Character · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Hekla

An Icelandic woman in a Valkyrie helmet with a repeating crossbow that shoots firebolts, whom the show dresses as a shieldmaiden and who gathers an all-female party, Brynhild's Daughters. Seen only on screen in the first book.

Segment appearances

Arc

Level 33, nine inches taller than Carl, an iron handshake, Eva's former psychiatrist. She farms mobs through train doors (ch. 4), names a move the Donut Kick (ch. 5), warns Katia that Carl is crazy (ch. 14), and arrives in the Royal Palace with thirty Daughters to collect her lamb and borrow her as a cowcatcher (ch. 21). On the ride she shoots Katia twice with phased bolts, Enraged and grinning through gore — 'There are many wonders in a cow's head' (ch. 22) — and afterwards lights a cigarette: 'It was a stupid risk' (ch. 23). Katia's Rush kills her against the wall of the car (ch. 23); Donut raises her corpse to hold the door (ch. 24). The recap makes her a tribute — a husband left to the rats, a rib bone through a rat's eye (ch. 25) — and Carl works out the plan she was running: Katia dead, Carl goaded into attacking a healer and killed for it, Donut and Mordecai with nowhere else to go (ch. 24). Her sponsor was a crab ranch (epilogue).