God · from book 1
Grull
Driven by the Maestro, who therefore cannot play Faction Wars; worshipped by the mantaur guards in blue paint; Carl a friend of his church, to his puzzlement.
First appears: B1 ch. 25
Family and enemies
| Relation | With | Source |
|---|---|---|
| child-of | Taranis | B3 ch. 33 |
| child-of | Apito | B3 ch. 33 |
| worshipped-by | equine creatures | B3 ch. 33 |
| sponsored-by | Prince Maestro of the Skull Empire | B3 ch. 33 |
| worshipped-by | Gore-Gore the mantaur | B3 ch. 11 |
| sibling-of (reversed) | Pawna | B4 ch. 2 |
| enemy-of (reversed) | Pawna | B4 ch. 2 |
| child-of | Apito | B5 ch. 65 |
| sponsored-by | the Maestro | B7 ch. 32 |
| driven-by | the Maestro, as soul armour | B8 ch. 66 |
By book
Book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
A name on a gauntlet — the Enchanted War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull, with a 1.5% chance to transfigure an adherent into the deity himself — and Mordecai's insistence that Grull is not a real god: 'There are no gods here. Just those who pay for the privilege' (B1 ch. 25).
Book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Odette's last warning: the gauntlet can summon the war god against any of his celebrants, and King Rust has just bought a deity sponsorship — 'if I was still a gambler, I'd bet on Grull' (B2 ch. 26).
Book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Carl's gauntlet sets off a ten-second summoning over Gore-Gore the mantaur, 'adherents of the war god Grull', and Carl kills him before it ends (B3 ch. 11); the Cookbook and Mordecai give the rules of summoning (B3 ch. 32); in the Death Challenge his card reads 'Sponsored by Prince Maestro of the Skull Empire' and names his parents, and he is ejected by a second summoning into a portal (B3 ch. 33).
Book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
An achievement offers Carl the option to worship him (B4 ch. 2); Mordecai says Maggie's race cannot worship him, which is why the Skull Empire found her Algos (B4 ch. 14); Clay the dromedarian is not 'a face-painting, bull-worshipping bitch' (B4 ch. 1). One of the two gods on Carl's worship tab; Carl clicks the other (B4 ch. 31).
Book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
A memory and a piece of gear: the toe ring for being stepped on, and the wrist bracer that forms the gauntlet, which the elf guards make Carl stow before the party (B5 ch. 5, B5 ch. 66). The masquerade story gives him a child's line — it was Grull who asked his mother why a party with no masks is a masquerade (B5 ch. 65). Carl was saving the stripping-spell plan for him and spends it on Diwata instead (B5 ch. 76).
Book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Book 8 — A Parade of Horribles
The mantaur mercenaries of heat two 'did not worship Grull like every other mantaur I’d ever seen. Both worshipped someone named Enyo' (B8 ch. 13); Porky: 'Female mantaurs do not worship Grull like most of our kind do' (B8 ch. 58). Corcunda's summons brings him to the Screw Factory with the Maestro riding inside; the Scavenger's Daughter's effect from him: 'All four-legged creatures in your presence, friend or enemy, are temporarily given 2× power to their most powerful attack'; Dong Quixote rides the reunited Corcunda 'directly at the immortal god of war' (B8 ch. 66).
Mentions
| Book | Chapters | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 1/48 | B1 ch. 25 |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 1/26 | B2 ch. 26 |
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 5/35 | B3 ch. 11, B3 ch. 29, B3 ch. 32, B3 ch. 33, B3 ch. 35 |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 9/35 | 1–2, 4–5, 12–14, 31–32 |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 4/78 | B5 ch. 5, B5 ch. 65, B5 ch. 66, B5 ch. 76 |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 4/74 | B6 ch. 3, B6 ch. 56, B6 ch. 65, B6 ch. 72 |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 4/89 | B7 ch. 22, B7 ch. 32, B7 ch. 51, B7 ch. 57 |
| 8 — A Parade of Horribles | 4/99 | B8 ch. 13, B8 ch. 58, B8 ch. 65, B8 ch. 66 |
Part of the pantheon.