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.
Who has come out of it — Inle, Minge, Wakinyan — and who sells sushi in it: the pantheon.
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
As of book 7. A spot on a wheel in book 3, the Gate's other side in book 4, torn open in book 6; in book 7 broken. Yarilo's prison and Krakaren Prime's brewery; the Damned are those who entered it and lived; the god who comes for an escapee is the god who banished them. Juice Box jumps into it through a permanent portal made from the Gate's winding box, to be reborn a weapon; Justice Light drops a bijou trap and a demon trap after her, and it drains into the Halls of the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair. Scolopendra wakes.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Krakaren Prime in the Nothing, preparing for a war | B7 ch. 71 | open — Hell-kissed Conscription potions brewed by a banished Prime who 'prepares for a war she considers inevitable', sold by the in-dungeon Krakaren's ambassador Paca; they work on floors 9, 12, 15, 17 and 18. Carl spent his duplicate on Lucia; Li Na's went into a god. |
| Justice Light's trap: the Nothing broken into the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's lair | B7 ch. 87 | open — A bijou trap and a demon trap dropped into a permanent portal made from the Gate's winding box; four planes fold; 'Scolopendra has awakened'; the Club told to flee to an empty sixteenth floor through the seventeenth. Porthus and the Apothecary knew; the survivors will suffer for it. |
| Juice Box in the Nothing, to be reborn 'the ultimate weapon' | B7 ch. 87 | open — She took the long way to the twelfth believing he would follow; 'I have something inside me, Carl. Something very, very powerful'; the Beautiful Place is a form she can take. Her changelings and her city are in the Court of the Ascendency without her. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 3
Through book 4
Through book 5
Through book 6
Through book 7
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 |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 13/74 | 15, 18, 26, 31–33, 35, 42, 54, 57–58, 61, 66 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 10/89 | 28, 44, 52, 59, 64, 71, 73, 76, 86–87 · the book's own page |
By book
The Nothing in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The Nothing in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
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).
The Nothing in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Inle, one of only two orishas to have spent time in the Nothing, is not all there and will end up back in it (ch. 15); Orthrus, unleashed from it at the end of the fifth floor, has a memory made unreliable by his time there (ch. 18); MaeMae's missing husband might be in it (ch. 26); Samantha says a goddess there, Makara, with a crocodile's head and a fish's body, makes sushi rolls of her own innards (ch. 31). The casino holds entrances to it, one of a harem of feral sisters gets out, and a voice once called from it for Samantha as Signet fell (ch. 32, ch. 33); Wakinyan's escape (ch. 42); the system's own words: 'The great prison, the Nothing, has been breached, and not for the first time' (ch. 54).
The Nothing in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
Where Yarilo was banished and from which the god who banished you comes when you escape (ch. 64); where Krakaren Prime brews (ch. 71); the Damned are those who entered it and survived (ch. 52). Juice Box jumps into it alone through a permanent portal made from the Gate's winding box; the bijou and demon traps follow, and it breaks — draining into the Halls of the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair (ch. 87).