Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

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 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
• Chapter 12 — Shadow Boxer
• Chapter 15 — The Thorn Room
• Chapter 17 — Two goddesses
• Chapter 23 — The Molly Maguires
• Chapter 26 — MaeMae
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction

Arc

Edgar's items are the ones that put the tattoos on her (ch. 3); her memory golems are still around, people like the shark, and Tina is still an allosaurus (ch. 12); a goddess's charisma is like meeting her the first time, but stronger (ch. 15); Yemaya's ears and eyes remind Carl of her and of Samantha (ch. 17). The body of her mother — a full-sized naiad in seaweed, a tattoo of a fish made flesh by her final spell — appears rigid in Carl's arms (ch. 26); she had told him of the All Tree and of Grimaldi (ch. 32).