Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
The Guild of Suffering
The cult of the Night Wyrm — a demigod outside the pantheon, 'similar to Samantha' — with outreach centres rather than churches, which keeps memorial crystals and once had a seventh floor given over to raising its god; the elbow tattoo grants access.
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Hamed leads it now: the late Astrid's husband, who took over the Desperado Club after Katia and Carl killed her, and whose business Carl has no time to let kick off (ch. 59).