Freya Benton

Freya Benton: Adventurer; scholar; businesswoman. A force from times past, Freya is kept ageless by the magic of her Philosopher's Stone. Since the founding of ORPHEUS, Freya has dedicated herself to the oversight of the organization through the Maenad Directive.
== Appearance ==
Freya is an Egyptian woman with brown, curly hair. During the Victorian era, she wore her hair long, half up and half down. In the modern day, she wears her hair shorter. She tends to favor dark colors in her wardrobe, like black and plum.
== Background ==
=== Ancient Egypt ===
Freya was born to a poor family in ancient Egypt. As a child she sometimes had to "borrow" bread from the market to feed herself. Her first brush with the law came when a guard saw her stealing bread, and killed him to escape.
At some point, Freya took up the study of hermeticism and alchemy. Some years in to her hermetic training, she crafted a homunculus: a mechanical beetle named Faris. With Faris at her side, Freya established herself a world traveller, a successful criminal, and a brilliant alchemist. 
=== 1800s ===
==== Out of Time ====
Freya lived in London in the 1890s, where she was in the orbit of members of the Discovery Club, a society establishment that pursued new knowledge of all sorts, including knowledge of the occult and hermetic disciplines. She was not actually admitted to the Discovery Club, however, as women and people of colour were excluded. Freya befriended another outcast from polite society: Granville Moore, the wielder of Excalibur. 
Freya takes part in a ritual set out in a book by Henry Colfax that was discovered by Sir Alfred Spencer. Freya believes the ritual will put on a show for the assembled audience of high society types, but gets more than she bargains for when Kiera Jackson comes through the portal, dressed in 2010s clothing and bleeding profusely through a gunshot wound in her abdomen.
Freya, Granville, and Sir Alfred nurse Kiera back to health and learn that she is from the distant future. After fending off an attack by the vampire Lucy Westenra and her thrall, they begin to make plans to return her to 2017. 
When Kiera is kidnapped by Brighton, an infamous gangster that runs much of London's underworld, Freya and Granville mount a daring rescue, aided by Lucy Westenra. The rescue is successful, but Freya watches as Lucy turns on Granville, draining his blood and carrying him off into the night.
Working together with Sir Alfred Spencer, Freya and Kiera are able to reverse engineer the ritual and convert Kiera into a salt of her essence. Freya pledges to protect Kiera's remains until 2017, when she can be restored.
==== Interregnum ====
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==== Foundation ====
In early 1894, Freya is brought into a plan to form a secret organization to wage war against the forces of the occult underworld in London.
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=== 1900s ===
Freya moved to the United States in the early 1900s, where she established a vast fortune as an early investor in securities on the New York Stock Exchange. She uses her wealth to buy countless alchemical and hermetic texts and research materials, and to establish a network of safe houses and research libraries around the world. This work was largely motivated by her desire to protect Kiera and see her safely delivered to 2017.
Freya was part of the group that established ORPHEUS, although she was never directly involved with the organization. Instead, she decided to form a parallel watchdog agency that would oversee its operations and ensure it did not lose sight of its mission—the Maenad Directive.
In Contingency, we learn that Freya was present when the ORPHEUS Chicago facility was under construction. She remembers secret train tunnels out of the facility from the time it was being built.
=== 2000s ===
==== Bereavement ====
Freya makes contact with Tireseus to inform him that she has the remains of Kiera Jackson and believes she can be brought back. Freya invites him to her warehouse in Chicago, where she and Faris have prepared the ritual. She has even brought the glass table originally used in the ritual in London in 1893.
Tireseus asks Mitch Hook to accompany him to the warehouse, uncertain whether it is actually safe. However, Tireseus relaxes when he sees Faris, who leads Tireseus and Mitch through the facility to meet Freya at the ritual space.
After some discussion about the safety of the ritual and the importance of protecting the book by Henry Colfax, Freya and Tireseus perform the ritual and Kiera Jackson is restored to her body.
==== Contingency ====
[CHICAGO FACILITY ATTACK]
==== Retrieval ====
[CAITLYN DANVERS]
==== Asherah ====
[MONASTERY]
[ASHERAH]
==== Sabotage ====
[OIL PLATFORM]
==== Sanctuary ====
[SANCTUARY]
==== Rescue ====
[CONDUCTORS - STEAL EYES]
[CONDUCTORS - GO TO FECUNDITY]
=== Early Fecundity ===
==== Rescue ====
[FARIS WAITED]
[NIGHTMARE STEED]
==== Selected Scenes from the End of the World ====
[TRAVELS WASTES REBUILDING AND SHAPING SOCIETY]
=== Late Fecundity ===
==== Selected Scenes from the End of the World ====
[COLFAX DINNER]
==== Icarus & Selected Scenes from the End of the World ====
[RECEIVES EXCALIBUR]
[VAMPIRE KINGDOM]
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