Celestial Ascendency
The coming contest held in the halls on the twelfth floor, which NPCs are protected from until it formally begins.
Story so far
Ascendency is what waits on The Twelfth Floor. According to Rosetta, most of its action takes place in the actual halls, set on a green hill above miles of cotton fields — and that is where Larracos and its people are being deposited.
The rules of the gods are clear that NPCs are untouchable until Ascendency actually starts, which is the legal loophole Carl's plan depends on to get thousands of noncombatants safely onto the floor ahead of time. In the meantime, Juice Box's squad of Changelings can shapeshift into basilica guards to hold the gods at bay should any rules change before the event begins.
Role
The twelfth-floor event whose pre-start protections make the mass NPC evacuation legally possible.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2
- The Gate of the Feral GodsBook 4
- The Eye of the Bedlam BrideBook 6
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
- The floor-spanning warlord competition whose secured messaging Stockade and Houston abused to receive outside intelligence.
- The twelfth-floor court game Odette has joined as Nekhebit, dangerous mainly in its final chaotic days.
- The divine order whose necessary, universally-resented functionaries include the Basilica Guards.
- The coming event after which the twelfth floor's saferoom protections on mortal NPCs no longer hold.
- The next phase that kicks off immediately once all crawlers are dead, putting Rectrix to work.
- The overarching game whose completion triggers the system's hard-coded shutdown and hibernation.
- The divine society whose worst and most unapologetic gossip is Eris, and whose throne she now covets.
- The coming contest held in the halls on the twelfth floor, which NPCs are protected from until it formally begins.