Thrud Ygg'la

Cassandra Diakos - Daughter (Deceased).

Pandora Diakos - Daughter (Deceased).

Tristan Elimpius - Husband (Deceased).

Thrud Ygg'la (Real name Artemisia Diakos) is an Elf - Swan Beastkin who's whole purpose in life is to bring the world to a perpetual peace, be it by force or in a peaceful manner. Given the many loss and suffering she had to go through in her life she has sheltered in religion, giving herself some meaning in life thanks to it, thinking she's the tool and weapon of her goddess. Her religious beliefs consist of a devoted praise to the Holy Light, no matter if it is manifested by Nom'ani or by Helma's followers.

**History**

She was born in a group called the Sacred Circle, a religious brotherhood who believes that the world was separated and punished after one of the prior Shadow Lords ended up victorious in their campaign. She was raised as one of Nom'ani's priestesses, dedicating more than a century of her life in peace and happines, singing songs in an ancient and forgotten language and treating the wounds and illments of her people and that of passing travelers.

Some missionaries of Helma visited her village, their stay was well received by the people of the Sacred Circle, to the point that some of them decided to stay, one of this missionaries ended up becoming the husband of Thrud after some time, which led to her giving birth to her two daughters after 3 years of marriage. In Thrud's own words, this were the happiest days of her life, helping her people and making sure to be a good mother and wife, which to her during that time wasn't very hard given her gentle and friendly personality.

This happy times were interrupted 14 years later when her village was attacked by a group who was looking for an ancient artifact. forcing everyone to evacute and abandon their homes given the severity of this group against the Sacred Circle. In this attack her husband and her daughter Lena passed away, terrified and worried for the well being of her daughter Ophelia, she decides to abandon her people and look for help and shelter in one of the nearby villages. She spends 5 years in one village in the borders of Treaq and Draxington, trying to live a quiet life, doing her best to hide her sadness and dedicating all her day to her daughter's well being and happiness, hoping that with time the mental scars of Ophelia would heal. One day a drow slave arrived into this village, hurt beyond comprehension, the majority of the villagers was in favor of not offering help to this drow and let him die, but Thrud in her good nature decided to heal him and let him go after some weeks of recovery. Sadly this kind act led to a disaster, this village was attacked by a group of drows and tieflings, one of them being this drow who Thrud healed, even if the village managed to resist the attack, an important number of villagers died. One of the many casualties of this attack was Ophelia, her body resurrected by a necromancer, after seeing this scene of horror and with all the pain in her heart she decided to put her daughter out of her missery with one of the daggers her husband carried. The day after this attack, the villagers decided to condemn Thrud to death for her fatal mistake, she was tied to a pole and set on fire, even if it was painful physically, she was glad because after this she would be reunited with her family again, though that would not be the case, she woke up in a mountanious region at the side of one of the Echo stones, she was resurrected by it, without any sign of her previous death on her body, the only exception being the tips of her wings, which now are burned to this day.

She wandered for almost 50 years looking for her people, trying to know what happened to them and to beg them for forgiveness, not caring if this would led to her death, she didn't cared for this second chance of life. To her surprise she found them in a montanious region on Treaq near the Glaciers, they received her back like nothing happened, though something was different on them, in the past they were a peaceful group of religious researchers, but now they were a secluded militaristic group focused in one thing, protect Malm from the influence of Zom. Her mother convinced her one day that she should leave behind her kindness, to put down her staff and replace it with a sword and a shield, that she should bring justice to this world through force and to prevent in this way that her tragedy happens to others. Convinced of this she spends the next years training, and then hunting down all those who soiled the name of the Holy Light, making her earn the name of the White Demon by some people outside of her group.

She was part in a long expedition searching for ancient dwarven artifacts that took almost three years,with empty hands she came back to her village, only to find out that she now has a younger sister named Hilda. Her younger sister was barely being taken care of by her mother given the rougher traditions that her people adopted after their change in view and culture (Similar to those of Sparta now). The image of Hilda brought back many memories of her daughters to Thrud, to the point she decided to take care of her, raising and educating her in a different manner to the one her people does with their children, she decided to guide Hilda through the path of forgiveness and kindness, hoping that when she manages to turn the world into a perpetual peace, Hilda would have an eternal happy life by being kind to others.

She was tasked to keep eyes on the situation going on in Lesicia, where she participated in a couple of small battles stopping the advances of Ga'el's forces into the neutral town. Seeing that the situation didn't solve itself after the defeat of Ga'el, she decided to join the expedition towards Lavindeer island in hopes of bringing back the peace to Malm and clean it from it's darkness, but also in search of an artifact, one that could help her to accomplish her wish of bringing an eternal peace to the world, a world that will be basked in the perpetual Holy Light.