The Ice Informers: Children of the Great Freeze
A bit of back-story on the three leaders of the secret spy network (from the files of their illusive Mistress)
Dagrun: The leader
Aged 6 summers.
Real name: unknown
Head of the Ice Informers
Affiliation with Arendelle: Dagrun was born just outside the city proper, to a family of sheep-herders in the Northern Province. There is no record of what happened to them, but the boy claims he has been on his own since he was four.
Dagrun was the first to meet the Mistress and was trusted with forming and leading the city-wide child information network. He claims to have created the name 'Ice Informers'. He has a cheerful and optimistic attitude towards nearly everything and he goes to great lengths to obtain the information he seeks. He has been known to hide in fish barrels and squeeze himself down rubbish chutes to catch crucial bits of dialogue between targets.
Dagrun learned palace manners and mannerisms from his brother and often attends formal events as a serving boy to listen to gossip from visiting dignitaries and suitors for the Queen. Oddly enough, on these nights, a majority of his reports go solely to the Mistress.
How the freeze impacted him: Dagrun was living on the street the day of the coronation. His adoptive elder brother was scheduled to leave Arendelle the following day and he was searching for a place to stay for a few weeks when the snows began to fall. In the confusion of Queen Elsa's escape and Princess Anna's pursuit, he managed to sneak into the castle grounds and find warm refuge in the kitchens. For the next few days, he and his brother brought food to the camp of street children huddled together near the docks using a secret passageway he'd discovered inside the palace. After the Thaw, his brother and some of the other children fell ill and Dagrun made a solitary trip into the kitchens of the palace to secure food for them. Nothing is confirmed but it would seem this fateful trip would see to the formation of the Ice Informers.
Ichtaca: The warrior
Aged 10 summers.
Real name: Maron (unconfirmed)
Second commander of the Informers and street brother to Dagrun, sometimes works in the shipyard
Affiliation with Arendelle: Ichtaca remembers a ship carrying him into port but little else. He grew up an orphan near the water and loves to work at the docks when not on official business. He has done every odd sailor's job including fishing, hauling merchant crates and climbing rigging to untangle snares.
Ichtaca often wrestles with some of the deck boys and visiting ruffians from Arendelle's trade partners and merchants. Because of this, he has developed significant muscle tone for a young child and an incredible sense for anticipating and responding to attacks and surprises. He admits to dabbling in swordplay and archery as well. He dreams of being captain of the Arendelle guard.
When not collecting information at the docks, he is often found in the castle kitchens disguised as a page or messenger boy, organizing his ears among the staff, who remain unnamed and anonymous.
How the freeze impacted him: Ichtaca was set to leave Arendelle after the coronation. He had secured a job on Arendelle's Horizon Wanderer and was sailing out the morning following the ceremony. The freeze locked his ship in harbor, stranding him without a job or money to support him and his adopted brother Dagrun. Hungry and desperate, he stumbled upon a camp of child refugees from the cold and made many friends, most of whom would soon become his brothers and sisters in the organization known as the Ice Informers.
Reba: The trapper
Aged 7 winters.
Real name: unknown, perhaps her code name is her real name
Information master and organizer, everyone reports to her
Affiliation with Arendelle: Reba is surprisingly quiet about her past, what little has been recovered has been pieced together here. She says she arrived in Arendelle a year before the coronation, after a month of 'wandering in the wilderness'.
There is reason to believe she is an escaped slave from an eastern country (possibly Almania) although which one has yet to be determined. Whichever country she hails from, they reportedly have ancient legends about 'the coming of the goddesses'. It is unclear exactly what this means.
Her specialty is setting traps so subtle, the target never suspects that they have been caught. No one knows how she does it, but her information is always precise, complete and meticulously detailed. A report from an anonymous Informer of lower rank states that such traps take the form of carefully designed meeting locations for targets where either some kind of hidden tunnels or amplifying acoustics allow the girl to catch every tidbit of information uttered by the unfortunate and unsuspecting target.
Reba has also been seen feeding and talking to ravens in the city. It is unclear exactly what purpose this habit of hers serves.
How the freeze impacted her: Reba had been living in the woods alone when the time came for the coronation. She watched Elsa flee from Arendelle and saw the cold creep across the fjord, sealing everyone inside.
Out of food and out of options, she crossed the frozen fjord and entered the city, hoping to find warmth and solace. Instead she found others like her: escaped slaves, orphaned children and street urchins, all of them cold and desperate as the Queen's winter stole the comforting heat of summer. Realizing they were desperate to survive, she began to organize them, sending groups to collect firewood, scavenge for food and rig up shelters. Many of the street children caught in the freeze owe their survival to her and her knowledge of winter survival. It was in this makeshift camp that she met a sailor-boy called Ichtaca, who would lead her no more than a week later to her secret position for the kingdom.