History Characters / FireEmblemHeroesVanaheimr

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:He turned Heiðr into a monster so that Seiðr would have no choice but to put her down before she does any real damage. Unfortunately, this was exactly what was necessary for him to enact his plan to turn Seiðr into Gullveig and use her power for his own goals]].

* PosthumousVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Technically, in the future, Njörðr won due to his plan of destroying the realm of Midgard succeeding by unleashing Gullveig onto the world. Even if the King of Light isn't alive to see the fruits of his labor, he still wins due how the Golden Seer is unstoppable, and drives humanity to extinction]].

* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Book VII, Chapter 10 ends with Njörðr's death at the hands of his own creation before the Order of Heroes could face him in battle]].

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* PalmtreePanic: Vanaheimr of the past has a much more vibrant, green color scheme that makes the deserts of the realm look more like a beach. Additionally, the area near a cave where the Summoner is nursed back to health has cliffs covering what looks to be a riverside.

* AdvertisedExtra: She's featured prominently in the Book VII key art, and was name dropped in the Book VII Feh Channel in December 2022, which gives off the indication that she would play a vital role in the story. [[spoiler:In reality, her role in the story is very minor; while she is the daughter of the Golden Seer, Heiðr only had a few moments of screentime before being killed off after being turned into a monster. Additionally, while Njörðr was the one who set up the whole thing in the first place, [[TheUnfought he gets killed off before he gets to fully enact his plans]], meaning Heiðr's death was mostly in vain]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:He wishes to destroy the world out of spite by using Gullveig as his tool of destruction. Gullveig obeys, but not before killing him first. In the end, Njörðr's plan succeeds, but at the cost of his own life.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: If her epithet wasn't enough of a giveaway, it's extremely difficult to talk about Kvasir without mentioning her future self's identity. [[spoiler:Or rather identities]].

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Subverted. While he is the one responsible for the birth of the Golden Seer, Gullveig does him in immediately after summoning her and the story continues with Gullveig as the true ArcVillain.]]

* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:Finds this out the hard way, when Gullveig erases him from existence in Chapter 10 immediately after summoning her. Considering he was the one who orchestrated Seiðr turning into Gullveig in the first place, Gullveig's rage is not unjust]].

* 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, in fact, save for the few instances you can count on one hand).

* NoSenseOfDirection: Much to her own irritation, [[spoiler:this is one aspect of her past self as Seiðr that she hasn't left behind.]]

* SecretArt: She has Light is Time exclusive to her, which is a 5 cooldown Special that boosts her attack equal to 60% of the foe's Atk when it triggers, allows her to ignore skills that inflict -X special buildup on her, and once per turn she gives the ally with the highest HP within 2 spaces of her that has already acted another action and inflicts [Gravity] to that ally and any of those ally's Paired-Up ally if they wield a ranged weapon, and grants herself [Time's Gate][[note]]allies within 4 spaces of the user can warp to an adjacent space of the user[[/note]] otherwise when it triggers when she initiates combat.

* LoveConfession: In Mythic Gullveig's level 40 confession, she says outright that across all three iterations of herself, she loves the Summoner.

* 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 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.]]

* WhenSheSmiles: [[spoiler:Before and after she's killed and brought to Seiðr's spirit realm, she's finally smiling.]]

* OrcusOnHerThrone: Similarly to Hel in Book III, despite being able to easily defeat the Heroes with the snap of a finger, Gullveig doesn't actively try to stop the Order of Heroes after she destroys the world in many previous cycles. When she ''does'' appear before the Seiðr and the Askr trio, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain every action she does ends up helping the Heroes instead.]] The first point is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] however in that [[spoiler:killing them too soon would only end the cycle by her own hand right then and there when she is trying to break Seiðr into becoming this cycle's version of her.]] The second point might be a possible subversion however. See NiceJobFixingItVillain above.

* OrcusOnHerThrone: Similarly to Hel in Book III, despite being able to easily defeat the Heroes with the snap of a finger, Gullveig doesn't actively try to stop the Order of Heroes after she destroys the world in many previous cycles. When she ''does'' appear before the Seiðr and the Askr trio, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain every action she does ends up helping the Heroes instead.]]

* 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 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.

* 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 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, especially given how Seiðr wished to have a child with the Summoner through some divine ritual (which Gullveig fulfills to bring Heiðr into the world).]]

* PromotedToPlayable: She placed 1st in the women's division of the seventh Choose Your Legends poll, earning her a playable Brave variant.

** 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 [Incite][[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.

** If her conversation with the Summoner in Chapter 1 is any indication however, it is possible that [[spoiler: she knew what she was doing would sabotage her cycle and did so on purpose. She personally asks the Summoner to find a way to break the cycle and kill her.]]

** Her regular version's eponymous weapon Gullveig reduces damage taken from the foe's first attack by 60% during combat if she initiates combat and she is faster than her foe.

* RedemptionPromotion: Her playable regular version not only has 2 Atk/Spd and 1 Def over her enemy version, but she also has access to Quietus Gullveig, which has the same effect of Gullveig with the additional effect of granting her Atk/Spd during combat equal to 15% of her Spd at the start of combat if either she initiates combat or the foe is at 75% HP or above at the start of combat, as well as having Time is Light.

A ruthless yet mysterious vanir who has power over all time. She seeks to bring the mortal realm of Midgard to destruction.

* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Her Brave variant's Gold Unwinding inflicts -5 Spd/Res on the foe during combat.

* ExtraTurn: Her regular version's eponymous weapon Gullveig and Brave variant's Gold Unwinding allows her to act again after combat if she initiates combat, but inflicts [Gravity] on her and any paired-up ally and can only be activated again two turns later.

** Regular Gullveig has fantastic Atk and Spd, but below average HP, bad Def and poor Res.

** Her regular version's eponymous weapon Gullveig gives her +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat if either she initiates combat or the foe is at 75% HP or above at the start of combat.

* TerrainSculpting: Her Brave variant's Flared Sparrow, in addition to inflicting 7 damage to the foe at the start of combat and grants her +7 Atk/Spd during combat, also places [Divine Vein (Flame)] on the foe's spaces and two spaces to either the left and right or up and down of the foe depending on where she initiated from compared to the foe, where it makes movement through it difficult for ranged foes and negates [Acrobat] on the foe, and inflicts 7 damage to the foe at the start of combat and start of the foe's turn if they are on the [Divine Vein (Flame)] tile.

The vanir goddess of light, she lives alone in a ravine. She nursed the Summoner back to health after complications from escaping to the past from the Golden Seer Gullveig.

* DamageReduction: Her eponymous weapon 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, fantastic Atk and average HP, but below average Res and poor Def. 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.

* TheStoic: This is Gullveig's default expression, as nothing she does nor encounters during Book VII fazes her in the slightest. [[spoiler:The only instance she ''slightly'' emotes however is [[ItsPersonal right before she kills Njörðr]]]].

* BatmanGambit: She has been pulling one on [[spoiler:Njörðr]] from the start to ensure [[spoiler:he will always play a hand in her creation in every timeline]].
** First, [[spoiler:as Kvasir, she deliberately scares Njörðr in the distant past by telling him whom she is (or rather, who she ''will become'' in the far future) to ensure her present self (Seiðr) will become the Golden Curse's vessel]].
** And second, [[spoiler:near the end of the timeline, Gullveig sends a recently born Heiðr back in time to befriend and be raised alongside Seiðr while also falling into Njörðr's hands, which sets in stone the circumstances in which grief will consume her present self, pass down Heiðr's curse, and thus turn her into Gullveig]].

* OhCrap: As soon as he realizes that [[spoiler:he's about to become Gullveig's first victim]], the look on his face quickly turns into horror as [[spoiler:he's completely annihilated without a trace]]. There's even a CG image of it.

** And second, [[spoiler:near the end of the timeline, Gullveig sends a recently born Heiðr back in time to befriend and be raised alongside Seiðr while also falling into Njörðr's hands, which sets im stone the circumstances in which grief will consume her present self, pass down Heiðr's curse, and thus turn her into Gullveig]].

%% * FinalBoss: She is the last enemy faced in Book VII.