Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Hapanzi

Shi Maria's husband, a god who is a spider and a man: 'I have her now, son… Worry not, my children.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends

Arc

In Katia's dream a male spider, Shi Maria's husband, then a man, whom she kills and devours sobbing; then returned, and a god: 'I have her now, son […] She is good and trapped. You can always set her free, if you must. But do not unless all is lost' (ch. 17). On the adjutants' screen a dark-skinned man in a vest with Asojano's accent and the voice Carl sometimes hears: 'Worry not, my children' (ch. 18).