Valda

Real Name: Valda

Identity/Class: Human mutated by magic

Occupation: Adventurer, former skater, diver

Affiliations: Dorcas (deceased)

Enemies: Unknown

Known Relatives: None known

Aliases: None known

Base of Operations: Unknown

First Appearance: Mandy (D.C.Thompson, 1968-82)

Powers/Abilities: Able to talk to animals, immortal, able to make huge leaps, knowledge of mystic herbs. She is also the speediest downhill skier of all time, and a skilled ice skater.

History: 200 years ago Dorcas the gypsy found a young child whom she named Valda. She was brought up to know the secrets of the herbs and how to talk to animals. When Dorcas died, Valda travelled underground to the Emerald Grotto of Ice and Fire, where the cold flames gave her the secret of eternal youth. In modern times (1969) Valda emerged when the Earth split open, and bathed herself in the Fire of Life to regain her youth, before embarking on a series of adventures.

Comments: Thanks to Carolyn Ritchie for informing me of Valda's ski-ing prowess.

Alison Bird notes "As I recall, although she was immortal, she did often "die" - a bit like Dr Who really, she gave her life energy to save a mortal at the end of one series of stories and was then resurrected for the next series. I seem to remember she used to have to recharge her life force fairly frequently."

Deborah adds "She did indeed almost die (not actually) regularly, having almost exhausted her super-powers saving a mortal or fighting some evil or other. On these occasions she steadily weakened and visibly aged towards her 200-yr-old actual age. What saved her was some form of fire/ice combination, and the most easily accessible version of this was a 'magic' ice-like crystal she carried in a locket around her neck which, when held up to the sun, would bathe her in a reviving fiery light. Though this magic light was too powerful for mortals, and I think even dangerous to Valda herself, she could save mortals who were frozen/exhausted (she mostly lived in quite a wintry world) by holding them as she bathed them along with herself in the light. I think the crystal was from some secret magic place where she'd acquired her powers and which had since been destroyed."

Thanks to Ashira Teanby and Julia Francis for additional information.

CLARIFICATIONS: None

Any Additions/Corrections? Please let me know.

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