Grand Matriarch Aslauge Daenic (a.k.a. The Thronebreaker)
'The Big Three' - that's what they call her warband. The Invincible Three. The Warband that challenged the gods and won...gods above, the world just isn't fair.
The Age of Troubles took everything from most of us - not to mention most of our heroes. Gone, into the wind. The mightiest there was...Barkhan the Eternal, The Golden Dragon of Draconia, Holdur Vaylkrond...all dead. But those damned three...not only did they survive, they got stronger. Beat poor Moradin, The Allfather so bad fighting alongside The Godkiller that they actually won - and now they're all immortal.
Immortal! Aslauge, Immortal. The tyrant who crushed an entire civilization - an entire species, an entire culture - beneath her feet. Whose feet are dusted even now with ten thousand years of Dwarven history, scattered and lost. Fucking immortal. Not only that, but now she's a born again Empress? Now that she's immortal, she regrets what happened? And we're supposed to grovel and worship at her feet like her faithful subjects?
Atlas save us all. The Gods sure can't. — Unknown
Physical Description
Towering, powerful and overwhelmingly mighty, Aslauge is a
Dai-Yukai of titanic proportions and even mightier strength. She is rippled with muscle and is incredibly fit as well as surprisingly agile for her size. She is an aging Matron and is not as young as she used to be, but despite this age she has somehow grown even more mighty and has not showed any signs of infirm health or slowing down.
With her recent decades of battles during the Age of Troubles, Aslauge and her Warband(Made up of her Court Mage Ingrid Daenic and her Warmaster Sigrid Grimr) have attained shards of mythical power as a result and have attained unfathomable power - the least of which has meant immortality for most all of them. For Aslauge, this immortality has locked her in her latter matron years and given her all the beauty of a mother in the latter years of her prime with none of the drawbacks age normally brings.
Aslauge, after her conquest of countless foes during her taking of the Dwarven Throne and the formation of
The Kingdom of Aslaga shortly afterwards, has engaged the most ancient of her tribe's shamans to imprison the screaming souls of her enemies upon her skin in the most ancient of her people's ways - painting their tortured souls as ink upon her skin, tattooing her icy blue skin all across her arms, back, chest, and even legs and feet with hyper-realistic, ultra beautiful tattoos of beautiful colors that writhe and move as if alive.
These tattoos, stylized caricatures of the creatures they were in life, number in the dozens - a beautiful tapestry of torment across her skin that causes the trapped souls within the ink to writhe and silently scream each time she flexes a bicep or takes a step. To the attentive and lucky few given permission to examine her body and the ink upon it closely, one could notice dozens of the most notable figures of history imprisoned and painted upon her skin - ranging from
Thovon Blackbarrel to the Dwarven Lords who fell at her feet, Giant Kings she crushed, and so many more.
The tattoos that coat her icy-blue skin are her most identifying feature alongside her massive braid of beautiful orange hair - a sign of her status as Chieftain. This braid, adorned with new "totem-esque" rungs for each of her countless victories, nearly reaches all the way to the ground and is heavy enough to crush most smallfolk with the sheer mass of her hair alone.
Possessing an ability not commonly seen in the
Dai-Yukai of the modern day, Aslauge has the ability to break armor and absorb its durability into her skin...and as such, her skin is as thick and durable as full plate mail armor wrought from adamantine.
Like most
Dai-Yukai, Aslauge wears simple furs and leathers that leave some skin exposed and grants them flexibility and freedom of movement - and though she has ascended into legend as the first and so far only Grand Matriarch of
The Kingdom of Aslaga, she seems to prefer an altogether "natural" appearance to her look; wearing the Crown which marks her station and a handful of tasteful jewelry across her body and little more, preferring to keep her skin and body exposed as much as possible to show what she sees as the true hallmarks of her power - her muscles, tattoos, and sheer physicality.
As a warrior, she wields her signature weapon, Dróttning Brandr - the massive greatsword nicknamed "Thronebreaker", forged from the thrones of the Dwarven Lords under the mountains that fell at her feet. A greatsword of colossal proportions capable of demolishing buildings as easily as it can crush living creatures, she swings it with all the poise and perfection of a centuries old warrior queen...she is also bedecked with a dozen magical items taken and stolen from the Dwarven Vaults, which grant her a myriad of strange abilities and powers that make her all the more deadly in both combat and casual conversation.
Mental characteristics
The domineering, incredibly powerful Grand Chieftain of the Dai-Yukai that invaded the Dwarven peaks and broken and enslaved Dwarvenkind. She leads the Daenic tribe, and is the Matriarch of it, and of the Dai-Yukai who once lived above the Dwarven Peaks mountain range(Now named The Aslagan Peaks in her honor) - she is said to be the most beautiful, the strongest, and the most infinitely heroic and wise among them, and now stands as the Grand Matriarch of
The Kingdom of Aslaga who has reigned for nearly an unbroken century.
As powerful as a goddess, as immovable as a mountain, and as mighty as a cataclysm, she is an unparalleled warrior, a wise tactician, and, now stands as the legendary warrior who, alone, broke the Dwarven People, trapped their kings and lords beneath her soles and trampled them into paste for the insolence of their forefathers long long ago and finally achieved the revenge her people have long-sought to achieve.
She stands nearly 63 feet tall, tallest and most muscular among her kind, and is feared and respected far and wide for her nigh-mythical feat of facing down two purple worms at once and living to tell the tale, for the conquest and taming of the Red Dragon Cazys, the extinction of the Dwarves, The formation of
The Kingdom of Aslaga, the execution of the Succubus Queen that had masqueraded as
Olivia Couvillion, and countless other feats that have solidified her as her people's one and only ruler.
Though most of her kind place no importance on sexuality, Aslauge, rather unlike most
Dai-Yukai, seems to delight in her own sexuality. Reproduction is not merely a chore to her, nor a tool to produce more strong children to serve and expand the tribe - it is a favorite pasttime of hers and one she engages in frequently. As love and the like are emotions that can exist irrespective of gender in her people's customs, she has 'loved' creatures of both genders before, and cares little about what gender they may be, because she sees love and a relationship as totally and wholly separate from reproduction.
Like all
Dai-Yukai, Aslauge knew no teachings aside from the ones taught to her by her mother and her peers as a child.
Aslauge has had many incredibly awe-inspiring accomplishments to her people and otherwise, the most famous of which is the tale from a century ago while she was in the prime of her life, when she fought two colossal purple worms to defend her village and, after wrestling them both to the ground, killed them both single-handedly. She has led her people to glory unheard of in eons, and throughout her own effort, wisdom, and prowess along with her sister matriarchs and royal mage, she conquered the Dwarven Peaks and enslaved the Dwarven people...turning them into no better than cattle scurrying about the titanic feet of her giant sisters, she did the unthinkable and wrought the revenge her kind had sought on the Dwarves for centuries...ever since the tragic events of the
The Jotunhunts.
Ever since, she has attained the legendary title among her people of "Barnifjor" and overseen, at her own whim, the extinction of the Dwarven species and the creation of the
Varg in their place, fought the Doomknight
Van Hawk and slain the Succubus Queen
Olivia Couvillion, and led her people through a century of strife during the Age of Troubles, fighting off the very gods themselves alongside her Goddess
Freyja and her own fearsome warband.
So mighty is Aslauge, that she is rumored to have never lost a fight or failed in a notable fashion during her long life - so utterly unstoppable and mighty that her merest whims sent the entire Dwarven Species into extinction. However, if there is one failure that is attributable to her name, it is by her own admission the extinction of the Dwarves - a fate which they were forced into that they may not have fully deserved; one that, to atone, she led the few survivors on a quest to transform themselves into the
Varg that they might live on in any fashion.
Aslauge is a surprisingly cunning woman - capable of great insight and intellect, though she rarely cares to do so herself in favor of direct, straight to the point, brutish tactics as they often work mostly as well and serve her purposes. However, when the time arises, she often shocks her foes with the cunning and insightful acumen she wields both in the throne room and on the battlefield.
Aslauge believes heavily in the traditional
Dai-Yukai cultural philosophies and the teachings of
Freyja, The Grand Trampler. She believes in 'Might makes right', and believes that the weak have no right to exist...however, unlike her sisters Aslauge recognizes that 'Might' is a nebulous thing and can take many forms...forms such as knowledge, wisdom, foresight, and the intelligence to know when to talk and when to fight. She believes her sisters are mistake in believing 'might' is only a physical thing, and trusts that her broader definition is the truest one.
She believes that victory in one form or fashion is justification enough for one's actions, and that a foe should never be allowed to challenge you again once they are beaten...they must be finished off for good, broken, or killed...until then, the battle is never over. The weak, to her, deserve nothing, not even her attention or existence itself.
Personality Characteristics
Wishes above all else to protect the home she has established for her own people as well as all Giantkind, where they can live without fear of persecution or hunting - even if this means restraining the cruelties they enact. No longer believes it possible to fulfill her ideals through violence alone, and is willing to compromise and restrain her people's cruelties and anger if it means standing on the world stage as equals with the other nations - something she sees as vital to achieving this goal.
Seeks to restore the reputation of the
Dai-Yukai and Giantkind as a whole, and show the world they are equally capable of being an "advanced species" as the smallfolk are.
Bring about the resurrection of
Odin, The Lord of the Hanged and
Thor, The Stormson in the same way that
Baldr, The Unbroken was returned to life for her Goddess
Freyja, The Godkiller.
Savvy at Fighting, Strategy, Negotiating, Diplomacy, Getting what she wants, Reading body language and facial expressions, Seeing the big picture, Putting aside her ego, Accepting Criticism, Trampling others and keeping them under her feet without killing them, Innovative Torture Methods, Having Children, Insulting and Bullying Others, Knitting/Crocheting, ???
Inept at Dealing with Children(Especially her own), Finer or more Dexterity-based physical tasks, Being Eloquent or a "Refined Lady", Keeping up with her Hygiene, Keeping herself presentable, Acting like a Regal Empress, Standing on Ceremony, Giving Respect to those who rely on their station or others for power, Lying or Scheming, Cooking, ???
Likes Fighting, Eating, Drinking, Feasts, Celebrations, Exterting her dominance over another, Conquest, Making others uncomfortable, Hotheaded Juveniles/Teenagers, The Follies of Youth, Sex, Knitting, Crocheting, Painting nails, Braiding hair, Ambition, Seeing the next generation thrive, Power, Being Respected, Having others at her beck and call, Gifts, Being Direct, Sports/Physical Competition, ???
Dislikes Having Children, Needy Children, Childcare, Being stuck in the past, Self-Sufficiency, Dwarves, Long-Winded or Drawn Out Conversations, The Weak(Defined by her as any who yearn for or have a station that exceeds their nerve or ability), Sappy Emotions or needing to be "Emotionally Available", Bathing, Needless Formality, Dwarven Tossball(Her hands and feet are too big and she's bad at it), Losing, ???
Though she was legendarily hotheaded and tempestous in her youth, age has done much to temper Aslauge's fiery spirit and carve her into a true marble monument of perfection - chiefmost virtue amongst her own people is and has always been her fertility and beauty: both of which are so great that even before her meteoric rise to rule she was well-regarded by her own people and many other Giantkin as an exceptionally beautiful and rugged woman, capable of bearing enough children to make any partner a King in his own right.
Beyond these baser virtues, she has always been unnaturally wise and cunning among the standards of her own people - a virtue that has only grown as she has aged. Cunning, unusually patient, insightful into the minds and hearts of others, and capable of intelligent and diplomatic conversation, Aslauge has always held a keen, almost magical sway over the hearts and minds of her enemies such that she has always seemed almost alien in her mindset and mannerisms to her own people. Capable of great violence at a moment's notice, she understands very well the minds of others and knows how to manipulate them towards her own ends - her skill at whipping a crowd into a frenzy cannot be underestimated, and as she has aged she has only grown even more insightful.
However, perhaps her greatest virtue has always been her humility - a trait few would associate her with. In truth, the Giant definition of the word is subtly different than the 'smallfolk' definition; To the Giants, Humility is not a lack of ego, but one's willingness to set it aside to be taught in any situation no matter the context - a trait which Aslauge has always had in spades. Egotistical and even arrogant(Especially in her youth), Aslauge has always had an uncanny ability to know how to be on the right side of history - a gift of foresight which has allowed her to, on multiple occasions, set aside her ego and humbly alter the course of her tribe or even her people as a whole, no matter if it means admitting she was wrong or went too far.
For all her virtues, Aslauge has a great many flaws - she is unhygienic and barbaric, rude to others and crude in her ways, and utterly gluttonous in all manner of things ranging from food and drink to her sexual appetite or even her lust for power - she is the type of creature who, had she not attained immortality during her constant battles against the gods, would have never given up power until it was foisted from her by force. She is, at her core, utterly enraptured with the trappings of power and all the gifts it brings - not so much a control freak as she is simply and utterly in love with all the benefits being in power affords to her - and is loathe to give up these blessings under any circumstance.
Despite her humility(By her people's definition), her Ego cannot be overstated - though it has been tempered in her matron years and levelled out to a cool, tempered, mature air of calm - even now she remains capable of astounding violence and cruelty at a moment's notice if disrespected.
Finally, while she is deserving of respect for her admittance of the Dwarves' fate of extinction perhaps being too cruel for the sins of their father
Moradin as well as her wise leading of her people onto the world stage by tempering their cruelties and crimes, her role in those same actions cannot be overstated - as well as her own complete refusal to admit such acts were not pleasurable to her. This simple fact state volumes of her own flaws - her own hatreds and disgust towards the Dwarves which she has grown to learn how to keep a lid on as an Empress for the sake of her people. However, one should make no mistake - in her heart of hearts, Aslauge is a cruel, heartless sadist who likely relishes the extinction of the Dwarves - though she may well lament the
consequences it brung to her people politically and begrudgingly changed her tone on the matter, it should not excuse or cover up what are likely her true feelings on the matter.
Like most
Dai-Yukai, she is a barbarian and a tribal creature at heart and lacks many common hygiene standards other races do. Blood, sweat, grime, and dirt are simply a part of life, and only on potentially special occasions or momentous events does she ever feel particularly concerned with her appearance, as she believes a Queen is chosen for her abilities, not her looks.
Though she has yet to die(And will likely never die, as she is strong enough to fight weaker gods on equal footing and has attained immortality), Aslauge is a rare being who was already deified in their lifetime - heralded as the reincarnation of "The Barnifjor"(Divine savior of Giant Mythos who will one day return to deliver their species from barbarity), she is even now made the subject of legend and myth while she yet lives; blessed with statues and tales and songs of all kinds.
Social
Ever since she founded
The Kingdom of Aslaga nearly a century ago, Aslauge has reigned as its absolute, unchallenged Empress most high - she has guided the infant nation through its formation atop the shattered ruins and enslaved masses of the Dwarves who have since fallen into extinction, who guided the nation through the Age of Troubles and the battles of the Gods which rocked the continent, and it was she who fought with her Warband when
Moradin, The Allfather descended to the Material Plane and attempted to execute her for her crimes against his people, the Dwarves - and it was
her who not only
held her ground against the Primordial God of Creation but, with the aid of her Goddess
Freyja managed to deliver a heinous blow to the God of Creation and send him howling in ignominious defeat out of The Aslagan Mountains(So named for her legendary deeds).
With all these accomplishments at her back and the unmatched power of her and her warband(Each of whom has become borderline
demigods after a century of constant war against gods and near-gods), she has reigned as a beloved Autocrat since her country's inception - and shows no signs of growing weary of her crown or abdicating her power anytime soon.
Though in the formative years of
The Kingdom of Aslaga she was more of a "Self-Styled" Queen of Giantkind, in the century since Aslauge has become the truest embodiment of this title and even earned the legendary title of "Barnifor"(Savior of the Giant People) after her counterpart
Halkaði Aesiva, ruler of the Giant Homeland of
Frozen Spire Island, enacted an ancient ritual to isolate the Island from the world and lift it into the sky and forsook her role as previous holder of the title. Now, crowned "Barnifor" - Savior of the Giant People across the entire planet - Aslauge has become a rallying point for not only all
Dai-Yukai, but for most all Giantkind who each see her as a mighty hero-queen who can lead them back to greatness.
Commanding the utter fealty of hundreds of Giant tribes from across Corexus and Beyond ranging from Fire Giants to Volcano Giants to even the terrifying Rune Giants, she has tens or even hundreds of thousands of subjects that have been enslaved, subjugated, or were beaten into submission that server her utterly and absolutely, without question. So mighty is her word and authority, that without much exaggeration it can be said that the Dwarven people were sent into extinction as a direct result of her merest whim - an entire species worked to death at her and her people's feet on her word alone.
Though the unique dynamics of
Dai-Yukai tribes mean that all members of a given tribe take the tribe's name as their "family name", Aslauge's blood-related family is not quite as expansive at the tribe itself - though it is nonetheless ludicrously massive, even by the standards of the notoriously promiscuous
Dai-Yukai matriarchs. As the aging Matriarch of her own tribe who has ruled unchallenged for nearly two and a half centuries of life who recently attained immortality after her countless battles against the gods left her with a spark of mythical power, Aslauge has had free reign of romantic and sexual partners for centuries - both those taken as conquests by her tribe and those members of her tribe who have laid with her as reward for one deed or another.
As a result of this, combined with her own unnaturally fertile body(A rarity for the normally quite infertile and barren
Dai-Yukai), Aslauge has sired hundreds, thousands, or even by some accounts
tens of thousands of children in her lifetime as Matriarch of the Daenic tribe(And later, Grand Matriarch of
The Kingdom of Aslaga) - a feat which is astronomically insane even by her own people's standards. As a result, she has many children - but few that she associates with in any significant capacity, as her most recently successful child,
Asta, The Arcane Assimilator, was callously trampled into paste under own mother's feet for reasons that have never been quite clear, but likely stem from her unnatural obsession with pleasing her mother - a character trait commonly seen as weakness and overdependence by most
Dai-Yukai. As such, Aslauge has been quite publically siring more offspring in the hopes that one could finally, in her own words, "finally prove themselves of use".
Recently, she has even extended her family ties beyond the borders of her own country, as well - as many lords of the Lowland Fiefs, once the Nobility of
The Empire of Draconia before it fell during the Age of Troubles, have paid her
extremely handsomely to sire their children to inject much-needed "power" into failing or diluted bloodlines.
Aslauge is a fervent follower of
Freyja, The Grand Trampler and the newly reborn
Baldr, The Unbroken, as well as several other dead giant gods that have faded long ago such as
Odin and
Thor.
In an unexpected twist from the normally callous ruler of
The Kingdom of Aslaga, she turned on the faiths of
Aurgelmir, The Powderqueen and
Hela, The Soulthirster shortly after the founding of Aslaga as a nation - flat-out destroying the faith of the former while reducing the latter's faith to a scattered, barely coherent cult following as both were deemed "too extreme" to exist in the new order she sought to establish for her nation, and were thus destroyed to allow her country to stand as equals with their peers on the world stage.
Unlike most of her kind, Aslauge is not only a mighty warrior queen capable of flattening the hardiest of warriors, she is also a fairly skilled leader and has a good deal of natural charisma. Coupled with her immense beauty(At least by the standards of her own people) and her matronly age, she is skilled in the ways of negotiation and diplomacy(As best as a
Dai-Yukai can be, anyway)...however, despite this wisdom and savvy in the ways of diplomacy and communication, she holds little respect for others she perceives as weaker than her(Either politically, socially, or physically) - typically only resorting to her charisma and diplomatic skills if she deems her foe to be "worthy" of her words and time.
Otherwise, when facing foes she sees as "unworthy" of her time, she ruthlessly presses her advantage and uses her enormous physicality and social presence to bully and browbeat her foes into line below her - pushing her foe more and more as far as she can until, ideally, she essentially enslaves them in all but name; a fate that has befallen more than one of her political rivals who thought themselves capable of outsmarting the "brutish" queen of the giants.
For this reason, she is a fearsome woman to encounter in the courtroom or the battlefield - for any perceived weakness will often lead to a ruthless advance that, if she is not stopped with physical force or stern wills, will run roughshod over her foes and take from them what she pleases.
Aslauge is almost off-puttingly brutish by the standards of most other rulers who encounter her - as a savage queen of the Daenic tribe, she has not shed her barbarity even after centuries of rule and remains rude, brutish, and crude in her mannerisms.
Rather famously, Aslauge took a massive Red Dragon as a tamed pet shortly after her conquest of the Aslagan Mountains and the Dwarven Kingdom that once lied beneath it - a beast now said to serve as her personal mount and pet, and one of the key deeds accomplished at her hand that marks her as the legendary Barnifjor foretold of in the prophecy of Giantkind as the reborn savior of their people.
She is unnaturally glib for a
Dai-Yukai, and though her words are rough and she cuts straight to the point, she is versed in several languages and is
capable of eloquent speech, though she often insults and denigrates those she speaks to in the hopes of provoking them into attacking her so she may retaliate or that she may otherwise ascertain their strength and see if she might simply run roughshod over them and do as she pleases.
As such, while capable of eloquence, she rarely uses it except in clever political gambits to "Play the Fool" and play to the assumptions and tropes her enemies assign to her - preferring instead to, if at all possible, directly obtain what she wishes through bullying, forceful intimidation, or physical threats before resorting to eloquent speeches.
Killer (Vital)
Towards Thovon Blackbarrel
History
Though he managed to survive the first invasion of The Dwarven Peaks, King Thovon was blindsided by a second invasion of the Dwarven Peaks and was ultimately beaten by his hated for, the Giants. Conversely, having finally beaten the king of her people's hated enemies who had exterminated them so long ago, Aslauge Daenic took great pleasure in torturing him over the course of several days, trapping the tiny man beneath her comparably titanic foot and slowly stomping him into slurry. Her victory over him, for her people, spelled the beginning of a grudge's end that had lasted a Millennia.
Mother (Important)
Towards Asta, The Arcane Assimilator
History
Born as a child to the newly crowned Queen of The Kingdom of Aslaga, Asta was born as Asta Daenic, one of dozens of Daughters of her mother during the turbulent days of the Country's Founding, where all Dai-Yukai where blessed with great fertility and children reached maturity in a scant month for a week thanks to a blessing the species received from Nyfau, The Giantmother as a reward for their conquest of the Dwarven People. During the stabilization of the Kingdom, she rapidly grew in power over the course of scant months as she assisted the forces of her mother's country in putting down rebel elements and conquering Giant Tribes.
Born with a rare gift of her mother's that she inherited that allows her to absorb creatures she tramples and thus gain their knowledge and experiences, she was considered a prodigy by her brethren, but her mother that she admired for her power and desire for order remained mostly distant towards her, to her annoyance and dismay.
Quickly, her talent for the Arcane and Wizardry became known, and she was recognized as the first Dai-Yukai Wizard in eons, since before The Jotunhunts...and one of the most talented in history. Though she never quite developed her mother's taste for evil, she became a staunch believer in the ways of Law and Order after observing what her people were like before they founded this nation...a barbaric, savage one bereft of any law.
So, as she rapidly ascended to power on the backs of the Dwarven rebels she crushed for the sake of her country's order, she was tasked by her mother with hunting down and disposing of the Former Dwarven Empire's mages, who had mostly escaped the country's destruction intact and had gone to ground in the tunnels beneath their former capital. Taking to her task diligently, she ground every last surviving Dwarven Mage into bloody smears beneath her trampling footfalls, using the rare gift of absorption she was born with to imprison and absorb them within her as she trampled them into smears...and in doing so, gained nearly the entire sum total of Arcane Knowledge of the former Dwarven Empire, absorbing hundreds of mages in her task to weed out the last Dwarven mages such that she became something beyond mortal ken.
Now, she only distantly relates to her mother who was never too involved in her life to begin with and even now remains distantly proud but cold and detached towards her daughter(As all Dai-Yukai mothers tend to be), studying in her arcane tower and furthering her own studies while pursing the creation of her crowning achievment: An extraplanar college where mages from all over creation can come to learn the true ways of Arcane Magecraft, free of Tet's bias towards good or Vecna's bias towards evil. In the months since her ascension, Giants, Dwarven Slaves, and all manner of creatures with a talent for arcane magic have come to her tower and groveled before her to receive her tutelage...and as she has taken on more and more students, they have come to worship her as a divine being, seeing her unfathomable power and nigh-omniscience and praying to the Woman who has taken to teaching them the Arcane.
Friend (Trivial)
Towards Raphael the Brave
History
A relationship born of their duel during the Age of Troubles outside the town of Needlebar, Raphael's simple honesty and unwavering dedication to his ideals ended up winning over the initially hostile Queen of the Giants - gradually wearing her down until now the two stand as relatively close friends. Aslauge, for her part, is the grumpier of the two who has mostly resigned herself to being a victim of Raphael's unstoppable friendliness while Raphael, having accrued a good impression of Aslauge as a bad person who he knows isn't all that bad in her heart of hearts, enjoys fighting her whenever he has a chance and seeing her progress at "becoming a better person".
Distant Ally (Important)
Towards Eldrid Hrolfdottir
History
A relationship that was born out of a rather violent first encounter, Aslauge and Eldrid met each other as part of a public relations campaign by Aslauge and her cabinet to present themselves as "The True Inheritors" of the will of the ancient Giants - a campaign which saw Aslauge and her warband(Along with some bureaucrats) journey to the then-oceanic isle of Frozen Spire Island(Before it had ascended and been renamed) only to encounter a surprisingly organized centralized government being led by none other than Eldrid.
In the end, after an initial exchange of blows that saw Eldrid and Aslauge duel on the fields outside Jotunngardr, the visiting Delegation from the mainland was welcomed into Eldrid's reformed kingdom as kin - though the meeting was frought with tension, it nonetheless proved fruitful for both sides as, in the end, each side recognized the sovereignty of the other. Rather famously, Aslauge and Eldrid(After a rather intense duel) became friendly enough to promise one another that the other shall focus on their area that the other could focus on theirs; Aslauge vowing to focus on reshaping the public opinion and rally the giants on the mainland while Eldrid focused her efforts on rebuilding the birthplace of the Giants and restoring their ancestral homeland to its former glory.
Though the relationship is not perfect(As their moral values are not strictly compatible), they are compatible enough that they have made friendly vows to allow the other to operate in peace and to endorse one another as recognized heroes of the Giants - a declaration that many non-giants fail to see the monumental importance of(As such declarations require a degree of humility few Giant Rulers possess).
Nicknames & Petnames
Though they are friendly enough with one another, Aslauge and Eldrid are far from being friendly enough to call each other by nicknames - their meetings are stiff and formal on average(Despite the best efforts of Aslauge to loosen those very formalities), with little room for true friendship.
Relationship Reasoning
To many, the alliance of Aslauge and Eldrid - in many ways representing 'modern' and 'traditional' Giant cultures - was a monumental step towards the rejuvenation of the Giants as a whole; a vital step on the road to the Giants reclaiming their place in society.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
Though Aslauge quickly proved herself to be somewhat crueler and more sadistic than Eldrid, who valued practicality and results over what she saw as overindulgent torment, the two nonetheless proved to have a plethora of shared interests and commonalities - and enough of a common ground that even their unique interests complemented the other.
Aslauge, with her extroverted nature and tyrannical love of sex, food, drugs, and all things indulgent, complemented well the more stoic and reserved Eldrid - who rather famously abstains from many of the same vices to an almost unusual degree.
Perhaps most famous is their shared love of food - Aslauge by the simple virtue of being a ravenous glutton, and Eldrid for her rather sophisticated talent at cooking all manner of cuisines from all across the planet of Ea.
History
A relationship that has endured centuries, Sigrid and Aslauge Daenic first encountered each other shortly after the former led her tribe and clan on an Exodus into the Aslagan Mountains to escape the trials of their ancestral homeland far to the north - as fellow progressive thinkers amongst the Dai-Yukai tribes of the area, the two became fast friends thanks to their shared love of battle, their progressive and radical ideas regarding the future of their species, and more.
Now nearly inseperable, their bond is one of Aslauge Daenic's few genuine friendships that extend beyond mere tools to be used and discarded - a battle-tested bond that has endured centuries despite all manner of calamity that reality has thrown their way; a bond that has endured a shared conquest and near extermination of the dwarves, the formation of a nation of Giants based on those radical ideas they once shared as younger girls, the attack of gods upon them during the Age of Troubles, and more.
Perhaps most importantly of all, their bond has been one of shared humility - the two women, as two of the most incomparably mighty creatures on the entire continent of Corexus, regularly keep each other humble and their egos in check as equals(A rare commodity to beings as strong as they)...even if they tend to bicker and squabble over countless issues, their bond has emerged all the stronger for it as best of friends, in both battle, life, love, and more.
Mother and Trusted Ally (Vital)
Favored Daughter and Trusted Ally (Vital)
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A relationship that has changed the world, Ingrid and Aslauge Daenic's relationship is one of utmost respect and admiration for one another - the latter for the woman who helped birth her, raised her, and trained her how to be a warrior and live her life, and the former for the child that is not only a living monument to the perfection of her Breeding Programs, but who has also proved a steadfast ally over centuries and excelled in life beyond her wildest dreams.
Their relationship is utterly and wholly unique - Ingrid is perhaps the only being whom Aslauge Daenic ever shows true vulnerability to, and the only whom she perhaps truly loves and trusts with all her heart, while Aslauge is perhaps the only one of Ingrid's countless children that has genuinely earned her affection and admiration, not to mention her friendship. They are, in most every way, truly and utterly inseparable - and bonded in such a deep way that many assume them to possess some brand of telepathy.
Though the Daenic Tribe was already among the richest of the Giant tribes which called the Aslagan Peaks their home in the times before she invaded the Dwarven Kingdom beneath the mountains and conquered it to form
The Kingdom of Aslaga, her tribe's conquest of that same Dwarven Kingdom made her rich beyond her wildest dreams - with all the wealth of the Dwarves scattered at her feet, their throne smashed and defiled beneath her, and their once prized Deep Vaults now laid bare before her, Aslauge has become one of the richest and wealthiest creatures on all of Corexus and Inara; in many ways outstripping even the wealth of the Inaran Imperium.
This wealth has only grown all the deeper in the century since she has founded
The Kingdom of Aslaga - though the Dwarves in time went extinct beneath her rule and in time submitted themselves to her authority to be transformed into the
Varg, their decades of meager slavery under her autocratic rule only enriched her coffers further as an entire
species worked itself into extinction on her command; a testament to her utterly unstoppable power and authority.
Finally, even absent from the wealth acquired from her conquests, she has acquired perhaps the most dangerous and lethal personal armory in all of Corexus - looted from the mightiest Dwarven Heroes who met their end ruthlessly ground into paste under her icy soles and, most famously, her enormous greatsword
Thronebreaker forged from the throne of the Ruler of the Dwarven Kingdom she conquered to form her own nation.
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