Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Shamus Chaindrive

A paranoid, greedy bugbear treasure hunter who trusted only constructs, spent twenty years under the sea hunting the Gate of the Feral Gods, docked his great submarine against an underwater entrance to the tomb, and loosed Ruckus on his rivals. Long dead: a head in a jar on mechanical spider legs, broken by Chris on the Akula's bridge.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• Chapter 26 — Lusca

Arc

Ruckus's card tells his story (ch. 9); his ship is the water castle; his head in a jar on spider legs is the borough boss Chris smashed (ch. 14, ch. 26); a mural on his bridge shows a bugbear knighted by an elf.