Tsarina Signet
Names: Tsarina SignetSignetSignet the BastardTsarinaPsamathe
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 6 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 6A circus poster of Tsarina Signet and Her Amazing Battle Squad is crossed out and labelled 'Wanted. Traitor.'
- Ch 6Tsarina Signet is a level 60 half-Naiad, half-High-Elf Summoner Elite, covered in living tattoos of monsters.
- Ch 6Signet is a half naiad, half elf elite with a seductive voice and ultra-high charm.
- Ch 6Signet's body is covered in moving monster tattoos, including a sea dragon and a three-headed ogre with a sword.
- Ch 6Signet says the circus folk who attacked Carl are her former family.
- Ch 7Signet is a summoner whose Blood Magic needs a sacrifice; she intended Carl to die so his blood would animate her battle squad.
- Ch 7Signet lives near the vine and is attacking the circus; she offers to tell the tale of herself and Grimaldi, the man she loved.
- Ch 8Signet, level 60, knocks Carl and Donut unconscious for fifteen hours because Carl was breaking his promise to her.
- Ch 8Signet's mother was a naiad princess; Grimaldi nicknamed her Tsarina Signet after hearing she would be tsarina if full-blooded.
- Ch 9Signet thanks Carl for freeing Heather, whom she still considers family after two centuries.
- Ch 9Signet attacks the circus nightly, saying this is what you do for family.
- Ch 9Signet's paper army routs the circus defenders, but her minions cannot breach the magical protection on the big top.
- Ch 9Signet has been banished from the big top, so neither she nor her minions can enter it.
- Ch 9Signet stops the circus's steam music machine by hand and strokes it lovingly instead of letting it be smashed.
- Ch 10Signet promises to free Donut if Carl dies inside the big top.
- Ch 11Signet says Donut will awaken at sunrise and thanks Carl before entering the big top.
- Ch 11Carl believes Signet's story will take her to the Hunting Grounds to fight the High Elves.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 21Carl still owes a contract to appear in Vengeance of the Daughter, a drama involving Tsarina Signet, on a future floor.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 13Tsarina Signet is a level-60 half-naiad, half-high-elf summoner elite who once put Donut in a coma; Carl believes she will now be friendly.
- Ch 14Signet's mother was a naiad princess killed in the revolution; her father, King Finian, was the high elf king.
- Ch 14Signet is recruiting a team and wants to destroy both the Confederacy and the High Elves.
- Ch 15Signet leads about 70 followers, including bush elves, Edgar the talking tortoise, dryads, pixies and ursine.
- Ch 16Signet is an elite; showrunners can send elites suggestions, so she pushes Carl and Donut back to a saferoom before Odette's show.
- Ch 16Signet lived in the were-castors' village after being cursed, until a village elder introduced her to Grimaldi and she left with him.
- Ch 17Samantha says Signet is the granddaughter of Princess Yungsten of the Naiad, and her great-grandfather was Tsar Guggenheim.
- Ch 25Signet's mother was a naiad princess who conceived her with the high elf King Finian; a coup killed her mother and got Signet banished.
- Ch 25Signet tells Carl she now considers him part of her family.
- Ch 25Signet summons her paper battle squad, including a three-headed paper ogre, and leads the assault toward the castle "for my mother."
- Ch 26Areson says a high elf cast Signet's curse, which makes water avoid her, on the night her mother was killed.
- Ch 28Signet retakes Fort Freedom, finding it in ruins and her people regressed to savagery; she won't rule because of her curse.
- Ch 29Signet's tattoos are made from fallen companions or worthy enemies; her first came the night her mother died, when she met Edgar.
- Ch 29Signet plans to move southeast toward high elf territory, hunting outworlders while preparing the assault on Imogen.
- Ch 55Signet, a half-naiad hunted by the elves, warns that killing the raptor alpha could cost control of the whole pack.
- Ch 62Signet plans to assault Queen Imogen's castle at nightfall as the party begins, with soldiers already hidden in place.
- Ch 64Carl has secretly arranged for Signet to hide alone in the castle basement and wait for an opportunity.
- Ch 65Signet is transported into the ballroom after Apito appears to her and invites her to the party.
- Ch 66Signet is glad to be at the party, since the queen's guards cannot touch her without breaking the seal.
- Ch 66Signet senses the judges' strange auras, and Carl tells her they are off-worlders watching for entertainment.
- Ch 71Signet says Apito herself hand-delivered her invitation to the masquerade.
- Ch 71Signet's tattoos hold memories of her dead mother and fallen companions, given to her by Edgar the tortoise.
- Ch 71Signet decides to cast Ink Marauder alone, acting as caster, sacrifice and killer, so Carl doesn't have to sacrifice himself.
- Ch 72Signet slits her own throat with Carl's knife beside Imogen, is dragged into the Nothing, and breaks the masquerade's seal.
- Ch 72Signet's last regrets were not saying goodbye to her Grimaldi and not being the one to kill Imogen.
- Ch 73After Signet's death her tattoos animate as memory golems that swarm Imogen but cannot harm her directly.
Connections
- family ofKing Finiandaughter
- enemy ofGrimaldi's Traveling Circusbranded a traitor
- partner ofGrimaldiSignet says Grimaldi is the man she loved
- related toBlood and Ink ElementalSignet's summoned minions
- member ofVengeance of the Daughterthe storyline she belongs to
- ally ofClint Smashgrab
- ally ofAreson the Wise
- related toVengeance of the Daughterelite of the secondary program
- family ofImogenhalf-sisters
- enemy ofHigh Elves
- enemy ofThe Confederacy
- ally ofEdgar
- ally ofHolger
- family ofPrincess Yungstengranddaughter
- family ofPsamatheSamantha claims to be her third cousin thrice removed, by marriage
- enemy ofImogen
- ally ofPsamathe
- ally ofNadine
- related toAreson the Wiseher bodyguard
- related toImogenQueen Imogen sends a hostile message to Signet via an attack on Mongo
- ally ofCarl
- friend ofEdgar
- related toGrimaldiSignet's Grimaldi
- family ofPrincess LunetteSignet's mother (memory golem)
- createdPrincess Lunette
- friend ofCarlCarl believes she saw him as family
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 6Meeting Tsarina Signet
Princess Donut teleports them out to face the Elite Tsarina Signet, whose charm grips Carl until he breaks his own finger.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Signet confronts Carl and Donut
The elite Signet tries to charm Carl, Donut and Mongo. Mordecai warns them by chat to flee, but Signet reveals it is too late: she has had the circus beasts' cages opened.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Circus beasts released
The circus cages open and red dots appear on all sides of Carl and Donut's minimap; they are surrounded.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Battle with the Mold Lions
Surrounded by six Mold Lions, Carl uses Protective Shell and Donut's Confusing Fog, kills a lion barehanded, and Donut raises the dead as zombies until all the lions fall.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Signet's failed sacrifice
Signet admits she meant Carl to be killed by the lions so his blood would power her Blood Magic. She invites them to hear her story and help her assault on the circus; Carl agrees to meet the next night.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Signet abducts Carl and Donut
Signet stuns and knocks out Carl and Donut as they leave for the skyfowl settlement. Carl wakes fifteen hours later to find Donut under Signet's Water Lily spell, held hostage until he fulfils his promise.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Signet tells Grimaldi's story
Signet explains Grimaldi saved and raised her, that she loves him, and that the cataclysm turned him into the vine controlling the circus.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Carl must kill Heather
Signet brings Carl to the sleeping Heather and demands he kill her as the sacrifice for Signet's summoning; an admin note signals a boss battle.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Carl defeats Heather the Bear
Carl fights the parasite-controlled boss Heather with fire and smoke; an unlucky custard result heals her and kills the worms, and Carl ends the freed bear's suffering. Her blood flies to Signet.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Signet's paper army assaults the circus
Signet summons her Blood and Ink Elementals and leads Carl into a nightly assault on the circus amid mortar fire, lemurs and mold lions.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Assault reaches the big top
Signet's elementals crush the circus's outer defenses and secondary tents, but the big top's ancient protective magic repels them. Signet tells Carl he must enter with a ticket and break the three tent poles.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Grimaldi and Signet reconcile through Carl
Infested by Grimaldi's worms but protected by Wisp Armor, Carl pleads with Grimaldi and Signet to stop fighting. Grimaldi un-banishes Signet, Carl purges the worms with a potion, and Signet enters the big top.
- Book 5 · Ch 13Meeting Tsarina Signet again
Carl's Ping reveals a waiting group of elites; Carl and Donut cross the bridge to meet Tsarina Signet, Areson the Wise, Clint Smashgrab's were-kin brothers and a giant caterpillar holding the captured hunter Bravvo.
- Book 5 · Ch 14Bravvo killed and looted
Carl kills the captured yenk hunter Bravvo and loots him before following Signet's group into the jungle toward Zockau.
- Book 5 · Ch 14Signet explains her mission
Walking through the jungle, Signet tells Carl and Donut about her family, the fate of the circus and the Chee, and says she is recruiting them to destroy the Confederacy and the High Elves.
- Book 5 · Ch 15Signet's quest begins
At Signet's camp, Carl receives the quest The Vengeance of the Daughter: help Signet assault Fort Freedom and kill the Naiad Confederacy's leaders.
- Book 5 · Ch 24Lightning at the all-tree
On the way to join Signet for the Fort Freedom assault, a lightning blast strikes near the all-tree; Donut's map shows two dead hunters among Signet's forces.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Skull Empire ambush fails
Three Skull Empire orcs ambush Signet's gathering near the all-tree; two die when their lightning is reflected, and Areson captures the third.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Samantha meets Signet
Samantha asks Signet to surrender her body so Samantha can take it; Signet declines and offers a vague promise of help later.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Langley's team dies
As Carl prepares the sacrifice above Fort Freedom, news arrives that Langley's whole team died hunting Bogdon Ro, before Carl kills the orc Future Huntress.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Assault on Fort Freedom begins
Carl launches Samantha into the river as a distraction, an alarm sounds deep in the castle, and Signet's summoned paper monsters and assault team move on Fort Freedom.
- Book 5 · Ch 26Signet storms the castle
Signet's paper battle squad and allies cross the river and enter Fort Freedom while Samantha, stuck in a vent, relays fighting and blood in the water.
- Book 5 · Ch 28Fort Freedom retaken
Signet returns having taken Fort Freedom and defeated the confederacy, completing Part One of The Vengeance of the Daughter, though Clint, Miss Nadine and the south shore team died.
- Book 5 · Ch 28Part Two: kill Queen Imogen
Carl and Donut receive Part Two of The Vengeance of the Daughter: help Signet kill Queen Imogen at the high elves' party.
- Book 5 · Ch 29Miss Nadine's tattoo
Edgar tattoos Miss Nadine's remains onto Signet; the new tattoo appears as a young chee woman with a memory of child Clint, and the were-castors pay their respects.
- 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 62Carl redirects Signet
Carl warns Signet her attack on Imogen is a trap and convinces her to enter the castle and wait for his signal, despite Zev's warnings.
- Book 5 · Ch 65Signet arrives
Signet unexpectedly appears in the ballroom, saying Apito invited her, upsetting the production and Carl's plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 66Carl points Signet at the judges
Carl tells Signet the judges are outside viewers controlling her world, and she heads off to confront them, to Zev's dismay.
- Book 5 · Ch 71Queen Imogen confronts Carl and Signet
Imogen enters the sealed ballroom, taunts Signet, lifts Carl magically and accuses him of besieging her castle; Gideon's team dies outside.
- Book 5 · Ch 71Signet offers herself
Signet eats a white acorn, gains Magical Fervor and prepares to cast Ink Marauder on herself so the seal breaks, taking Carl's place.
- Book 5 · Ch 72Signet's sacrifice
Using the distraction, Signet casts her spell by killing herself beside Imogen, falling into the Nothing; the seal breaks and the masquerade fails.
- 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.