Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Emberus

God of Sun and Ash, level 250, youngest brother of Taranis and twin of Hellik: blind since he plucked out his own eyes when his favourite son Geyrun was murdered, 'one of the most unhinged of all the pantheon', a locked god no sponsor may buy this season. He walks through the Lacuna shouting for his dead son's puppy, and becomes, by Carl's choice on a falling biplane, Carl's god.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 19 — One Fine Pig; Penelope
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
• Chapter 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 42 — Into the jungle; Quemada breaks; the Wienermobile
• Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
• Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
• Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit

Arc

Quemada's god as well as Carl's, who tasks his worshippers with killing his brother (ch. 35); Carl's smite waits at the end of the eleventh floor (ch. 67). Summoned human-sized into Club Scolopendra — bald, blazing sockets, a beard of smouldering cracks — he asks for proof of who killed his son and is told Khepri, then Carl himself (ch. 95). Held by Katia's bolt and a Danforth in his eyes, his incineration deflected into a pig, he rises world-melting and says 'Brother, no' as Taranis twists his wrist (ch. 96). 'A deity has fallen. The heavens tremble with rage.' His memorial crystal lies in the dirt (ch. 98).