Cheth's favorite lady

This article's title is conjectural.The subject of this article has not been given a name in-universe.

## Physical description

### Eye color

* Purple (alive)
* Red or white (dead)

## Appearances

### Debut

"Chapter 1: King of the Red Tide"

The "**favourite lady**" of the banished death god Cheth was a female human who, as a seaghost, served as one of the god's primary bodies. In life, she was someone of great importance to him, and he would become enraged whenever her body was injured or damaged in any way, even though repairing the noncorporeal form of a seaghost was simple; he apologized to her after one such incident. As with all seaghosts Cheth used as bodies, she sported his red eyes and black tattoos whenever he inhabited her, although she had had purple eyes while alive.

Cheth occasionally spoke to the woman as if she was still conscious and could actually hear him, and on even rarer occasions used her body to voice what he thought she would have said to him on certain occasions, although he once apologized afterwards for speaking for her like that. The favourite lady's favourite animals were seals, sea lions, and walruses. While wearing the woman's body, Cheth once defaced a statuette of the alleged prophetess Shoshana by breaking the head off, claiming that it was what the favourite lady would have wanted. Cheth frequently used a male body with a strong resemblance to the woman at the same time, causing Princess Phaedra Philemon to incorrectly assume the pair were twins.

## Biography

The "favourite lady" was close to the death god Cheth, one of the two primary deities of the Candlelight Sea, alongside his twin sister and opposite Cheline. The two gods fought each other in the Fracture, a devastating conflict which Cheth lost, causing him to be banished beneath the sea and his bones to be scattered across the ocean. Unable to go on land or to be seen by most of the living, Cheth was forced to wear seaghosts — the souls of the dead now trapped in the ocean by the disaster — in order to have a form at all. In the aftermath, the favourite lady told Cheth that a signal would come, which would help heal the sea. After her death, her ghost became one of his favoured bodies.

Five thousand years after the Fracture, Princess Phaedra Philemon, heir to the throne of the Candlelight Sea, was assassinated by the Fata Morgana, supernatural beings believed to be the last living servants of Cheth. Phaedra challenged Cheth for the opportunity to return to life, and won. In the process, however, the princess unwittingly revealed to Cheth that the omen of that year's fortune was his own symbol of the bonefish, which had been kept secret to all but the princess and the High Priestess of the Plume Church. The omen was, in fact, the symbol Cheth had been waiting for, but it had come with over half the year gone already.

Cheth lost his temper with the princess and yelled at her to be quiet. When she reoriented herself, she found Cheth, wearing the form of the favourite lady, while speaking one-sidedly to her about what the omen meant for her and everyone else, and ruminating on the significance of Phaedra's request for not just herself but her friends to be resurrected as well. Phaedra did not consider the significance of the god's words, suggested that he was being a sore loser, and demanded that her victory be honoured. Cheth responded by pulling out and wearing the ghost of her father to upset her, before leaving the princess and her friends in a state of undeath, with the princess' soul split five ways to keep all of them self-aware, but still seaghosts. He claimed that the rules he was required to abide by meant he could not resurrect more than one soul at a time.

## Personality and traits

The favourite lady was tall and slender with long, black hair. She stood at a height of 5'11" (180 cm). In life, she had purple eyes, but as a seaghost she had blank eyes on the rare occasions Cheth was not inhabiting her body. When he was, she had his red eyes and divine tattoos on her arms and back. She had a strong physical resemblance to a man who was another of Cheth's preferred forms, enough so that Phaedra Philemon assumed the two were twins, although they were not.

Her favourite animals were seals, sea lions, and walruses. She was close to Cheth, who cared about her a great deal; he referred to himself as her "champion" and imagined her giving him encouragement when he was at a low point. Cheth also claimed that defacing a statue of the prophetess Shoshana would be what his favourite lady would have wanted.

## Appearances

* "Prologue" (As a ghost)
* "Chapter 1: King of the Red Tide" (As a ghost)
* "Chapter 4: Schooner of the Moon" (As a ghost)
* "Chapter 5: The Manta Princess" (As a ghost)

## Sources

* *The Pineapple Notes*
* *Ask Phantomarine*

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 "Chapter 1: King of the Red Tide"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cheth character sheet
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *The Pineapple Notes*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 "Chapter 5: The Manta Princess"
5. ↑ "Notes on the Candlelight Sea: Cheth"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Notes on the Candlelight Sea: The Fracture"
7. ↑ "Chapter 2: The Horizon Child"
8. ↑ "Prologue"
9. ↑ "Notes on the Candlelight Sea: The Fata Morgana"
10. ↑ *Ask Phantomarine*: Page 12