Diwata
First appears in Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapter 36 (36)
Appearances
What you know
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 36Mordecai says Diwata is a vengeful minor nature goddess, a moss-covered antlered squirrel, worshipped by some dryads.
- Ch 55Trees and dryads are casting a spell to summon Diwata, the forest protector, who is unforgiving of apostates.
- Ch 61Diwata, sponsored by Circe Took, marks Carl for death as an apostate.
- Ch 61Diwata manifests from a dying Crest hunter's body as an antlered squirrel god, then flies away on a five-minute timer.
- Ch 61Samantha says Diwata is a shapeshifting forest god of Apito's brood who births ordinary versions of whatever she last mated with.
- Ch 68Diwata cured Vrah as a male mantis, then became a female mantis and is endlessly birthing mantis babies across the floor.
- Ch 68Mordecai says Diwata can stay on the floor only while her birthing spell continues, leaving her unable to cast other spells.
- Ch 71Diwata, in mantis form, killed the security room guards, removed soul crystals and restored the hunters' magic and inventories.
- Ch 74Diwata is a level 250 immortal whose true identity is Circe Took, the giant mantis woman.
Connections
- enemy ofCarl
- related toTemple of Diwatatemple of the goddess
- related toApitoone of Apito's brood, not a direct child
- related toCirce TookCirce sponsored Diwata
- related toVrahcured Vrah; mother of the mantis brood
- enemy ofPsamathe
- partner ofVertumnus
- related toLucienneworships
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 36Carl becomes an enemy of Diwata
Opening his boxes, Carl receives the Enemy of the Church Tattoo for breaking Diwata's shrine in Lucia's desecrated temple.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Signet's warning
Signet, Holger and Areson meet Carl and Donut to warn of the brambles and that the trees are summoning the god Diwata.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Secret message about Circe
Carl's benefactor potion carries a hidden note from P. Hu: Circe Took sponsored Diwata, and Donut's spell must secretly be pushed to level 15.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Diwata enters the realm
The last hunter flees into a temple, where Diwata erupts from his body, marks Carl for death, and flies off, apparently to reach Vrah.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Diwata's brood revealed
Carl and Mordecai work out that Diwata is still on the floor, birthing endless mantis babies after curing Vrah.
- Book 5 · Ch 71Diwata's sabotage countered
Samantha finds Diwata had killed the guards and restored hunter magic; she replaces the crystals, foiling a draconian's attack, and prepares to fight Diwata.
- Book 5 · Ch 71Samantha blows up the soul crystals
Fighting Diwata, Samantha bites the soul crystals, causing an explosion that knocks Diwata out and blasts holes between the castle floors.
- Book 5 · Ch 74Cage fight boss battle
The AI pits crawlers, the last hunters, Queen Imogen and Diwata against each other as everyone falls into the castle's empty basement pit, surrounded by brambles.
- Book 5 · Ch 74Circe Took dies
Carl gets Donut close to Diwata, who strips the god armor with Laundry Day; Circe Took is killed by her own children.
- Book 6 · Ch 1Princess Posse newsletter recap
Donut's fan club newsletter recaps the sixth floor and Butcher's Masquerade: Signet's revenge, Vrah and Diwata's deaths, deaths of friends, and buying a Faction Wars spot.