Editing Gerhild (section)

==Personality==
She sadistically preferred to kill whichever of Maggie's family would inflict the most loss on the survivor.<ref>“Which one?”<br><br>“No,” Maggie said.  “All of us.  Let all of us go.”<br><br>“If I were to let two of you go, which two?”<br>[...]<br>The bloody-haired woman approached, placing her hand on the cheek of Maggie’s father.  “You argue best.  I believe you, when you say you’d sacrifice yourself for them.  You love them that much.”<br><br>He shuddered, bowing his head, unable to maintain eye contact.<br><br>“You, I’ll let live, then.  You’ll feel the lost most.”<br>[...]<br>“No!”  Maggie shrieked.  “No!  All of us live!  All of us!”<br><br>“Her first.  So the adults can watch.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/11 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2.x]]</ref>

===Relationships===
She's notable for having three extremely powerful [[Goblin#Puissance|Greater Goblin]] minions, who guard the outskirts of town while she's ravaging them and generally protect her person.<ref name=":2"/>

She destroyed [[Maggie Holt]]'s hometown, and has a bargain with Maggie that helps keep her in the world (and dooms Maggie to face repeated disasters) in exchange for sparing her and her family.<ref name=":0">Maggie had to raise her voice to be heard over her fathers.  Her voice was so loud and high it was ragged.  “I’ll do anything!  Just let us go!”<br>br>“Anything?”<br><br>“Just- just let us go.”<br><br>“Agree…  Let me think.  You’ll experience what you experienced here, twice more.  The rule of three, to make this stronger.  Perhaps it will be me again.  Perhaps no.  But you will experience blood and darkness and fire, like you experienced it here.  If you agree, it will be so.”<br>[...]<br>“Fool,” he muttered, through the pain.  “Fool.  She was to rest.  She had to agree, or she had to finish here, and once she rested for three days, three nights, she would have to sleep centuries before acting again.  Now she can keep going, come back with your oath. [...] No.  Walk blindly, pay no attention to this, forget.  It’ll make things easier, when the blood and darkness come, next time.  Your power is the oath’s power.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/11 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2.x]]</ref>

[[Breastbiter]] is one of her minions.<ref>Miss said, “If you’re talking about the redcap queen Gerhild, they don’t have a presence that reaches this far.”<br><br>“Ya don’t think?  Take a look at the Carmine candidate, Breastbiter.  I had a feeling they were expanding out, scoutin’.  Just felt that way, going by the feel of things in the Warrens.  Even before he showed.  But then he turned up, and he’s ''hers''.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/04/summer-break-13-10/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.10]]</ref>