Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Pater Coal

Hobbledehoy High Cleric Supreme of Emberus, level 101, four and a half feet of Gandalf-and-hobbit who waits for Carl at Club Vanquisher, sneaks him onto the sun, washes his feet in boiling water and sucks a toe, and, milky-eyed, names the crossbow and the oak bracelet. Carl asks if he is the AI: 'We all have our roles. And our limitations.' He brokers the church's million-gold ring.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 18 — Club Vanquisher
• Chapter 42 — Sharp-Elbows
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 56 — The Fumble

Arc

Waits for Carl at Club Vanquisher, sneaks him onto the sun before the healer, washes his feet and sucks a toe, and, with milky eyes, names the crossbow and the oak bracelet (ch. 18). 'Are you the AI?' 'We all have our roles.' He brokers the church's loan for the Pauper's Ring (ch. 56) — the ring that burns when the spikes go in (ch. 42).