Solveig

Sif and Kari (Sisters, NPCs)

Solveig was a silver-furred she-wolf with frosty blue eyes. She was born in Havir, where she grew up at the same time as Faust. When he was banished from the pack, she tracked him down and joined him in Vale; when Renier overthrew him, she tried to take out the usurper, only to be grievously injured in the process. She recovered away from the Domain, and returned when Faust reclaimed his title. She left with the Valerians when Loki led them to a new territory, and has not returned to the Domain since. Solveig was created and RP'd by LunarShadowCreations.

## Personality

* ***Moral, Loyal, and Dutiful.*** Solveig is a wolf of principle, who prides herself on being moral and loyal to her pack. Her efforts are all devoted to the greater good of the pack, though she has stumbled at times. She is dutiful and an active member of Vale, never wasting her time lazing around.
* ***Maternal, Patient, and Intelligent.*** Willing to sacrifice her needs for the needs of the pack, Solveig is very maternal**,** as well as being patient and fairly intelligent in both the needs of her pack and the needs of a stable leadership as a whole.
* ***Defensive, Straightforward, and Cautious.*** Solveig does have a tendency to get defensive around wolves she has just met. She is very poor at keeping her thoughts and opinions a secret, and is typically quite blunt and straightforward. She can be a bit too cautious at times, hesitating to act until it's nearly too late, but this caution isn't always a bad thing.
* ***Untrusting of Strangers, Uncertain and Indecisive.*** Solveig is incredibly untrusting of strangers. Around strangers, she is hostile and often intolerant. She is still incredibly uncertain and doesn't know if the decisions she is making are the right ones, causing her to be mildly indecisive. While she'd die for her pack mates, she views outsiders as possible Reniers and Alars. She does tend to put too much pressure on herself, believing that she is important, that she was fated to do this, and is desperate to cling to her rule as well as possible, since it was bestowed upon her.

## Pre-Group History

An extensive pre-group history was written for Solveig, as she was an alpha tryout - for the full thing, read this. Note that she did not join the group until after Faust had reclaimed Vale, so this information is retconned with permission from Tazihound.

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Bergljot of Havir was expecting her mate Viggo's pups, but she grew very sick and the pups were delivered prematurely. All three appeared to be stillborn, but one is actually alive. They named the deceased pups Kari and Sif, and the living one, Solveig. Because she was believed to be dead, but returned, the pack's healers believed that she her spirit was either *too impure* to be kept by the gods, or *so pure* that she was sent to guide the living. After all, in Havir, the belief was that wolves who died as pups had the purest spirits of all.

Bergljot and Viggo tried to shelter their daughter from the rumors that surrounded her, and they simply told her that she was special, and was bound to have a special future. Solveig was excited that she was fated to do important things!

Solveig pursued being a Hunt Master for the pack, and was raised with great faith in the gods. She was a friend of Faust's, after the pair fought off a bear together. She felt a great deal of respect for the pack's higher-ranking wolves, particularly Faust and Saurugol, and the slightly older Hunt Master, Ira, who she emulated.

But as time passed, and nothing *special* happened to Solveig, she began to doubt her faith in the gods. She decided that the gods must not actually have had anything special planned for her, and she began to question what interest they took in the living, if any. She believed they existed, but in what capacity...*that* was the question.

When Faust was exiled for his lack of faith, Viggo and Bergljot spoke to their daughter about her questions, and decided the best thing for her to do would be to leave Havir, so that she would not be ousted for her questioning faith here in Havir. She said a tearful goodbye to her parents, and set out to find Faust. He had set up a pack of his own - Vale - and she was welcomed by her old friend. She served the pack well until Faust was usurped by Renier, an ambitious loner. Solveig vowed to get revenge and kill Renier.

She tried, within the first few nights of his rule, to track him down alone and kill him. Tragically, he was rarely alone, and when she was spotted, one of his hired thugs shattered a rear leg and sent her falling over a cliff.

When she awoke, in excruciating pain, Solveig was being tended to by a lone wolf named Agatha. Agatha was tending to her wounds, and offered to care for Solveig until she was fully recovered. The recovery process was agonizingly slow. When Solveig finally was in good enough shape to part ways with the healer, she realized she'd never be able to cast Renier out without backup. She decided to get her backup from Havir, and she determinedly began to make her way towards her old home.

She was within a few miles of Havir's borders when she saw the flash of fire that consumed the territory. With horror, Solveig watched from a distance as Havir burned. She didn't know what to do, and found herself lingering between Havir and Vale, uncertain of what to do. She was absolutely astonished when a group of Havirian refugees, led by *Faust himself*, padded slowly out of the darkness.

Solveig spoke to Faust, filled with overwhelming joy to see her old friend *alive*, and he told her that he planned to take back his pack. Solveig asked to join him, and, naturally, he agreed. She helped Faust and the Havirians to restore the former alpha to his rightful throne. He had four pups: Gabriel, Charlotte, Nikolai, and Elisabet.

Solveig finally found herself comfortably in the pack. She had been away for so long, she feared her packmates would have forgotten her, and some of them had - but old familiar faces were glad to see her. She was relieved to see that Faust's bloodline was strong, and Vale would be ruled by his noble bloodline forevermore - blessed in the eyes of whatever gods might have been watching.

## Group History

Solveig settled into the pack, often eager to entertain Faust's pups and, more importantly, help her packmates to hunt. She and a higher-ranking Huntsman, Quinn, often led hunts, bringing several of their packmates with them to bring down large game, such as Elisabet, Gareth, Lycan, and Venus.

Still, when Faust left, Solveig was devastated. She wanted to go with him, but Faust took her aside and told her to pledge herself to Loki, and more importantly, to *Vale.* His bloodline was not what made Vale special, but the morals and respectability of the pack as a whole. It killed her, but she let Faust and Ira leave...and shortly thereafter, their sons Gabriel and Nikolai.

When Loki decided to lead the pack out of the Domain, to better hunting grounds, Solveig went with him...but she couldn't stop herself from looking back, and wondering...should she really leave the Domain forever? Or find Faust or his sons? No...she was given orders. She would remain with Vale until the day she died.

And so, she hasn't been seen since.

## Trivia

* Solveig has a scar on her rear leg from where an enemy snapped the bone.
	+ When the weather turns, or she's been walking for a while, Solveig's leg will begin to feel sore and stiff. This is because it had broken, and although healed, if worked too hard, it can grow to feel tender. She tells nobody about the soreness and hides her limp very well.
* She knows next to nothing about Shenandoah, save that she was manipulated by Alar, and really wants to find Shen and make her life better.
* When Faust's sons left Vale, Solveig desperately wanted to find them and bring them home. However, Faust's words to her, about loyalty to the pack over loyalty to his bloodline alone, discouraged her from abandoning Vale to find them. Still, she prayed that Nikolai and Gabriel would one day return.

## Quotes

* “Faust, it has been many seasons since I left Havir. I don’t know if you ever were told of the circumstances of my birth…but there were mutterings of my fate by the healers. I would either be a scourge upon the lands, a soul so dark the gods would never take me to Paradise, or I would become an alpha, an earthbound ‘god’, like AdeSaurugol. I want you to know that I don’t believe in the Havirian gods...or rather, I don’t believe they have any interest in the living. I don’t believe in preordained fate. And I will never make any attempt to take the leadership of Vale from you, or from Gabriel, or any of your pups. I am content as a Huntsman. And I am honored to serve you and your family, Faust.” (to Faust, *Solveig's History*)

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