Isolation

Stories with the Isolation theme:

• 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.