Firas M.
Names: Firas M.Firas
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 3 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 3Firas M., a level 22 Hammersmith, and Louis Santiago 2, a level 22 Pest Exterminator, drink at the Spit and Swallow.
- Ch 5Firas has an escape spell called Puddle Jumper and travels with Louis; both arrive in the Toe heavily drunk.
- Ch 6Sober, Firas is quiet and introspective; he was a car detailer and audio installer and has the melee Hammersmith class.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 75Firas dies in the battle against Imogen, along with Gwen, Horton and the Popovs; Britney's face is permanently burned.
Connections
- friend ofLouis Santiago 2
- partner ofBritney Proskurina
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 3Rallying Hump Town's crawlers
Carl's team recruits drunk crawlers Firas and Louis and Langley's archer party for a planning meeting at the Toe.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Crawlers meet in the personal space
Carl brings the drunk Louis and Firas and the archers into the personal space to plan against the gnome fortress, while Mordecai warns everyone to be polite to the changeling prostitutes.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Mordecai forcibly sobers Louis and Firas
Fed up, Mordecai gives Louis and Firas disguised Rapid Detox potions, leaving them vomiting and unable to drink for the floor.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Break-in at the town hall
Carl, Donut, Louis and Firas teleport onto a town hall balcony, sneak downstairs and knock out the basement guards with Cloud of Exhaust, but the noise brings about 15 guards and traps them inside.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Guards revealed as changelings
The knocked-out guards revert into faceless changelings; Carl kills Changeling Principal Svern and orders Louis and Firas to kill the other.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Escape from the burning town hall
A dromedarian rocket blasts the basement door; Carl counterattacks with explosives, summons a decoy toad, and Donut teleports the group out as the town hall burns and collapses.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Hostage exchange ruse
Carl's group meets the gnome ambassador's balloon with a zombified Wynne, a fake Henrik and a fake potion, hoping to get aboard the Wasteland before it bombs Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Leon's inspection
Leon tests the group and Wynne for changelings, finds Wynne a ghoul but accepts Donut's cure story, then searches the fake Henrik's body.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Return to the land quadrant
Louis and Firas fly the half-demolished house to pick up Carl and Donut and bring them down to the land quadrant, catching them up on events.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Chum bombs and the dive
From the flying house, Donut detonates chum bombs to distract the concierge sharks, then Katia becomes a diving bell and drops Carl, Tran and Vadim onto the Akula's hull.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Keeping the puppy alive
Carl sends Donut, Louis and Firas up in the Twister so Donut can heal Orthrus with Heal Critter during the storm.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Luring Orthrus out
Carl flies the drop bear while Donut heals Orthrus and casts Meat Hooks, drawing the puppy out of bubble 543 into the Lacuna toward Emberus.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Phase one extractions start
Imani launches the bubble rescues; the first group passes through the gate to Hump Town and hands it on without stealing it.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Return to Hump Town
Carl and Donut cross the Lacuna back to bubble 543, are applauded by crawlers, and Florin thanks Carl before descending.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Phase three: changelings depart
Imani, Elle, Louis and Firas open a gate portal to the sixth floor, sending the changelings through with the Twister.
- Book 5 · Ch 7Donut heads off the lecture
Back in the personal space, Donut preempts Mordecai's scolding, and Carl announces a plan for a much bigger bomb before the hunters are released.
- Book 5 · Ch 8Opening the hunter boxes
Carl opens his prize boxes, gaining a cult tattoo, 595,000 gold, 34 hunter hands redeemable at the Butcher's Masquerade, and a boost to his Fear spell.
- Book 5 · Ch 63The masquerade plan
Carl posts his secret plan for the masquerade in the cookbook and his allies sign it, each adding their own stance.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Samantha enters the tunnels
Samantha sneaks into the cat tunnels but has forgotten the map, so Firas guides her toward the security room while the talent show begins.
- Book 6 · Ch 5Crawlers reel from the last floor
Over chat, Carl learns Britney and Louis are grieving Firas, and Tran lost his legs and his friend Gwendolyn Duet.