Gyda

Personality
Gyda is a one track mind sort of woman with a fierceness typical of any Vanir. If she's hungry, she eats. If she's thirsty, she drinks. If she's angry, she fights... so on and so forth. While her ferocity and want for blood makes up a large part of her demeanor, the flipside of it is in the company of friends she has an infectious kind of boisterousness and is happy to draw others into a celebratory state. "Good food, good drink, good gods let's eat!"

Notable Quirks
Taking a mace to the face in her younger years, Gyda has suffered some lasting nerve damage to the left side of her face (as well as lost a few molars back there). This has left the lower left side of her face partially paralyzed causing her to speak out of the right side of her mouth as well as have a rather lopsided grin.

History
Hailing from the village of Beiskr in one of the northern most parts of Vanaheim and part of the tribe known among the Vanir as the Dýr, Gyda grew up in a life of both violence and celebration. Being so far north, Beiskr was constantly under attack by the Hyperborean population and while they were one of the frontline villages in that war, make no mistake that that the Dýr had no loyalty to the other redheaded warrior tribes that inhabited Vanaheim beyond the duty to protect their ancestral home. Weakness was to be culled and any village found lacking was a target for pillage.

While Gyda's upbringing was largely a matter of axes piercing skulls, life in the village of Beiskr was a merry and fruitful one. A loving family to come home to, good friends to share a mead and the stories of the day and a warm, furs covered bed at night.

Gyda, the middle child of three, grew up following in her mother's footsteps as a village scout and tracker and came to be known by other local villages as the eygðr ǫl-teitr elding ("merry eyes before dawn"), for if one were to spy a pair of luminous green orbs peering toward their village it was only a matter of time before the Dýr came calling... and it was rarely for feasting and merriment.

Musical Inspiration
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