Eileithyia
Names: EileithyiaGoddess of Childbirth and Female Pain EileithyiaShe Who Eases Pain
First appears in Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, chapter 17 (15)
Appearances
What you know
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 19Eileithyia, Goddess of Childbirth and Female Pain, is sponsored by Huanxin Jinx of the Grixist Swarm, CEO of Icon Industries.
- Ch 19Eileithyia secretly asks Carl to accept Odette as Faction Wars Adjutant, promising votes to turn off ninth-floor team protections.
- Ch 19Eileithyia wants Carl, Katia and Donut to help her claim the Celestial Throne on the twelfth floor.
- Ch 35The goddess Eileithyia, driven by Huanxin, may triple Katia's constitution, impregnate her, or take her to the 12th floor as an intern.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 98Eileithyia stays frozen while Katia's choice is pending, a sponsored-god quirk Victory says has long been exploited.
- Ch 98Eileithyia senses many frightened daughters in the place above but cannot reach them, and accepts Katia going to protect them.
- Ch 98Eileithyia refuses Katia's wished-for father and declares the child will be a boy.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 30The goddess Eileithyia is loose on the surface, though a different god is at the kinder facility with Katia.
Connections
- friend ofYemaya
- related toHuanxin Jinxsponsors and drives the goddess
- friend ofEmberus
- related toKatia Grimworships
- related toYemayaretainer
- ally ofYemayashares a court
Key moments
- Book 6 · Ch 18Paz turned into a card
Sister Ines stabs the dying Paz with her flag, capturing him as a common totem card, just as Yemaya and Eileithyia appear.
- Book 6 · Ch 19Yemaya and Eileithyia appear
Two goddesses appear in Yemaya's temple; Yemaya gives Donut and Sister Ines cards and teleports Bomo to his friend The Sledge in Larracos on the ninth floor, stranding Carl's group without his spell.
- Book 6 · Ch 19Eileithyia's secret deal
Under cover of a spider-killing quest, Eileithyia secretly messages Carl, demanding he accept Odette as Faction Wars Adjutant and tell no one, in exchange for protection and help until the twelfth floor.
- Book 6 · Ch 20Return to the saferoom
Cured and banned from the club for three days, Carl recounts events to Donut, Katia, Mordecai and Bautista and notices Katia now worships Eileithyia.
- Book 6 · Ch 40Spider quest completes
Huanxin, via Eileithyia, confirms she will honour the deal to help Katia, completing the spider quest.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Donut kills Huanxin Jinx
When Eileithyia arrives for Katia, Donut traps and kills her sponsor Huanxin Jinx using Laundry Day, Katia's crossbow and Mordecai's ash-tipped bolt.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Katia leaves the crawl
Katia chooses pregnancy from Eileithyia, is made human again with Louis as father, is fitted with cybernetic limbs and disappears, ineligible to continue.