Cockroach King

The Cockroach King is an NPC in Fear & Hunger.

Location & Behavior
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 you 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 appear to ignore a character that doesn't have Mastery over Insects. A character that does will be able to communicate to the Cockroach King. The King will be surprised that the character can understand them and ask them to submit multiple times.

Submitting to the Cockroach will allow you to do tasks for him to raise your affinity with the God of the Depths. The first task is to kill The Butterfly creature in the hidden courtyard above. The second task is to kill The Dark Priest, which can obviously only be done if you are not playing as The Dark Priest.

Refusing to submit to the Cockroach King will cause him to idly threaten you, instead of giving you tasks.

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 creatures that prefer the darkness to the light, such as The Cavedwellers.

All of the spells granted under the domain of God of the Depths are related to bugs or similar creatures. It's unknown if the Cockroach King grants access to these spells because he rules the bugs, or if supporting the bugs is something the God of the Depths desires because they are his worshippers.