Hel

Hel is the goddess of death and the dishonored dead in the Northern faith of Midhgardhur. When she uses her divine powers, her eyes are described as glowing red, and glowing red eyes is often as sign of a mortal imbued with Hel's powers in the Midhgardhur stories.

She serves as an antagonist to the gods of the Aesir and Vanir - she believes that with her army of dishonored dead who are prophesied to sail to battle on the side of the Jotnar at Ragnarokkur, she can triumph and rule over whatever remains of the Nine Worlds. Just as Odhinn meddles in the affairs of Midhgardhur, trying to influence the outcome of Ragnarokkur, so too does Hel try to nudge fate to favor her side in the coming eschaton.

Hel actually appears as a character in some of the Tales From Midhgardhur stories, most notably "Dark Valkyrie" (in Volume I) and "Angels of Death" (in Volume II) to date.

Source: Loosly based on the Hel of Norse mythology. Norse myth does not necessarily portray her as evil or malevolent in all cases, although her role as a personification of death does lend itself to vilification, but for narrative reasons I have portrayed her as utterly evil due to her role as an opponent of the gods at Ragnarok. Also, while Norse myth tends to portray Hel's hall as the probable common afterlife of virtually everyone except the rare heroes gathered by Odhinn and the other gods, I have chosen to make her more like the Judaeo-Christian Devil, and her hall more like the Judaeo-Christian Hell, receiving only the wicked dead, those who dishonored themselves in life. While Odhinn and the other gods are still free to choose evil mortals as champions (yes, bad people can go to Valhalla - it's not "Heaven"!), in my stories, she claims the wicked for her own, and actively tries to spread conditions of strife that will cause people to dishonor themselves and die dishonored.