Character bio: Edda the Norse Witch art by Duncan Meredyth

To the vampires of the Old world she is known as the Witch of the North and follower of the Old Ways. None can remember a time before her and most of the undead of Europe can trace their blood back to her, Edda, mother to them all.

Her exact origins are unknown but she first emerged on the Swedish island of Gotland and when asked will call of the Gutes of Gotland the people of her birth. Gutes had lived on this island near to the Scandinavian mainland since prehistory and the settlement of Ajvide was her home in the earliest years of her death.

To those vampires she spawned she was Gaia, their mother and font of all knowledge from the Oldest times. To the mortals around her she was a witch and Valkyrie who heralded the souls of the fallen warriors into Valhol. They said she skulked across the blood soaked battlefields drawing those souls worthy enough to serve Odin One Eye at the time of Ragnarok and with her came murders of crows and the smell of death.

To all she is feared, feared for her strength, her magical power and Sight as well as her close connection to Gods of the Underworld. But like all vampires she still craves more, more knowledge and more power, lest it fall into another's hands.