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Psamathe, better known as Samantha, is a banished lesser deity and a Withering Spirit. She joins the Royal Court of Princess Donut on the Fifth Floor.
AI Description
The tooltip initially describes Samantha as a Decapitated Lika Sex Doll Head. After it pops out of Carl's inventory and he pokes her teeth, the description updates:
Lika Love Doll Head.
This item is possessed with the Withering Spirit of Psamathe.Psamathe, or Samantha as her friends used to call her, is a minor deity who was banished to the Nothing by her father after he found out she was kicking around with some ancient king guy. She’s usually accompanied by her trusty sidekick, a sand ooze familiar who also happens to be the cursed child of her union with the king. You know, typical god stuff.
And if you think that’s peculiar, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Those guys hanging out in the halls of the Celestial Ascendency on the 12th floor get themselves involved in some serious whackadoodle business, let me tell you. You ever see a guy give birth to a fortune-telling, snake-headed cow out of his thigh? Or a woman whose menstrual blood is sentient? That’s the sort of shit that’s waiting for you down there.
Psamathe is as intelligent as she is quick-tempered. Unfortunately for her, her first escape attempt from the Nothing resulted in a split, and half of her essence was forced to take refuge in the closest unoccupied naiad vessel she could find, which happened to be a sex doll based on the fictional Lika, who, oddly enough, was actually based loosely on an inaccurate history of Psamathe. She’s had to live in the doll for many years, unable to move until the rest of her spirit could be reunited.
The story gets kind of weird from there.[1]
Description
Samantha claims to be a minor deity of unrequited love. She plans to find a body, retrieve Mrs. Ghazi from the Ninth Floor, and then join King Blaine on the Twelfth Floor.[2]
Appearance
Samantha inhabits a half-Human, half-Naiad "Decapitated Lika Sex Doll Head," She possesses a human-sized head and half of a neck made of latex-like material. She has a full head of silky-looking, bone-white hair, and her face is "slathered with hooker-tier makeup." She has wide eyes, and full lips painted bright red; her hinged jaw can be opened and closed, and her mouth contains sharp-looking fangs made of soft latex.[3] There's a scar on her chin from where the formerly crystallized head was chipped.[4]
Her neck has gills on either side, cut short at the point of decapitation for a jagged-looking effect, and a hole at the bottom.[3]
She has a sparkly barrette in her hair that says "Wet for you".
Gallery
For more Samantha art, see Fan Art for Samantha
History
Samantha is in love with King Blaine, who is also carrying on with her mother.[5] Her affair with the king produced a cursed child, Mrs. Ghazi, a sand ooze who also acts as her familiar and companion. When her father discovered her affair with the king, he banished both her and Mrs. Ghazi to the Nothing.[3]
When she first arrived in the Nothing, she did some sexual experimenting with "these demon ladies."[4]
Family Tree
- Emberus is her great uncle and cousin.
- Tsarina Signet is her third cousin twice removed by marriage.
- Mrs. Ghazi is her daughter.
- A tapestry of her grandfather hung in Fort Freedom before the Naiad Revolution.[2]
Story
On the Fifth Floor, Ghazi sought the Gate of the Feral Gods in the hopes of gaining controlled access to the Nothing and asking Yarilo to make Lika fall in love with him. Instead, he summoned Psamathe, who pretended to be Yarilo [6].
Progression and Skills
Trivia
- The name Psamathe is derived from Greek for "sand of the sea-shore" (ψάμαθος psamathos).[7]
- In Greek mythology, Psamathe is generally portrayed as a nereid: one of fifty sea nymphs born to Nereus and the oceanid Doris, and who aided the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece.[8] In most versions of her story, she is assaulted by Aeacus, the king of Aegina; she attempts to escape by transforming into a seal, and subsequently gives birth to a son named Phocus ("seal").[7][9] What follows next varies from telling to telling, but always involves dogs:
- Phocus is murdered by Aeacus and Queen Endeis's two sons, Peleus and Telamon, who are then exiled from the island of Aegina by their father and forced to raise cattle. In Ovid's Metamorphoses (c. 8 AD), Psamathe unleashes a monstrous, red-eyed wolf upon Peleus's cattle herd. Peleus prays to her to "put away her wrath," but Psamathe does not relent until her sister Thetis also begs her forgiveness. Psamathe turns her wolf into marble.[9]
- In an alternate version, Psamathe is Apollo's lover the daughter of King Crotopus of Argos. After the assault and birth, she abandons Phocus (who is torn apart by shepherd's dogs) and Crotopus has Psamathe killed. Apollo retaliates by sending a plague to Argos, and/or (no, really, both can happen at once) sending a female serpentine monster - the personification of punishment - to Argos. A local man, Coroebus, slayed the monster.[7]
- Euripedes's Helen (c. 412 BC) claims that after Psamathe "left Aiakos' bed," she married the king of Egypt, Proteus, and had two children, Theoclymenos and Eido.[9]
- Psamathe is also one of Neptune's moons[10], an oil painting by Frederic Leighton (c. 1879)[11], and a genus of marine worms[12]
References
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 24) (pp. 364-365). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 26)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 24)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 25)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 25) (p. 234). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 21)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Psamathe (daughter of Croctopus). Wikipedia. Accessed May 31, 2024.
- ↑ Nereids. Wikipedia. Accessed May 31, 2024.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Psamathe (Nereid). Wikipedia. Accessed May 31, 2024.
- ↑ Psamathe (moon). Wikipedia. Accessed May 31, 2024.
- ↑ Psamathe (Leighton). Wikipedia. Accessed May 31, 2024.
- ↑ Psamathe. World Polychaeta Database.
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