Ilga is the daughter of the Cimmerian blacksmith Barak.

Only 18 years of age she was sent with her uncle on the ill fated trade trip with the Aesir. Upon their return south the trading party was attacked by cannibalistic wild hill-men.

Ilga fled but was eventually surrounded until the adventurers arrived, slaying all of her pursuers.

She instantly took a liking to Kulgan, having a respect for great fighting strength, and placed herself under his protection.

Ilga was taken in the night by ‘something’. The adventurers discovered her body in an ice cave. the upper half of her body had been completely stripped of skin and meat, leaving the bones exposed, and her head was missing. The bones gleamed, as though something had licked them clean after it sucked off her meaty parts….