Rikka

**Rikka** was a female member of the Viking clan responsible for enslaving Mira and several others. She was the wife of Viking Chieftain and mother of their two sons: Eldar, and another more younger son. She and her fellow clansmen, her youngest child included, fought against Spear and Fang as they were freeing their slaves.

## Appearance

Rikka appears as a tall and slender woman, in sharp contrast to most of her fellow Vikings. Her forehead and chin were proportionately large compared to the rest of her face, and she wore her long red hair in a braid, similar to most of her clansmen. She was seen wearing a full outfit of fur and leather - notably including a thick fur cape - as well as a brown headband over her forehead, perpendicular to the stripes of blue war paint adorning her face.

## Personality

Rikka was an extremely hardy individual; she was only briefly shocked upon witnessing the massacre in her village before immediately preparing herself for battle. She was completely willing to attack Fang head-on, showing neither fear nor hesitation even when the dinosaur bit down on her legs. Although she was never shown interacting with her husband, the Chieftain, his reaction to her death implies that they loved each other very much.

## History

Rikka is first seen applying warpaint to her youngest child's face as Spear and Fang kill their way through the Viking's village. She emerges from her home only to lay eyes on Fang surrounded by bear-riders with a Viking in her jaws. She orders her youngest child to fetch his bow and her axe as she contemplates her next move.

Rikka is next seen wielding a large axe, heading straight towards Fang. After staring down the tyrannosaur and exchanging battle cries, she threw her axe into Fang's left thigh; with the dinosaur downed, she ran up, caught a spear thrown to her by another woman, and stabbed her enemy in the snout. However, this proved to be a fatal mistake; as Fang reared up in pain, she managed to bite down on Rikka's legs; despite getting another stab in on the dinosaur, Rikka was helpless to stop Fang from bludgeoning her to death against the ground.

When the Chieftain returned from a raid with his eldest child, Eldar, and discovered the aftermath of the massacre, he immediately began searching for Rikka in a panic, only to find her lifeless body at the centre of the carnage. She was laid to rest on a longboat alongside her youngest child (accidentally killed by Spear) and subsequently incinerated by a flaming arrow fired by her and the Chieftain's surviving child.

## Abilities

* **Strength:** Rikka appeared to be quite strong by the standards of her people, with a large battle axe being her apparent weapon of choice. She was able to throw her axe with enough force to embed it in Fang's leg and briefly down the tyrannosaur.
* **Resilience:** Rikka seemed to be at least somewhat more resilient than her fellow Vikings. Even after Fang bit into her lower body hard enough to make her spit up blood, she still had the strength to stab her assailant in the snout once more before being slammed against the ground; it also took multiple blows before she expired.

## Trivia

* Rikka's name is derived from the Germanic root word *ric*, which translates as "ruler, leader, mighty" and is the basis of several modern names such as Richard, Frederick, Henry and their female derivatives Rica, Frederica, and Henrietta, respectively. Her name relates to her position as the Chieftain's wife and likely as a ruler onto herself.
* She is the only member of her people to utter full sentences in their native language, specifically telling her youngest son to go fetch a bow and quiver as well as her battle axe. In contrast her husband only ever spoke two names, while Eldar only said "Vidarr" and "father" in their language.