Thor

Stories tagged Thor:

• The Story of the Giant Thrym Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the frost-covered realm of Jotunheim, where the wind howled across endless peaks of ice and snow, ruled Thrym, the mightiest of all the frost giants. His palace was carved from a glacier that had stood since the world’s beginning, its walls gleaming blue-white in the pale northern light, and his throne was made from the bones of ancient creatures frozen in eternal ice.

  Thrym was not like other giants who relied purely on strength and size to dominate their enemies. He possessed a cunning mind that matched his enormous stature, and he had long harbored a secret desire—to possess the most beautiful of all the goddesses as his bride and to humiliate the gods of Asgard in the process.

• The Story of the God Fjorgyn Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the beginning, when the world was nothing but cold void and burning chaos, when ice and fire warred endlessly across the emptiness, there stirred something deeper than either—something that would become the foundation of all life, all growth, all nurturing love. This was Fjorgyn, the Earth Mother, whose very being would become the soil from which all green things spring.

  Fjorgyn was ancient beyond measure, old as the bones of creation itself. She was not born as gods are born, but awakened as the earth awakens each spring—slowly, gradually, but with irresistible force. As the giant Ymir fell and his body became the substance of the world, it was Fjorgyn who breathed life into that raw material, who transformed dead flesh into living soil.

• The Story of the Midgard Serpent (Jormungandr) Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the deepest trenches of the vast ocean that surrounds Midgard, where no light from the sun has ever penetrated and the pressure would crush mountains, dwells one of the most magnificent and terrible beings in all the Nine Realms. This is Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent, whose massive coils encircle the entire world and whose tail rests in his own mouth.

  Jormungandr was not always the monster of the deep that mortals fear in their darkest nightmares. Once, he had been merely one of three extraordinary children born to Loki and the giantess Angrboda in the wild lands of Jotunheim. As a hatchling, he was no larger than any other serpent, though even then his scales gleamed like polished jade and his eyes held an intelligence that was both beautiful and unsettling.

• The Story of the God Magni Aug 9, 2025

  

  In the great hall of Bilskirnir, where Thor the Thunder-God dwelt with his family, laughter echoed like rolling thunder across clear skies. For Thor had a son, a boy called Magni, whose name meant “Strength,” and well did he live up to that name from his earliest days.

  Magni was no ordinary child, even by the standards of the gods. While other divine youngsters might lift stones or wrestle with young goats, Magni could move boulders that would challenge a grown giant. Yet for all his strength, he was gentle-hearted, never using his power to bully or harm, but always to help when help was needed.

• The Story of the God Modi Aug 9, 2025

  

  In the halls of Bilskirnir, where Thor’s hammer rang against his anvil and the sound of thunder was as common as birdsong, lived two remarkable brothers. The elder was Magni, whose strength could move mountains. The younger was Modi, whose name meant “Courage,” and in him burned a spirit so fierce and true that even the bravest gods marveled at his heart.

  Where Magni was tall and golden like his father, Modi was leaner, quicker, with eyes that sparked like lightning before the storm. But what he might have lacked in raw strength compared to his brother, he more than made up for in pure, undaunted bravery.

• The Story of Sif's Golden Hair Aug 5, 2025

  

  In all of Asgard, no goddess was more beautiful than Sif, wife of Thor the thunder god. But her greatest glory was not her fair face or graceful form—it was her magnificent hair, which fell to her feet like a cascade of the finest gold. When she walked in the morning sunlight, her hair shimmered and gleamed as if woven from the sun’s own rays.

  Thor was utterly devoted to his wife, and he would often spend hours simply watching her brush her glorious golden tresses, his heart swelling with pride and love.

• The Birth of Thor Aug 2, 2025

  

  In the early days of Asgard, when the halls of the gods still echoed with the sounds of construction and the realm was being shaped into its eternal glory, Odin the All-Father gazed across the Nine Realms with his far-seeing eye. From his high throne Hlidskjalf, he could perceive threats gathering in the shadows—giants plotting in Jotunheim, dark forces stirring in the depths of creation.

  “The time will come,” Odin murmured to himself, “when Asgard will need a defender whose strength matches the fury of the storm itself.”

• The Theft of Thor's Hammer (Mjolnir) Aug 1, 2025

  

  Thor the Thunder-God awoke one morning in his great hall Bilskirnir to find something terribly wrong. He reached instinctively for Mjolnir, his mighty hammer that never left his side, but his hand grasped only empty air. The weapon that had never failed him, that returned to his hand whenever thrown, that could level mountains and split the sky with lightning—was gone.

  “MJOLNIR!” Thor’s roar shook the very foundations of Asgard, rattling the halls of the gods and causing the rainbow bridge Bifrost to shimmer with his fury. He leaped from his bed, his red hair wild with sleep and anger, his blue eyes blazing like lightning.