Freya Familia

Freya Familia
Japanese	フレイヤ・ファミリア
Romaji	Fureiya Famiria
God	Freya
Captain	Ottar (current) Mia Grand (former)
Type	Exploration

The Freya Familia (フレイヤ・ファミリア) is a Familia in Orario led by Freya. They were regarded as the strongest faction in the city until the Great Faction War.

Reputation

The Freya Familia is one of the most prominent factions in Orario and have often acted together with the Loki Familia as their main figures after banishing Zeus and Hera fifteen years ago following their downfall. Ever since then, they have frequently been recognized as the most powerful familia in the city. Though respected like Loki Familia, the members are feared by the general populace and they have a strained relationship with Loki's faction, who have been their rivals since long ago.

After losing the Great Faction War against the alliance led by the Hestia Familia, the Freya Familia's official status is that they have been disbanded with Freya having left Orario. The current official status of the members include store employees while others supposedly await being scouted by other familias. In reality, Freya is still living in Orario in secret, under her Syr Flova identity, as a subordinate God to Hestia, with the Freya Familia members often helping the Hestia Familia due to their loyalty towards Freya.

Organization

The Freya Familia is mainly composed of combatants who are each known as an Einherjar (強靭な勇士(エインヘリヤル)) and dedicate themselves to training. They also have their own medical team called the Andhrímnir (満たす煤者達(アンドフリームニル)), who are led by Heith Velvet. The group is made up of herbalists and healers in charge of healing the einherjars, as well as cooking and preparing meals for them since Mia left. Freya also had a group of attendants with Horn serving as her head chamberlain. Other than them, only the captain was granted the duty and honor of being by their Goddess' side everyday as her servant.

They have a total of 157 members, including the largest number of healers among all of the familias in Orario. However their influence ran deeper and by the time of the Great Faction War if non-combatants, followers of Freya who did not have her falna, and believers, people who worshipped the Goddess Freya on their own, were included, the total number of "members" reached over 5,000. Of all the actual members, Ottar is the one who has been the longest in the familia, as all who joined before him were gone by the time of Orario's Dark Age.

While all of the executives serve as leaders, whenever they perform an operation that involves the familia at large, the planning is left entirely to Hedin due to his unparalleled prowess as a commander among the faction. While he seems to assist Ottar to a degree, the overall administration of the familia, such as their finances, still falls unto the captain.

Unlike their rivals, the Freya Familia has no sense of unity. Each and every member has sworn their loyalty to Freya, but most yearn to gain her love only for themselves. As such, they constantly are found at odds with each other, incapable of even basic cooperation unless they are on a mission for their Goddess. Despite that, they have remained fiercely loyal even after Freya fell completely for Bell, working more than once to secure him for her, despite being extremely jealous of Bell.

After losing the War Game, the members still remain completely loyal to her despite her choice to live as Syr, with many of them personally working at the Hostess of Fertility, both to assist Syr, and to repay Mia for the trouble they caused her.

Training

Though they have been known to explore the Dungeon, reaching as far as the 58th Floor, the Freya Familia's lack of cooperation makes expeditions difficult, with the last one ending in failure after all the executives began fighting each other. Instead, their main training method are death matches which they refer to as "baptism". Due to their intense hostility and rivalry with each other for Freya's love, they face each other in battles to the death from sunrise to sunset.

Back when they had a base, they fought in its large garden in a barbaric free-for-all where everyone sought a new opponent the moment they defeated their current one. In spite of resorting to such a brutal method, the familia could keep it up without suffering even a single casualty thanks to their amazing medical team. Heith, in fact, is capable of taking care of all the injured if she so wishes. Since their official dissolution, they have moved to training in the Dungeon.

Following their hellish training, the members used to gather in their home's dining hall, where they ate from a great feast in order to have the energy needed for the next day's training.

This custom was adopted by members preceding Ottar and his generation. The only combatants not allowed to fight are the executives of the familia who make up all their first class adventurers. Due to their power, the loss of even one of them would be severely detrimental to the faction and his defeat would give other familias an opportunity to take advantage of. This is why duels between executives at their base were forbidden. However, it was shown that there is no problem with them fighting in the Dungeon when the rest of the executives once took advantage of Ottar going on an expedition to fight him.

Fighting Power

Before their official dissolution, the Freya Familia were generally feared as the most powerful familia in Orario, having many high-level adventurers, including the, at the time, only Level 7 adventurer, Ottar, as a member. Their captain's might was best exemplified in the Great Faction War, where he demonstrated the ability to achieve Level 8 prowess with his skill Vana Arganture, requiring the combined efforts of four pseudo Level 7s just to leave him out of combat for five minutes.

Before announcing his and his fellow top executives' rank ups to Level 7, Finn acknowledged that Ottar made it impossible for the Loki Familia, Orario's second strongest faction, to win against the Freya Familia. Furthermore, while Loki believed the Boaz to no longer be a big deal after her top three members reached Level 7, Finn speculated that he will soon rank up.

Besides him, their main force consists of Allen, hailed as the fastest in the city; Hedin and Hogni, famed as the most brutal magic swordsmen; and the Gulliver Brothers, renowned for having the best teamwork in Orario. The majority of the other over 100 members are Level 2 or 3. At least fifty of all of the members are second class adventurers and they alone make up a force equivalent to around 20 middle-ranking familias. Bell noted that the einherjars are far stronger than adventurers of the same level from other familias and, due to their training method, they have also developed high levels of endurance and stamina.

Though not a combatant, Heith is also a great fighting asset. Thanks to her skills as a healer, second in Orario only to Airmid's, she can continuously bring back the einherjars to full health in the middle of a battle within mere moments, essentially turning them into an army of "undying" warriors. Together with the rest of the Andhrímnir, their healing output surpasses that of the Loki Familia and can stand up to their firepower even with the Fairy Force included. Their abilities are so great that in a battle between the two factions, the familia of the group that fell first would lose.

In a special case, their patron deity also represents a terrifying threat to any enemy force. Freya's Charm, which surpasses even those of the other Goddesses of Beauty, allows her to subjugate any person she desires just by hearing or seeing her. It is said that with her power she could control the entire Lower World if she wanted to. Only a Virgin Goddess of Hestia's caliber is capable of withstanding and undoing it. Likewise, and to a lesser degree, as it currently does not work on Gods or mortals with abilities that grant resistance to mental attacks, Horn is also dangerous as through her magic Vana Seith she is able to utilize a weaker version of her Goddess' Charm.

Paraphernalia

As a Level 4, Van wears a uniform different from the one of lower members

The uniform of the einherjars is called Glorious Familia Cloth (栄光のファミリアクロス). It is white and silver (lilac in the anime) in color and has an excellent quality as battle clothes. Members who are Level 3 or higher are allowed to modify theirs. Those who are allowed to wear it are promised glory in the eyes of the Goddess of Beauty and a trial in which they will kill each other day and night. The only ones who don't wear it are the Andhrímnir, who have a different one, and the executives, who simply don't use a uniform.

The Freya Familia emblem is the profile of a Valkyrie. The symbol of their falna is a woman facing forward with her arms extended to the sides.

Base

Folkvangr

The Freya Familia home was known as Folkvangr (戦いの野(フォールクヴァング)) and was located around the center of the business area on the opposite side of Orario from the Loki Familia home. Folkvangr is a huge mansion that has a solemn structure similar to a temple. It covers a large area surrounded by four large walls and has a garden large enough for all familia members to assemble in. Within its facilities, there is a large hall called Sessrúmnir (特大広間(セスルームニル)) where the einherjars dined every night after training. The sight of it displayed the Freya Familia's wealth, power, and honor. Freya lived apart from her familia in her room at the top of Babel.

Following their disbandment, the Guild is in possession of their former home.

Members

Name	Race	Occupation	Rank	Level	Status
Freya	God	God	God	None	Active
Ottar	Boaz	Adventurer/Freya's aide	Captain/Executive	7	Active
Allen Fromel	Cat People	Adventurer	Vice-Captain/Executive	6	Active
Hogni Ragnar	Dark Elf	Adventurer	Executive	6	Active
Hedin Selland	Elf	Adventurer	Executive	6	Active
Grer Gulliver	Pallum	Adventurer	Executive	5	Active
Alfrigg Gulliver	Pallum	Adventurer	Executive	5	Active
Dvalinn Gulliver	Pallum	Adventurer	Executive	5	Active
Berling Gulliver	Pallum	Adventurer	Executive	5	Active
Horn	Human	Goddess' Attendant/Adventurer	None	2	Active
Mia Grand	Dwarf	Proprietress	Captain (former)	6	Partially Left Familia
Tammuz Belili	Human	Unknown	None	4	Active
Anya Fromel	Cat People	Waitress	Unknown	4	Partially left Familia
Van	Half Pallum	Adventurer	None	4	Active
Heith Velvet	Human	Healer/Adventurer	Andhrímnir Leader	4	Active
Rask	Human	Adventurer	None	4	Active
Remilia	Human	Adventurer	None	4	Active
Noga	Unknown	Adventurer	Unknown	3-4	Active
Lona	Unknown	Healer	None	Unknown	Active
Ilde	Unknown	Healer	None	Unknown	Active

Trivia

• Though he clarified that what happened in a real battle would depend on the battlefield and the conditions they were in, Oomori said that if the Loki and Freya Familias were to face each other, certain things would likely always play out the same way no matter what. The same would have applied if the Loki Familia had fought in the Great Faction War, with the rest of the alliance being left out. These constants would be:
  • Hedin would not hold back Ottar and send him to the front line, where he and Hogni would face off against Ais and Gareth. Raul, Van and the rest of the second class adventurers would also fight there. The Gulliver brothers would face off against Tiona and Tione.
  • The rearguard would be chaos, but it would be Hedin versus Riveria. The Freya Familia wins in terms of healing output due to the Andhrímnir, while the firepower of the Loki Familia's rearguard is greater thanks to the Fairy Force. So the Familia of the group that fell first would lose. Though he could engage in the crossfire on his own thanks to his ultra-long-range shooting skills, the moment Hedin took over as commander the Loki Familia would win, which would put him in a tough spot.
  • Finn would command from the rearguard as he looks for an opportunity to shoot down Ottar with his "spear". He would give up on trying to defeat him because of how powerful he is, instead resorting to underhanded tactics so vile that even the Fianna Knights would be left speechless.
  • Allen would face Bete as the two would be key to countering each other. Allen's ability to freely move around the battlefield to attack could potentially surpass Finn's prediction skills, so Bete would have to deal with him. Allen would also have to keep an eye out for the Werewolf, since if Bete managed to unleash his magic Hati, which even Hedin couldn't foresee, it would turn things in his familia's favor.
  • On top of all this, if Horn was able to move and Hedin were to send her to the frontline to use her Charm, and only then, Finn would immediately go to neutralize her. Thanks to his skill Noble Brave the Pallum would not be affected, but the moment he was drawn to the frontline the Freya Familia would gain a huge advantage, so they would probably win.

• The einherjars are named after the army of warriors brought by the valkyries to Valhalla in Norse mythology. However, DanMachi's usage of the term differs in that "einherjar" was the collective name of the group, with a single warrior being called an "einheri", whereas in the series, a single combatant of Freya Familia is called an einherjar.
• Freya Familia's medical team is named after Andhrímnir, the chef of the Æsir and einherjar in Norse mythology.
• Freya Familia's former base is named after Fólkvangr, a field ruled by the goddess Freyja in Norse mythology. Of those who died in battle, half went to Valhalla while the other half went to Fólkvangr.
• The dining hall at Freya Familia's former base is named after Sessrúmnir, the hall of the goddess Freyja located in Fólkvangr, where her half of the fallen in battle resided in Norse mythology.