Eris
Names: ErisGoddess of ChaosGoddess of Chaos Eris
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 34 (34)
Appearances
What you know
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 72Eris, goddess of chaos, is sponsored and piloted by Nami, a model who had surgery to look and sound like Hekla.
- Ch 76Eris's spell piled roughly 80,000 frozen people, including Carl's allies and the Reaver army, beside the Dream castle.
- Ch 78Eris woke and ended her Witness spell, but people inside Donut's ball stay invulnerable until it breaks.
- Ch 88Eris, goddess of chaos, has lost her sponsor, is now free, and is a prime contender for the Ascendent Throne.
- Ch 88Eris offers to make Carl her champion if he kills Taranis, Emberus and Hellik, and promises to help.
- Ch 88Eris is Taranis's half-sister and, being All Knowing, knows everybody's business.
- Ch 98Carl hears laughter like that of Eris, goddess of chaos, from the river in his mind, which he had hoped was gone.
- Ch 100Eris, goddess of chaos, appears at Zander's Squirties waystation outside the Earth system and tortures him.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 37Eris, Goddess of Chaos, has lost her sponsor, is now level 251, and appears to Carl summoned by an error.
- Ch 37Eris wants the Ascendent throne and offers to protect Carl and kill Emberus, Hellik and her half brother if he truly worships her.
- Ch 74Eris has promised to fix things if Carl worships her, but Carl believes she wants true devotion and sees it as a trap.
- Ch 100Eris enters the realm just as Carl and Donut prepare to ride into the arena.
- Ch 101Eris, goddess of chaos, gives a random deity effect that swaps every nearby crawler's inventory with their nearest crawler.
- Ch 101Eris taunts Taranis that he has been sleeping with their mother, and that four of her five pieces are in the arena.
- Ch 101Eris says the AI is using Penny to distract Taranis, and warns that if those downstairs win the Ascendency, it's lights out.
- Ch 101Eris tells Carl he is chaos incarnate, that every exit is an entrance, and they have until the end of the twelfth to solve the coin's fifth side.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 7 · Ch 71Carl jumps into Reaver territory
After the eruption damages Party Planner, Carl and Samantha jump out over Reaver territory to meet Elle at the feral gate; Eris is summoned and Team Retribution seizes two throne rooms.
- Book 7 · Ch 75Eris's Chaos Ritual
Eris casts Bear Witness and Bring Forth the Witnesses, freezing almost everyone outside structures on the floor and lifting them into the sky, including Carl's army and the Madness soldiers.
- Book 7 · Ch 76Donut's Rolling Battle Formation
To move the huge pile of frozen witnesses away from the god fight, Donut casts Rolling Battle Formation, forming a giant steerable ball that also swallows Meatus and Eris.
- Book 7 · Ch 81War mages target the gods
War mages launch at the gods: Bianca downs one, another ejects Nami from Eris, and another conscripts Yarilo using potions bought by trading away the feral gate.
- Book 7 · Ch 88Eris visits Carl
Freed from War Mage control, Eris freezes time, makes Carl's Pied Piper permanent, tempts him to become her champion, and tells him where the Gate of the Feral Gods went.
- Book 7 · Ch 100Eris appears at Squirties
Eris, goddess of chaos, appears at Zander's failing waystation near the Earth system gate and tortures him with his own tentacles.
- Book 8 · Ch 37Eris freezes time
Eris appears with a robot Uzi Jesus, urges Carl to ally with Akuma and to worship her, and grants a nearby crawler a permanent effect.
- Book 8 · Ch 37The five-sided coin
Eris flips a coin of grim fates for Carl; he snatches it midair, choosing a chaotic fifth side that brands his palm.
- Book 8 · Ch 100Eris enters
As Carl mounts his motorcycle with Donut refusing to leave him, the world freezes and Eris enters the realm.
- Book 8 · Ch 101Scolopendra turned to goo
Amid Eris's inventory swap, Donut finds the biscuit-loaded banger sphere and Carl hurls it into Scolopendra's mouth, turning the Dungeon boss into a puddle.
- Book 8 · Ch 101Eris's visit
Eris freezes time to speak to Carl about the Ascendency, chaos and the coin's fifth side, then leaves.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.