Character · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Tsarina Signet

A level-60 Elite of the Over City — half naiad, half high elf, naked but for a thong and a skin of living tattoos that are her Blood-Magic battle squad. Star of the scripted drama Vengeance of the Daughter; runaway to Grimaldi's circus; the bastard daughter of a high-elf king with business on the Hunting Grounds. She tries to bleed Carl for a spell before she trusts him.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Signet
• Chapter 7 — The lion's heart
• Chapter 8 — Water Lily
• Chapter 9 — Heather the Bear
• Chapter 10 — The big top
• Chapter 11 — The pitch
• Chapter 12 — Mongo holds the pyramid
• Chapter 13 — Mordecai's room
• Chapter 17 — GumGum
• Chapter 25 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Arc

Signet's arc on this floor is the drama she stars in. A poster marked TRAITOR (ch. 6); a first meeting that is a Puppy Dog charm and a sacrifice spell aimed at Carl's blood (ch. 6, ch. 7); a broken promise answered with a Water Lily curse on Donut (ch. 8); the story told on the walk — the ringmaster who saved her as a child and whom she loved as a woman, the family transformed, the nightly assault 'for family' (ch. 8, ch. 9); the paper army (ch. 9); and the un-banishment, spoken by Grimaldi through Carl's mouth (ch. 11). She goes into the tent, keeps her word about Donut, and is presumably down the stairs to the Hunting Grounds, where Carl has contracted to meet her story again.