Diwata

A minor, gender-shifting nature goddess (usually “her”) worshipped by many of the sixth floor’s dryads: a low-rent Apito whose natural form is a giant, moss-covered squirrel-thing with antlers. Per Mordecai she does “odd shit”: impregnates herself, eats the offspring, and builds cities from her poop. After Lucia Mar slaughters the congregation of Diwata’s temple in Alucarda, Carl crashes through the roof and shatters the sacred shrine with his own body, earning the Enemy of the Church tattoo: all Diwata adherents now attack him on sight (and he deals +50% damage to them as an Emberus acolyte). The tattoo can only be removed by killing Diwata or losing the arm.

Book 5 appearances

• Chapter 35 — Carl becomes an Enemy of her Church by shattering her shrine in the desecrated Alucarda temple.
• Chapter 55 — The dying trees and dryads cast a spell to summon Diwata as a forest protector against the Gehenna brambles, and Circe Took has secretly sponsored the deity, sending her into the game to come for the apostate Carl. Signet warns him to avoid all-trees, which whisper his location to her.
• Chapter 61 — Manifests mid-raid, absorbing a Crest hunter into a blood-flower and emerging as an antler-headed squirrel god, then rocketing off without attacking Carl. Samantha explains her: a gender-shifting deity of Apito’s brood who mates as one sex and gives birth as the other, churning out new forest life (which the pantheon resents). She skips Carl because she has only five minutes, and a more urgent errand: reaching Circe’s daughter.

Related entries

• Gold Apostate Box (Loot Box)
• Emberus (Character)
• Bush Elf (Creature)
• Carl (Character)
• Circe Took (Character)
• The All-Tree (Place)

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