Brigitte Abbendis[2] is perhaps the most fervent of all the leaders of the Crusade. She hates the undead with a fanatical loathing and thinks nothing of sacrificing her troops in an effort to eradicate the walking dead. Brigitte is the daughter of the previous High General Abbendis, an older man who sought to destroy all undead. He passed that mission onto his daughter before he died at the hands of the undead.[3]
Brigitte was one of the members of the Silver Hand present when then-Commander Alexandros Mograine revealed his plan to forge the weapon that would become known as Ashbringer, and participated in the act of cleansing the sword's crystal. She seemed to accompany Tirion Fordring and Isillien at that meeting in Old Hillsbrad. She, her father High General Abbendis,[4] Grand Inquisitor Isillien, Saidan Dathrohan,[5]Taelan Fordring,[6] and Renault Mograine formed the Crusade.[7] She was promoted to High General after the death of her father.
In the comic, her father is present at this meeting, but she is not. Tirion is also not present in the comic.
High General Abbendis is a level 59 eliterare mobhuman in Tyr's Hand in the Eastern Plaguelands. She can frequently be found visiting the city's abbey or planning the Crusade's military operations in the garrison.
With the introduction of the Scarlet Onslaught, she has been stationed as the leader of the organization in the cathedral of New Hearthglen as a level 72 elite.