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Cookbook author who went insane at the sight of the fallen city; Carl remembers him amid the ruins.
Standing in the reeking wreckage before the Semeru Dwarves castle, surrounded by acid puddles, slime, and falling red ash, Carl thinks of Priestly — the cookbook author who had gone insane at the sight of this city after it had fallen.
The memory surfaces as a rhythm rather than a scene: "Stab, stab, stab. Slam, slam, slam." It is a private measure of what Larracos has become, and a reminder that the horror of the place has broken people before.
Not present; recalled only as a memory attached to a repeated, violent rhythm.
Remembered cautionary figure whose madness measures the horror of the ruined city.
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