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Samantha

Psamathe · Sam · the god-head · a piece of the mother

The god-head reveals her true plan: she engineered her ride with Taranis to reach the temple and kill the 'demon mother lady' and the son who tricked her into birthing a world-ending monster.

Story so far

Samantha, the god-head secretly Psamathe and a piece of the returning mother-god, drops her clownish mask in an epilogue message to Louis. Her departure with Taranis and Krakaren Prime was no accident but 'all part of my plan': the two are at a temple trying to combine pieces to make whole Taranis's 'mom wife,' but it won't work because they're missing a piece — and Samantha has slipped away. Her real aim is lethal: to kill 'the demon mother lady and her jerk son,' whom she thought a friend but who tricked her into giving birth to a monster destined to destroy all of creation, inside the dungeon and out.

Cheerfully framing genocide-prevention as fun ('doesn't that sound fun?'), she confirms the darkest thread of the Scavenger's Daughter mystery — that she is the unwitting mother of the pantheon-ending weapon — and sets herself loose as an independent agent hunting the ones who used her.

Appearance

A disembodied minor-goddess doll head with glamorous molded features and tousled hair, radiating a faint divine aura, now moving on her own agenda.

Role

The god-head oracle turned covert assassin, hunting the demon mother and son who tricked her into birthing a world-ending monster.

Relationships

Taranis — Whose ride to the temple she engineered before slipping away from him.
Louis — To whom she reveals her true plan in a chat message.
Scavenger's Daughter — The mystery she confirms — she is the unwitting mother of its world-ending monster.
Krakaren Prime — Taken with her to the temple as the gods try to reassemble the mother-god.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
  • The party's captive minor-goddess doll head, chaos incarnate, forever forgetting her own dead child.
Chapter 27
  • The floating god-head runs riot in the safe room — dominating Mario Kart, claiming slaves, and threatening everyone's mothers.
Chapter 55
  • The party's captive god-head, growing stronger by the hour, who unmasks the child-killing goddess now hiding inside Lucia Mar.
Chapter 71
  • The captive god-head, now chasing a new body through Grigori — and, per the Scavenger myth, possibly the unwitting mother of a pantheon-erasing god-killer.
Chapter 73
  • The captive god-head who's already soured on her would-be body-sculptor Grigori — and now smugly claims a secret 'plan' of her own.
Chapter 93
  • The captive god-head, carried about by Jamal, mourns her departed friends while watching the eerie tunnel-node broadcast on every screen.
Chapter 101
  • The god-head, revealed as one of the returning mother-god's five pieces, whispers to Taranis and departs with him toward the Ascendency.
Chapter 103
  • The god-head reveals her true plan: she engineered her ride with Taranis to reach the temple and kill the 'demon mother lady' and the son who tricked her into birthing a world-ending monster.
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Minor deity (Psamathe; a piece of the mother-god) LVL unknown
Skills & spells
  • monster and god lore
  • hovering self-locomotion
  • covert scheming
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