Character · from book 2

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.

Race and class, since book 2: Half Naiad, Half High-Elf · Summoner

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

Through book 4

A glass half-naiad in a fountain, very like her, reminds Carl of her (B4 ch. 21); her storyline is one of Katia's reasons for leaving (B4 ch. 33).

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
The Vengeance of the Daughter contract for the sixth floor	B2 ch. 11	open · B4 ch. 33 — Katia lists 'that Tsarina Signet storyline' among the party's burdens for the sixth floor.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 2

The first Elite the series spends time with, and the first serial Carl signs on to. Her arc on the third floor is complete — charmed, kidnapped, sacrificed-for, reconciled (B2 ch. 6–B2 ch. 11) — and continues without him on the Hunting Grounds, where his contract says they will meet again.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	10/26	6–13, 17, 25 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	2/35	Ch. 21, Ch. 33 · the book's own page

By book

Tsarina Signet in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

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.

Tsarina Signet in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

A glass half-naiad in a fountain, very like her but half human, reminds Carl of her and the sixth-floor contract (ch. 21); Katia counts 'that Tsarina Signet storyline' among the reasons the party's plate is full (ch. 33).