ice elves

 Ice Elves (백귀), also known as Hyakki or Ice Slayers, are a race of elves typically found in frozen environments. They were ruled by Sillad, the King of Snow Folk and the Monarch of Frost.

For the ice elves that Jinwoo encountered during the Red Gate Incident, most of them were shown to be very arrogant and had a tendency to want to fight strong opponents. During their first ambush on Jinwoo's raid party, they cleverly attacked the two weakest hunters in the group and were able to easily kill one of them. The other, an E-Rank Hunter named Han Song-Yi, was saved in the nick of time by Jinwoo, who caught the arrow that the elves shot at her with his bare hand before it could reach her face. Upon realizing that Jinwoo was the strongest member of the group, one of the elves taunted him a neck-slashing gesture before retreating, highlighting their bold and aggressive behavior as a species.

Ironically, this same elf would later be instantly beheaded by Jinwoo during their second encounter several days later.

In the revised timeline created when Jinwoo used the Cup of Reincarnation, the fallen ice elves were presumably returned to life along with their liege Sillad. Though it was short-lived as Sillad and his army of ice elves were all killed by the Shadow Monarch in order to prevent the events of the original timeline.

Not all the ice elves perished, as those that made up the Frost Monarch’s army were only the adults. All the ice elves who were children or too young had remained behind in an isolated village, near a place called Echo Forest, with a few elders to care for them until they matured and joined the army of the Frost Monarch.

The young ice elves never knew the fate of their parents or the Frost Monarch and lived mostly training to becoming adults to eventually serve in the army of the Monarch.

After decades of their world drifting in dimension space, an event occurred that would shake the ice elves' peaceful lives. Dimensional cracks had appeared in the sky, the turbulence disturbing the spirits in Echo Forest, driving them out to attack the ice elf village. Many of the ice elves died that day and would have pushed to extinction, when a rift to Earth by chance opened, sucking Kaisel who was carrying Cha Hae-In into the land of the ice elves.

Upon seeing the young ice elves in trouble Cha came to their aid with Kaisel fighting alongside her. Despite being a human, Cha, made quite an impression off the elves, as she was a strong warrior who rode a dragon, making them viewed her as a savior. While normally magic beasts were to follow the drive to kill humans due to orders of their Monarch, Cha was a unique existence as her necklace give to her by Jinwoo enabled her to communicate with the elves and establish a friendly rapport.

Since all of the adults in the ice elf village had perished, Cha acted as the guardian to the remaining ice elves, protecting and even teaching them swordplay. Whilst this Cha attempted to look for a way home. Kaisel though stay in the realm proved to be detrimental as he was running out of mana and would soon cease to be. Due to this Cha looked for a way to save the dragon.^[1]

While out exploring the Echo Forest, Gates opened to Earth, connecting it with Facade Island, causing a dungeon break. Hunters on the other side of the Gates began to invade what they called the Glacier Dungeon in order to stop the dungeon break. In response to this the ice elves took arms and hunted any hunter that approached their territory. Though a few kept some hunters alive long enough to question if they were familiar with the name Sung Jinwoo, though none of the humans did, resulting in their deaths.

Sung Suho raided the dungeon with the Scavenger Guild, got lost and met with the ice elves. Upon seeing his face, and noticing his resemblance to Cha, the immediately recognized him as Cha' son.

Abilities

Unlike most magic beasts, they possess human-level intelligence and are skilled fighters, wielding bows and daggers in battle. They typically use arrows with ice magic infused into them and are smart enough to ambush and attack their opponents from a safe distance.^[2] They also all seem to be able to use Stealth collectively and appear to be very sadistic, as they take great pleasure in slaughtering humans

Freya - Huntsman -Snow Queen

Freya, also known as the Ice Queen, was the secondary antagonist and anti-hero of The Huntsman: Winter's War.

A powerful sorceress with the ability to manipulate ice and snow, Freya was the second-born daughter of an unnamed sorceress, the younger sister of Queen Ravenna and the older sister of Finn, the secret lover of the late Duke of Blackwood, and the mother of her late infant daughter and Sara's adoptive mother.

Although she seemed to be as cold, ruthless, and manipulative as her sister, Freya was also as much a victim of tragic circumstances as Ravenna had been, and showed in numerous instances that she still had retained some semblances of decency and compassion. Ultimately, she proved to be a sympathetic character, especially given how she helped Eric to destroy her evil sister once and for all. Though this act of redemption cost Freya her very life, her open rejoicing at seeing Eric and Sara reunited in love before she died was a testament of sorts to her never being truly evil, and that she had finally found peace in seeing the power of love conquer all.

Magic: Freya was born with latent magical abilities, which lay dormant for majority for her life. After the death of her daughter, Freya unleashed her long dormant powers in a state of agony. Transforming her eyes blue and her hair white. Her powers manifest as an icy blue in her eyes when using some of her powers such as casting illusions and astral projection. Within a short period of time, Freya emerged as a powerful and dangerous sorceress during her rise as the Queen of the North. Over the years, the strength and proficiency of her magic grew, allowing her to battle her sister and briefly weaken her.

• Cryokinesis: Freya has control over the elements of ice, frost, and snow. Even after gaining her magic, she was able to freeze the duke into an ice statue. She later took over the lands of the north and transformed the land into an icy landscape, casting it into an endless winter. When she approaches, she can lower the temperature of the area and create frost on all plants and trees as well as undo all of it when she leaves.
  • Cryokinetic illusions: Freya had the ability to cast illusions to make others see and hear what she desired them to. For instance, she made Eric believe that Sara was killed by showing him a vision of her dying through the ice-wall she had conjured to separate them. She did the same thing to Sara, letting her believe that Eric had abandoned her by showing her a vision of him running away.
  • Cryokinetic astral-projection: Freya had the ability to project her consciousness into an astral-form of a white owl outside her physical body. She accessed this ability by putting on an ice eye-mask shaped like owl feathers, and uses her astral-form mainly to spy on people.
  • Cryokinetic blast: Freya had the ability to release ice, snow, and cold on a specific target area, which serves as one of her primary means of defense and offense. For instance, when her powers were unleashed for the very first time, she killed the Duke of Blackwood by unleashing a powerful wave of cryokinetic energy that froze his entire being, and subsequently shattering it. Later on, she froze Sara's arm when she attempted to kill her.
  • Cryokinetic telekinesis: Freya was able to telekinetically move her ice statues during her chess game with Ravenna.
  • Cryokinetic transmutation: Freya had the ability to transform matter and objects, including living beings, into ice. In fact, as the Ice Queen of the North, she was infamous for transforming her victims into ice statues. During the final battle against Ravenna, Freya attempted to freeze her sister into becoming an ice statue and, though she was unsuccessful, Ravenna was still briefly distracted and somewhat weakened.
  • Cryokinetic construction: Freya had the ability to create objects out of ice, such as walls, slides, platforms, and shields. However, this ability appeared to require her to first accumulate the necessary strength for it, as demonstrated by the instance where she raised an ice-wall to separate Eric and Sara. In a state of extreme emotion (such as anger), she was able to conjure with ease, as seen by how she raised an immense ice-wall to block Ravenna's onslaught against her Huntsmen.
  • Cold immunity: Freya had the ability to be immune or invulnerable to cold. Though she often wore gowns that exposed her skin in her frozen kingdom, she suffered no ill effects from the extremely low temperatures, and she was also not visibly affected by her magical generation of ice and cold.

• Enhanced reflexes: Freya is able to react quickly, as she casually stopped Eric's knife attack, gripping his arm and freezing it. She later quickly froze Sara's sword before she could attack her.
• Resurrection (possibly): Freya was shown using the Magic Mirror to bring her older sister, Ravenna, back to life. However, it was never confirmed as to whether she truly possessed the power of resurrection itself, for it is unknown as to whether or not she could have successfully accomplished Ravenna's resurrection if Ravenna's spirit had not possessed the Mirror to begin with. It should also be noted that Freya herself was shocked by how Ravenna came back to life, as if she had not been expecting it at all, and that Ravenna (a far more experienced and knowledgeable sorceress) herself did not possess the power of resurrection.
• Immortality: Though it was also never confirmed, it is possible that Freya is immortal, with youth and beauty that are preserved through subconscious magic. This theory is plausible, given how Ravenna preserved her own youth and beauty through magical means despite having lived many lifetimes, and that Freya - who did not appear to possess any magical powers before her daughter died - had served as her sister's companion for those numerous lifetimes, and yet had never aged beyond her prime.
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Abilities

• Knowledge of the Magic Mirror: Freya was shown to have an extensive, thorough knowledge of the Magic Mirror. She once said the Mirror would enhance her powers to greater proportions, implying that she knew well how to utilize it to her best advantage. Later on, she showed that she was able to read the writings - which, when coupled with the legendary question of who the fairest one was, functioned as a resurrection spell - engraved around the Mirror. Through the Mirror, she was even able to exert a level of control over Ravenna, given how Ravenna was actually bound to answer her since she was the one who had summoned her from the Mirror. During the final battle against Ravenna, Freya was the one who froze the Mirror so it could be properly destroyed by Eric's axe, which shows her knowledge of it being her sister's one true weakness.
• Master tactician/Leader: Freya is a capable leader, having leader her own army and plan out her attacks flawlessly for many years. Freya is also an excellent chess player, skilled enough to beat her sister, Ravenna.
• Intimidation: Freya is very feared throughout her own kingdom, many dare not cross her in fear of becoming one of her ice sculptures.

As compared to the seductive and alluring Ravenna, Freya is a beautiful and kind-looking woman in her own right. Unlike her siblings, who both had blonde hair, Freya is brown-haired with grey eyes, but after her cryokinetic powers were unleashed, her hair turned silver-white, her eyes became light blue, and her complexion went as pale as snow. Her attire, though, is as elaborate as her sister's: gowns resembling metal or ice in shades of pale blue, white, and silver, along with a silver headdress resembling owl's feathers, which project an overall cold regal appearance reflecting her title of "Ice Queen".