Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Oak Fell

The elves' tree goddess and her antichrist. Three separate stories about angels, an oakwood anklet from a dead crawler, and a cat with an award-winning derriere become, in the minds of nine city elves, the end of days. Mordecai says this is twelfth-floor stuff.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Progression

Named by the system the moment the third atrocity lands (ch. 76): deity spells of druid scale, Raise Forest, salt water, Gather Ye, Vermin, and Map the All Tree at one mana on the twelfth and deeper; level 135; Muscle Mommy, Brain Trust, Wholesale Discount; Monologue, a natural benefit past 300 (ch. 77, ch. 79, ch. 86). Milk suspects posturing on the twelfth; Rosetta explains the champion's bounty and the smite (ch. 79). A goddess calls her harbinger of doom (ch. 86).