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Khepri is a bug-themed deity that is a light god of Rebirth and Sunrise. He is currently a retainer for Adrasteia, formerly a retainer for Khnum. Carl, Katia Grim, and Prepotente get marked for death by this god when they storm into his temple on the Ninth Floor to kill Vinata during Operation Snake Pit.
Scavenger's Daughter Effect: You are immortal for the next 90 seconds.
Description
Khepri is described as humanoid, with two legs and arms (though more like a Soother than human), but instead of a head, there is an entire bug. Not a bug head, but a whole 6 legged bettle, with wings and a tiny head of its own. [1].
Khepri is described by the System AI as being "honor bound towards his guests, despite being pissed off and terrified." [2]
AI Description
God of Rebirth and the Sunrise. Khepri! Level 250.
This is a locked deity. He will not be sponsored this season.
This god is a retainer of Adrasteia.
Warning: This is a deity. He is invulnerable on this floor.
This god is within his own temple. Temple appearance rules apply.
Like many of the gods one may find roaming the halls of the Ascendency, Khepri is mostly ignored by the big players and is only acknowledged when they need something from him. They usually just leave him alone because he’s a goddamned weirdo. His head is the body of a bug, which is creepy, even to me. His temple is “endless.”
Look at this shit. I can’t tell you how much under-the-hood work it is to deal with this sort of crap. Seriously. When they first came up with this, did they even consider how people like me would feel about having to generate it? Endless temple. Do they know what “endless” means? If the original writer of this god’s backstory wasn’t already long dead in a refueling platform accident, I’d do to her what I did to... You know what? Never mind.
Anyway, this “endless” temple is just a room with a door that leads to one long table covered with a never-ending feast. And that feast is covered with 433 different kinds of bugs. Some of those bugs are quite unpleasant in their own right.
Khepri was a retainer of the god Khnum, but like several of the other deities in this particular sub-pantheon, Khnum mysteriously dropped dead a few days back. And since Khepri’s not that strong, plus, again, his head is a bug, (He doesn’t even talk. He chitters, and even that is weird. And don’t get me started on how he eats. It’s fucking disgusting,) he’s been forced into the service of another deity in order to protect himself.
Khepri is a dubious candidate to claim the Ascendent throne. Adrasteia, his boss, has an outside shot.
And in about thirty seconds, when everything unfreezes, he’s going to go absolutely bugshit on everyone in the room. Probably even his own worshiper, Vinata, who brought unrest to his weird-ass bug orgy. I have no idea what’s going to happen, honestly. Will Carl succeed? Will Prepotente get his revenge? Will Vinata escape, which will damn both [[Katia Grim]|Katia] and Princess Donut? How will Zhang die?
Like all you at home, I just cannot wait to find out. [2]
Story
Book 7
During Operation Snake Pit:
- Carl first spots Khepri when using his portal viewer upgrade and spots what he assumes is a cleric for Khepri. When he, Katia Grim, and Prepotente enter the temple, he realizes it's actually Khepri. This is because though deity summoning is limited due to the rules of Faction Wars (game), gods can always appear in their own temple. [1]
- After Carl drops the Waffle Maker and uses the Run, Little Guenter, Run Spell to blast him down the room, Khepri catches up with Carl outside the portal. Before he can do anything, Hellik banishes him away. [3]
- While Carl is still marked for death by Khepri, he comments that something is killing off something in that pantheon and Khepri might not survive long enough to kill him. [4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 52)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 53)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 54)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 57)