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-====== Yngvild Helgasdottir ====== +====== Yngvild Helgasdotir ====== 
-Yngvild is also known as Yngvild the Fierce, and she's the title and POV character for Fierce. She was adopted into [[:skyss:chars:old_bjorn]]'s household on [[:skyss:places:straven]]. +{{ :skyss:chars:yngvild_shield.png?400|}}Yngvild is also known as Yngvild the Fierce, and she's the title and POV character for Fierce. She was adopted into [[:skyss:chars:old_bjorn]]'s household on [[:skyss:places:straven]]. Her biological parents were [[:skyss:chars:lady_helga]] and [[:skyss:chars:oddmundr]]. Oddmundr weilded [[:skyss:chars:jafnadr]] before Yngvild was born. 
 ===== Appearance ===== ===== Appearance =====
-Yngvild is about 18 during the events of //Fierce//. She has long red hair, pale skin and blue eyes. That said, she is a shapeshifter and she can look like anything she can imagine and over the course of the story she takes several forms, mostly human.  
  
-==== Clothing ==== +===== Yngvild ===== 
-Her favourite colour is red, with green a close second. + 
 +^ Gender | Female ^ 
 +^ Hero Status | Hero (56% Divinity) ^ 
 +^ Allegiance | [[:skyss:places:skyss|Kingdom of Skyss]] ^ 
 +^ Role | Keeper of Secrets / Wielder of Jafnadr ^ 
 +^ Apparent Age | 16 ^ 
 +^ Year of Birth | 750 AM (24 at 774 AM) ^ 
 + 
 +==== Stories/Function ==== 
 +Yngvild, known as **Yngvild the Fierce**, serves as the primary heroic protagonist in the novel [[:skyss:fierce]]. Raised in the isolation of [[:skyss:places:straven]], she crosses from the humble maritime commons into the high political-mystical echelons of the [[:skyss:chars:college_of_heroes|College of Heroes]].   
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 +==== Description ==== 
 +Yngvild possesses a exceptionally high divine blood quotient, inherited through a complex lineage of the Skyssian [[:skyss:pantheon|Pantheon]]. She is the biological daughter of the late [[:skyss:chars:kings_justices|King's Justice]] [[:skyss:chars:oddmundr]] and [[:skyss:chars:helga_trollslayer]], the current Second Sea Lord. Her ancestry includes [[:skyss:pantheon:fafnir|Fafnir]] (Justice), [[:skyss:pantheon:malfin|Malfin]] (Darkness), [[:skyss:pantheon:kari|Kari]] (Wind/Sea), and [[:skyss:pantheon:frijdodr|Frijdodr]] (Creativity).  
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 +Physically, she is characterised by braided red-golden hair and grey-blue eyes that reflect her shifting affinities. Like all high-status Heroes, she ages with glacial slowness; despite being 24 years old, she maintains the appearance of a girl of sixteen. That said, she is a shapeshifter and she can look like anything she can imagine and over the course of the story she takes several forms, mostly human. Her moniker "The Fierce" was earned at age fourteen when she successfully repelled a raider captain using her bow, stringed with her own hair.  
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 +Her standard equipment is highly distinctive: 
 +  * **Armour:** A bright red padded wool coat worn under a shirt of iron mail, accompanied by a full-face helmet with hinged cheek pieces. 
 +  * **Shield:** Yngvild made her own shield as a teenager, with the help of Old Bjorn. It's a slightly curved rectangular shield that covers knees to shoulder featuring a red field with an inverted green triangle. 
 +  * **[[:skyss:chars:jafnadr|Jafnadr]]:** The sentient "Sword of Justice," featuring a blade as black as a slice of darkness. Yngvild is the only individual currently living capable of wielding it, as it requires the blood of both Malfin and Fafnir. 
 +  * **Amulets:** She wears a silver coin amulet inscribed with Malfin’s face, which serves as a conduit for the goddess's protection and a psychological anchor for her "Keeper of Secrets" geas. 
 +  * **Clothing:** Her favourite colour is red, with green a close second. 
  
-==== Shield ==== 
-Yngvild made her own shield as a teenager, with the help of Old Bjorn. It's a slightly curved rectangular shield that covers knees to shoulder.  
  
 ==== Amulet ==== ==== Amulet ====
 Gifted to her by Old Bjorn her amulet is in the shape of a silver coin attached to a silver chain. Gifted to her by Old Bjorn her amulet is in the shape of a silver coin attached to a silver chain.
-"It looked freshly minted and polished, shinier than most silver coins I'd seen. Not that I'd seen very many. The side facing me had the standard crest of Skyss, a circle of nine circles, gold coins when painted, and crossed axes in the middle with a boat prow underneath. Usually a blue circle with coloured paint. The boat was green and the axes red. This coin had a small hole drilled where the top-most of the nine coins went.  
-Old Bjorn turned the coin round. The other side had the face of the Goddess Malfin. The runes Bjorn had cut round the edge read "Malfin, guide and protect your loyal servant and champion Yngvild the Fierce, Helgasdottir and Keeper of Secrets". 
  
 +//"It looked freshly minted and polished, shinier than most silver coins I'd seen. Not that I'd seen very many. The side facing me had the standard crest of Skyss, a circle of nine circles, gold coins when painted, and crossed axes in the middle with a boat prow underneath. Usually a blue circle with coloured paint. The boat was green and the axes red. This coin had a small hole drilled where the top-most of the nine coins went. 
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 +Old Bjorn turned the coin round. The other side had the face of the Goddess Malfin. The runes Bjorn had cut round the edge read "Malfin, guide and protect your loyal servant and champion Yngvild the Fierce, Helgasdottir and Keeper of Secrets".//
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 +==== Personal Life ====
 +Yngvild’s early life was defined by the secret of her parentage. She was raised on Straven under the belief that [[:skyss:chars:old_bjorn]] and [[:skyss:chars:helga_the_red]] were her parents, only to discover her true heritage upon her arrival in [[:skyss:places:kronstadt]]. 
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 +While Skyssian culture eschews formal marriage, Yngvild has declared [[:skyss:chars:noren]] as her intended life partner. Their union is a significant geopolitical event, as it aligns two of the most potent heroic bloodlines of the current generation. Their relationship faced its ultimate test when Yngvild was forced to perform a harrowing ritual at the Temple of [[:skyss:places:estreham|Estreham]]. To save Noren from a terminal geas laid by [[:skyss:chars:rojden]], Yngvild sacrificed Noren to the Goddess Malfin, cutting his throat with **Jafnadr** to "kill" the geas. Through divine intervention, Noren survived the sacrifice, effectively reborn and free from his father’s compulsion.
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 +==== Relationships ====
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 +=== People ===
 +  * **Mother:** [[:skyss:chars:helga_trollslayer]] (Second Sea Lord)
 +  * **Father:** [[:skyss:chars:skyss:oddmundr]] (deceased)
 +  * **Partner:** [[:skyss:chars:noren]]
 +  * **Foster Parents/Mentors:** [[:skyss:chars:old_bjorn]], [[:skyss:chars:helga_the_red]]
 +  * **Allies:** [[:skyss:chars:alfinna]], [[:skyss:chars:inibrakemi]], [[:skyss:chars:olaf_ragnarson]]
 +  * **Enemies:** [[:skyss:chars:rojden]], [[:skyss:chars:ormrun]]
 +
 +=== Places ===
 +  * [[:skyss:places:straven]]
 +  * [[:skyss:places:kronstadt]]
 +  * [[:skyss:places:grunwald]]
 +  * [[:skyss:places:beretha]]
 +  * [[:skyss:places:estreham]]
 +  * [[:skyss:places:ocaso]]
  
  

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