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Yarilo

god of lust

The feral god of lust, beaten to death by Harpocrates with the flesh ball and damned to Nothing.

Story so far

Yarilo — nephew or cousin or half-brother of Emberus, probably all three, by Carl's reckoning — was a feral god and therefore not immortal on the sixty-fourth level. Harpocrates chased him across Shanty Town and beat him senseless with The Ball of Flesh, and Yarilo scrambled and fled, throwing ineffectual chunks of buildings, one of which sailed over Carl's head and crashed into the Nest Tower.

He begged: "Stop! Not my face. Anything but my face!" His last weak "Please!" was cut off by a terrible wet splatch as Harpocrates slammed the ball down. The system announced that a deity had fallen, that Yarilo was damned to The Nothing, and that his death had angered the gods and made the heavens tremble with rage. The Scavenger's Daughter looked away though her eyes remained open, and its benefit from Yarilo faded. Samantha wept in chat over his death.

Appearance

A huge humanoid with long blond hair, seemingly some sort of elf-like creature — enormous, but significantly smaller than Harpocrates and dwarfed by the ball he was killed with.

Role

Feral god of lust killed on the battlefield, whose death enrages the heavens.

Relationships

Harpocrates — Beat him to death with the ball of flesh
Emberus — Related as nephew, cousin, or half-brother — possibly all three
Scavenger's Daughter — Its benefit from him faded on his death
Samantha — Sobbed in chat over his death

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 73
  • A feral god who enters the realm through the gate Samantha was guarding, instead of the demon expected.
Chapter 74
  • God of lust, banished to the Nothing for ruining a Butcher's Masquerade party, now loose in the realm and hunting Samantha.
Chapter 75
  • God pursuing Samantha in circles around the Reaver castle without ever landing a blow.
Chapter 76
  • God of lust who chases Samantha through the sky and then gives up, earning her withering contempt.
Chapter 80
  • A god on the move again during the battle, flagged by Tipid alongside Harpocrates as an unanswered threat.
Chapter 81
  • The first god successfully conscripted into the war mage army, who promptly ran off.
Chapter 82
  • A second god inbound on Larracos, expected to arrive at the same moment as the ball.
Chapter 84
  • God of lust under Li Na's control who grants Carl a comically useless blessing before Harpocrates clubs him away.
Chapter 85
  • The feral god of lust, beaten to death by Harpocrates with the flesh ball and damned to Nothing.
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