Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Samantha

Psamathe, a minor deity banished to the Nothing by her father for bearing a king's child, half of whom escaped into the nearest naiad vessel — a sex doll of the fictional bard Lika — and now lives as a talking, immobile, latex head with fangs, a barrette reading 'Wet for you', and one refrain: 'I'm going to kill your mother.' Hired as the personal space's trainer. Her child is a sand ooze; her mother is a god.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
• Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Arc

A woman scorned: she rolls off to kill Tish, Ghazi's ex at the college, before Tish can steal Louis from her the way she tried to steal Ghazi, and blackmails Louis with his 'affair' (ch. 4, ch. 5). She stows away on the bomber to save Louis from himself (ch. 20), gets dropped out of it (ch. 31), wears 'Miss Me?' and then 'Fuck the Cheese Dicks' in lipstick on her forehead (ch. 45, ch. 59), coaches Bautista to throw Katia on the ground and offers to kill Katia's mother (ch. 47), opens a god's temple door with her teeth (ch. 52), and comes out of Club Vanquisher a charred husk wanting help against the skyfowl wearing her mother (ch. 55). Left at the Gate as bait, she names the dragon a Bleached Drake and gets chased across the plains by Yarilo, who hates her ('By his left tit, stop running!') and gives up 'LIKE A BIG WUSSY' (ch. 63, ch. 64, ch. 66). She trades Juice Box a rescue for a body and a hall pass (ch. 70), bonds with a jawless robot dog named Buster (ch. 80), falls from the sky as a comet with one white curl left (ch. 80), and, believing her daughter died in the acid, gives up Princess Lunette's body so Louis can have its heart: 'Louis deserves it more than I do' (ch. 83). Then she says aloud that she may have had a hand in Geyrun's death, and Emberus enters the realm (ch. 83). Fired from the xistera wrapped in streamers, she stalls a crying god at a volcano until he lets go of her, and comes back charred (ch. 86, ch. 87). She remembers, and cannot say why she forgot, that Kimaris gave her the potion that put her baby in her (ch. 87). Whether she is the scavenger, and her daughter the Scavenger's Daughter the war mages took, Carl does not yet know (ch. 83).