Motif · from book 3

The Celestial Ascendency

The Cookbook's warning: the big gods are always sponsored by some rich prick who paid to play a game called the Celestial Ascendency, contained on the twelfth floor, with its own followers and storyline; Grull is one of its few trueborn heirs. 'The gods are invulnerable except on the 12th and above floors.'

More on the gods and their sponsors: the pantheon.

First appears: Book 3

Series arc

Through book 5

'Emberus has returned to the Halls of the Ascendency' (B5 ch. 10); the first masquerade held there (B5 ch. 65); Diwata returned (B5 ch. 76).

Through book 3

The Cookbook's warning: the big gods are sponsored by rich pricks who paid to play the Celestial Ascendency on the twelfth floor (B3 ch. 32); Grull one of its few trueborn heirs (B3 ch. 33).

Through book 4

The halls on the twelfth floor and their whackadoodle business (B4 ch. 24); a rich guy's country club (B4 ch. 24); Emberus a candidate for the Celestial Throne, Taranis its regent (B4 ch. 31, B4 ch. 32); demons captured during the original Ascendency (B4 ch. 34).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	2/35	Ch. 32, Ch. 33 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	5/35	Ch. 24, Ch. 28, Ch. 31, Ch. 32, Ch. 34 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	4/78	Ch. 10, Ch. 62, Ch. 65, Ch. 76 · the book's own page

By book

The Celestial Ascendency in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Cookbook's warning: the big gods are sponsored by rich pricks who paid to play a game called the Celestial Ascendency, contained on the twelfth floor, with its own followers and storyline (ch. 32); Grull, 'one of the few trueborn heirs to the Celestial Ascendency' (ch. 33).

The Celestial Ascendency in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

The halls of the Celestial Ascendency on the twelfth floor and their whackadoodle business (ch. 24); Mordecai: the pantheon as a rich guy's country club, Larracos and the Ascendency used as a fifth-floor plot point (ch. 24, ch. 28); Emberus, who 'strongly feels he is the best-suited candidate to ascend to the Celestial Throne', Taranis its regent (ch. 31, ch. 32); the demons captured during the original Ascendency (ch. 34).

The Celestial Ascendency in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

'Emberus has returned to the Halls of the Ascendency' after Zockau (ch. 10). Samantha on Diwata's power to give birth to whatever she last naffed — a power supposed to be consigned to the head of the Ascendency, which the pantheon dislikes (ch. 62); Queen Imogen on the first masquerade, held in the Halls of Ascendency by Taranis and Apito for their children, who are constantly vying for control (ch. 65); Diwata returns there after the fight (ch. 76).