Dungeon Crawler Carl · Character
Pater Coal
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 6 · Ch. 19
Pater Coal is the Hobbledehoy High Cleric Supreme of Emberus in Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 6).
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 6 · Ch. 19
- Books
- 2
Pater Coal is the diminutive Hobbledehoy High Cleric Supreme of Emberus, marked by the Twin Emberus tattoos on the backs of his hands, who serves as Carl's earnest religious guide at the Emberus temple in Club Vanquisher. In The Eye of the Bedlam Bride he escorts Carl through the temple, performs a scalding foot-washing sacrament, relays Emberus's demand to investigate Geyrun's death, and arranges a temple loan for an enchanted ring that binds Carl to the church while he is in debt. By This Inevitable Ruin his story has taken a darker turn: his body becomes a chilling example of the dungeon AI seizing control of a person from the temple, an unsettling loss of agency later recalled in conversation.
Description
Pater Coal is a small, human-like figure, only about four and a half feet tall, with long white hair in the familiar silhouette of a storybook wizard. His long red robes lend him a formal, ceremonial outline, while the Twin Emberus worshipper tattoos on the backs of his hands provide a distinctive detail. His features and eye color are not specified. He carries himself with clerical gravity, though his diminutive stature and occasional uncertainty make his presence feel gentle rather than imposing. Pater Coal is identified as male and as a high cleric, but no physical description is provided. His age, height, build, skin tone, hair, eyes, facial features, and specific clothing remain unknown. His clerical role is the only visual cue available; no particular robes, symbols, or accessories are stated.
Connections
Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals
Carlconflicting source relationships
In Book 6, Pater Coal acts as Carl's devoted religious guide, performing sacraments, conveying Emberus's commands about Geyrun's death, and brokering a temple loan for an enchanted ring that leaves Carl indebted to and bound by the church. Their connection is not developed further in Book 7, where Coal's role is reduced to the grim fact of the AI taking over his body.
Story so far
BOOK 6The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Introduced as the Hobbledehoy High Cleric Supreme of Emberus, bearing the Twin Emberus hand tattoos
- Escorts Carl through the Emberus temple and washes his feet in boiling water as a sacrament
- Relays Emberus's instructions for Carl to investigate Geyrun's death
- Arranges an Emberus Temple loan and helps Carl buy an enchanted ring at Club Vanquisher, binding Carl to the church while indebted
BOOK 7This Inevitable Ruin
- Identified as the high cleric of the Emberus temple at Club Vanquisher
- His body is taken over by the AI, becoming a disturbing example of a person from the temple losing control
- His possession is later recalled in conversation as an unsettling precedent
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