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The demon spirit called up by the Warlock King to destroy the fleet of letharii sealing boats returns three and only three of the boats - dead - to a Letharii harbor. The Letharii high mage sees this through a magical tile, and is horrified by what he sees of the spirit.
He decides to send Brys Beddict in a search for the ancient sea god Mael. Byrs does not find Mael, btu does find a bunch of forgotten gods and their guardian, who was put in place by Mael.
It tuns out that one of the gods was found and renamed by the Edur, and that is their sea demon.
In what is easily the best part of the book so far, Brys first fights and defeats, then helps and saves the guardian.
One of the broad themes of the series is that thinsg progress, and therefore present day peopel can defeat badasses from the past.
This scene feeds into that, as Brys gives his steel sword to the guardian, as it is much better than any of his own weapons.
Tehol takes his dead thief to a gifted undertaker, who gives her back the look of being alive - at the price of having a parasitic being placed in her vagina. This will make her look alive, but the parasite must be fed through frequent sex.
In another major foreshadowing that Bugg is a lot more than he seems to be (the first one being Bugg being more knowledgable than any architect or construction engineer in Lethar over how to stabilize buildings sinking into muck), Bugg exhausts himself blessing a poverty stricken family.
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Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
  
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