Freyja of Kaedwen

## Freyja Schwartz

Freyja Schwartz of Kaedwen, also known as The She-Wolf of Kaer Morhen, was a female witcher from the School of the Wolf, active during the 13nth century.

## Appearance

Freyja's appearance was remarkably different from the rest of the witchers. Despite having survived the trials and completing her training. Her height was only 4'11 ft even after reaching adulthood, being particularly short. The training caused her to have a lean and muscular built, lacking of feminine curves.

Her skin remained dark even after the experiments she was subjected to. Keeping the dark olive shade she had always had. Her short chestnut hair framed an angular face of peculiar amber, cat-like eyes. And scars adorned not only the body under the armor, but also her nose, lips, cheek, jaw and eyebrow.

## Personality

While polite but cold to strangers, once a relationship develops with someone, depending on the nature of the latter Freyja is usually cheerful and even affectionate. With people she cares for she has proved to be very protective, and will go out of her way when needed by friends or loved ones.

This usually good mood and disposition has its exceptions, and even though most of the time she tries to remain calm and stay away from troubles, Frayja can be rather short tempered and aggressive when someone gets between her and her job, or to be more precisely, her coin. More than one time she had to resort to violence when clients refused to pay her for her services, or any time she encountered bandits on the road who thought it would be easy to rob a small woman.

When in combat, Freyja usually remained calm and cold. Although it was also said that sometimes she would transform under certain circumstances. Not physically, but she would enter into a particularly aggressive and lethal trance if triggered. Like the sight of a loved one in danger or being hurt. Only then blood-lust would overcome her and would continue to fight to kill despite her own wounds and injuries, at least until danger had passed and she could calm down.

Even when Freyja stated to be neutral. On her path she was known to more or less go out of her way to help non-humans. One example was the time she got badly injured by a leshy and a group of elves healed and helped her. In return, Freyja protected them to the extent of killing a childhood friend who was trying to attack the group. This is also an example of how seriously she takes debts. If she had been helped, Freyja would do her best to pay back. This also applied to being wronged or betrayed.

Freyja adopted Geralt's code when it came to kill monsters and avoided killing sentient creatures when possible.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born the middle child of three daughters. Freyja's family was too poor to feed the whole family. Her older and younger sister, in her mother's words, were pretty enough to marry.

When she was eight years old, Freyja was taken by her mother to the forest, where she was sold to a witcher in exchange of a sack of potatoes or oats. Freyja was so terrified by the sight of the witcher that she tried to escape, but was stunned before being able to do anything and woke up already in the cart with the rest of the children.

### Surviving the Trials

Once in Kaer Morhen and when they got all of the boys to take a bath, it was discovered that they had been tricked and that Freyja had been sold passing as a boy.

It was discussed if they should return her to her home, take her as a servant or just kick her out of the fortress. This last option was discarded since winter had already arrived and the road was blocked with snow. Freyja refused to be taken as a servant and demanded to be trained with the rest of the boys. Even though she was laughed at at the beginning, they finally accepted under the warning that she would be treated exactly as the rest of the kids.

The adult witchers kept their word and Freyja started her training the same way as the other boys. They even pressed her more, expecting her to give up and quit, but this didn't happen. Freyja fulfilled the first trials and passed the intense physical training as well as taking the diet.

At first they also refused to perform the full mutations on her, since previous experiments had ended in all girls dying on that stage of the trials. This was subject of discussion for months, and finally Freyja insisted in becoming a full witcher, saying that, mutated or not, she would go out on the path and would take contracts on killing monsters. This would end up killing her almost as surely as the trial of the grasses. Since she had been responding well to the previous dietary changes, as well as the physical training, the mages accepted to perform the mutations on her.

Freyja went through the trials just as the other kids and, surprising everyone, she survived the trial after almost dying, stabilizing a bit later than the rest of the other surviving children. This unprecedented situation caused her to be subjected to further experiments, to which ones she, again, barely survived. Freyja was not stronger than other witchers, even when her strength was superior to almost every human, given her size. But ended up enhancing her smell, as well as her speed and agility above the rest of her brothers.

Through later evaluations it was discovered that Freyja had been born with an a endocrine disorder which likely began to affect her hormonal balance just before pubescence and allowed her to endure the trial of the grasses. She was one of the last full trained witchers of the School of the Wolf along with Lambert, both trained by Vesemir.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Swordsmanship:**
* **Close combat:**
* **Marksmanship:**
* **Witcher strength, reflexes and endurance:**
* **Enhanced smell:**
* **Enhanced speed and agility:**