Wigfrid

"Valhalla awaits!"

- Wigfrid

Wigfrid is an upcoming character in the Reign of Giants DLC, unlocked via XP points obtained from a Reign of Giants DLC enabled world.

Appearance
Wigfrid has the appearance of a ginger valkyrie, though in reality she's just a performance artist acting out a role. She has a similar design to Winnie, an unimplemented character, having small, white eyes, noticeable lips, and two pigtails.

Abilities
Wigfrid comes with her own spear and helmet. She is only able to eat meats and meat based recipes, and she starts the game with four pieces of Meat. When she kills an enemy, she gains 25% of the enemy's attack damage as health and sanity. She deals 25% more damage and receives 25% less damage.

Trivia

 * In the files, she is referred to as Wathgrithr, which comes from the name of one of the Valkyries, Ráðgríðr (Rathgrithr).
 * Anytime Wigfrid uses the letter O, she says it with umlauts (Ö), even if there are two in a row.
 * According to the character info she's an actress, not a real valkyrie. This might be a reference to the famous opera cycle by Richard Wagner called The Ring of The Nibelung, also her name Wigfrid is a reference to the same opera cycle's main character Siegfried, but the character is possibly based of the main female character Brynhild who´s a valkyrie.
 * As stated earlier, she has a similar design to Winnie (an unimplemented character), she also has similar powers to her as she cannot eat vegetables, while Winnie was going to be unable to eat any kinds of meat.
 * Killing an eyeplant as Wigfrid regains 5 health and 5 sanity. Due to the rapid spawn and easy-to-locate nature of this monster, it will usually be useful to keep one or more Lureplants near your base to act as a "hospital" of sorts during warm seasons.
 * Wigfrid was the first character that starts off with food in their inventory (the second being Webber) and one of the two (the other being Maxwell) that start with a weapon and a piece of armor.
 * Despite being described as excellent in combat, her bonuses still don't have a higher magnitude than other characters (Wolfgang has higher damage, Woodie in Werebeaver form has higher resistance and Maxwell has higher sanity regeneration along with better starting equipment). The other characters only have one of the bonuses each though, which makes her a "Jack of all trades" type of character when it comes to fighting.
 * When examining spiders, she claims that they have eight legs, while said spiders actually have 6.

Bugs

 * No known bugs at this time.