Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Quetzalcoatlus

Emperor Anser's wife, buried alive with his court and now a screaming, bird-shaped ghost that walks through the tomb's walls: a Wailing Shrieker, the kind of ghost paranoid kings bred by plying women with affection so they would die of grief on hallowed ground beside the corpse. Killed by exorcism, banishment, the destruction of the lover's body, or electric shock; neutralised by any flesh-giving spell. She kills seven on the Akula's bridge, six of them changeling principals, turns a leviathan around, and dies when lightning reaches the water.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• Chapter 26 — Lusca
• Chapter 27 — Leatherface
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 33 — Phase three

Arc

Buried alive with Anser's court, a ghost that screams like a bird (ch. 7); the Principals want her flesh so they can touch her, the college fears her as Psamathe's vessel, Ghazi will void the world before she leaves (ch. 15, ch. 16, ch. 21). A green pterodactyl head through the Akula's bulkhead and a scream that wounds (ch. 25); the Wailing Shrieker of a cleric's torn page (ch. 26); Henrik's killer and Low Thi's; Carl cannot tell whether she or the electrified temple killed Morris (ch. 29). Electrocuted in the flooded tomb; a partial map of the sixth floor on her corpse (ch. 29, ch. 33).