Tsarina Signet

“I wanted to see if you would abide by your promise. You lied to me, Carl. I was tempted to just melt the both of you right then. But I can be forgiving.” [3] Tsarina Signet

Tsarina Signet is an Elite starring in the Syndicate program Vengeance of the Daughter. Carl and Donut first meet her on the Third Floor.

AI Description

Tsarina Signet - Half Naiad, Half High-Elf Summoner. Level 60
This is an Elite.

The High-Elf King Finian, leader of the Liana Sector of the Hunting Grounds, was such a horny bastard, it was said he’d bedded women from over 5,000 different races during his rule. Most scholars agree this has to be an exaggeration considering King Finian’s harelip and obsession with knitting, but nonetheless, at least one of these trysts did take place, resulting in the unique combination of half Naiad, half High Elf. Considering the Naiad Confederacy’s tendency to drown outsiders and the High Elves’ inclination to hunt down and murder any mongrel child of the late king, Signet here has probably had a tough life. Maybe that’s why she ran away and joined the circus.

WARNING: This is a fairy-class NPC. Creatures of this class inflict 20% more damage against you due to your goblin pass.[4]

Description

As the main character of Vengeance of the Daughter, Signet is set up to be a sympathetic character who lost her entire family. Her blood relations on both sides—both High Elves and Naiads—rejected her. Her found family, Grimaldi and his circus, fell to Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack, leaving Signet alone and out for revenge on all who wronged her.

The producers that control Signet lean heavily into common tropes.[2] As a result, their main character is more an amalgamation of loose ideas than a character unto herself. She is driven both by revenge (against Imogen and the Naiad Confederacy) and compassion (towards her former family and others who suffered from Scolopendra's attack). As in many scripted dramas, her focus can shift between the two goals without much transition. This can make her appear almost pathologically focused on one goal or another.[3] It also serves to justify her willingness to kill her former found family. As the drama continues, Signet shows increasing empathy and develops into a more complex, well-rounded character.

Once per day, Signet may cast the blood magic Ink Marauder Spell to give her tattoos life and form. The process requires her to guess in advance which participant of a duel will win; if she guesses correctly, the sacrifice's blood flows out of them and into her. The strength of her tattoos is determined by the "quality" of the sacrifice's blood.[5]

She is afflicted with some unknown curse that prevents water from touching her, a particular problem for the nominal head of a Naiad government.[6]

Appearance

Signet is approximately 5' 6" (168 cm) tall and extra thin, with long pointed elf ears, short horns on her forehead, and sharpened fangs. Her white skin has a slight blue shimmer, as though covered in very fine scales, but is covered in thick-lined, animated tattoos of Asian- and nautical-themed monsters.[1][2] The swirling tattoos move under her skin, causing her skin to ripple.[3][2]She wears only a thong.[2]

List of tattoos:

Gallery

History

Signet's mother (Princess Lunette) was tsarina of the Naiad on the Sixth Floor Hunting Grounds, and taught Signet powerful heirloom magic. The Naiad Confederacy killed her mother and exiled Signet, then seized the Naiad castle and renamed it Fort Freedom.[3]

Her father is King Finian. After her sister, Princess Imogen, had took power, Imogen attempted to eradicate all of his half-blood children to solidify her claim to the throne, forcing Tsarina to flee.

Still a child, Signet joined Grimaldi's Traveling Circus and fell in love with Ringmaster Grimaldi, who rescued her from the High Elves of the Sixth Floor. When Signet told him that she would be a princess if she had been a full-blooded Naiad, he changed her name to Tsarina Signet. Later, when Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack poisoned and transformed the world, Signet was the only member of the circus to be unaffected.[3] Now, she attacks the circus every night in the hopes of reaching Grimaldi and killing him, thus ending the suffering of her former family.

Story

Book 2

Signet meets Carl and Donut early on the Third Floor, when she finds them spying on Grimaldi's Traveling Circus. She attempts to sacrifice Carl to the Mold Lions and he survives.[1] She makes him swear to return the next night; when he and Donut attempt to leave the area, she hits him with a level 15 spell that knocks him out. She casts the Water Lily Spell on Donut and refuses to lift it until Carl helps her.[3] She has Carl fight Heather the Bear to summon her Blood and Ink Elemental army, and sends him to confront Ringmaster Grimaldi.[2][9]

Carl cuts a deal with the producers of Vengeance of the Daughter that allows Signet to resolve her feud with what is left of Grimaldi without resorting to violence or making Carl too central to the show. In return, he agrees to sign an exclusivity agreement for the Sixth Floor.[10]

Book 5

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 5
Signet appeared on the Sixth Floor still under the control of her showrunners. She had assembled a small army of elves, naiads, and old friends (including Werecasters, Edgar, and Miss Nadine).[6] She recruited Carl and Donut to assist in assaulting the Naiad castle Fort Freedom, then under control of the Naiad Confederacy. Many of her companions were slain and she added tattoos of Clint and Miss Nadine.[11]

At the last minute, just before Imogen arrived in her ballroom, Signet was invited to the Butcher's Masquerade by the goddess Apito. During the ball, she spent the majority of her time talking with D'nadia, who (perhaps inadvertently) helped to awaken the NPC to her true nature, confirming that Herot's Worn Path Method can work on Elites.[12] By the end, she knows that her mother never even existed.

Signet chose to sacrifice herself, breaking the Butcher's Masquerade spell so Carl and his fellow crawlers could escape. She summoned her tattoos using her own life force to attack Imogen before getting pulled into the Nothing.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 6)
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 9)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 8)
  4. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 6) (pp. 69-70). Kindle Edition.
  5. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 7)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 9)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 29)
  8. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 73)
  9. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 10)
  10. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 11)
  11. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 17)
  12. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 45)
  13. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 47)
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