Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

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 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
• Chapter 37 — Growler Gary, and Princess Formidable's four choices
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Arc

His ring flashes Soul Poisoning at the floor's start (ch. 1); his quest asks for a High Cleric's permission to break a truce with the demons, and the Apito crystal (ch. 2). He shrieks with laughter for ten seconds when Mork dies (ch. 51), rages at Hellik's message and demands a hundred of his worshippers, then contemplates killing the other Sheol princes for the truth and warns that surviving Hellik will only turn his grief on Carl (ch. 57). 'Abandon your current task and obtain it' when the crystal shows itself (ch. 64); the crystal passes to Prepotente, who may give it to the Epicure (ch. 78). When Samantha confesses aloud he enters the realm: sixty-six minutes, 'Fly, martyr. Bring my enemy to me' (ch. 83, ch. 84). He holds her and cries at the volcano, then burns the floor (ch. 86, ch. 87). 'Grumpy ol' Emberus,' says Eris, who wants Carl to kill him (ch. 76).