Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The Ursine

Bear people whose clerics alone survived Scolopendra, so that the whole society became the town from Footloose: eighteen rules on a bridge wall, immediate decapitation, no dinosaurs, no dancing, no singing outside a temple, piety as a whip. The AI's card calls them smug fucksticks. Donut takes three of their towns; Big Tina eats several.

Segment appearances

Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 12 — No matter what
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 22 — Samantha, open wide
Chapter 23 — Congratulations, Murderer
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge
Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
Chapter 44 — The Recital
Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
Chapter 75 — Sic 'em

Progression

Eighteen rules and immediate decapitation (ch. 10); piety as a whip and a recital as a sin (ch. 44); towns taken by a cat (ch. 11, ch. 39) and eaten by a child (ch. 39, ch. 45); a barmaid and her cubs (ch. 44); a mother who stands up a bear (ch. 75).