Innocence

Stories with the Innocence theme:

• The Story of the God Hodr Aug 9, 2025

  

  The sun had a way of making Baldr glow, not as a flame does, but as a lily on water—quiet, effortless, bright. In Asgard, where laughter and feasts were common, Baldr’s smile was the warmest. His brother Hodr loved that smile dearly, though he had never seen it.

  Hodr was born without sight. Yet he knew the shape of the world through sound and touch: the whisper of ravens’ wings, the copper breath of the hearth, the cool braids of the wind. When the gods tossed their spears and hurled their stones at Baldr to prove that nothing could harm him, Hodr stood apart, listening to the clatter and cheer.

• The Story of the God Narfi Aug 9, 2025

  

  In the time before Loki’s heart turned fully to malice, when mischief was his game rather than cruelty, he had a family that he loved with surprising tenderness. His wife was Sigyn the Faithful, whose loyalty would prove deeper than the roots of Yggdrasil itself. And they had children—two sons who knew nothing of their father’s growing darkness, who saw only the parent who told them clever stories and taught them to laugh at the world’s absurdities.