Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Quests

Mentioned once in the first book: Mordecai says that from the fourth floor the stairwells will be guarded, and crawlers will 'have to complete quests or defeat bosses to get to them.'

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
Chapter 84 — And then there were two
Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Progression

Emberus's three: the High Cleric's permission, the Apito crystal, Kill the Blasphemer (ch. 2, ch. 50, ch. 51); a hundred of Hellik's worshippers (ch. 57); 'obtain it' (ch. 64); a team quest nobody can opt out of, This is How the Gristle Grinds (ch. 84, epilogue). The Bedlam Bride quest fails in a ballroom (ch. 17).