Hearthking Selra Stormbrand

Red-haired, broad-shouldered, with a face full of freckles and old cold-burns, and three blue tattoo bands on her left arm for three longship voyages beyond the ice. A wolf's-tooth scar on her right calf. Laughs like a landslide. Led the raid on Shanyo in 1138, the last great Hrodvald raid; was elected because the clans were starving and she promised to trade instead of die. Speaks Aldmere's tongue passably and Caelvenne's badly. Wants a nation; has a mob. Fair, fierce, sentimental about children and terrible with money, which is why she owes Farisel. Good, loud, and lonely at the top.

Ties

• Statha the Far-Seer — raised her after her mother died on the ice
• Stelest Kruman Ironjaw — chief rival, who walked out of the Vuvud
• Sauld Durtha, "Sauld Half-Sung" — rewrites the sagas to make her the hero
• Thuba Nugag — lost the seat to her by four votes and is ominously loyal
• Bevele Bansine Farisel — owes her house for grain