Cockroach King

The Cockroach King
Overworld Overworld
Affiliation	God of the Depths

Physical description
Gender	Male
Species	Insect

The Cockroach King is a unique non-playable character in Fear & Hunger.

Lore

The Cockroach King presents himself as the ruler over the many bugs that reside in the dungeon and a worshipper of the God of the Depths. Ragnvaldr explains that the God of the Depths is worshipped by forsaken creatures that prefer the darkness to the light, which obviously includes insects and especially cockroaches. All of the spells granted under the domain of God of the Depths are related to bugs or similar creatures.

Location & behaviour

The Cockroach King can be found sitting on a throne in a semi-secret area in the Thicket. The path to get to him can be found by pushing on a series of walls on the bottom right part of the first level of the Thicket, where bugs will be present and tell the player to go forward to him. A player can deduce the location of this based on past experience/the location of the small bugs, but they need Mastery over Insects to be able to speak to the Cockroach King. The Cockroach King will ignore a character that doesn't have this skill.

A character that does will be able to communicate with the Cockroach King. The King will be surprised that the character can understand them and ask them to submit and bow down to him.

Submitting to the Cockroach King will allow the player to do tasks for him. This raises the player's affinity with God of the Depths - the only way to do so in the game. The first task is to kill the Butterfly creature in the hidden Courtyard above. The second task is to kill Enki (unless the player is playing as him). Each quest raises affinity with the God of the Depths upon completion.

Refusing to submit to the Cockroach King will cause him to idly threaten the player and not give any tasks.

Dialogue

Overworld

• There is a huge insect sitting here...

With Mastery over Insects

• • Player: “Greetings.”
    • Cockroach king: “Greetings...”
    • Cockroach king: “It appears... you understand us...?”
    • Cockroach king: “But alas, you are not one of us... not just yet at least...”
    • Cockroach king: “Tell me - oh filthy human... do you want to kneel in front of me?”
    • When Don't
      • Cockroach king: “Then leave... you disgusting piece of flesh...”
      • Cockroach king: “Just know that one day... you will become a rotten home... for my kind...”
      • Cockroach king: “And that day... might be sooner than you think...”
      • (The Cockroach king will repeat this last part if spoken to again)
    • When Kneel
      • Cockroach king: “Your humility... pleases me... I might just make you one with our kind... one day... yes...”
      • Cockroach king: “But for now... you are a peasant.”
      • Cockroach king: “Say it! Say that you are my peasant!”
      • When Player: “No.”
        • Cockroach king: “Then leave... you disgusting piece of flesh...”
        • Cockroach king: “Just know that one day... you will become a rotten home... for my kind...”
        • Cockroach king: “And that day... might be sooner than you think...”
        • (The Cockroach king will repeat this last part if spoken to again)
      • When Player: “I am your peasant”
        • Cockroach king: “Peasant - there is a lowly being on the upper levels... A wretched being who wishes to be like us...”
        • Cockroach king: “The being... wants to soar the skies... but we cannot allow that... not from someone as miserable as him...”
        • Cockroach king: “Murder that being... I want to see it's blood flow... and I shall reward you...”

After killing the Butterfly:

• • Cockroach king: “Peasant - your task is done... I hear... I am very pleased... with your efforts.”
  • Cockroach king: “Butterfly...? No... not in a million years...”
  • Cockroach king: “Peasant - you shall raise in rank... you are from this day onwards... a Noble...”
  • With the task, your affinity with the God of the Depths is growing...

• • If the Player is Enki:
    • Cockroach king: “Noble one - I might have tasks for you... but later...”
  • If the Player isn't Enki:
    • Cockroach king: “Noble one - I might have tasks for you...”
    • Cockroach king: “There is an outsider in these dungeons... A one with magical properties...”
    • Cockroach king: “My people have always wanted a new flesh of a home... that has magical properties...”
    • Cockroach king: “Murder this long fair haired priest of destruction... and I shall reward you...”

After killing Enki:

• • Cockroach king: “Noble - your task is done... I hear... I am very pleased... with your efforts once again.”
  • Cockroach king: “My people got the flesh of a home... they wanted for so long...”
  • Cockroach king: “Noble - you shall raise in rank... you are from this day onwards... a Knight...”
  • With the task, your affinity with the God of the Depths is growing...
  • Cockroach king: “Knight - come back later... for there is always murdering

to do...”