Origin Story

Sigrid Thorsdottir was born in Göteborg, Sverige (Gothenburg, Sweden) twenty-three years ago. She had a normal enough and relatively uneventful childhood. When she was twenty-one years old, after finishing Högskola (i.e. College) she moved to America and became a fashion model. Within her first year in Millennium City, she revealed herself to possess electrokinetic superpowers and started to fight crime as a registered superheroine called Thunder Raven.

The details of Thunder Raven's origin are shrouded in mystery. She doesn't like to talk much about it, and when she does it's always in very broad strokes. What she has shared with PRIMUS and UNTIL is a recollection of what could be called a religious experience. On her 21st birthday, which happens to fall on Yule--the winter solstice--she went for a walk alone in the woods, back in her native Sweden. At some point she encountered an apparition of a giant Viking claiming to be Odin the All-father... And her grandfather! He told her she was the daughter of his son Thor, the god of thunder and he told her of her destiny, to protect the realm of Midgard--which is to say Earth--from supernatural threats and more mundane ones as well. He taught her the ancient runic spells to control lightning, as her father is none other than Thor, the Norse god of Thunder. This calling is why she moved to America after finishing her education.

Powers

• Theophanic Electrokinesis: The ability to summon lightning storms, to generate or channel vast amounts of electricity, as well as to project it and manipulate it to various effects. This ability seems to be a kind of divine manifestation or intervention.
• Flight: The ability to move about within the Earth's atmosphere with apparent disregard for the law of gravity.
• Teleportation (Short Range): The ability to disappear from one place and reappear in a different though nearby place. This is accomplished through phasing into a substrate reality
• Teleportation (Long Range): The ability to disappear from one place and reappear in a distant other place. Options are limited to a very few extremely well-known locations.

Weaknesses

Sigrid Thorsdottir is essentially a normal human woman. She is young and healthy but not invulnerable. She can use her electrokinetic powers to electromagnetically deflect bullets and her flight to dodge blows but were she to get hit, it could be fatal. It is also noteworthy to mention that despite her many human weaknesses, she is under the protection of at least two deities of the Norse pantheon and as such benefits from divine intervention on her behalf.

Equipment

Thunder Raven generally doesn't use gadgets as her superpowers are quite sufficiently strong in themselves, but she does wear a thematic costume made out of spandlar, a very expensive kind of spandex that is highly resistant like kevlar. The costume was--much like her heroic name--inspired by the raven, the bird associated with the Norse god Odin. It was fashioned by the French designer Jean Pierre Legault, based on rough sketches made by Sigrid herself. She claims the design came to her in a prophetic dream.

Sigrid Thorsdottir can use her runic magic to instantly change into this costume, no matter what she is wearing, and she can likewise revert to what she was wearing before using a reversal of the same spell.

As far as actual equipment goes, she does use a gravbike, supplied by UNTIL, one whose lines are also reminiscent of a raven's beak and talons.

Skills

• Thunder Raven has shown to be knowledgeable in the fields of Mysticism, Magic, Occultism, etc.
• Thunder Raven is a keen investigator, though completely self-taught.
• Sigrid is a proficient makeup artist, she almost always does her own beauty makeup, even for professional engagements like photoshoots and runway work.

Trivia

• Although she speaks English very well, a slight Swedish accent can be detected.
• Her superheroic persona is based on her spiritual father's mastery over thunder and lightning and her spiritual grandfather's symbolic association with ravens.

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