Völva
Völva
the Seeress
A hooded sorceress with a staff, beside the cauldron and the runestone. She tends the magic: Legendary Aspects and runes.
What she does
Section titled “What she does”| Service | Summary |
|---|---|
| Codex of Power — extract | Destroys a Legendary item and stores its aspect (the legendary power) in the Codex. |
| Codex of Power — imprint | Imprints an aspect from the Codex onto a Rare or Epic item, which becomes Legendary and keeps its affixes. Costs 1 Freyja’s Tear. |
| Runewords | Forges a runeword on an item with the right runes, in the right order. Shows the recipes you already know. |
| Erase runeword | Undoes an item’s runeword. The runes are lost. |
| Combine runes | 3 runes of the same band → 1 random rune of the next band. |
See Aspects and sets, Runewords and Völva: Codex and runes.
In the myths
Section titled “In the myths”The völvas were seeresses and practitioners of seiðr, Norse magic. In the poem Völuspá, a völva rises from the dead to tell Odin of the world’s creation and the fate of the gods at Ragnarök.