Dungeon Crawler Carl · Character
Ysalte
Also known as the Vinegar Bitch, the Downward Spiral, The Inevitable
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 6 · Ch. 62
Ysalte is summoned through Sister Ines's dissolving corpse in Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 6).
- Gender
- female
- First appears
- Book 6 · Ch. 62
- Books
- 2
Ysalte is a goddess of earth and water worshipped by the Semeru Dwarves, known by many names including the Vinegar Bitch, the Downward Spiral, and The Inevitable, and despised by gods and demons alike as a jealous, scheming trickster tied to hopelessness and insanity. In The Eye of the Bedlam Bride she manifests in the dungeon through the corpse of her sponsored bard, Sister Ines Quiteria, seeking revenge for her death, and is revealed to be the former lover of the demon Amayon, mother of his child, and his current captor. Her rampage brings her into conflict with Louis and her old rival Samantha before Paz Lo slays her, piercing her eye and blasting her head from her neck. By This Inevitable Ruin she lingers mainly as a name, remembered simply as a dwarf goddess.
Description
Ysalte is a regular-sized female dwarf with a strikingly young face. She wears a helmet topped with a candle whose flame sparks like a dynamite fuse, and carries a pickaxe. Her face can flicker like a faulty television screen, with the static sometimes leaving her mouth shaped into a scream. Her appearance balances the familiar silhouette of a miner with an uncanny, unstable presence. A dwarf goddess. No other physical features are described.
Connections
Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals
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Amayonconflicting source relationships
Former lovers who share a child, Ysalte and Amayon have a history of controlling one another; she has seized him and means to keep him enslaved, while he resists and longs to return home.
Sister Ines Quiteriaconflicting source relationships
Ysalte sponsors Sister Ines as her bard; after Ines is killed, the goddess enters the realm through her corpse, which transforms into Ysalte's form.
Louis Santiago 2marked adversary
Ysalte blames Louis for killing her bard and marks him for death, pursuing him as he flees.
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Pazslayer
Paz Lo kills Ysalte by driving an arrow-like weapon into her eye and focusing an explosion on her neck, decapitating her.
Psamatheold adversary
A longstanding grudge over Samantha's joke about Ysalte's child erupts into combat, with Samantha provoking and distracting the goddess.
Story so far
BOOK 6The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Revealed as the Semeru Dwarves' goddess of earth and water, with many epithets and a possible familial link to Scolopendra
- Serves as celestial patron of Sister Ines Quiteria through Nebular sponsorship
- Is summoned through Sister Ines's dissolving corpse after the bard's death, seeking revenge
- Holds her former lover Amayon captive, intending to keep him as her retainer until the Ascendency battles end
- Marks Louis for death and clashes with Samantha before Paz Lo decapitates her
BOOK 7This Inevitable Ruin
- Referenced only briefly as a dwarf goddess, with no further physical details
Appearances
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