Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

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

• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 33 — Phase three

Arc

Dead a floor ago and still a template: Gwen is 'A MINIATURE-SIZED HEKLA' who says her schemes out loud (ch. 20), and Emberus's rampage among other crawlers is 'the same goddamn bait Hekla had used' (ch. 29). Her former Daughters are the reason Katia leaves (ch. 33).