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The fire god, immobilized and made vulnerable in Carl's trap, is blasted to death by his own brother Taranis for attacking the pig.
Emberus's rage at Carl's confession springs the trap. As the sobbing, growing god rears back with a fireball, Donut loop-teleports into the club (swapping places with the outbound Penelope) and fires two of Katia's Danforth bolts into his smoldering eye sockets, holding him in place and stripping his invulnerability for fifteen seconds. His incineration blast at Carl's chest is shunted onto Penny by Carl's Lucky Shot patch.
Emberus bursts from inside Scolopendra, swelling from human size into his true world-melting form — a massive, half-faced monstrosity wreathed in flowing fire, screaming 'Carl, Carl, Carl!' — still vulnerable for a few seconds. Then Taranis, seeing his brother had fired on his beloved pig, raises a hand; Emberus has one flicker of lucidity ('Brother, no') before the thunder god twists his wrist and, with one second of vulnerability left, Emberus, god of sun and ash, explodes. 'A deity has fallen.
The heavens tremble with rage.' Carl's impossible no-win Emberus knot is cut — by fratricide.
In death-throes, swelling from a scarred bald human form into a massive half-faced fire-monstrosity with molten fire flowing down its head, before detonating; canonical form the tall red-bearded fire god.
The fire god slain by his brother Taranis at the climax of Carl's trap, ending his no-win quest.
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