Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Yarilo

The feral god of lust, Emberus's kin, banished for ruining one of Apito's masquerades and summoned by the Gate's last opening: he chases Samantha ('By his left tit, stop running!'), is conscripted by a war mage's potion, and dies begging 'Not my face' under Harpocrates's mace. His death angers the gods.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 72 — Diah
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty

Arc

The feral god of lust, Emberus's kin, banished for ruining one of Apito's masquerades, born of the Gate's last opening (ch. 63, ch. 64): he chases Samantha shrieking for Psamathe (ch. 64), gives up like a wussy (ch. 66), is conscripted by a war mage's potion (ch. 69), and dies under Harpocrates begging 'Not my face' — a death that angers the gods (ch. 73). His temporary effect, patched live: protection from all venereal diseases (ch. 72).