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!!Vanaheimr, the Realm of Light

[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Star of Vanaheimr]]

* EvolutionPowerUp: It appears that as Vanir gods [[spoiler:age, they take on different names, similar to Pokemon]].
** [[spoiler: Kvasir becomes to Seiðr and eventually becomes Gullvieg.]]
** [[spoiler: Eitr is revealed to be a younger Freyja]]

** As a Beast Cavalier, her weapons, including her Horn of the Land, has the standard effect of denying any of the foe's follow-up attacks if she initiates combat and is transformed.
** Her Horn of the Land allows her to ignore skills that guarantee her foe's follow-up attacks and denies any of her follow-up attacks if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.

* CooldownManipulation: Her Horn of the Land grants her -1 maximum special cooldown, as well as grant her +1 special buildup per attack if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.

* DamageReduction: Her Fruit of Life reduces damage taken from the foe's first attack by 40% if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.

* LightIsGood: Nerþuz is a Mythic Hero of Light, and she helps the Order of Heroes on their quest to defeat Gullveig.
* LightningBruiser: She has outstanding Spd at 47, fantastic Atk at 42, and average HP at 40 and Def at 30, but low Res at 20.

** Her Horn of the Land allows her to ignore skills that guarantee her foe's follow-up attacks and denies any of her follow-up attacks if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.
** Her Fruit of Life she ignores skills that inflict -X special buildup per attack on her if there is at most 1 ally adjacent to her and she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.
** Her Atk/Spd Clash 4, in addition to granting her Atk/Spd during combat, also has her ignore any field stat debuffs on her Atk/Spd during combat if the initiator moved at least 2 spaces before combat.

** Her Horn of the Land gives her +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat and additional +2 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat for each point of value she has on her maximum special cooldown if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat. She also has Atk/Spd Clash 4, where it gives him +6 Atk/Spd during combat if she or her foe initiated combat and moved from a different space, and additional +1 Atk/Spd during combat for each space moved, up to +4 additional Atk/Spd during combat, and Atk/Spd Alarm, where she gains +6 Atk/Spd and [Canto (1)] if she is adjacent to 2 or less allies at the start of her turn and +3 Atk/Spd during combat if there is at most 1 ally adjacent to her.

* ActionInitiative: Her eponymous weapon Seiðr grants the [Prevent Follow-Up] status effect to herself and all allies within 2 spaces of her if she is within 2 spaces of an ally at the start of her turn, and allows her to perform a guaranteed follow-up attack if she either initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally.

* DamageIncreasingDebuff: She has Chill Atk/Res 3, which inflicts -6 Atk/Res on the foes with the highest Atk+Res sum and all foes within 2 spaces of those foes at the start of her turn.

* HerdHittingAttack: Or debuff in this case, but her Chill Atk/Res 3 inflicts -6 Atk/Res on the foes with the highest Atk+Res sum and all foes within 2 spaces of those foes at the start of her turn.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: As a Cavalry unit, Seiðr rides on a white goat in battle, as opposed to the standard horse.

* MagicStaff: Her eponymous weapon Seiðr is a staff that allows her to summon a rain of rainbow light beams on her enemy. Said weapon gives her -1 maximum special cooldown, grants the [Prevent Follow-Up] status effect to herself and all allies within 2 spaces of her if she is within 2 spaces of an ally at the start of her turn, and gives her +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat, allows her to perform a guaranteed follow-up attack, and deal true damage equal to 20% of her Res when she attacks, including with AOE specials, all which activates if she either initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally.

* SecretArt: She has Future-Focused exclusive to her, which at the start of the enemy's turn, after activating their start of turn skills, if the nearest foes in cardinal directions of her have either at least equal Res or 3 or more Res than the foe for each space between her and that foe, they immediately end their turn and are unable to act.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Her eponymous weapon Seiðr allows her to deal true damage equal to 20% of her Res, so the more Res she has the more true damage she will deal. With her going up to 52 Res with her Still Water 4 and Seiðr active by default, this means that she will deal 10 true damage per attack.
* SquishyWizard: She has fantastic Atk at 43 and Res at 40, and average HP at 39 and Spd at 30, but she has poor Def at 17, which is further amplified with her default Still Water 4, which gives her +7 Atk/Res but inflicts -5 Def.

** Her eponymous weapon Seiðr grants the [Prevent Follow-Up] status effect to herself and all allies within 2 spaces of her if she is within 2 spaces of an ally at the start of her turn, and gives her +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat if she either initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The Book VII teasers at a handful of points show Gullveig [[SmugSmiler smiling sinisterly]], [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace getting touchy-feely]] with [[VillainousFaceHold the Summoner]] and later [[spoiler:[[MyFutureSelfAndMe Kvasir]]]] in a creepy way bordering on intimate caressing in [[FoeRomanceSubtext the Summoner's case]] [[spoiler: (arguably made worse by the fact that, through some unseen ritual her present self Seiðr mentioned, [[ItMakesSenseInContext she mothers Heidr from the Summoner somehow]]) and then made]] ''[[spoiler:even worse]]'' [[spoiler:somehow after the confirmation that she does indeed [[VillainousCrush carry a torch for the Summoner]]]], and even scowling once when Seidr foils her attempt to murder Alfonse and the Summoner. Nowhere in the game proper does Gullveig remotely emote in any way that the teasers had shown her to do (she almost never emotes at all, in fact, save for a few instances you can count on one hand).

** Second, [[spoiler:she kills Njörðr in Chapter 10. Doing so broke the seal around his treasure vault and allowed Nerþuz to retrieve the Aurr, giving the Order of Heroes the MacGuffin needed to finally defeat her]].

* CooldownManipulation: Her eponymous weapon Kvasir gives her -1 maximum special cooldown, as well as grant her +1 special buildup per attack during combat if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Her Incipit Kvasir allows her to reduce the foe's Spd/Res during combat equal to 15% of her Spd at the start of combat if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat. She also has Lull Spd/Res 4, which inflicts -4 Spd/Res on the foe during combat, as well as a further -1 Spd/Res during combat for each [Bonus] effect active on the foe, and ignore any of the foe's field stat buffs on their Spd/Res during combat.
* DamageReduction: Her eponymous weapon (Incipit) Kvasir allows her to reduce damage taken from the foe's first attacks by 70%, including both attacks of weapons that attack twice in one round, once per player and enemy phase during combat if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.

* GlassCannon: She has outstanding Spd at 47, fantastic Atk at 44 and average HP at 40, but below average Res at 27 and poor Def 17. However, it is downplayed with her eponymous weapon giving DamageReduction from the foe's first attacks, including both attacks of weapons that attack twice in one round.

* HonestAxe: She shows the Summoner two Breidabliks, one of them which is shiny and one that is not, invoking this. She does not want the Summoner to lie to her. [[spoiler:Book VII, Chapter 11 ends with the Order of Heroes noticing Breidablik looks sparklier than usual, implying that the Summoner lied and took the shiny Breidablik, revealed to have been blessed by Nerþuz in a previous cycle with the power of her Aurr]].

* NoSell: Her eponymous weapon Kvasir allows her to ignore skills that guarantee the foe's follow-up attacks and deny any of her follow-up attacks if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat.

* RedemptionPromotion: Her playable version has not only 3 more Atk and 1 Spd/Res over her enemy variant, but she also has access to Incipit Kvasir, which has the same effect as Kvasir with the additional effect of reducing the foe's Spd/Res equal to 15% of her Spd at the start of combat, as well as having Light Is Time.

** She has (Incipit) Kvasir, which gives her +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat if she is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat. She also has Def/Res Catch 4, where she gains +7 Atk/Spd during combat if the foe either is inflicted with a [Penalty] or is at full HP at the start of combat, and grants an additional +2 Def/Res if both conditions are active on the foe during combat, and Incite Atk/Spd, which gives her +6 Atk/Spd and [Incited][[note]]grants +1 Atk/Spd/Def/Res for each space the user moved before combat when the user initiates combat, up to +3 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat[[/note]] at the start of her turn if there is at most 2 allies adjacent to her, and gives her +3 Atk/Spd during combat if there is at most 1 ally adjacent to her.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The Book VII teasers at a handful of points show Gullveig [[SmugSmiler smiling sinisterly]], [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace getting touchy-feely]] with [[VillainousFaceHold the Summoner]] and later [[spoiler:[[MyFutureSelfAndMe Kvasir]]]] in a creepy way bordering on intimate caressing in [[FoeRomanceSubtext the Summoner's case]] [[spoiler: (arguably made worse by the fact that, through some unseen ritual her present self Seiðr mentioned, [[ItMakesSenseInContext she mothers Heidr from the Summoner somehow]])]], and even scowling once when Seidr foils her attempt to murder Alfonse and the Summoner. Nowhere in the game proper does Gullveig remotely emote in any way that the teasers had shown her to do (she almost never emotes at all, in fact, save for a few instances you can count on one hand).

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Insofar as the teasers are concerned, Gullveig has some inexplicable inability to keep her hands to herself, getting far too close to the Summoner and Kvasir before holding their faces with a smile ([[FoeRomanceSubtext sensually in the Summoner's case]] and [[VillainousFaceHold eyeing Kvasir like a prize she just won]]). [[spoiler:In the latter case, it is her child self from the distant past whom she plans to groom into becoming her in the future, and in the Summoner's case, both her distant past self Kvasir and her present self Seiðr develop some sort of attraction towards the Summoner which she may be acting on in the moment.]]

* TheStoic: This is Gullveig's default expression, as nothing she does nor encounters during Book VII fazes her in the slightest. [[spoiler:The only instances she ''slightly'' emotes however is [[ItsPersonal right before she kills Njörðr]], and when talking with Seiðr in the ending after she is defeated]].

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:After losing her beloved Heiðr due to turning into an orochi from her curse, only to learn that she was tricked by Njörðr into becoming the Gullveig, the once-idealistic Seiðr lost all hope of changing her future and became nothing more than the apocalyptic weapon the King of Light wanted her to be, even after she kills him for what he put her through]].

* TheFatalist: [[spoiler:Given that she is Gullveig reborn and knowing she is destined to become Gullveig in the future, she does nothing but do what is needed to become her future self. Due to how she is a broken Seiðr who was betrayed by Njörðr to become the Golden Seer against her own will, she retains her memories as both Seiðr and Gullveig, thus having lost any hope of breaking the endless cycle]].

[[caption-width-right:350:God of the Land]]

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[[caption-width-right:267:Goddess of Hope]]

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[[caption-width-right:249:Seer of the Past]]

* MortalityPhobia: [[spoiler:As Gullveig herself states before killing him, his ultimate fear is witnessing his youth and power fade away with the ages. So she'll end him here and now before he can fully waste away]].

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gullveig ends up killing him herself as her first onscreen kill outside of the BadFuture, then tells Seiðr that, as her past self, Seiðr wanted to do the same to him. Seiðr notably has nothing to say to refute that]].

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Book VII, Chapter 9 sets him up to be true villain of Book VII, only for him to die anticlimatically at the hands of Gullveig as soon as he summons him in Chapter 10]].
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Njörðr is a cunning and manipulative king, and he uses such intellect to trick Seiðr and the Order of Heroes into aiding in his evil plan to turn the former into Golden Seer, revealing his true colors at the end of Book VII, Chapter 9]].
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:He orchestrated Seiðr to become Gullveig in the future, but the moment the latter turns on him and targets him first, he's quick to plead for his life before she erases him from existence without hesitation]].
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Book VII, Chapter 9 reveals that he is the one responsible for turning Seiðr into Gullveig, as part of his plans to bring destruction to all]].
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:Finds this out the hard way, when Gullveig ages him into dust in Chapter 10 immediately after summoning her. It's a testament to his arrogance that he gloated about orchestrating Seiðr turning into Gullveig in the first place, and yet never anticipated that Gullveig would want to exact revenge on him for that scheme]].

** Nerþuz refuses to return the Ár to her brother Njörðr, saying he must not have it. Additionally, she remarks that if her brother finds them, they will be in big trouble. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Nerþuz was right on the mark: Njörðr's intentions are not good, and he seeks to bring despair and destruction by turning Seiðr into Gullveig]].

* HumansAreInsects: [[spoiler:Njörðr looks down upon mortals in disgust, thinking they are inferior to the gods. This is also the entire reason why he wants to bring destruction to all of time: according to him, while the gods are slowly dying out, mortals constantly reproduce and multiply]].

* MandatoryMotherhood: [[spoiler:Njörðr orders Seiðr to create a baby with the Summoner, a situation she herself isn't exactly thrilled to follow but must fulfill regardless. Said baby was needed to trick Seiðr into becoming the very person she fought to avoid becoming]].