Emberus

The feral god Carl’s gate looses onto Floor 5: Emberus, a colossal blind fire god taller than a bubble is high, who plucked out his own eyes when his favorite son died and now kills by setting faces aflame. He stampedes across the popped bubbles, torching Lyrx Elf villages and igniting oil derricks, bellowing one name: “Orthrus,” his beloved puppy, lost into the Nothing the day his son was murdered. Unable to see into intact bubbles, he smashes every opened one in his search, mistaking the dog-soldier crawler Tserendolgor for his dog. Samantha (Psamathe), his estranged kin, warns he gives no rewards and once buried a whole country in lava over a single snuffed-out torch.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 28 — Walks out of the Nothing into Floor 5, torching every popped bubble while screaming for Orthrus; Elle and the others scatter as the worlds burn.
• Chapter 31 — A Level-250 locked deity (brother of Taranis and Hellik); forcibly summoned by Carl’s grenade, he tearfully reclaims Orthrus and vanishes with him to the twelfth floor.
• Chapter 32 — Accepts Carl as an Acolyte, grants a constitution boon, and assigns two church quests: avenge his murdered son Geyrun and kill his twin Hellik.

Related entries

• Who Let the Gods Out (the Gate Used) (Event)
• Samantha (Psamathe) (Character)
• The Fifth Floor ("The Bubbles") (Place)
• Elle McGibbons (Character)

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