Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Priestly

Author of the Cookbook's 14th edition and Carl's best source on the ninth floor: a note written in awe of Larracos — a living poem, a play to see before expulsion, a promised map — and a last entry, after the city fell, that was an incoherent jumble.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

Carl weighs Coolie against Priestly before a hard choice (ch. 32); Priestly's note on Larracos — a living poem, a play to see before expulsion, a promised map — opens ch. 33, and Carl recalls that the last entry, after the march over the city's dead, was an incoherent jumble; he refuses to be paralysed the same way (ch. 34).