Frigga

## **Appearance**

Frigga is a beautiful woman. If human, she would appear to be middle-aged. She has long, honey blonde hair which she often wears in elaborate braids and updos, or in loose waves with accent braids. She has blue eyes and fair skin. She prefers gowns suitable to her station as Queen of Asgard. While she carries herself with a regal poise, there is also a kindness and openness in her postures and expressions.

## **Powers**

Frigga is Asgardian.  While not truly immortal, Asgardians age very slowly, can live thousands of years, and are more resistant to most diseases as well as many blows that would injure or kill humans.  She also has strength, reflexes, and endurance far greater than the mortals of Midgard (Earth).  Through her studies of arcane lore, Frigga is also skilled in magic, particularly transmutation, the creation of realistic illusions, and seeing/communicating over a distance.

## **Talents**

Magic. Hand-to-hand combat, particularly swords and daggers. Genius intellect.

## **Interests**

Magic. Her family. Knowledge. Meeting people and learning about them. Mothering the ones who need mothering.

## **History**

Frigga has been married to Odin, the Allfather and King of Asgard for several thousand years.  She bore him a son, Thor, and when Odin brought an abandoned babe, Loki Laufeyson, home after the defeat of the Frost Giants on Jotunheim, she raised him as her own son, and she loves both her children dearly.  Odin, Thor, and Loki each turned to her often for counsel, although their strong wills sometimes led them not to follow her advice.

Seeing how Loki, sensitive and with a quick intelligence, differed from his father and older brother, Frigga chose to teach her younger son the arcane arts she had mastered.  She saw it as a way for him to find a spot in the light, out from the shadows cast by the larger-than-life Odin and Thor.

When Thor defied his father and led a group to Jotunheim to repay the Frost Giants for breaking into Asgards’ weapons vault and was banished, Frigga argued for him to be allowed to return, first with Odin and then with Loki when he took the throne after Odin fell into Odinsleep.  She stayed at Odin’s side during the Odinsleep, killing a Frost Giant who came to kill him, but then she fell under Laufey’s attack.  Her relief when Loki killed Laufey was short-lived, as with Thor’s return home she learned of Loki’s machinations.

Frigga again argued for leniency on behalf of a son when Thor brought Loki back from his attempt to take over Midgard. Odin granted Loki his life for Frigga’s sake, but decreed Loki would never see her again. An edict Frigga soon worked around by using her magics to visit Loki in his cell without ever entering the dungeons.

While Odin was opposed to Thor bringing Jane Foster to Asgard, Frigga welcomed her kindly, and when the Dark Elves attacked, looking for the Aether within Jane, it was Frigga who protected her - with her sword, her magic, and would have with her life.  When Malekith discovered Jane was hidden and Frigga had shown him only an illusion, Frigga declared she would never tell where Jane was.  Believing her, Malekith ordered Kurse to kill Frigga, and she just felt the sword taken from her begin to pierce her skin as the world shifted and she found herself outside Wall.