Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The Guild of Suffering
The cult of the Night Wyrm — a demigod outside the pantheon, 'similar to Samantha' — with outreach centres rather than churches, which keeps memorial crystals and once had a seventh floor given over to raising its god; the elbow tattoo grants access.
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A sigil on Carl's elbow — the Night Wyrm's Nasty Little Web of Suffering — that grants access to a guild Mordecai calls a cult with outreach centres (ch. 8); a flaming ball of snakes for the Diwata temple (ch. 36).