Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Khepri

Not a cleric: a god with a beetle for a head, level 250, retainer of Adrasteia since Khnum died, in his own temple of 433 kinds of bug; banished at the club's temple portal by a voice.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 75 — Archie's boy; Imani's family; the Feast Hive
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 97 — Eris; the wrong biscuit; the gods leave

Arc

The beetle-headed god of Club Vanquisher's endless temple. A nasty message from him about a death cult in Donut's name arrives at the floor's start (ch. 1). When his death cult breaks the game in the L'Engle Building, the scarabs from his feast table wreck the building and the AI cancels the tenth floor's boss (ch. 75). In Club Scolopendra Carl names him Geyrun's killer and then summons him himself with the quest prize — 'For my second summon to the arena, I choose Khepri!' — because the Scavenger's Daughter patch gives Khepri's ninety seconds of invulnerability — 'Poor bug-headed Khepri. He had nothing to do with this' (ch. 95, ch. 96). Emberus's death blows him down like a building (ch. 96); Taranis tells him 'Go home' and 'Begone!' while he points at Carl and Donut and chitters, and he leaves the realm (ch. 97).