As Frida Waldbach, and later as Lady Adalfrid, she is a proficient witch and prolific research scholar.
Like other witches, Adalfrid's working style is improvised and intuitive. Her area of interest is nature.
See also: Chromatic Theory, one of the systems she researches: her paper on the subject is unfinished at the time of her death, and is thought to have been destroyed in the subsequent unpleasantness.