Every weapon, every object, everything refused to harm the god of light. Absolutely everything would bounce off Baldur without leaving so much as a scratch on his skin. Because nothing would harm Baldur, the gods began throwing things at him. He picked some mistletoe and ran back to Asgard.Īfter Frigga’s work was done and she was at peace, the gods discovered a fun game.
The plant was so small and harmless that she thought it could not cause any damage to her son.Īfter this discovery, Loki wasted no time in hatching a plan. Frigga did not bother to obtain a sworn vow from the mistletoe. With sly speeches and disguises, he searched for a flaw in Frigga’s plan, and he found one. When he heard of what Frigga was up to, Loki went snooping around. He wanted to hurt anyone that was an easy target. After all his tricks, and the punishments that had been given him. Never to lift a finger against him.ĭuring this time Loki was in a bad way. Because everyone and everything loved the beautiful god, they all swore a vow of peace for him. She collected vows from everyone and everything, that none would hurt Baldur in any way. The mother of all creation conversed with every living thing, and inanimate object.
When Frigga found out the dream was a prophecy, she set to work. Though it was near impossible to strike a blow against a god, the gods and goddesses were not invincible. That Baldur was to die.Ī god and goddess could not die of old age. Odin consulted a seer, and was told a horrible prophesy. They did not take the news lightly, and investigated the cause of such foreboding visions. Baldur had troubling nightmares, and told his parents Odin and Frigga about them. This was the prophecy that the Giants foretold, of the twilight of the gods - the prophecy that Odin so desperately wanted to prevent.It started with dreams. There will be countless natural disasters, and the world will become submerged in water. Ragnarök will include a great battle that will lead to the deaths of all the Gods, including Odin, Thor, and Loki. After the great winter, it is said that there will be innumerable wars, and the end of the world that will put an end to all life on earth, Ragnarök, will commence.
It is the harsh winter that will see snow falling in all directions, without any summer in between, for three successive years. Mimir, claiming to be the smartest man alive, warns Kratos that the three-year-long winter has started, meaning Ragnarök will follow, a whole hundred years early.įimbulvetr comes from Old Norse, and means "Awful, great winter". Baldur’s mother, Freya, fell out of love with Odin and was banished to the mortal realm, where she assists Kratos up until her son’s death at his hands, only to swear vengeance against him. God of War's Baldur was sent to find the last giant, Faye, by his Godly father, Odin, in order to prevent Ragnarök, not knowing that she was already ashes by his arrival. The stories tell that Loki certainly gets around, fathering many children including Hel of the dead, Fenrir the wolf and Jörmungandr, the world serpent, the last of which we meet in God of War 4. That fire was Loki, a Norse god who is a shapeshifter and often known as a trickster. Little is known about her aside from mothering her more widely-known son, but her names and the interpretations of them describe her as being ‘full of leaves’, and combined with her husband, the two of them symbolically embody lightning, striking the leaves of a tree to give rise to fire. Laufey is a figure from Norse mythology, mother of Loki and consort of Fárbauti, her Jötunn husband whose name means 'cruel striker' or ‘dangerous hitter’. I’ll leave that part for now, because there’s a lot of lovely big norse words here, so let’s break them down.
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