Termite is the player character, an ambiguous black shadow with androgynous shape. She is intersex and when she was twelve she sprouted two extra arms. Two of her arms are “masculine” and two are “feminine”. It is not relevant to the story which were her original arms, and that question will never be answered.
She cut off her masculine arms with a raven-headed knife, and offered them to Abaddon in exchange for a night without dreams. Instead, she woke up here.