Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Atrocities

A class of spell — 'an act of fiendish cruelty', by Florin's dictionary — that a synergy tower can amplify over a whole battlefield: War Crime, from the Legendary 1914 box, castable three times ever, only on Scolopendra levels, combining spells 'in a creative way' and never killing directly. Donut's three on the ninth floor — a Rolling Battle Formation of eighty thousand people and two gods, a corpse field torn into fleshers, and War Crime with a paw she swings herself — make her the Oak Fell, Champion of Nekhebit, level 135.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
• Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
• Chapter 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
• Chapter 31 — Luca Di's entry; the ghoul cages; a mile of fire
• Chapter 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
• Chapter 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle

Progression

The godslayer box holds what War Crime did to Meatus (ch. 8); the AI's rant: 'I am just like you in that tower' (ch. 9).