the Desperado Club's casino, where a staircase leads down to it and the faction armies party until the crawlers reach the ninth floor.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

The city

Real stores with NPC proprietors, and everyone expelled when the crawlers arrive (ch. 3); the College of Magecraft, the theatre district, the Tome of Scholars (ch. 21); every destination on Ghazi's list (ch. 23). Mordecai's map: an inverted cone dug by dwarves with the castle at the bottom, nine petals around it, the King's Point pre-fortified, a mercenary market deep in the city (ch. 24). Priestly's poem: museums, galleries, colleges, a play the night before expulsion, and all of it destroyed by the end (ch. 33).

The flood

Katia opens the real Gate five hundred metres under the sea, by the Akula's old shelf, into the faction market at the bottom of the cone: twenty minutes of ocean, timed charges, a chum bomb, a feeding frenzy of Concierge Sharks and pain amplifiers; more than half the city submerged by Katia's reckoning, the shopkeepers, mercenaries and food market dead and irreplaceable by rule, the Desperado Club likely cut off, half the armies hidden there caught (ch. 34). Juice Box is sent through to tell the survivors what they are.