Lady Geist

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Lifesteal Self Damage Fatale
Weapon Stats Damage Per Second: 43.8 Bullet Damage: 20.7+1 Ammo: 9 Bullets per sec: 2.12 Reload Time: 2.59s Bullet Velocity: 828m/s Light Melee: 50+1.58 Heavy Melee: 116+3.67
Vitality Stats Health: 880+51 Health Regen: 1 Move Speed: 6.3m/s Sprint Speed: 2.4m/s Dash Speed: 13.9m/s Stamina: 3 Stamina Cooldown: 4.5s
Spirit Stats Spirit Power: 0+1.1
Information
Voice Actor: Abigail Marlowe Release Date: April 16, 2024 Internal namesCodenames used for this hero in the game files: Geist; Ghost; Spectre

Lady Geist is a Hero in Deadlock. An old-time socialite with a necromantic pact, Lady Geist is a terrifying foe that consumes her own health for her abilities while draining the life away from enemies. Sacrificing her life force to launch Essence Bombs and blood shards of Malice, Lady Geist can make up the lost health with a Life Drain tether to a nearby opponent. After being brought low by her own abilities or enemy attacks, she can conduct a Soul Exchange and swap health with her opponent, making them vulnerable to followup attacks from her revolver.

The Toast of the Town, Lady Geist was famed by all and invited to every ball and gala in the city... until her beauty faded in her old age and left her with only memories and stories of her glory. In desperation, she formed a pact with a powerful spirit and bound it by powerful wards until she was safe and young again. All she needs to do now is feed on the life force of her fellows to maintain her beauty... and hope desperately that the Oathkeeper will stay bound.

Abilities

(1) Essence Bomb(2) Life Drain(3) Malice(4) Soul Exchange

Essence Bomb

7m

0

14s

Sacrifice some of your health to launch a bomb that deals damage after a brief arm time.
Self damage type is Spirit and can be mitigated.

x1.22

90

Damage

30%

Health Cost

0.65s  Arming Duration

Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 26% of the original damage per second, for 6s.

0s

Toxic Mess Duration

1

-5s Cooldown

2

+2m Radius and +50 Damage.

5

Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 26% of the original damage per second, for 6s.

Life Drain

18m

2.5s

0

34s

Create a tether that drains enemy health over time and heals you. Target must be in line of sight and within max range to drain. You can shoot and use other abilities during the drain, but your move speed is reduced.
Alternate cast to give health to friendly Heroes.

x0.323

24

Damage Per Second

100%  Damage to Heal 

28m  Max Tether Range 

1

13 Damage Per Second

2

2.5s Duration

5

Enables and Grants +2 Charges. Increases spirit scaling.

Malice

0

6s

Sacrifice some of your health to launch blood shards that apply a stack of Malice. Each stack slows the victim and increases the damage they take from you. The slow effect decreases over time.

x0.558

23

Damage

9%

Health Cost

3  Blood Shards

5  Max Stacks

Effect Per Stack:

7%

Damage Amplification

Effect Per Stack:

15%

Movement Slow

9s  Debuff Duration 

4s  Slow Duration 

1

-3s Cooldown

2

+25.2 Damage and +4 Blood Shards

5

+8% Damage Amp

Soul Exchange

5.5m

0.25s

0

220s

Swaps health levels with an enemy target. There is a minimum health percentage that enemies can be brought down to and a minimum amount of health received based on victims current health.

30%

Enemy Min Health

30%

Min Health Received

0s  Buff Duration

0s  Silence Duration

0m  Silence Radius

1

-50s Cooldown

2

Silence enemies within 25m for 3s

5

On cast, +60 Spirit Power, +40% Fire Rate and +50% Spirit Resistance for 8s.

Weapon

Johann's Gift

Medium Range

Heavy Hitter

44 Damage Per Second

Falloff Range

17m ➞ 48m

Update history

Main article: Update history

View the full update history: Lady Geist/Update history

Update	Changes
July 28, 2026	Life Drain changed from 75% Damage to Heal to 100%. Life Drain DPS reduced to provide the same effective heal as before but with less DPS. Malice Damage amplification reduced from 8% to 7%. Malice T3 increased from +7% Damage Amp to +8%.
June 30, 2026	Soul Exchange cooldown increased from 190s to 220s. (Global ult change) Soul Exchange T1 reduced from -60s Cooldown to -50s. (Global ult change)
April 30, 2026	Life Drain heal reduced from 80% to 75%. Street Brawl: Essence Bomb range reduced by 15%.

Background

See Lady Geist/Lore for more story content.

“

Once, Lady Jeanne Geist was the toast of the town. But as time passed and her beauty faded she found herself further and further from her glory days in High Society until finally she was nothing more than a frail woman in a nursing home, telling stories of a glorious past. And that’s when Oathkeeper revealed himself. A powerful spirit from another plane, Oathkeeper offered her a path to reclaim her past glories… he could restore her youth; all she had to do was drain the essence of the living to sustain herself.

Geist was torn. Obviously murder was ghoulish business, and undoubtedly Oathkeeper was not an entity that could be trusted… but still, the thought of having a second chance of reliving her youth was too good to pass up. And so she concocted a plan: after making a pact with Oathkeeper she would bind and ward him, limiting his influence and pull over her. Oathkeeper would still get fed; but on her terms, not his.

However, as years have turned to decades; the strength of the Ward has weakened, and Oathkeeper hungers more than he ever has in the past…

Lore

This section contains spoilers for The Binding of Oathkeeper.

Jeanne "Oma" Geist (married name) was born in France, in 1815. She married German artist Johann Geist. Jeanne and Johann had a son named Walter in 1850, and Johann died in 1880.

Circa 1899, when Jeanne was around 84 years old, the first Maelstrom happened, bringing various supernatural forces to Earth, and the spirit Oathkeeper was one of them. Jeanne made a pact with Oathkeeper to regain her youth in exchange for draining the life of others. She was initially reluctant, but accepted the deal. However, with the help of Walter, she made a ward to keep Oathkeeper under control.

Walter had a son whom he named after his father, Johann "Jr." Johann Jr. became a doctor, and after Walter died, he did the maintenance of his grandmother's ward. Jeanne and Walter had "a terrible sense of humor", according to Johann Jr.

Now, 50 years after her initial pact and on the eve of the second Maelstrom, Geist has to decide how she'll deal with Oathkeeper, and whether she'll continue to kill others to stay young or accept her natural aging and eventual death.

Character interactions

• Lady Geist funded Kelvin's Arctic expedition.
• Lady Geist has an old grudge against Paradox. Paradox has stolen one of her husband's paintings.
• In one of the visual novel's endings, Abrams moves to Lady Geist's apartment.
• Lady Geist likes Infernus' recipe of gin and tonic.
• Lady Geist likes Mirage and wants to talk to Nashala.
• Lady Geist finds Shiv attractive and asks to have a drink with him after the ritual.
• Lady Geist says Calico "reeks of new money". She doesn't like Calico's cat, Ava.
  • Geist also says the same about Wraith. However, she respects Wraith for her cunning and ruthlessness.

Gallery

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Icon
• 
  In-game render
• 
  Winter skin
• 
  Name typography
• 
  Model sheet
• 
  Concept art
• 
  "Ghost test" and "Ghost v2" work-in-progress models
• 
  The Binding of Oathkeeper cover art
• 
  Visual novel art
• 
  Visual novel art - Gala dress
• 
  Visual novel art - Aged Geist
• 
  Visual novel art - McGinnis' ward
• 
  Weapon - Johann's Gift
• 
  Temporary portrait
• 
  Temporary Icon (2024-09-12 update)
• 
  Spectre (Neon Prime)

Trivia

• Geist is a german word that can be translated as "ghost", "spirit" or "mind". Lady Geist is French, but she uses her late German husband's last name.
• Lady Geist is currently the only hero who holds her gun in the left hand, as Oathkeeper is in her right arm in-game. However, in a concept art and in The Binding of Oathkeeper artwork, Oathkeeper is in her left arm.
• Lady Geist was named Spectre in Neon Prime, and later renamed to Ghost.
• Lady Geist has the lowest health regen in the game at 1.
• There are two work-in-progress Lady Geist models in the game files, labeled Ghost_test and Ghost_v2. These models feature different face designs and a hairstyle closer to her portrait art.

See also

• The Binding of Oathkeeper - Lady Geist's visual novel

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