The Daughters

Brynhild's Daughters

Hekla's ~30-strong all-women crawler team, revealed in full as Brynhild's Daughters, who recruit the party for the Vermillion rescue.

Story so far

Brynhild's Daughters are the all-women crawler team led by the Shieldmaiden Hekla — around thirty crawlers of mixed races, averaging level 25, Katia Grim's former party. They appear in person for the first time, entering the Royal Palace of Princess Donut through Katia's whitelisted space after riding the employee portal (member Sadie using her Glass Prison spell to bypass a Kravyad, then hiking up via station 60). Their deep, diverse pool of spells and skills is their strength; their enforcer is the thirteen-skull killer Eva Sigrid.

Hekla proposes the team and the Royal Court jointly rescue a thousand crawlers trapped at station 101 on the Vermillion line — a plan that hinges on Carl's engineering and Katia's mass-tank body. Carl partners with them warily, alert to Hekla's designs on Princess Donut.

Appearance

About thirty women crawlers of varied races — humans, fairies, a cobra-headed nagini — armed and organized under a towering shieldmaiden leader.

Role

An allied/rival all-women crawler faction, co-leading the Vermillion-line rescue with the party.

Relationships

Hekla — Their leader, formerly a psychiatrist.

Eva — Their enforcer, a thirteen-skull killer.

Katia Grim — Their former member, still pulled toward them.

Sadie — A member whose Glass Prison spell got them through the Kravyad portal.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 3

Hekla's crawler team, allied with Carl's party by information-sharing and including Katia's old friends.

Chapter 21

Hekla's ~30-strong all-women crawler team, revealed in full as Brynhild's Daughters, who recruit the party for the Vermillion rescue.