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Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods
A seeress tells Odin the whole ending: three winters with no summer, the wolf loose, the ship of dead men’s nails at sail, the sun swallowed, the gods dead in matched pairs with their monsters.
And then — this is the part the doom-sayers forget — the earth rises green from the sea a second time, and the survivors find the old golden game-pieces in the grass. The full illustrated telling is in production.
The characters
Odin
The Allfather · who knows the ending
He traded an eye for wisdom and hung nine nights on the tree for the runes — and all of it bought him only the exact knowledge of the wolf that will swallow him.
Loki
The bound god · father of the end
Bound under a serpent’s venom with the entrails of his own son, until the day the bonds break — then he steers the ship of dead men’s nails against the gods he drank with.
Fenrir
The wolf · the open jaws
Raised among the gods, bound by a ribbon made of impossible things, at the price of a god’s sworn right hand. At the end, his jaws scrape heaven and earth.
Thor
The thunderer · the last nine steps
He kills the world-serpent at the end of the world, walks nine steps from its venom, and falls. The hammer passes to his sons, in the world that comes after.
Where in time this story sits
From the Völuspá, the seeress’s prophecy spoken to Odin — the doom he spends the whole mythology preparing for.
The chain of emanation
- Odinthe Allfather
- Thorhis son, the thunderer
- Lokithe blood-brother turned
- Fenrirhis son, the wolf