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.
