Marvel One-Shots and Prompts

Oathbreaker (Part One)

In a world where the mysterious King of the Void waged war on the Nine Realms because of a failed bargain with the Allfather, learn the trials, tribulations, and terrors of the war between realms, and the new paths characters will take.

Oh and Eitri has no character traits, so I made him the echo of Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones. If you don't know, this simply means an intelligent man with terrible drinking habits, a bit of a mouth, and a messed up sense of humor. Enjoy.

No warnings other than language as of now. More complete rating coming shortly.

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The dead lay quiet in their tombs of glory, for they were long gone, and the troubles of present no longer theirs to bear.

The war had raged for years, massacre after massacre. Death and terror, simply because a man other than the rightful ruler had claimed the title of King.

This disagreement, something so easily fixed, caused the bloodiest war ever fought on their soil, the deadliest conflict in a hundred-thousand years. All because the two kings in question could not sit down like grown adults and talk things out. How typical of them.

Loki was not at all impressed by the war, by his country's might as they stood up against the elusive King of the Void. He was not inspired by his father's speeches and mindless mongering, nor by the people's readiness to support something so foolish. He may have been young compared to both the rulers involved in this conflict, but he was far from stupid, and he knew the terror war could cause.

He was born at the end of a war. He had never seen the full might of one, but he grew up on stories of his heroic father battling the monsters from the ice realm and saving the helpless humans of Midgard. It wasn't until he grew older that he began to question the nature of this conflict, the dance of powers in the shadowy world that bordered death and life.

When in inquiry, he came to the conclusion that no monsters truly exist until a victor is crowned. Not that this nullified his disgust for those creatures that nearly killed him as a babe, but they were fighting the same as the army of gold.

War was foolish, but the people knew no other solution. The king, his father, was a genius when it came to many things. Though an old fool, it could not be denied that the Allfather knew how to rally the people to a selfish or foolhardy cause, and knew how to do it efficiently. The common man was expected to hold honor in the trials of combat, and in the coming battles, they would receive chance after chance, should they live.

But war was not at all about honor. Those with it died first. War was a series of backstabbings and schemes, and the side with the least morals typically won. In his father's glory days, there would be nothing too dark to be considered a strategy, but the king was aged, had become wise and benevolent. There was cause to worry.

Their opponent was a shadow. A king without a known face to put a target on. Loki couldn't help but admire this. A ruler oft used their own face was the driving machine of the war, which further proved the selfish nature of conflicts of country. This enemy of theirs had a different idea, it seemed, and a loyal army to back the change. Alfheim had already sided with the enemy, betraying their oaths of a thousand years, which tied them to the crown.

Vanaheim was neutral, claiming themselves 'a mass of scholars and artists unfit for the chaos and bloodshed of war.' The only happening so far that was surprising was that the monsters of Jötunheim had stayed loyal to his father, the very same monsters that tried to reclaim their independence at the time of his birth. The realm of ice was nearly destroyed by their decision. His father had not believed they would stand, but the ice king did anyway, and he died. They all fell. No one could be sure what was left, but it was agreed that it could not be much.