Editing Hildr

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Hildr
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|birth = 
|death = Sometime after 75,000 BCE<ref name="Initiates">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Timeline</ref> (2306 [[Isu Era|IE]])<ref name="Hoptons">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Hopton's]]</ref><br>[[Venutius Tomb]], [[Nottinghamshire|Snotinghamscire]], [[England]]
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|database = [[Database: Hildr|Hildr]]
|affiliates = [[Asgard]]<br>[[Æsir]]
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'''Hildr''' was a member of the [[Valkyrie]]s, {{Wiki|psychopomp}}s in [[Norse mythology]] who brought the worthy dead called the ''[[einherjar]]'' to their rewarded afterlife of [[Valhalla (afterlife)|Valhalla]].<ref>{{WP|Hildr}}</ref> Following a failed revolution against [[Odin]], she was imprisoned underground and died<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] — [[Mastery Challenge]]'' – [[The All-Seeing Eye]]</ref> in what later became the [[Venutius Tomb|tomb]] for the [[Britons|Brittonic]] chief [[Venutius]].<ref name="Tomb">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – [[Floating conversations]]: Tombs of the Fallen</ref>

==Biography==
===Early life===
Hildr served as a Valkyrie to Freyja, a member of the [[Vanir]]. Over time, the two became lovers,<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye"/> but their relationship was cut short when Freyja entered a political marriage with the [[Asgard]]ian ruler Odin in an attempt to stop the {{Wiki|Æsir–Vanir War|ongoing war}} between the two groups from continuing further.<ref name="Frigg DB">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – [[Database: Freyja]]</ref> Despite this, Hildr remained loyal to Freyja and continued to faithfully serve her<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye"/> and Odin.<ref name="CrypticTutelage">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Mastery Challenge'' – [[The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran]]</ref>

===Imprisonment and death===
In time, Hildr learned of Odin's intention to save himself and eight others he trusted from the oncoming [[Great Catastrophe]], a goal he had hoped to remain a secret from others. Enraged at Odin's selfishness in letting the rest of Asgard and the [[Nine Realms]] perish, Hildr organized the Valkyries into a revolt. However, Freyja leaked word of her former lover's plan to Odin in turn, and after he quashed the burgeoning resistance, he focused his wrath upon her.<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye"/> Incensed that one of his most loyal servants betrayed him, he locked [[Valkyrie's Legacy Set|Hildr's armor]] in [[Odin's Vault|his vault]], stripped away her immortality,<ref name="CrypticTutelage"/> and chained her in an underground cell.<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye"/>

Freyja, devastated at her role in Hildr's life sentence but unable to defy her husband, had her [[Freya's medallion|medallion]] delivered to the prison as a token of their love, but Hildr resented the gift and had it sent away to her daughters, whom she made swear would take vengeance on [[Sage|whatever form]] Odin took in the future. Hildr's subterranean jail allowed her to survive the [[Sun]]'s devastation on the Earth's surface above, but her new mortality resulted in her slowly wasting away until she had starved to death.<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye"/>

===Legacy===
Hildr's daughters continued her quest for revenge over the next 75 millennia, always passing Freyja's medallion to each successive generation with the oath that they would do everything in their power to find and kill Odin's reborn self. By the 870s, the elderly woman [[Hildiran]] owned the medallion. Upon correctly identifying Odin's psyche within the [[Raven Clan]]'s ''[[jarl]]skona'' [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], she tricked the [[Vikings|Viking]] into opening [[Freyja's Cave]]<ref name="CrypticTutelage"/> in order to find Hildr's lost armor and use it to enact her ancestor's retribution.<ref name="TheAllSeeingEye"/>

==Behind the scenes==
* Hildr's armor appears as a slightly modified version of the [[Valkyrie Set]] from the ''[[Valkyrie Pack]]''. There currently is no explanation for why the outfit has a norse aesthetic instead of an Isu one.

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] – [[Mastery Challenge]]'' {{Corpse}}

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