Place · from book 3

The Nothing

A double spot on the Desperado Club's wheel of fortune — 'the Nothing sure is something' — and a trapdoor under the roulette table that drops a losing player into a hole full of screams. Carl's spin stops just short of it.

In the mythology: the pantheon.

First appears: Book 3

Series arc

Through book 5

Yarilo's exile (B5 ch. 65); the seal's price (B5 ch. 66); 'Psamathe, we are coming' (B5 ch. 74).

Through book 3

A double spot on the wheel of fortune, the worst of twenty-five, that Carl nearly goes into (B3 ch. 9); 'the Nothing sure is something' (B3 ch. 9).

Through book 4

Where the demon harem was tossed during the original Ascendency (B4 ch. 34); what the Gate opens onto when it closes (B4 ch. 15–B4 ch. 29); where Slit came from (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. 9, Ch. 35 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	10/35	15–16, 20–21, 23–24, 27–29, 34 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	10/78	24, 34, 62, 65–69, 73–74 · the book's own page

By book

The Nothing in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

A double spot on the Desperado Club's wheel of fortune, the worst of twenty-five: Carl nearly goes into it (ch. 9); 'Remember when you almost got sucked away into the Nothing, Carl?' (epilogue).

The Nothing in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Where the demon harem was tossed during the original Ascendency (ch. 34); where Slit came from (ch. 34) and where the Gate of the Feral Gods opens onto when it closes (ch. 15–ch. 29); 'cast away to the Nothing' (ch. 24).

The Nothing in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Samantha says a beaver god is in it, Capa, whom Hehaka wears as a hat (ch. 24); being abandoned was worse than the Nothing (ch. 34); something she once did there (ch. 62). Imogen tells the masquerade's founding story — Yarilo exiled to it for breaking the peace — and promises that the ground will open and feed peace-breakers into it, an eternity in the realm of darkness and gnashing of teeth (ch. 65); the warning at the door repeats the price, and a footman describes the fall (ch. 66); the pet show is an hour of nobody being banished (ch. 67); Signet says the Nothing is fed every time, and Apito awards no boons (ch. 68); Zabit applauds Carl for nearly angering Vrah into breaking the seal (ch. 69). Imogen dares Signet toward the realm of mumbled screams (ch. 73), and the floor rends open and takes her (ch. 74).