White-Haired Empress

The White-Haired Empress was a minor demon conjured up and chained via a geas by a somewhat neurotic witch dead now for some three hundred years. The demon's sole task was killing cockroaches in one room of an ancient tenement located in the Gadrobi District of Darujhistan. This room--which essentially imprisoned the, by now, slightly unhinged White-Haired Empress--was currently inhabited by Fat Saborgan. The geas had weakened over time allowing the demon to be creative in her extermination methods. So it was that every night, Fat Saborgan would begin to dance at the behest of the White-Haired Empress, entering a world of his own with sweet, magical music filling his head while gently holding the soft, seemingly frail hands of the Empress as they danced all around the room together. In reality, Saborgan danced with his eyes closed, silently weeping, and placing his ideally huge feet where the White-Haired Empress guided them to best stomp the prolific insects--"step crunch step crunch...crunch and smear, crunch and smear"--all night long. The racket awoke Fat Saborgan's downstairs neighbour, Widow Lebbil, every night leading her to angrily pounding the ceiling with her cane to no avail.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.717
==In Toll the Hounds==
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, when Hood walked the streets of Darujhistan harvesting souls, Fat Saborgen once again awoke Widow Lebbil. But their nightly interaction did not play out as usual. The combination of all the frenzied pounding by the widow's cane, the heavy footfalls of Saborgan, and the state of the tenement's rotten crossbeams all became too much for the ceiling, which collapsed all at once. Widow Lebbil was killed instantly, as much by shock as by the crushing weight of the wreckage. Fat Saborgan died as he fell, impaled in the anus by the widow's cane. The room's catastrophic destruction shattered the witch's geas, releasing the demon to return to wherever it was that she had originally come from.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.717-718
==Notes and references==
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Category:Females