Bylgja
Bylgja is-- big. Big, scruffy, and heavily scarred.
The rune-scars begin on her forehead, trail down her face, and cross her neck, shoulders, legs, and ribs. They tell a variety of stories: the forehead's bunch tells of her key part in stopping a raiding-party from gaining access to her birth-town of Braidō. Across her sides, the stories of combat against Draugr-- the walking-dead of her home-- linger among her fur. The tales on her legs are stories of bloodshed and brutality. Here in the Third Winter, Bylgja Olavsdotr cleaved the skull of Ranni Mannengarmnr and so earned her name, Hausakljúfr.
Her coat is thick, and is a mixture of dark blacks and light browns that make her look particularly fire-like under the right light. Bylgja's demeanor is reflected in her appearance, from the way her coat bunches up into scruffy handfuls along her nape and haunches and tail to the meticulously carved scars along her forelegs and face. To look at Bylgja is to see a warrior, and see nothing else. appearance
It would be wrong to call her polite, precisely. While Bylgja approaches everyone and everything with the same earnestness, her behavior is rough, habitually ill-mannered, and sometimes too rowdy for "polite" company. She has no regard for the laws and complex manners of higher society; if you're not willing to get dirty and throw yourself into a good brawl, what fuckin' good are you?
Bylgja does not fear death. She does not fear pain. She is a servant of dread gods that gifted her from birth with a love for adrenaline and war, and to Bylgja it is her sacred duty to fight, to war, to raid, to celebrate and scuffle and live every instant of her life with her whole soul. One day, she knows, she will die, and when she does, she will have fulfilled her purpose. It is a life she loves, and perhaps some may find it offputting how she can cleave someone's head from their shoulders and laugh uproariously and it doesn't seem evil -- it's fuelled by a lust for life, by the love of what she does, by the love for the world and those around her.
To those that are her friends, Bylgja is a die-hard companion. She will be by their side through all trials and tribulations; if they cannot handle their burdens alone, Bylgja will willingly aid them, lending her strength to theirs. To those that are her enemies, here is a woman who smiles, knowing that when the Gods look upon her, she will either collect the skull of her foe or they will collect hers, and either way -- it is how it was meant to be.
Bylgja believes in fate. Each individual was fated from their first breath. There is no use fighting what has been woven for you, so why try? Instead, lean into what your fate is, and seize it in your teeth. personality
Bylgja primarily speaks Swedish and Old Norse, but can speak Gaelic.
Bylgja is a lesbian -- she is only interested in romance with women or nonbinary individuals.
Bylgja's home write up: here.misc
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