Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The Celestial Ascendency

The Cookbook's warning: the big gods are always sponsored by some rich prick who paid to play a game called the Celestial Ascendency, contained on the twelfth floor, with its own followers and storyline; Grull is one of its few trueborn heirs. 'The gods are invulnerable except on the 12th and above floors.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 31 — Emberus, summoned
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Progression

The halls of the Celestial Ascendency on the twelfth floor and their whackadoodle business (ch. 24); Mordecai: the pantheon as a rich guy's country club, Larracos and the Ascendency used as a fifth-floor plot point (ch. 24, ch. 28); Emberus, who 'strongly feels he is the best-suited candidate to ascend to the Celestial Throne', Taranis its regent (ch. 31, ch. 32); the demons captured during the original Ascendency (ch. 34).