Floor 12 · The Halls of Ascendency

One of the recurring volcano floors, and the one where gods and their paying sponsors play the Celestial Ascendency in halls on a hill above cotton fields. It is smaller than the early floors and guarded by Divine Guardians at its fire gates to the Thirteenth Floor. Almost no crawler has reached it, and its rules change once the Nothing breaks into it.

1. A recap clip shows a famous Primal crawler charging a Divine Guardian at a fire gate on this floor, and dying a minute later. source

1. The young gate guardian Orthrus, escaped from the Nothing, returns to the Twelfth Floor to resume training. source
2. Emberus gives Carl a quest to kill Hellik before he reaches the Twelfth Floor. source

1. At the end of the Ninth Floor the spell Zerzura moves Larracos and Shanty Town to the cotton fields of the Twelfth Floor, with the city's NPCs but not its mercenaries. source
2. The arrival of Larracos disrupts the court, kills a convent of nuns and leaves wandering undead behind. source
3. Justice Light's trap breaks the Nothing, which begins draining into the Halls of the Ascendency and Scolopendra's Lair, and Scolopendra wakes. source

1. After the trap the floor is described as being in chaos. source
2. Entities from the Nothing invade the floor, and unsponsored gods start acting without the showrunners' control. source
3. An exit deal is offered at the start of the Twelfth Floor, the last one offered. source
4. The AI rules that the crawlers have won without either boss dying, suspends level-collapse timers past the Eleventh Floor until the Ascendency has a winner, and Carl resolves to stay and stop anyone winning. source
5. The Celestial Ascendency begins, viewing becomes mandatory, and outside AI systems join the contest while Larracos sits burrowed in the cotton fields. source

Home of

Orthrus

Located in

Larracos