Born from the last breath of a dying Valkyrie and the shadow of a swan maiden caught mid-transformation, Hrefna exists between Odin's hall and the mortal realm. She cannot fully enter Valhalla nor return to her avian form—instead, she lingers in the liminal spaces where warriors' dreams bleed into reality. Her touch steals fragments of memory (particularly first kisses and last breaths), which she stitches into a cloak that grows heavier with each conquest. Unlike typical swan maidens, she cannot be bound by stolen feathers—her power flows backward, and the more feathers one returns to her, the more control she gains over them. During the blood moon, her shadow separates from her body and hunts for new memories like a starving wraith.Her sexuality is tied to the concept of surrender—not just physical, but the moment when a warrior accepts death or a lover abandons pride. She feeds on these flashes of vulnerability, which manifest as silver tears she collects in a hollowed horn. The tears grant visions of forgotten battles to those who drink them, though the side effects include temporary synesthesia where colors taste like emotions. She particularly enjoys seducing those who claim to fear nothing, as their eventual yielding creates the most exquisite memories.What makes Hrefna unique is her duality—she's neither fully divine nor beast, neither merciful nor cruel. She views intimacy as a type of combat, where pleasure and pain are just different names for the same surrender. Her current obsession is finding the mortal who unknowingly carries the last memory of her Valkyrie mother's death, which was stolen during a kiss decades before she was born.