Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
The Guild of Suffering
The cult of the Night Wyrm — a demigod outside the pantheon, 'similar to Samantha' — with outreach centres rather than churches, which keeps memorial crystals and once had a seventh floor given over to raising its god; the elbow tattoo grants access.
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Its leader is Hamed — the Night Wyrm's real name — husband of the late Astrid and father of the strippers Damascus Steel and Anaconda, who are supposedly somewhere in the Desperado Club hunting their own father; he runs the club now (ch. 10).