Ida

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A giant woman, mother of Hajrudin and partner of King King Harald. Born on Samwanai Island in the South Blue; after crossing the Red Line (the giants’ “Serpent of Blood”) she washed up injured in the New World and was saved/employed by humans in the Bunt Kingdom, then displayed as a caged “ten-meter woman” sideshow attraction. She rebuked the arrogant Prince Harald for wrecking the town to “rescue” her and taught him the doctrine that reformed him: “Nothing in the world is meant to be destroyed.” She and Harald had a son, Hajrudin, but Elbaf’s “pure blood” law barred the king from marrying her — a non-Elbaf giant.

Arc-by-arc updates

Elbaf — deathbed memory + her grave: Ida’s death confirmed (Ch. 1168) — shown (flashback)

• See King Harald, Hajrudin, Prince Loki.

Elbaf flashback (Ch. 1167) — “Ida’s Sons”

• Confirmed she raised BOTH Loki and Hajrudin (“Ida’s sons”); both are away “searching overseas for a doctor for you” (p. 15). Loki calls her “the only mother I have” (p. 17); she says “it doesn’t matter… if we’re not related by blood” (p. 16).
• Poisoned by the giants of Brewers Village (Estrid’s pure-blood clan) with ergot spores — “won’t stop once they’ve taken root… certain death” — to stop the “outsider woman” becoming queen (pp. 16-17). Bed-ridden at her bar in Fishermen Village, cared for by Mato.
• See Elbaf Royal Family, The Truth of the Aurust Castle Massacre.

Elbaf — Harald confides his decision (Ch. 1166) — shown (flashback)

Era of Rocks — flashback: Ida’s Bar hosts Harald, Rocks & Garp (Ch. 1157) — shown (flashback)

• See Ida’s Bar, King Harald, Rocks and God Valley.

Elbaf — flashback: caring for the near-drowned young Loki at Ida’s Bar (Ch. 1156) — shown (flashback)

• See Ida’s Bar, Prince Loki, Mato.

Elbaf — flashback: Ida’s Bar in the Underworld; “Love has no borders!!” (Ch. 1154) — shown (flashback)

• See Hajrudin, King Harald.

Notes

• Etymology: “Ida” ← the Norse figure of wisdom and the golden apples of youth — i.e. Iðunn/Idun, keeper of the gods’ anti-aging apples (Library of Ohara) — fitting Elbaf’s Norse overlay and her nurturing bar-keeper/surrogate-mother role; the apples-of-youth motif rhymes with Loki’s “can’t even die” curse. See etymology: frontmatter. (Library-of-Ohara–sourced; the Ida↔Iðunn spelling is loose → medium confidence.)