Grand Duchess Elspeth Skaldrin of Hrunegandr

Female, late teens

Video Game: Hrunegandr Series

The youngest child of the Skaldrin dynasty, Elspeth was whisked away from the ducal capital city as a little girl of just five when the evil Demon Emperor Thordrig’s horde arose to start slaughtering the living. She spent much of her childhood stuck in a remote monastic community where she was being kept hidden. The impetuous, adventurous, boisterous girl chafed at this upbringing, and grew to detest the constant silence of the mountain monastery... although she did learn to love its library and the books inside, which gave her the only entertainment she could find in the place. Elspeth also learned all the proper prayers to the gods, as well as being trained in the arts of magical healing and exorcism—skills that would in time prove crucial in the final battle with Thordrig. 

But for the headstrong girl who never wanted to be a Chosen One of Hrunegandr and would rather spend her days out hunting or practicing with a longbow (her aim is excellent) than sitting around waiting for some fabled heroic counterpart to show up, these years were not happy ones. And to make matters worse, the clerics who sheltered her constantly hyped up the Hero, filling the impressionable, easily bored girl’s head with dreams of someone exciting and perfectly matched for her. When at last she met Alaric, heproved to be quite a disappointment. Yes, he was handsome and brave in combat... but quiet, shy, andfrankly quite boring in Elspeth’s eyes. Yes, when the pair follow the “script” of the game she instantly falls in love with him and is his perfect soulmate throughout the story. But when freed from the forced script of the Hrunegandr games and released back to the Waiting Room, she lets all that pent-up frustration and anger out with biting sarcasm and coldness toward Alaric. In fact, she much prefers to chat with the other characters there, particularly Captain Corvina, on whom she has a very obvious crush. Butat the same time, irrationally, she is also jealously possessive of Alaric—even if she doesn’t want him romantically, she is equally horrified by the idea that someone else might have him.

In-game voiceprint: Medium-pitch female, heroic and determined to a stereotypical degree.

Waiting Room voiceprint: Medium-itch female, but absolutely a “mean girl” in tone and inflection.