Samantha (Psamathe)

The lesser deity Ghazi accidentally summoned while reaching for Yarilo, god of Lust. Banished to the Nothing long ago for an affair with a mortal king, Psamathe (“Samantha” to friends) had escaped once before and split in two: half her essence lodged in the nearest naiad-shaped vessel (a sex doll modeled on the fictional stage heroine Lika) and the other half rode out with her sand-ooze familiar, the cursed child of that royal union. She lied to the lovesick Ghazi to make him open the Nothing, meaning to reunite and resurrect, but his botched ritual flash-froze the doll to glass. The Larracos scholars wrongly assumed she'd possessed the necropolis ghost Quetzalcoatlus; in truth she was split between the doll and the ooze the whole time. Mongo shattering the glass doll wrecks the trap, leaving her a raving, decapitated “withering spirit” head that Carl's party hires as a safe-room trainer, because the moment she leaves a safe room her presence may summon a furious god.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 21 — Ghazi’s recovered letters identify the deity he summoned by mistake: Psamathe, banished to the Nothing for an affair with a mortal king, now split between a Lika love-doll and her sand-ooze familiar.
• Chapter 24 — The shattered, decapitated doll head wakes screaming as the “withering spirit” of Psamathe; Carl nicknames her “Samantha” and reluctantly keeps the raving head.
• Chapter 28 — Mordecai presents her to the group and they hire her as the party’s safe-room trainer, since letting her out of a safe room may summon a furious god.
• Chapter 34 — Hurled across the battlefield as bait against the feral demon Slit; her mother-deity intervenes and rips Slit apart, and Samantha pops back furious her kill was stolen.

Related entries

• Carl (Character)
• Princess Donut (Character)
• Mongo (Creature)
• Mordecai (Character)
• Katia Grim (Character)
• Tsarina Signet (Character)
• Louis Santiago 2 (Character)
• Elle McGibbons (Character)
• The Mad Dune Mage (Ghazi) (Character)
• Mrs. Ghazi (Sand Ooze) (Creature)
• Slit, the Feral Minor Demon (Creature)
• Gash, the Feral Minor Demon (Creature)
• Emberus (Character)
• The Nothing (Place)
• The Gate of the Feral Gods (Item)

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