Anya Jenkins
Anya Jenkins is a female television character who features in Buffy-Angel.
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Biography
Aud was a female human born in 860 where she grew up raising rabbits and became the outsider of her village in Sjornjost, Sweden, whose inhabitants labeled her as "odd because she [spoke] her mind." By the age of twenty, Aud had fallen in love with a man named Olaf, a Viking warrior who enjoyed hunting trolls and drinking at the bar. One night, Olaf drunkenly slept with a bar maid named Rannveig and a furious Aud resorted to magic to curse him with simple vengeance spells like boils on his penis. She then used the Thornton's Hope spell to turn him into a troll and he was forced to flee from his fellow villagers, who did not believe his story. The act of vengeance against her lover Olaf gained the attention of D'Hoffryn, a demon who offered to elevate Aud to the status of a vengeance demon. (Episode: Selfless) She became known as Anyanka and earned the title of 'Patron Saint of Scorned Women'. Her power source was the Symbol of Anyanka, an amulet with the power to grant dark wishes for the amusement of the pestilent deities. (Episode: The Wish) However, like all vengeance demons, Anyanka's interpretation of the wish expressed would often be rather loose and considerably more destructive than the wisher intended. (Episode: Beneath You) In 1199, Anyanka traveled to the Kastka valleys above the Urals to curse an unfaithful shepherd and was caught in the middle of a sorcerer's Ascension to the form of the demon Lohesh. (Episode: Graduation Day, Part One) She managed to escape, but was shocked by the death and carnage which claimed almost the entire village. In the 16th century, Anyanka came to know the French sorcerer Cloutier who, despite inventing a spell hated by demons, Tirer la Couverture, she thought he was cute. (Episode: No Place Like Home)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a Vengeance Demon, she earned the title of Patron Saint of Scorned Women. (Episode: The Wish)
Powers and abilities
Her source of power was the Symbol of Anyanka that was an amulet with the power to grant dark wishes for the amusement of the pestilent deities. (Episode: The Wish)
Notes
- Anya Jenkins was created by Joss Whedon and Marti Noxon with her being portrayed by actor Emma Caulfield where she featured in the setting of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Appearances
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
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