The gods

Two mentions, both sidelong. The Enchanted War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull warns that striking a worshipper of the war god has a 1.5% chance of transfiguring the target into the god himself, and Mordecai, suddenly solemn, adds that Grull is not a real god — 'There are no gods here. Just those who pay for the privilege' (ch. 25). Zev, listing what other governments cannot do to Carl before the sixth floor: 'Or if they spring for a deity sponsorship this season' (ch. 44).

'What about gods?' — 'That's a whole different thing, and those don't appear until the fourth floor' (ch. 3). A Divine Guardian on the twelfth floor, a Country Boss (ch. 7). Mordecai defers again on 'in-game deities. We'll get to what they really are later' (ch. 17) while explaining Apito the Oak Mother; her antichrist, the Oak Fell, comes in chat (ch. 20). Odette, off air: King Rust has bought a deity sponsorship, probably Grull; be careful with the gauntlet; Mordecai has a lot of experience in the subject, unfortunately (epilogue).

Mana Genita on a tiara — 'a pretty obscure one […] Most of them never leave the 12th floor' (ch. 2); the gauntlet's counter revealed as cumulative and a god summoned into Gore-Gore for ten seconds (ch. 11); Nekhebit and Apito on a crossbow's card (ch. 24); a bolt for a god's eye (ch. 29); the Cookbook's three kinds of summoning, Forkith's oath, Tin's theory that the gods are Soul Armor the aliens wear (ch. 32); Mordecai's arithmetic — vessel level plus god level in seconds, no cooldown, a second summoning steals the first, 'I learned it the hard way' (ch. 32). Then Grull himself: child of Taranis and Apito, level 250, invulnerable on this floor, sponsored by a prince, ejected by a second vessel (ch. 33). 'Yeah, I'm supposed to ask you about gods.' 'That can wait' (ch. 2).

What the fifth floor says a god is

A tab to worship Grull; Pawna, goddess of peace, his sister and enemy; 'the other deities tend to notice' (ch. 2). The feral gods: the ones from before the pantheon, banished into the Nothing and driven mad, who come through when a gate closes (ch. 15); Psamathe, a lesser deity, split in two, who lies about who she is (ch. 21, ch. 24); the Celestial Ascendency on the twelfth floor, 'whackadoodle business' (ch. 24); a Celestial Grenade that summons the wielder's god; Algos, god of pain; Enyo's nuns (ch. 14). Sinjin's note on worship — rules, boons, smiting — and Azin's: 'Stay the fuck away from gods' (ch. 30).

Emberus

Geyrun murdered, Emberus blinded, Orthrus lost; a blind god walking the Lacuna (ch. 28, ch. 29); summoned into a biplane's path by a grenade after Carl takes him as his god (ch. 31); two quests, a tithe, a shrine (ch. 32). Gods that fight or mate when they meet outside the twelfth floor and unsummon; a turkey god killed by Prepotente; Ysalte, the Vinegar Bitch, an extinction event Borant blocks (ch. 32, ch. 33). Samantha's mother tears a demon in two for her (ch. 34).

The shrine takes its five per cent (ch. 3); Carl's god passes through the realm (ch. 10) and a temple to Hellik, his brother and enemy, stands at the edge of Donut's town (ch. 10). Boons are low-tier loot boxes (ch. 24); Samantha names gods in the Nothing (ch. 24) and explains what a minor goddess is goddess of (ch. 26). Carl breaks a forest goddess's shrine and becomes an Enemy of the Church (ch. 36); her dryads turn every town hostile (ch. 39, ch. 45); she is summoned by the dryads and bought by a mantis queen (ch. 55). Shunned by his own god for killing a worshipper used as a shield (ch. 60). Then the theology: Diwata's birth-power and the pantheon's disgust (ch. 62); Apito's protections, her gospel, Yarilo banished, Taranis's rage (ch. 64, ch. 65); memorial crystals from fallen gods (ch. 69); the loophole that keeps a god on a floor (ch. 70); soul armour and its driver, and a god sent home by a cat's stripping spell (ch. 76); a memorial crystal for a goddess who is not dead (ch. 77).

A Thorn Room with seven shrines and every choice a thorn (ch. 15); a god who punishes in person and spares Carl for another god's esteem (ch. 16); locked deities, retainers, temple rules, deity messages the system cannot read (ch. 17); a window that shows Taranis, a sacrament no god can overhear, a crystal for a living goddess (ch. 18); gods re-ascending by egg and obelisk for the players above (ch. 25, ch. 36); gods 'acting in ways they should not' (ch. 54); Devotee (ch. 47); a goddess beheaded by her own totem (ch. 69).

No celestial summonings in the Ramp-Up (ch. 14); a floor 'neck deep in gods in a few days' (ch. 45). Bijou tendrils, Travel the Path, Welcome Home (ch. 49); Khepri in his own temple, Hellik on the floor, gods pouring from a portal (ch. 52–ch. 55); Meatus and Harpocrates, Yarilo, Eris by battlefield conditions (ch. 59, ch. 60, ch. 63); a Bleached Drake (ch. 63). Golden ogres a god will not pass (ch. 70); a god conscripted, a god killed by a god, the heavens angry (ch. 72, ch. 73); a goddess free and All Knowing (ch. 76); a sponsored goddess frozen by an unmade choice long enough to kill the woman inside her — 'We just need to kill you' (ch. 86); Emberus burning a floor (ch. 87); Eris at a fuel stop (epilogue).

Sekhmet's veil and a godslayer box (ch. 8); celestial boons are bodily (ch. 9); Carl's chart fills with Enyo, Grull, Tupa, Donar, Gula and Chachi (ch. 13, ch. 40, ch. 54, ch. 58). The unsponsored roam free near the tunnel nodes and the AI's control of them is off (ch. 28); Eris sits in a fuel stop at level 251 (ch. 35); a crawler relays a goddess's words (ch. 51); the stables are the one room they cannot hear (ch. 69); Grull walks into the Gasworks (ch. 66); Khepri's death cult breaks the game (ch. 75); the AI subjugates a goddess for a donkey (ch. 92). Carl leaves his faith (ch. 95); 'A deity has fallen. The heavens tremble with rage' (ch. 96); the Mark of the Damned (ch. 98); 'each and every one is, as far as you’re concerned, now real' (epilogue). Grull enters the realm as Corcunda's halves rejoin and is unseated by Donut's Laundry Day (ch. 65, ch. 66); Apito, per the AI's aside on a cursed pig, was Taranis's mother and his wife (ch. 19).