Blood Valkyries

The Blood Valkyries are a tribe of death worshipping, psychopaths who operate under the rule of Sophia. She rules the Blood Valkyries, after she founded the group, so that like minded people could band together and have safety in numbers.

Due to their inability to reason and unpredictable nature, they are considered the most immediately dangerous of the three big raider factions in the Capital Wasteland.

Background
Sophia founded the order in late 2279, after noticing that Denis Callaghan had left the region. Back then, she was known as 'Milo' and hadn't discovered her true identity as a woman. She invited a handful of murderers, slavers, raiders, cannibals and anyone else who would be likeminded enough to join her as she raided, raped and pillaged her way across the land.

The Regulators have a zero tollerance policy on the Blood Valkyries and issued a higher bounty for their proven elimination between the years of 2280 and 2285, due to them now keeping to their Evergreen Mills hideout, the bounty gradually lowered back to that of normal raiders as they weren't really considered to be as grand a threat anymore.

Sophia is drawn to truly twisted minds, she's always willing to give asylum to 'the Devil's Children' as she likes to call them. Child murderers, cannibals, slavers, genocidal maniacs, etc. However, it is hard to impress her as she herself has a reputation for murdering a child, with her bare hands as he tried to escape captivity. The way she tells it, she slowly strangled the life out of him, enjoying every one of his last moments on earth.

Due to the hostility shown towards the Blood Valkyries, they have had trouble expanding or raiding large towns and even smaller settlements have gotten protection from The Kingsnakes or the Family in recent years. However, Sophia hasn't exactly been idle and they say that she sits atop her skeletal throne and plots her next move on the Capital Wasteland.

She currently has James Hargrave captive, at first as a hostage but now as a sort of pet. She has 'taken a liking to him' and no longer wishes to release him. She suspects that Butch wouldn't pay for the ransom anyway as he was a major pain in the ass for the wannabe Teddy Boy.

Trivia

 * The Blood Valkyries got their name from the idea that they are Valkyries (angels) of death.
 * Anyone who calls Sophia by her dead name (Milo) will be executed by being wrapped head to toe in barbed wire and then hung by the ankles, in the heat, until they're dead.