Character · from book 2

Scolopendra

The monster at the bottom of the volcano in the Over City's founding story, whose nine-tier poison cloud transformed ninety per cent of the kingdom; named, never seen. Every mold lion, clown and city-elf superstition on the third floor traces back to the cataclysm.

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

Through book 5

The nine-tier attack, Holger says, was everything ever fired at her reflected at once (B5 ch. 16); something in the elf castle protects against it (B5 ch. 28). Her passing turned the female Ursine to dinosaurs and spared the pious (B5 ch. 44); a potion undoes her transmutation, but not for Tina (B5 ch. 57). She dreams on the ballroom dome, a black centipede in a golden geode strangling a white tree — 'when she finally awakens, she will destroy everything and free us all' (B5 ch. 66); soul crystals are the souls filtered through her (B5 ch. 69). A tattoo dragon shatters the mosaic (B5 ch. 75). Prepotente wants the crystal he says protects against her.

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
A memorial crystal for Apito, who is not dead	B5 ch. 77	open — The queen's necklace, taken by a Curupira ranger named Osvaldo; Emberus's quest updated to obtain it; Prepotente says it protects against Scolopendra.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 2

The volcano's monster (B2 ch. 3), the source of every transformation on the floor, and the model for Miss Quill's Final War (B2 ch. 24). Unseen; presumably below.

Through book 4

'Scolopendra will never be defeated now' — Tish (B4 ch. 21); woken at the volcano's base by the Semeru dwarves' tower — Priestly (B4 ch. 33).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	4/26	Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 17, Ch. 24 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	2/35	Ch. 21, Ch. 33 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	16/78	5, 10–11, 14, 16, 24, 26, 28, 44, 53, 56–57, 66, 69, 75, 77 · the book's own page

By book

Scolopendra in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The great monster at the bottom of the volcano (ch. 3), named by Signet as the source of a Nine Tier attack (ch. 8) and by the city elves' theology as the origin of the earthbound's hatred of angels (ch. 17); Miss Quill's Final War is modelled on the cloud (ch. 24). Never seen; every monster on the floor is its aftermath.

Scolopendra in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Tish's letter: 'Scolopendra will never be defeated now. We needed that artifact' (ch. 21); Priestly's note: the Semeru dwarves' tower to the Celestials below woke it at the volcano's base (ch. 33).

Scolopendra in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

The nine-tier attack, Holger says, was everything ever fired at her reflected at once (ch. 16); something in the elf castle protects against it (ch. 28). Her passing turned the female Ursine to dinosaurs and spared the pious (ch. 44); a potion undoes her transmutation, but not for Tina (ch. 57). She dreams on the ballroom dome, a black centipede in a golden geode strangling a white tree — 'when she finally awakens, she will destroy everything and free us all' (ch. 66); soul crystals are the souls filtered through her (ch. 69). A tattoo dragon shatters the mosaic (ch. 75). Prepotente wants the crystal he says protects against her.