Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Emberus

God of Sun and Ash, level 250, youngest brother of Taranis and twin of Hellik: blind since he plucked out his own eyes when his favourite son Geyrun was murdered, 'one of the most unhinged of all the pantheon', a locked god no sponsor may buy this season. He walks through the Lacuna shouting for his dead son's puppy, and becomes, by Carl's choice on a falling biplane, Carl's god.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
• Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 36 — Swole
• Chapter 44 — The Recital
• Chapter 60 — The raids
• Chapter 61 — Marked for death
• Chapter 62 — A squirrel with antlers
• Chapter 75 — Sic 'em
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Arc

Carl's god passes through the realm for a minute and returns to the Halls of the Ascendency (ch. 10); a note on a knife says the Zockau guards now worship him so Carl cannot kill them (ch. 10). His first boon is a dud — fire damage for a man with no fire spells (ch. 24) — and his shrine's water is napalm to vampires (ch. 44). Carl kills one of his worshippers on a raid and is Shunned: a boon cancelled, penitence, doubled tithes (ch. 60). His voice delivers a quest update at the end: obtain the Memorial Crystal: Apito, and speak to his high cleric in Club Vanquisher (ch. 77).