Freyja, the Queen of Wrath
Forged Goddess of Vengeance, Wrath, and Motherhood
The story of Freyja is a story of tragedy, of losing everything and what that loss can do to someone. Freyja was the first God to be born from another God, made from the flesh and blood of Ymir, and said to have been her favourite child. With her mother's blessing, Freyja would cultivate Ymir's other children - the early Jotunn - to become a civilisation in their own right. However, paranoia from the other Gods lead to Freyja losing almost everything she held dear, with the warmth and love she once held being replaced with rage and hatred.
While still represented in her aspect as a patron of mothers, in the modern day Freyja is a Goddess of anger and rage, representing the depths of despair and fury that one can fall too once they have lost everything. The rage she held for those who made her this way has become a well-honed blade, and she waits for the moment when the Gods are weakest, that she can strike against them once again.
Divine Domains
Nature, Tempest, War
Holy Books & Codes
The Mother's Cry - A tome said to have been by Freyja herself, detailing the grief, despair, and finally rage that she felt upon the death of her family.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Freyja has two symbols, depending on how she is worshipped:
- As the Mournful Mother, her symbol is a sprig of mistletoe with a drop of blood falling from it.
- As the Queen of Wrath, her symbol is that a an armoured woman holding up the world.
Tenets of Faith
Savour the memories you have with your loved ones if it they were your last.
The Worldshaper must be put to death for what he has done. Kill his followers where they stand.
Do not forgive those who have wronged you; they must pay for what they do to you.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
- To bring the Jotunn to their former glory
- To wipe out the Worldshaper and his children
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Freyja is a towering Jotunn woman, said to have been over two hundred feet tall when she was last seen on the material plane. Her skin is similar to that of a human's, with a mane of long red hair cascading down her back. She is adorned in dark green armour and furs, with the skull of a draconic creature mounted as a helm.
Specialized Equipment
While she was seen with many weapons, her most well known weapons are
- Gungnir, a massive golden spear once wielded by Odin that was longer than she is tall. The spear was said to have perfect aim, able to strike at the weakest point of its target without issue. It also granted Freyja a brief glimpse through the eyes of the deceased Odin.
- Mjolnir, once the hammer of Thor. A massive, dense weapon said to be carved from solidified lightning, this hammer is almost as tall as Freyja herself and far wider than she is. So large is the hammer, that the handle has a built-in grip designed to make it easier to hold. The hammer grants Freyja a portion of her deceased son's power, granting her control over lightning and thunder.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Born of Ymir
When the Primeval Deities first carved out the world and the planes beyond, many of them went to creating their own children to walk its land. Where Vulcan created the first Dwarves from the Earth and Astela created the Eldar from the Forming Light, Ymir used her own blood to create her children: the towering beings known as the Jotunn. Freyja was the first of them, alongside her brother Odin. The pair, titanic beings in their own right and made from the blood of Ymir, were impossibly powerful, able to level the land and reshape it to make cities for their own subjects. They carved these immense megastructures across the mountains of the world, seating themselves and their people within. With time, Freyja and Odin received enough worship from their people that, combined with their innately divine nature, allowed them to become full-fledged Gods in their own right. As time went by, they would then come to make their own children, new Gods of their own; while many of their names have been lost to time, the three most well-known were Baldr, the Pure Prince; Thor, the Stormbringer; and Loki, the Deceitful.The Jotunnfall
While the Jotunn had lived in relative peace, the level of power that Ymir's children had attained was a point of concern for the Primeval Deities, Vulcan in particular. The cities and strongholds of the Jotunn often encroached on those of his own children, the Dwarven Pantheon and the early Dwarves that followed him, and conflicts between the two races were not unheard of. This animosity would eventually reach a boiling point when one killed the other; who made the first blow has been lost to time, whether they were Jotunn or Dwarf, but this act lead the two sides to all out war. What the Jotunn had in sheer physical strength, they unfortunately lacked in numbers. The Jotunn were quickly outnumbered and outgunned by the veritable hoards of Dwarves and their armories, enhanced further by Vulcan's magic. Vulcan himself took to the Material Plane with his children at his side, and faced off against the armies of the Jotunn. Freyja watched in horror as her beloved family was slaughtered in front of her; Odin, her beloved brother, had his remaining eye burned out by the light of Solarea; Thor, her mightiest son, was poisoned by Danaea; even Baldr, who Freyja believed was so pure of body as to be immortal, was cut down by Vulcan using a weapon he did not recognise. Freyja, stricken by grief and rage, snapped. She launched at Vulcan with Odin's favoured spear and Thor's mighty hammer, but the Worldshaper proved to be too sturdy for her to even do him harm. Realising she was beaten, and not wanting to lose the rest of her children, she desperately begged Ymir for help, for any kind of salvation or protection. Ymir did nothing. Freyja, realising she was now all that was left of her own kin, and with what little remained of the Jotunn at her side, escaped to a realm Odin had carved in one of the other planes: Asgard. She fled there to rebuild, and to shut herself away from the rest of the world. Freyja would create one more child from her own flesh and blood, much like Ymir had done. This child would serve a single purpose: to protect the souls of the Giants that came to Asgard, and keep them from the hands of the other Gods. Before sending her to the lowest layer of Asgard, Freyja would give this child a name and a title: Hela, the Keeper of Souls.The War of the Gods
In modern history, the War of the Gods is depicted as a simple battle between the various Gods of Itaxia and the Spurned Gods of the Hells. While true to a certain, many ignore that there was a distinct third side to the War: Freyja. After the Jotunnfall and the death of many of the early Giant Pantheon, Freyja had fled to Asgard, where she took up the throne as queen and sealed it away from the other Planes. For millennia, Freyja would heal her wounds and cultivate her people anew; new, younger Gods were born from her blood and the flesh of the remaining Jotunn, allowing her to reinvigorate not only the Pantheon of Giants, but also bolster her army far beyond what it once was, bringing not only the ancient Jotunn but many of the Giants that had populated the world in her wake. For Freyja herself, she had taken the wild rage and fury that she had felt long ago, and tempered it; what was once a blazing, white-hot nova of rage was now a tranquil, calm fury. As Freyja opened the Bifrost bridge, opening Asgard to the other planes for the first time in over 8,000 years, she stood ready. While the War of the Gods was already underway, a blast of rainbow-coloured light would strike the battlefield between Solarea and Vandros. As the light cleared, an army of Jotunn spilled forth, with Freyja leading the charge. Freyja and her armies wreaked havoc, turning what was a two-sided affair into an all out brawl. As her armies cut down both the demons and devils of Vandros and the angels of Avrona, one thing became apparent: Freyja had returned. Freyja's appearance changed the landscape of the war entirely; she did not care who she cut down, so long as they were an agents of the Gods she knew, even if that extended to other Gods. But Freyja had a noted vendetta against Vulcan, taking extra care to ensure that his armies died in as vicious a manner as possible. As the war came to an end, Freyja would face Vulcan once again, back in Asgard. The Worldshaper had arrived into her own realm; a bold, perhaps even stupid move, but Vulcan knew Freyja had a vendetta against him, and wanted it settled. The pair brawled for three straight days, neither side ever giving an inch. It was the perfect case of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, Freyja wielding Mjolnir and Gungnir in tandem while Vulcan's armour was able to shrug off the worst of her blows. As the third day came to an end, the pair came to a realisation: this fight would not end while the two of them stood, they were too evenly matched. Therefore, the pair surrendered and Vulcan left Asgard, but not without a final warning from Freyja:
"Make sure you keep your children in line from now, Vulcan. If you or one of them brings death to my people again, I will not rest until you have been torn apart."
The Modern Day
Since the end of the War of the Gods and the construction of the Divine Gate, Freyja has stayed out of the affairs of the Material Plane. She has governed Asgard as best as she can, allowed her people to live in safety. The Giants that die on the Material Plane are judged by Taros, and then sent to Freyja to be given a final place in Asgard; either the burning wastes of Muspelheim, the frigid wastes of Jotunnheim, the halls of battle in Valhalla, or the desolate death of Helheim.Social
Contacts & Relations
Worshippers of the Queen of Wrath
As the deity of motherhood, Freyja's worshippers are almost universally female, whether as warriors, mothers, or midwives. Freyja's worshippers tend to dress in shades of green and red, with all of them having a sprig of mistletoe placed somewhere upon their body. Of particular note is the fact that Freyja is the only Giant Deity that sees widespread worship among non-giants, with many humans being devout worshippers of her. Freyja's worshippers can be split broadly into two groups: those who worship her as the Mourning Mother, and those who worship as the Queen of Wrath, though exceptions to the following rules exist:- Those who worship her as the Mourning Mother take great heed of Freyja's commands to care for your children and those around you, with many of them serving as midwives or working in orphanages. Its common practice for devout worshippers of Freyja to give children in their care a sprig mistletoe to represent Freyja's protection.
- Those who worship her as the Queen of Wrath are almost entirely different. Often people who worship her in this way are those who have lost something dear to them, such as friends or family, and seek the deaths of whoever took them from them. They often have a sprig of mistletoe attached to part of their armour, but stained with a drop of blood.
Relationships
History
To say that Vulcan and Freyja dislike one-another would be a vast understatement. It is no exaggeration to say that Vulcan is responsible for the way Freyja is; he was the one who started the conflict that lead to the deaths of many of her children and much of her family. For his part, Vulcan is characteristically stubborn; he believes that what he did was necessary to prevent his own people from dying unnecessary deaths. Freyja despises Vulcan, there is no nice way of putting it. Being one of the only survivors of her people and being left to fend for herself, Vulcan's actions caused Freyja to harden into the cold, vengeful being she is today. During the War of the Gods, Freyja relished at any opportunity to strike down Vulcan's followers out of revenge for her fallen kin, and the two eventually fought face-to-face. The two withdrew from one-another, but not without swearing that they would kill the other if they met again.
Divine Classification
Forged Deity
Religions
Alignment
Lawful Neutral
Species
Realm
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Wrath of the Giants
The Mother of Despair
The Last True Giant
The Mourning Mother
The Mother of Despair
The Last True Giant
The Mourning Mother
Spouses
Siblings
Children
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