Sigrid, the Warmaster

Risen Goddess of Strength, Rain, Protection, and Purification

We have all suffered at the hands of the gods - each and every one of us. All too keenly have we felt helpless before them, as they rampaged across our world at their leisure - battling one another for supremacy, for power, for dominance.
I conquered the power of the Gods and claimed it for myself to gird you all against them.
I alone under the Heavens can check the power of the Gods.
I alone can deliver your vengeance upon them.
Even The Godkiller, who once laid low the entire Outer Sphere, recognizes this truth - that this is our kingdom, not hers. That our love is a privilege, not a right.
They fear us - the Gods and those who worship them. They tremble before me, terrified at the prospect of facing justice beneath my heel - as they should!
Why should we mourn the toppling of Gods who have grown to expect our love? Why should we forgive Gods who have grown fat and indolent on our admiration, our worship? We tolerate no such leaders in our homelands, so why must we spare them the guillotine for their mere divine nature? Have we not learned that it is the actions of a thing, not its nature, that defines it?! Did The Jotunhunts not teach us that lesson in blood?
Make no mistake - it is our hatreds, our suffering, our cries for help that gave us this chance! And I, Warmaster to the mighty Queen of Giantkind, vow to see your cries carried out!

— A speech given by Sigrid to the citizens of Aslaga, after the start of the Age of Godsfall

Titles: The Warmaster, The Rainmaiden, The Mistress of Morning Dew, The Hallowed Daughter, High Chief Rainbolt, The Mead Hall Mother, Lady of the Lightning Blade
Favored Weapon: Longspear
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Church Moniker: Church of the Warmaster
Obedience: Spend an hour marking the outline of a Mystic Knot on the ground around you using spears stuck into the ground shaft-side down(Substituting sticks if spears cannot be found), tossing a vial of water(Preferably rainwater) onto the ground at the point each spear impales the ground. Once the symbol is formed, pour equal parts mead, fertile soil, and goat's blood in the center of the knot and prostrate yourself upon the ground where it was poured while uttering a prayer to The Warmaster.
Effect: Your touch brings unnatural fertility to both plants and creatures - allowing you to return life to barren soil and foster future growth in plants and crops you touch(Raising their productivity similar to Plant Growth by 1/2 for the next year). When used on creatures, you can render previously infertile or sterile creatures fertile once more or make an already fertile creature even moreso - drastically increasing their odds of having children over the course of the next year and reducing the chances any children born during this time will suffer from diseases, birth defects, or other health issues. Finally, your touch will automatically convert small blood and/or water into mead in small amounts(requiring time for larger sources).
1st Boon: By sacrificing a masterwork(or greater) weapon in your possession as a swift action, you can convert half of all electricity damage you deal until the end of your next turn into Goldbolt as a roaring bolt of lightning strikes the weapon and charges you with its energy.
2nd Boon: When you sacrifice a weapon using Sigrid's 1st boon, you convert all electricity damage you deal in the same duration into Goldbolt instead of half. Additionally, if the weapon was magical in any way, you add its enhancement bonus as a bonus on each electricity damage die you deal during the same duration.
3rd Boon: By sacrificing a masterwork(or greater) weapon as a full-round action, you can call forth the almighty power of The Rainmaiden to replicate the effects of a Control Weather, Control Winds, Terraform, or Aroden's Magic Army spell - using your HD as the Caster Level for these effects. If the weapon's cumulative enhancement bonus is over +5, you can make the effect permanent.

Divine Domains

Law, Strength, Community, Protection, Weather, War, Weather

Artifacts

As a Risen God who has attained her divinity barely a century before the modern day, Sigrid has few artifacts to her name - her chief artifact is the mighty spear known as Bysmir, a weapon said to have once been used by Moradin to skewer the heart of Thor during the waning days of the Jotunhunts. This weapon, spoken of for eons in the most ancient of Giant myths as a legendary, cursed weapon that sat unmoving atop the Sparkhammer Summit which could not be wielded by mortal hands due to the shard of Thor's divine essence that sat trapped within it, driving all who dared wield it mad with the eternal visions of the god's dying moments, was finally conquered by Sigrid in her adolescent years, where she managed to tame the weapon's undying spirit of rage and wield it as her own for centuries - during which time the weapon rapidly regained much of its former power.
Now, this legendary weapon is said to crackle with a shard of the dead god Thor's furious essence - greater artifact and personal weapon of Sigrid that has chosen her by divine mandate to carry on the will of the Stormson in the modern world. This weapon, said to be able to control the clouds and the roaring power of Goldbolt itself, is so utterly powerful that it has proven itself repeatedly to be extraordinarily lethal to the divine during the Age of Troubles and the Age of Godsfall that followed it - its roaring spirit of rage shredding the souls of mortal and god alike with each strike.
Besides this mighty weapon, Sigrid's artifacts are truly sparse - most notably, her greatest gifts and blessings are not artifacts in the traditional sense, but more esoteric blessings brought by her favor such as Rain, Good Weather, and Strength in battle; all blessings known to occur to those who hold her divine favor.
Finally, while difficult to classify as a true artifact, many of Sigrid's own followers and even some creatures from far-distant lands who know little of her or her teachings have come to speak of her divine body itself as the greatest artifact in her possession - attributing miraculous properties to her body or its products(Such as Hair, Blood, Skin, Etc.) ranging from curing sterility, returning life to barren fields, curing diseases, and more. These rumors, however, have never been confirmed.

Holy Books & Codes

The Sagas of the Rainmaiden

Divine Symbols & Sigils

An ornate upside down warhammer etched with Giant Runes

Tenets of Faith

I will not slay the unarmed. Those who cannot or will not fight are unworthy of my blade, their blood devoid of honor.

I will meet the reaper on my feet. If I am to die, I will die in battle to prove my honor before the gods and my fellows.

I shall know no fear. Neither pain nor suffering nor threat of death shall shake me, for I know that the greatest measure of my life shall be the means by which I meet my end.

I shall cleanse the impure. Where the land or its creatures are sick, I shall seek the source and purify it - failing that, I will excise the impurities by blood and blade to make the land whole again.

My life for my fellows. I am not merely a tool of war - I am a part of my community who relies upon me and is relied upon in turn. In all I do, I will protect my community from harm, provide unto them relief and succor, and offer unto my neighbor that which I may one day need in turn.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

To carry on the will of Thor and perhaps one day see him restored to life.
To wipe out the last dregs of the Dwarven Pantheon.
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Relationships

Sigrid, the Warmaster

Ally (Vital)

Towards Freyja, The Godkiller

3

0

Frank

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Freyja, The Godkiller

Ally (Vital)

Towards Sigrid, the Warmaster

5

0

Frank

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History

Though Sigrid has long been a proponent of the faith of Thor, The Stormson despite the god's status as a Dead God, she rose to prominence as one of the now legendary members of Aslauge Daenic's warband - and as a result, continued to accrue power which ultimate culminated in her ascension to Risen Godhood after she helped her allies found the Kingdom of Aslaga and later even fought Moradin, The Allfather during the age of troubles alongside Aslauge Daenic, her fellows in her Warband, and even Freyja, The Godkiller herself.
As such, while Sigrid has never been shy about her true faith, she has come to respect and even trust the new leader of The Giant Pantheon - who has in turn come to see Sigrid as the inheritor of the will of Thor, The Stormson - a deity that many in the pantheon have keenly felt the loss of for eons. Her rise to prominence has won her many allies in the Giant Pantheon, one of the rare few to bridge the divide between the Pantheon's split halves led by Baldr, The Unbroken and Freyja, The Godkiller respectively, and she stands as one of the few RIsen Gods to truly join a Pantheon in the modern day.

Sigrid, the Warmaster

Annoyance (Vital)

Towards Moradin, The Allfather

-5

0

Subversive

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Moradin, The Allfather

Sworn Enemy (Trivial)

Towards Sigrid, the Warmaster

-5

0

Subversive

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History

Though all Giants can be said to have a reasonable grudge against Moradin, The Allfather, Patron of all Dwarvenkind whose reckless, arrogant actions led directly to The Jotunhunts, none can be said to carry a hatred as burning as Sigrid Grimr - Warmaster of Aslauge Daenic and Inheritor of the will of Thor, The Stormson.
Having recovered and reclaimed the legendary spear Bysmir once used by Moradin, The Allfather to skewer and slay Thor, The Stormson during the waning days of The Jotunhunts, Sigrid has long made public her open hatred of the God of the Dwarves and her desire to repay the grudge her patron deity Thor, The Stormson has kept even beyond the Godgrave for so many untold millennia - a rage which has permeated not only across time but had subsumed the mighty weapon Bysmir and proved so lethal to all who dared try to wield it before her.
While her actions in the formation of The Kingdom of Aslaga undoubtedly earned her the ire of The Allfather, Sigrid earned the personal hatred of The Allfather during the age of Troubles when she, alongside Aslauge Daenic and her Warband, were confronted by the Dwarven Deity for their transgression and, against all odds, managed to fight him long enough to allow for Freyja, The Godkiller to join the fight and defeat him - yet, even then, when her allies in the Warband allowed their newly arrived Patron Goddess to handle the bulk of the fighting from then on, Sigrid did nothing of the sort; Instead, Sigrid threw herself into the melee between Gods and managed to personally lay low The Allfather while working in concert with Freyja herself(Though Sigrid had been possessed by the echo of her Patron God's divinity, which aided her in the fight between Gods) - proving instrumental in his defeat such that were it not for her own mind being nearly consumed by the eternal rage of Thor that took hold of her in the fight's final moments, she would have assuredly ground the head of The Allfather into paste beneath her invincible azure soles.
As such, while the warband of Aslauge Daenic each played parts in his defeat, none played as big a role as Sigrid herself - who very nearly lost herself to the undying rage of Thor, The Stormson in the battle during which she is purported to have dealt a grevious wound to the Allfather(Not to mention insulted him countless times during the fight) that he will not soon forget.
Now, the two eagerly await their opportunity for a rematch - each lusting for the death of the other.

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Divine Classification

Risen God

Religions

• Risen Gods
• The Giant Pantheon

Alignment

Lawful Neutral

Spouses

Siblings

Areas of Concern

Agriculture, Farmers, Thunder, Lightning, Rain, Protection of Hearth and Home, Friends and Family, Battle

Main Temple and Location

Sigrid's Temple is a building of unbridaled splendor known as the Sparkhammer Cathedral built high atop the tallest mountain in the Aslagan Mountains - constructed over a century by thousands of menial laborers, giants, and countless other beings as a monument to Sigrid's Eternal Glory. This temple, whose foundations are said to have been taken directly from the Ruined Sparkhammer Summit which was once the Temple of Thor(Sigrid's own patron deity), have infused the temple with a roaring, furious energy of Goldbolt, Rain, Wind, Thunder, and Lightning that the mere act of reaching it alone is a perilous trial seen by many as a test of faith and endurance many undertake yearly as an act of devotion and pilgrimage. For those who make it to the Temple atop the Summit, the reward is breathtaking - a temple constantly wreathed in Goldbolt built on a scale reserved for Giants, whose architecture, beautiful vistas, and resplendent statues of Sigrid, Thor, and other Giant Heroes and Gods make it one of the unsung wonders of the world - and a true monument to her divine splendor.

Holy Colors

Blue, Gold

Sacred Animal

Goat

Sacred Number

3

As bad as you might think the Warmaster is, lads, don't forget -
The Godkiller's Champion holds her loyalty through more than just respect.

— A common adage whispered among Dwarven Freedom Fighters

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