World-Building

Stories tagged World-Building:

• The Story of Ymir, the Primordial Giant Aug 14, 2025

  

  Before the world existed, before there was sky or earth, sea or shore, there was only Ginnungagap – the yawning void that stretched between the realm of fire, Muspelheim, and the realm of ice, Niflheim. In this primordial emptiness, where hot and cold first met, life began in the most unexpected way.

  From the collision of fire and ice came the first drops of melting water, and from these sacred drops emerged the first living being in all of creation. He was enormous beyond imagining, and his name was Ymir – also called Aurgelmir, meaning “Clay-Screamer” or “Gravel-Screamer.” He was the first of the frost giants, the ancestor from whom all giants would descend.