Place · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The Nothing

A double spot on the Desperado Club's wheel of fortune — 'the Nothing sure is something' — and a trapdoor under the roulette table that drops a losing player into a hole full of screams. Carl's spin stops just short of it.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 16 — Denise
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 27 — Leatherface
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

Where the demon harem was tossed during the original Ascendency (ch. 34); where Slit came from (ch. 34) and where the Gate of the Feral Gods opens onto when it closes (ch. 15–ch. 29); 'cast away to the Nothing' (ch. 24).