Ragnarok

Stories tagged Ragnarok:

• The Story of the God Vali Aug 9, 2025

  

  The hall of Asgard lay heavy with sorrow. No harp sang, no cup rang, and even the wind that ran along the golden roof was quiet, as if it too had come to mourn. For Baldr the Bright, gentle and fair, had fallen.

  “Who will lift this grief?” whispered Frigg, her hands trembling like leaves in a summer rain.

  Odin All-Father did not answer. His one eye, bright with wisdom and weary with years, gazed far beyond the silver horizon of Asgard. He had ridden Sleipnir to the ends of the Nine Realms and asked after fate; he had hung on the world-tree for runes; he knew what must be done, though the path was thorned.

• The Story of the Ship Naglfar Aug 9, 2025

  

  In the darkest depths of Helheim, where the dishonored dead drift through eternal mists and the light of living suns never penetrates, there exists a harbor unlike any other in the Nine Realms. This is the Náströnd, the shore of corpses, where the waves that wash against the black sand are not made of water, but of the sorrows and regrets of those who died without honor.

  It was here, in this realm of shadow and despair, that the most terrible ship in all existence was being constructed—not by skilled craftsmen or divine beings, but by the inexorable process of death itself. This vessel was Naglfar, the Ship of Nails, and its completion would herald the beginning of the end of all things.

• The Story of the Wolf Skoll and Hati Aug 8, 2025

  

  In the time before time, when the gods first set the cosmic order and hung the lights in the sky to give illumination to the newly-formed realms, they created a system of such perfect balance that day and night would alternate in eternal rhythm, bringing light and darkness to all the worlds in their proper measure.

  Sol, the radiant goddess of the sun, drove her golden chariot across the heavens each day, her magnificent steeds Árvakr and Alsviðr pulling her blazing orb from east to west. Behind her, at a distance measured by divine design, followed Máni, the gentle god of the moon, in his silver chariot drawn by swift horses whose hoofbeats marked the passage of time itself.

• The Binding of Fenrir Aug 2, 2025

  

  In the time before the world’s ending, when the gods of Asgard still ruled from their golden halls and the Nine Worlds were held together by the great ash tree Yggdrasil, there lived in the realm of the Aesir a creature whose destiny would shake the very foundations of existence. This was Fenrir, the wolf-child of Loki, whose story is one of the most tragic and fateful in all of Norse mythology.

• The Story of the God Vidar Aug 2, 2025

  

  Among all the gods of Asgard, none was more enigmatic or more crucial to the future of the cosmos than Vidar, called the Silent God, whose very quietness held within it the power to outlast the end of the world itself. Son of Odin All-Father and the giant-maiden Grid, Vidar embodied a unique combination of divine power and primordial strength that would prove essential when the final hour came and all seemed lost.