Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Scavenger's Daughter

A divine back patch from a celestial box on the eighth floor: a bar of captured soul essence that fills with kills and empties into a single melee blow — the Daughter's Kiss — doubled when the souls are one species; her eyes open in the presence of gods and demons and fill her with their power. A Climb benefit, and a 'mysterious bone key benefit' that opens any lock in the dungeon at the cost of a bone and the jacket, which Carl keeps as a last resort and in the end does not need. Donut sees it glow at the end: a centipede crawling through the skulls. 'I need you reasonably sane. We have so much work to do.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
• Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 72 — Diah
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Progression

Soul Poisoning from souls left uncollected across a floor (ch. 1); Daughter's Kiss on a concierge shark, a saccathian in a crater, and a worn mage (ch. 1, ch. 24, ch. 31); Post Nut Clarity (ch. 25). Her eyes open for Khepri and hand out a buff or debuff for every god that pours from the portal (ch. 52, ch. 54); she blinks at the crystal's light and does not know what she sees (ch. 64); she looks away from Yarilo's death and from Meatus's (ch. 73, ch. 77); Pied Piper is permanent by Eris's wheel (ch. 76). Then Akuma says she is a person, hidden in the castle, 'with us now'; Mordecai asks whether Carl means the in-dungeon one or the fairy tale; and Carl wonders whether Samantha is the scavenger (ch. 78, ch. 83).