Ilsa Haupstein

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Iron Maiden (Ops Moniker)
Anneliese Steiner, Ingrid Weiss, Eloise Livington, Gun Witch, Ice Princess (Aliases)
Ilsa (Nickname)

### Status

Significant Occult Figure and Terrorist — Wanted by ARGUS

### Relatives

Petra and Ursula Haupstein (Sisters, Deceased)
Albrecht Strong (Son)
Azazel (Infernal Father)
Naamah and Asa (Infernal Sisters)
Anung Un Rama (Infernal Brother)
Belphegor (Infernal Benefactor)
Karl Kroenen (Coven Brother)

### Affiliation

Grigori of the Golden Gaze (Member)
The Thule Society (Former Member)

## Biographical Information

### Marital Status

Widowed (Kurt Steiner, Husband, Deceased)
In Relationship (Grigori Rasputin, Coven Brother, Lover)

## Physical Description

### Ilsa Haupstein: 1893 - 1915

Ilsa is the third daughter of a perfectly normal upper-class German family. Other than Ilsa's older sister going missing when Ilsa was still a baby, the Haupsteins had a charmed life. Since her birth, it was clear that Ilsa was different from all the other kids, as she never cried, not even as an infant. As a child, Ilsa rarely showed much of her feelings. Combining this trait with her interest in ice skating earned her the nickname of Ice Princess by her friends and family.

When Ilsa was ten, the Haupsteins realized Ilsa was genuinely exceptional ice skater and sent their daughter to Berlin to train with her uncle. At sixteen, Ilsa was celebrated as the best German figure skater. Ilsa went on to win many competitions, including the Gold Medal for Ladies' Figure Skating at the 1908 Olympics in London and several installments of the Nordic Games. Indeed, Ilsa was the top of her game until an accident caused by sabotaged skates left her severely injured and thus forced to abandon competitions at the young age of twenty-two.

### Ilsa Haupstein: 1915 - 1917

While in recovery, Ilsa woke up one night to witness her uncle cutting his wrist and pouring the spilled blood across Ilsa's face. Panicked, Ilsa jumped from her bed and tried to wrestle the knife from her uncle. During the struggle, Ilsa's uncle let out a strange gasp and then immediately went limp. The unexpected ceasing of resistance caused Ilsa to accidentally pull her uncle towards her, causing her to trip and fall, with her uncle falling over Ilsa and onto the knife.

As Ilsa tried to stop the bleeding, she watched her uncle look at her with confusion. The as his final breaths questioned Ilsa on why she had murdered him, a perplexed Ilsa found her uncle's dying words drowned out by the laughter of an amorphous form in the shadows of her bedroom. As Ilsa look closer, she slowly saw dozens of eyes looking at her with wicked intent as several mouths grinned with sinister delight. Ilsa disappeared shortly after this. Her uncle's murdered body was found weeks later when the police came to the home to question Ilsa about the brutal murder of Ilsa's former skating rival.

Instructed by the Third of the Fallen, the demon Azazel, Ilsa sought out the demon Belphegor who was infiltrating the Germanenorden (or Order of Teutons) at the time. Belphegor brought Ilsa into the secret society and offered to grant her further powers to compliment that which she had already received from Azazel. Ilsa pledged herself to Belphegor and thus became a witch — furthering her dark descent.

After her initial indoctrination, Ilsa was sent to Russia to retrieve the remains of Rasputin. She was partially successful, as she retrieved the body in its mystical slumber but the revived Rasputin was left in a damaged and chronically weak body. Still, she managed to bring the mystic to Germany as instructed by her masters.

Upon the return of Ilsa with the zombified Rasputin, Belphegor had transformed a chapter of the Germanenorden into the Thule Society, where Rasputin agreed to pledge his service to Belphegor in exchange for Belphegor calling forth another grigori witch, Karl Kroenen, to alchemically fashion a new body for Rasputin to replace the severely damaged vessel his prolonged torpor had caused.

### Ilsa Haupstein: 1917 - 1944

It took decades to properly craft a body suitable for Rasputin. In that time, Ilsa and Rasputin became close and intimate. Though Rasputin was forced to remain sequestered from the public, Ilsa had profound success infiltrating European society, particularly at home in Germany. Under a new identity, Ilsa married Kurt Steiner, an officer in the German military.

When war broke out, Ilsa used her influence to get her husband to oversee a prison — supplying Kroenen with the victims he would need to perfect the creation of Rasputin's new body. Once the body was nearly complete, Ilsa slit her own husband's throat to power the ritual to revive her lover.

With Rasputin returned to life, their evil plan was ready to be undertaken — the summoning of the Great Beast of Revelation to unleash its wrath of the world!

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Grigori Physiology:** "Grigori" (from the Greek egrḗgoroi meaning "those who are awake") are powerful cambions with dark magic. The term "grigori" is both singular and plural.
	+ ***Blood Drinking*** Ilsa's power can be further accelerated though drinking the blood/ichor of ephemerals, psychics, and other supernatural beings.
	+ ***Emotional Surge:*** When angry, scared or in pain, Ilsa becomes more dangerous than usual as her blood draws in ambient infernal or eldritch energy from her surroundings, giving her an arcane adrenaline boost. This may augment her physical or mental capabilities or exhibit itself in a temporary arcane power.
	+ ***Infernal Majesty:*** Ilsa's innate power allows her to issue commands which demons are inclined to follow. Even archdemons are more receptive to her.
	+ ***Resistance to Infernal Magic:*** As Ilsa has the blood of Azazel, infernal magic has a diminished effect on her.
	+ ***Sensitivity to Infernal Energy:*** Ilsa can identify infernal energy and sorcery. She can also sense trace amounts of infernal energy in his vicinity. This ability allows Ilsa to recognize other grigori, both by sight and the residual signals left behind at a location where they used their powers.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Ilsa has the ability to pierce the veil with his basic senses, allowing them to see and interact with ghosts or other unseen forces.
* **Infernal Witch Endowments:** Ilsa is a witch, pledged in service to Belphegor.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility:*** Ilsa is much more coordinated and dexterous than most humans. She has a perfect spatial awareness of her body in regards to her environment, with perfect balance and superhuman reflexes as well.
	+ ***Enhanced Resilience:*** Ilsa is more resistant to injury than normal people.
	+ ***Life-Force Absorption:*** Ilsa can drain others of vast amounts of energy (magic, psychic, or other) when engaged in intimate acts such a kissing. More intimate acts can glean more power from the target. She can also view or alter one's memories when engaged in such acts.
	+ ***Longevity:*** Ilsa engages in occult bloodbathing to maintain her youthful vigor and appearance. While this practice continues, the effects of aging are countered.
	+ ***Occult Instinct:*** Ilsa has an innate instinct for the occult and gradually learns new magical rituals and spells over time, in addition to her own studies.
	+ ***Sorcery:*** Ilsa is a very accomplished spellcaster and ritualist.
* **World-Class Assassin:** Ilsa is a regarded as a world-class assassin, specializing in the use of dual-wielded pistols. She is known as the "Gun Witch" due to her pistols that she has prepared with a number of enchantments and her mastery of spells that are designed to make her gunplay all the more unpredictable. In addition to her marksmanship and uncanny gunsmith ability, Ilsa is also a master martial artist and a master of most bladed weaponry. Her sociopathic mentality only makes her all the more deadly.
* **Expert Infiltrator:** Ilsa is master of seduction, disguise, stealth, espionage, and manipulation. She is believed to travel and operate using a number of aliases with forged credentials. She lack of emotions and conscience make her all the more cunning. She can easily feign any emotion she wants and has no guilt to affect her resolve.

### Weaknesses

* **Devoted:** Though Ilsa does not have a emotions, she does have her own deranged sort of love for Grigori Rasputin — possibly as a result of his mesmerizing aura. She had proven she would follow him to Hell and back to fulfill their mutual goals. Of course, this might sour quickly if he were to ever betray her.
* **Owned:** Ilsa is usually allowed to freely operate, but most act when called upon by either Azazel or Belphegor or suffer severe consequences.
* **Vice — Wrath:** "Hell Hath no fury like a woman scorned" is especially true with Ilsa. When upset of stressed, Ilsa reacts violently and without regard for others' safety.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
	+ **TOTAL:** 90
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* She became Johann Kraus's mentor under the alias Anneliese Steiner and introduced him to the world of occult. After some time Johann severed his ties with her, feeling was being aimed toward down a dark path.
* She and her associates took part in raids on Men of Letters.
* Trevor Bruttenholm and Johann Kraus managed to track her in Berlin and Trevor recognized her as Ilsa Haupstein. They tried to catch her, but they were no match for her. Ilsa sent a magical mirror to Johann's wife as revenge. The mirror trapped her in a pocket dimension.

### Personal Quirks

* Ilsa is a psychopathic sociopath. She has no conscience and appears emotionless.

### Notes

* Ilsa Haupstein is a character from the *Hellboy* series and its related media.
* Her appearance is based on the actress Bridget Hodson, who portrayed her in the del Toro *Hellboy* 2004 film.
* She's a composite character with Anneliese Steiner the mentor of Johann Kraus, Ingrid Weiss who is the archenemy of Tom Strong, and Fausta Grables from the *Wonder Woman* 1979 TV series, who went under the alias of Eloise Livington.
* Her husband Kurt Steiner was a Schutzstaffel officer in charge of the Fortress Regensdorf, in which prisoners of war were kept during WWII in the *Unknown Soldier* comic book series.
* Her son Albrecht Strong is the bastard son of Tom Strong conceived by artificial methods, he was raised under the nazi ideology by his mother.
* **Fun fact from Roy:** *She was a gymnast in the original comics, however I made her older so she would be the one to have rescued Rasputin's remains, with that came complications from real world athletics. The Olympics didn't have female gymnasts (other than pre-competition "display shows") until 1936 but I liked Ilsa being an Olympic athlete so I had to look at what females did compete in. My options were figure skating and swimming. I chose figure skating as I felt that could be used with her lack of emotions to be nicknamed "Ice Princess" and I felt that was transfer well to giving her some flashy acrobatic gunplay and martial arts moves.*

## Gallery

Ilsa Haupstein.jpgIlsa HaupsteinSponsorship Needed - Female.pngIlsa Haupstein (Variant)
## Network Files

Network Files Ilsa Haupstein 1.pngNetwork Files: Ilsa Haupstein 1

## Links and References

* Appearances of Ilsa Haupstein

1. ↑ Network Files: Ilsa Haupstein 1
2. ↑ Network Files: Johann Kraus