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| {{NPC|title1 = Samothes|race = Deity|relations = [[Samot]] (husband)
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| [[Maelgwyn]] (son)
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| [[Samol]] (father)
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| [[Primo]] (friend, co-worker)|season = ''[[Autumn in Hieron]]''
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| ''[[Marielda (season)|Marielda]]''
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| ''[[Winter in Hieron]]''
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| ''[[Spring in Hieron]]''|pronouns = He/him|image1 = Samothes.jpg|caption1 = Art by [https://twitter.com/AmantaRae/status/821825344479068162 Amanda Rae]|titles = King-God
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| The Artificer Divine
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| Once-and-Future King of [[Hieron]] and the Eternal Princes
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| Ingenuity Alive
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| The Undying Fire
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| Crafter of the Sun
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| Our Peaceful Lord Above
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| Originality Alive
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| The Sun-Maker<sup><ref>https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/878828954408321024</ref></sup>
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| The Old Man
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| The Big Guy
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| Original Flavor|affiliation(s) = [[Creed of Samothes]]|status = Deceased (It's Complicated)}}<blockquote>''This article is about the character. For the song of the same name, see [[Marielda: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, The Interlude]].''</blockquote>'''Samothes''', formerly known as '''Samotes''', is a [[Deities of Hieron|god in Hieron]] associated with invention, knowledge, and tools. He is said to have created the sun and his crown from a mountain of fire and is worshipped by the paladin [[Hadrian]].
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| == Appearance ==
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| Samothes is a brown-skinned man with slightly graying curly hair and a well-cropped beard. [[Austin]] has likened his appearance to the Indian-American actor Sendhil Ramamurthy.
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| When seen [[Marielda 04: The Crosstown Job Pt. 2|during The Crosstown Job]], he wore an open robe, loose pants, and a simple golden crown.
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| == History ==
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| === Pre-Marielda ===
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| Samothes was born into [[Hieron]] by [[Samol]] when he saw the creatures that [[Severea]] brought into the world "dumb and unable to care for themselves"<sup><ref>[[Marielda 10: Four Conversations]]</ref></sup>. As such, he is a somewhat patriarchal caretaker, who builds things for his subjects and decides what is best for them from on high, but does not teach them to do things for themselves.
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| At some point he entered a romantic relationship with the god [[Samot]], who he would also marry. Out of love for Samot, Samothes agreed to loosen his control over knowledge enough to co-found [[The Last University|The University]] with him.
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| After Samol began to fall ill, Samot and Samothes birthed their son [[Maelgwyn]] through the divine impulse, due to their lack of confidence on how to deal with [[The Heat and the Dark]]. They eventually split over personal differences and conflicting opinions on the matter, resulting in an ongoing war across Hieron between the two gods.
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| Prior to Marielda, Samothes' domain was known as "The City of Light" or "The Divine Protectorate"<sup><ref>[[Marielda 06: The Valentine Affair Pt. 1]]</ref></sup>.
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| === Marielda ===
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| Samothes splits part of his kingdom from mainland Hieron and surrounds it with a river of lava in order to protect it from Samot's army. The resulting city is named Marielda. Samothes is a distant and authoritarian ruler, spending much of his time in the volcano north of the city, further tightening his control on knowledge and information, and creating the Pala-din and the Golden Lance to police his citizens.
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| However, when Samothes interacts with the player characters, he is generally kind and interested in their choices. He speaks to Hitchcock several times, revealing that he knows that Samot, Maelgwyn, and the Six will come to kill him, and that he has largely accepted his own death. He believes there is no solution for the Heat and the Dark, and that the best choice is to simply live a good life before it destroys Hieron altogether.
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| Maelgwyn and the Six infiltrate Samothes' annual [[High Sun Day]] party in his volcano home. There, Maelgwyn confronts Samothes in his bedroom, but is told "not yet" and they both return to the main hall. He speaks briefly to Hitchcock and Sige and other guests before disappearing from the room. When the Six, Maelgwyn, and the mages finally make it to Samothes' forge, they see Samothes working on an unknown object. A battle ensues as Sige attempts to protect Samothes, but Samothes ignores them until his work is finished, finally turning around to reveal [[Sword of Samothes|a sword]] that he presents to Maelgwyn. However, Maelgwyn has already started his attack and stabs his father with the [[Blade in the Dark]]. Samothes' divine life is shattered, much of it being absorbed into the Blade in the Dark.
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| Stricken with the feeling of loss and the desire to have his father back, Maelgwyn's divine impulse transforms him into an ashen-haired approximation of Samothes, and he is trapped beneath Marielda by the magic of his father's tomb.
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| Samothes also appears briefly during two Live at the Table episodes that take place during Marielda. In [[Live at the Table: Misspent Youth|Misspent Youth]], he is off-screen but arbitrarily answers a child's prayer during a climactic moment. In [[Live at the Table - July 2019]], Samothes confronts Sige, Aubrey, and two other thieves who wish to steal Hieron's first book. The book is revealed to be a collection of Samothes' blueprints that Samot bound and wrote love poems on, but Samothes allows them to take it, remarking that he doesn't feel worthy of having it at that moment.
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| === Seasons of Hieron ===
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| Samothes is trapped inside the Blade in the Dark and has little divine influence on Hieron, although he can exert a limited amount of power from inside the Blade in the Dark, and is at least once able to speak to Hella to send her to Hadrian's aid. At the end of [[Winter in Hieron 28]], the Blade in the Dark breaks open and Hadrian, Hella, Lem and Adaire are swept inside, arriving in Samothes' new kingdom of [[Aubade]], populated by those killed by the blade and their descendants.
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| It is revealed in [[Spring in Hieron 02: Why Are You Here?]] that when Samothes first arrived inside the Blade, the space inside was consumed by the influence of Rector Sabinia, who had been corrupted by the Heat and the Dark before being killed. Samothes fought back her influence, but his priority immediately afterwards was to take revenge against the Disciples of Samot. He also raised the land that would become Aubade during this period of time.
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| Later, Samothes came upon Sabinia again and realized that her plight was because he had ordered her to research the Heat and the Dark, and he began to regret the way he had treated his people. He then used his power to cure Sabinia and worked with her to make Aubade a better place, eventually developing into the idyllic kingdom that the player characters visit, which is filled with the warmth of Samothes' love. Samothes is friendly and curious with the player characters who spend several years in Aubade, although they struggle to adjust to the dissonance between life in Aubade and life on Hieron. Before they leave, Samothes reveals that he is planning to work with [[Chapter]] to seal Aubade off from Hieron using starstuff, granting it more protection against the Heat and the Dark. He gives Adaire a letter to pass on to Samol.
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| Lem gives him Samot's mask, which Samothes uses to speak to Samot one last time off-screen.
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| At the end of [[Spring in Hieron 38: See Where You're Standing]], Hadrian breaks the star-shield over Aubade and has Samot killed with the Blade in the Dark so that he can reunite with Samothes.
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| == Dark Sun ==
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| <blockquote>''See also: [[Maelgwyn]]''</blockquote>From the end of Marielda onwards, the name Samothes can refer to one of two entities: the original god Samothes, who was born of Samol and was killed by the Blade in the Dark, and the individual once known as Maelgwyn, who has become a version of Samothes in body and mind. It is ambiguous which Samothes communicates with Hadrian and grants him divine power during Autumn in Hieron and Winter in Hieron.
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| Samothes is the god of the [[Cult of the Dark Sun]], and seeks to hasten the arrival of the Heat and the Dark. His symbol is a plain circle, as opposed to the previous Samothes' circle with a half ring of rays. He is trapped in the first and deepest strata of Hieron by the power of the previous Samothes' tomb (and possibly Samot's power as well, as Samot refers to him as "the man I'd pinned to the bottom of the world"). The force that keeps him trapped there also prevents the gods from using [[Reconfiguration]].
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| == Influence ==
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| Samothes is the god most frequently involved of the lives of the ''Friends at the Table'' player characters in [[Hieron]], presiding over the city of Marielda and the [[Creed of Samothes]], and granting supernatural abilities to [[Hadrian]] and [[Ephrim]].
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| [[Tesday]] is named after him, based on the archaic form of his name.
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| == Origin ==
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| Samothes was named by [[Art]]<sup><ref>https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/770441254287056896</ref></sup> after a legendary figure of the same name, purportedly the grandson of the biblical Noah, who was credited in forged archaeological findings with first settling Britain after the great flood.
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| === Nicknames ===
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| After it was revealed in "[[The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 4]]" that Maelgwyn had been transformed into a new incarnation of Samothes after killing his father, it became necessary for fans to distinguish the two. The version of the character who existed during ''Marielda'' has been referred to as "original", "og", "original flavor"<sup><ref>https://twitter.com/imperialhare/status/839212589833912322</ref></sup> and "original recipe"<sup><ref>https://twitter.com/asleewrites/status/839943527396147200</ref></sup> Samothes. In contrast, his son is often referred to as "Cool Ranch"<sup><ref>https://twitter.com/imperialhare/status/842151980449570817</ref></sup>, in an homage to the "alternate" flavor of Doritos corn chips, as well as more straightforward portmanteau nicknames such as "Maelothes" or "Samaelthes". This metaphor can then be reflected back onto original Samothes with the nickname "Nacho" or "Nacho Cheese", the presumed 'default' Doritos flavor<sup><ref group="note">[https://twitter.com/atebbel/status/851261730604711937 Much to Art's chagrin], this metaphor is based on the presumed existence of an "original flavor" of Doritos. In fact, Doritos were originally unflavored corn chips, and the first flavored Doritos were taco-flavored, not the more commonly seen nacho cheese flavor of the present day. </ref></sup>.
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| == Notes ==
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| {{reflist|group=note}}
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| == See also ==
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| * [[List of people killed with the Blade in the Dark]]
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| == References ==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| == External links ==
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| * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_kings_of_Britain List of legendary kings of Britain] on Wikipedia
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| * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doritos Doritos] on Wikipedia
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