Echoes from Valhalla

ᛒᛁᚴᛁᚾᚾᛁᚾᚴ (Beginning)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ TAGS. There will be heavy themes of gore, blood and genocide. If you are not comfortable please don't read. I will have a warning at the beginning of each chapter and have a summary at the end of the chapter in case you are not comfortable reading the details of the scene.

This story will rely heavily on Norse Mythology and Norse terminology.

The period that this story will be taking place will be during the Viking era (793 - 1066 AD).

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Before Ymir,
Or ocean moved,
Earth was not nor sky,
nor green - Gap gaped.
-Völuspá

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Long before the world took shape, there was nothing but the void. This darkness of infinite silence came to be later known as Ginnungagap. The yawning abyss that lay between the realms of Muspelheim and Niflheim. This celestial union brought forth the birth of Ymir, the first frost giant of the expanding universe, and thawed Auhumla, from her frigid imprisonment on Niflheim. As centuries passed, Auhumla met Ymir in a fragile state, promising him that she would give him her milk. Ensuring Ymir's survival until the time of the predetermined legacy arrived. The thawing of Niflheim continued, and Búri appeared. Known as the first of the gods and father to all other beings, he walked the frozen plain of the ancient world until falling beneath Hárm enchantment.

Time continued and stopped and the birth of Odin became known throughout the realm. Soon after Vili and Vé followed right after their brother and were introduced as the new gods of the astral planes. The age of nothingness and the dawn of creation continued without threat until Ymir revealed himself. Centuries of bloodlust oozed from his very pores, the blood of the ancient kin. Odin and his brothers slew Ymir to protect their kin from needless slaughter. However, upon beholding the vast expanse of the frost-giant corpse, they began to shape the world. From his flesh they formed the earth; from his blood, the seas; from his bones, the mountains; and from his skull, the sky.

The first humans to tread upon the new plane of existence were the Ohara ætt. The males are direct descendants of Odin himself showcasing his strong will, immense strength, and the honor of death. The women, carrying the sacred bloodline of Freyja the goddess of love, beauty, and seiðr magic become the eyes of the gods and the voice of the mortals. Creating a ætt revered and feared across the realms of mortals. Both sexes of the ætt were trusted with a rare gift that only their bodies would be able to withstand: the djǫflaber also known as devil fruit.

The Ohara ætt lived for centuries among the gods in Asgard. Serving as the ancient guardians of the powerful runes' scriptures and relics, forbidden to ever gaze eyes upon. However, in the unquenched desire to discover the secrets of the world they broke their vow upon gazing at these sacred runes. Uncovering a forbidden prophecy that would rewrite the current world that they had come to know. An ancient prophecy that spoke of the coming of the end of the world that they knew --Ragnarök.

In the attempts to seize the cataclysmic apocalypse to occur, they attempted to alter fate by manipulating the threads of destiny and seiðr to change the grim future they had foreseen. In this act of defiance that was revealed, it was seen as an ultimate betrayal of the gods' trust. An unforgivable sin of intruding on the natural order and the sacred laws bestowed upon them from Yggdrasil.

The ætt was banished from realms of gods, forbidden from ever approaching the World Tree. Due to the god's fear of releasing a premature Ragnarök to mankind and bringing forth the destruction of the nine realms.