Theme · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The mobs are victims
The Hoarder begs in Spanish to be sent to Jesus; the Juicer is proud of Carl for fighting through the pain; the tuskling courtesans seem to have no memory of the ball; the goblin shamanka wants only to breed in peace deeper down. Mordecai warns it will not always be so, and that there are no gods here — only those who pay for the privilege.
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Progression
More than 250 non-mob casualties in Zockau, over 200 of them NPCs, and it does not bother him as much as it should (ch. 6); an elf janitor who used to be a crawler (ch. 1); a town of pious bears whose only crime is a poster (ch. 10); guards ordered to worship a god so that killing them costs the killer (ch. 10); a teacher and six schoolboys turned into rodents (ch. 14); one Ursine killed where Lucia had emptied a town (ch. 35); an eight-year-old dancer inside an allosaurus (ch. 44); a barmaid with cubs who was never in the plan (ch. 73); an elite who learns her family was never real and dies of her own free will (ch. 73, ch. 74); a cat's card that calls his whole species soulless murderers (ch. 72). And a hunter who says he would object too, were the situations reversed (ch. 69).