chooses-who-dies-in-battle

Badb · salience 0.8

“She incites warriors and stirs confusion or panic among armies, and her cry or appearance is treated as an omen of the slaughter to come; the wider tradition around her and the related war-goddess figures includes the "washer at the ford" motif, a woman seen washing bloodied garments or armor by a river as a sign that the owner is fated to die, which compilers regularly attach to this cluster of goddesses.”

Valkyrie

“These celestial entities serve as the direct agents of Odin, the All-Father, tasked with the sacred duty of selecting those who are destined to fall in battle and those who will emerge victorious.”