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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Deorum apparatus unde venerunt''}}{{wikipediainfo}}During their 2019 quest for [[the Frost King (The Frost King's Treasure)|the Frost King]]'s treasure in [[Manik]], the [[Retconning Crocodile]]s, upon wondering how to get through the ice door, bemoaned their lack of a [[plot coupon]] or of “the ''deorum apparatus unde venerunt''”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
A ''deus ex machina'' is a common name for a plot device where an unexpected force appears out of nowhere to extract characters from a seemingly hopeless situation; being based on the Greco-Roman theatrical trope of this being achieved via a literal [[god]] who appears on-stage through a machinery-based special effect, the expression literally means “the God [appearing] from the machine”. The spurious Latin coinage of a “''deorum apparatus unde venerunt''” translates as “a device from which Gods come”, thus riffing on a literal reading of “''deus ex machina''”: the suggestion is that it is a literal machine through which the Crocodiles could have summoned a god to help them. 

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