Place · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The Necropolis of Anser

The subterranean quadrant: a nine-kilometre tomb-mountain, its outer face carved with pterodactyls in an Aztec style, a maze of traps and Nude Glaber settlements from the top down to the Crypt of Anser, whose master was a goose in a gold crown. Its map is the hostage's; its ghost queen is its guardian; it floods when the Akula falls, drains through the sandcastle, and is electrified through a cable connected by dying men.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Hump Town
• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 22 — Mrs. 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 30 — Get Orthrus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three

Arc

A sealed cave mouth and a screaming pterodactyl on the walls (ch. 1); a map that makes the Tangle look like child's play, on a table in a basement (ch. 6); nine kilometres tall, its lower rooms entered by ceiling and floor (ch. 8); a bugbear's twenty-year hunt, a sub docked at its foot, the Gate said to be buried in it (ch. 9). Anser subjugated the camels and the glabers and built it with their slaves; his court and wife were buried alive with him (ch. 7, ch. 12). It seals and floods when the Akula falls (ch. 10), drains through the sandcastle (ch. 22), is electrified through a cable connected by dying men (ch. 29), and, dry, gives up a goose in a gold crown and a map of the sixth floor (ch. 33).