Eeva Sieging

''((For newer members, all the information on this page is free to be known IC by members of the Hall - although similarly if you want to wait and find out in RP that's fine too. If you want to form a connection over something specific, please contact Eeva's phys-rep!))'' Eeva Sieging is a Kallavesi scop and grimnir - though for her Hall she would always call herself a healer first. Her expertise with healing includes magical techniques as well as surgery, though she prefers to work with herbs where possible.

As a scop, she is known most for riddles and poems, with the occasional tale-telling song. When Striking Ardith was Warden of the Mark, she would often help announce moots by blowing a horn, and has on occasion taken the horn to battle.

An injury in the winter of 379 has prevented her from taking the battlefield the last few times Sigehold has travelled to Anvil, and so she has been forced to tell tales second-hand and perform her medical duties in the hospital tent.

Origin
Born Eeva Hearthing, of Hearthland Hold near Crow Ridge in Skarsind, Eeva is the youngest child of two Steinr parents. Her older brother, Petri, was four years her senior and a Kallavesi Stormcrow; her sister Helka a Suaq archer.

She chose the path of the Kallavesi aged fifteen, and began her training as a Grimnir shortly after that - mostly at the instruction of her Uncle Hereward.

As for her siblings, Petri became a Stormcrow of Pride, with a bold singing voice and equally bold swordarm. At only seventeen he earned himself the scop name Howling Petri. Helka, in contrast, earned the name Helka the Silent, as one of the Hall’s most effective scouts.

The Thule Occupation of Skarsind
Hearthland Hold stood very little chance in the face of the Thule invasion, and as the barbarians pressed forward to occupy the territory, her home was overrun. She and her sister Helka were both taken in as slaves, and Eeva took it upon herself to learn and remember the names of the dead, and their stories, so that they would live on in legend.

Helka managed to organise a successful escape, but it was short-lived. While the group found shelter in the remains of a nearby Hall, with no resources and several injured, it wasn't long before they were found again and put back to work.

Rescue
Sigehold was not Sigehold when they were rescued, but rather a disparate group of fighters under the lead of Ardith. Though hardened from the long winters and harrowed by their experiences, Helka and Eeva were quick to join and help. As Skarsind was retaken by the ‘Mark, they joined Ardith in becoming members of the new Hall, finding new home and family there. The two worked in a military unit under Jussi, along with Ulwen, Thandral and Veikko, travelling where they were needed.