Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
Scolopendra
The monster at the bottom of the volcano in the Over City's founding story, whose nine-tier poison cloud transformed ninety per cent of the kingdom; named, never seen. Every mold lion, clown and city-elf superstition on the third floor traces back to the cataclysm.
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Tish's letter: 'Scolopendra will never be defeated now. We needed that artifact' (ch. 21); Priestly's note: the Semeru dwarves' tower to the Celestials below woke it at the volcano's base (ch. 33).