Ginnivýð the Red (GHIN.ih.veethe)
Ginnivýð the Red (Ginnivýð Ræðírur in Tallað ) was the first Jór of the Northfjords, as well as one of the region's most notorious and infamous pirate hunters.
In her 18th year, her father, Gánnan Blackhammer (Gánnan Svarthámmur) was slain and she herself was taken by pirates and raped by their captain. She managed to escape after poisoning and brutally murdering the captain and his entire crew, earning her lifelong epithet 'the Red'.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
In her youth, Ginnivýð was slender, with an athleticism born of the harsh environment in which she was raised. After the death of her father and her own capture by pirates in 483ATC, she tended toward a lean, muscular hardness, shaped by her many years of sailing and fighting on the seas and fjords of Hrafnawyld.
Facial Features
In her youth, Ginnivýð was considered quite lovely by her people, with an oval face and pale complexion, her cloudy gray eyes set evenly on either side of her long, straight, slightly bold nose. Her high arched brows and smiling mouth lent her an air of perpetual mischief.
After the ordeal that changed her life in 483ATC, her demeanor was forever changed, and her expression became cold and detached, with a fierce, penetrating gaze.
Apparel & Accessories
For most of her life she wore a bright red, thick woolen headband that she used to hold back her long, silky black hair. A popular accessory on Icewall Glacier, it could be used in emergencies to signal for help in the black and white landscape of the icy wasteland.
Specialized Equipment
Her personal longship was named Bloody Vengeance, and was the same ship she claimed as final weregild from the pirates who captured her in 483ATC. Bloody Vengeance (name from before its capture is unknown) was a 30-oar longship with a crew of approximately 65, and was sailed by Ginnivýð for nearly three decades before she finally had to retire the ship.
Mental characteristics
Education
As the daughter of an important public official and a famous family, Ginnivýð had the finest education to be had in her home, receiving learning in literacy, history, law, geography, and other such subjects from some of the most prominent and knowledgeable Stonespeakers and Riverseers in the Twin Orders.
After the fateful events of 483ATC, she focused on learning sailing, navigation, and combat, the better to further her crusade against piracy in the Northfjords.
Employment
The greater portion of Ginnivýð's life was spent as a pirate-hunter, even after she became the first Jór of the Northfjords.
Mental Trauma
Her father's murder and her own rape by the same pirates left her with a lifelong, seething hatred of piracy and banditry, leading her to devote her life to the eradication thereof. Though she would end up carrying and giving birth to a son from her assault, she would never marry nor have any other children, and she would raise her son, who she named Gánnað in honor of her father, to hate pirates with the same intensity as herself.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
After her capture and rape by Northfjorder pirates in 483ATC, Ginnivýð's primary motivation became a nearly obsessive desire to crush and eradicate all piracy and slave-taking in Hrafnawyld. Even when she accepted the title of Jór to the newly created Northfjords Jórveif in 490, her sole reason for doing so was the promise of absolute power and control over all legitimate vessels in her territorial waters, which granted her the authority to expand her anti-piracy campaigns and dragoon other captains into joining her crusade.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
After she captured her longship, Ginnivýð insisted on learning to sail, and spent several years travelling to Súðejasvík and the Ravenfjords to be taught by the best Wylden mariners she could find. By age 20, she had assembled a crew and captained her longship Bloody Vengeance for many years thereafter.
Around this same time, she also trained hard to become a better fighter, having only learned some of the very basics in her youth, and only because it was considered necessary for any amount of safety, living on Icewall. She became an excellent mark with a bow, as well as proficient in the use of axes and long daggers.
Likes & Dislikes
Ginnivýð's one true love was sailing the seas and fjords of northern Hrafnawyld, hunting after pirates and brigands, for whom she held a lifelong, visceral hatred after the death of her father and her capture in her 18th year.
Vices & Personality flaws
Ginnivýð was ruthless, harsh, and even cruel to pirates she captured, considering them to be inhuman and utterly outside the law. She applied this perspective to anyone she found aboard an unlawful vessel unless they were clearly bound as slaves, and would often execute entire crews painfully or even torturously as punishment for the crimes she believed they undoubtedly committed.
Tallað (Wylden)
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