Solveig Fia Bjørnstad

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Solveig Fia Bjornstad
Appearances	Battlefield V
Actor(s)	Susanne Boucher (Voice/Model)
First appearance	Nordlys
Last appearance
Affiliation	Norwegian Resistance
Weapon	MP40 Solveig Knife Krag-Jørgensen
Age	18 (as of 1943)
Height
Blood type
Status	Unknown

"I followed you. I'm trying to save your life."

— Solveig upon freeing Astrid

Solveig, full name Solveig Fia Bjørnstad, is the protagonist and main character of the Battlefield V singleplayer war story Nordlys. During the winter of 1943, she is affiliated with the indigenous resistance movement opposing the German occupying forces in Norway. Her mother Astrid Bjørnstad, a fellow resistance member, is captured, and Solveig sets off to rescue her while also foiling the German scheme to export heavy water.

Personality

Despite a young appearance, Solveig demonstrates traits of an effective soldier - skilled with weapons, determined, and adept in hand-to-hand fighting, demonstrated throughout the story, where she kills dozens of German soldiers without hesitation, and wins unarmed struggles on numerous occasions. Her aggression and combat efficiency is infamous with the local garrison, with Weber mistaking her for a surviving member of the executed Commando team. Aside from her combat skills and physical strength, she is shown to be a capable skier and outdoorswoman, in addition to being resistant to pain and temperature.

Although her mother is deeply involved in resistance activities and is determined to stop the export of heavy water at any cost, Solveig shows some indifference towards the mission and pleads with her mother on several occasions to just return home with her. However, once she is recaptured and Solveig is left to deliver the intelligence satchel to the resistance, she takes up the task herself. Her personality and toughness is well known to her parent, who describes her as "younger that she thinks, and more skilled than she realises", emphasised when Astrid throws her from a bridge down an icy gorge to prevent her capture. This strong sense of responsibility and love for her family leads her to brave both cold and extreme danger to rescue her mother - after collapsing exhausted from hypothermia, it is her mother's voice in her head that spurs her to pull herself to her feet and reach shelter.

Biography

A photograph in Astrid's office viewed by Weber shows Solveig as a young girl, along with her mother and unnamed father. Her father's uniform, rifle and lack of mention in the story suggests he was killed, captured or otherwise missing after the German invasion of Norway in 1940.

In the disastrous aftermath of a British commando raid on the Rjukan heavy water plant, Solveig's mother Astrid is captured and interrogated by Weber. Solveig infiltrates the facility on skis, reaching the administration building where she is held. A struggle ensues with a sentry outside the office, and although Solveig wins the fight the alarm is raised. Solveig unties her captive mother and asks her to return home, but Astrid insists on staying behind to gather intelligence about the transport schedule of heavy water and sabotage the plant. Solveig agrees and the two attempt to escape over a viaduct, but they are trapped by Weber. Forced to surrender and with their capture imminent, Astrid entrusts the intel satchel along with a keepsake - her collar pin - before pushing Solveig over the railing.

Although injured, Solveig recovers and moves through the valley below, pursued by Germans and encountering manned encampments around the frozen river, on her way to deliver the intel to the Resistance. When walking through a narrow pass, a strong wind blows the satchel from her hands leading her to chase after it, lose her footing, and tumble into freezing water. Although able to reach the bank she is wracked by hypothermia and barely conscious. She wanders sluggishly through the woods, playing back conversations with her mother in her mind. While on the brink of passing out and assuredly dying of exposure, she is spurred on by disembodied words of encouragement from her Astrid. She runs to a cabin, found occupied by a German soldier, whom she overpowers and kills before fainting.

Awaking dehydrated in daylight, she looks over the contents of the satchel, reading a letter from Astrid asking the resistance to "take care of [Solveig]". Despite this, Solveig takes up the mission alone, taking off on skis again and destroying trucks loaded with heavy water along with intelligence collected by the national Gestapo. Her activities alert the Germans, who move the remaining trucks to a bunker on the opposite side of the lake. She observes Weber escorting Astrid onto one of the trucks, but is spotted.

The convoy makes their escape across the ice, pursued by Solveig. The group reaches the rendezvous point with a submarine, which is loaded with the barrels. Seeing her Mother being ushered aboard, she makes a final desperate attempt to save her, and is locked in a shootout against hopeless odds. Astrid is shot in the back by Weber and in her shock, Solveig is surrounded. The two lock eyes as Astrid commits suicide with a stolen hand grenade, taking Weber, the submarine and the heavy water with her.

Solveig's own fate is not shown. Although the war story introduction describes her making "the ultimate sacrifice", the final endcard describes that many acts of heroism in occupied countries during the war went unrecorded by history.

Gallery

Solveig

The Bjørnstad family photograph, showing a younger Solveig and her father.