Matt Dinniman grew up as a military brat — his father served in the US Army — moving frequently before eventually settling in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated from the University of Arizona and spent years refining his craft through creative writing workshops at Pima Community College, returning to the same class repeatedly and crediting the group critique sessions as foundational to his development as a writer. Before fiction, Dinniman earned a six-figure income selling cat-themed art to pe...
The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Gate of the Feral Gods
Synopsis
The sixth floor opens with factions — massive alien races called the Feral Gods waging an ancient war that predates the dungeon itself, and every crawler who enters is expected to pick a side. Carl and Princess Donut have no intention of playing it straight. Working simultaneously against and alongside every faction, they collect new allies, pursue impossible side quests, and try to keep the increasingly unwieldy party from falling apart. The sixth floor is the largest the series has visited, and the conspiracy at the dungeon's center begins to come into focus for the first time.
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Characters
Carl AndersonProtagonist
A Coast Guard veteran and marine technician who enters the dungeon with no combat experience and becomes its most-watched crawler through stubbornness and an uncanny talent for turning near-death situations into entertainment.
CarlProtagonist
Takes on the fourth floor's factions and a war footing as the crawl's politics deepen.
Princess DonutProtagonist
Carl's partner, whose fame and power keep growing.
Princess DonutSupporting
Carl's ex-girlfriend's prize show cat and the dungeon's most improbably dangerous party member; her aristocratic indignation at mortal peril is matched only by her evolving dungeon abilities.
Katia GrimSupporting
A fellow crawler who first joins Carl and Donut on the third floor and becomes one of the series' most significant recurring allies, with abilities and motivations that grow more complex across the series.
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Gate of the Feral GodsUnknown, 2025
848 pages
Diversified PublishingLanguage: English3 editions available
