Among living and dead

When making characters, the key thing is to make them come to life. If you
don’t know them well enough, you can’t write them well enough.

Be warned that the characters profile are likely to contain spoilers.

Profiles

• Alexis Falk–a teenager struggling to differentiate between hallucinations and ghosts
• Bóthildr Gudhleksdotter–a maiden seeking retribution in war
• Helga Yngvesdotter–an orphan seeking power
  against the religious fanatics who slayed her father
• Katja Bradley–a fashion designer whose love drove her into servitude as a
  Valkyria
• Linda Wijk–mathematically inclined student has to
  overcome her fear of snakes, or forever lose the woman she loves
• Runfrid Hildrisdotter–a grieving widow struggling with mental wounds, the pressure of honour, and a scheming brother-in-law intent on marrying her
• Satinder Singh–a trans person whose pain awakens the ghosts of a killer
  and her child-victims (originally named Mio Singh)
• Vanja Hulth–a trans person looking for themselves
  and finding a curse of damnation hidden in the sweet sound of a fiddle
• Yngve Jarl–a trans boy whose summer fling will change his world

Later additions

1. Malbrecht mac Coluim–a warrior lost in time and place who failed to save his
   charge once, but this time it’s his love on the line
2. Belinda Eriksson–a traumatised seer whose abilities can only blossom if she
   overrules her mind’s view of the truth