Felina: The Silver Cross, part 3: The villains

The villain in a story is the most important person after the hero. The contrasts between them creates drama. Who should get the honor of being the enemy of my curious, cunning and courageous cat?

Should I have a woman villain? I wondered. No... there were far more interesting  manly villains to chose from. Villaintry depended on which side you were on... Olav Tryggvesson, the rude king, could as easily be a scoundrel as well as a hero. The same went for Haakon Earl, the ruler of Trondheim before Olav T. Haakon was a sly guy, charismatic but treacherous, a womanizer and a master of the dark art of seiding (shamanism, magic). I voted for him, he was far more interesting and intelligent than self-righteous Olav T.

But... I needed another crook who could drag Felina into the story. A more anonymous one. I settled for a fox named Crimson, who should be Haakon´s shaman priest in the Viking age.

In Snorri, the tale told that Olav T. catched all the sorcerors in the county of Trondheim, and put them out on a skerry called Skratteskjær, where they drowned at high tide. I also read that one of the mightiest shamans was called Raud den Ramme.             

Raud, aka Crimson, became the second viking age villain.