Ida

Ida was a lean giant woman with ordinary features softened by freckles, full lips, and a rounded nose. Her light-colored hair carried a messy cowlick at the front and curling side locks, gathered into a ponytail behind. Her early outfit paired a dark X-strapped top with frilled hem and tattered shorts, which she traded for a lighter shirt once she settled in Elbaph. For her circus act she donned horns and a feathered coat so audiences would mistake her for a savage ancient giant.

Unlike the warlike giants of Elbaph's past, Ida was remarkably gentle, learned, and compassionate, cherishing every life no matter how small. She loathed arrogance and once struck Harald for refusing to aid humans he had attacked, a lesson that reshaped him into a wise and merciful king. Tolerant and nurturing, she was especially protective of children, scolding a fisherman who hesitated to save Loki and shrugging off the boy's insults as merely "cute."

Born on Samuwanai Island over a century before the present, Ida was rescued from near death by the people of the Bunt Kingdom and became a circus performer there. When Harald razed the kingdom under the false belief she was a captive, she slapped him for his cruelty and forced him to confront his contempt for humans. He listened, helped rebuild, and the two traveled the seas together for decades as his arrogance faded under her guidance. Their son Hajrudin was born, though Elbaph's people rejected her as royalty due to her outsider blood, leaving her content to live in the Fisherman Village.

After Harald's second son Loki was cast into Elbaph's Underworld by Queen Estrid, Ida took the boy in as her own despite his constant rudeness, and her kindness eventually reached him. She opened a notorious bar along the coast, employing the young Mato, who came to see her as a mother. Fifteen years before the present, Ida fell gravely ill. Unknown to her, Estrid's relatives had poisoned her to block her path to the throne and protect what they saw as their family's fortune. Harald returned in time for her final moments, and the two reminisced about his reforms before she died peacefully. Loki, learning the truth, burned down the village responsible and was jailed, while her death became the greatest sorrow and motivation of Harald's life.