Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

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 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two

Arc

Dead, and yet the Dream's subsidiary demands a third season of her storyline (ch. 1); her mother's body, given to Carl at the Masquerade, gives Louis its heart (ch. 84). Donut on the ghillie suit: 'like one of Signet's tattoo people fell through a paper shredder' (ch. 2).