Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The Butcher's Masquerade

A party the top fifty crawlers and the surviving hunters are transferred to whether they like it or not, in the high elf castle at the end of the sixth floor — and a spell: one of Apito's holiest sacraments, cast once in a life by the most divine, with a guest list chosen by the goddess to sow discord, a celestial peace seal that feeds anyone who breaks it to the Nothing, goodwill ballrooms in which enemies cannot touch, and a boon nobody has ever won. No masks. The name, Carl decides afterwards, has one butcher in it.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
• Chapter 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure

Progression

Yarilo was banished to the Nothing for breaking the peace of Apito's spell there (ch. 70).