Destiny's trio

== Overview ==
Wings of Fire: Destiny's Trio is a fanfic that I've been wanting to make for a long time. The three main characters are Jörmungandr, Fenrirsúlfr (A.K.A Fenrir) and Hel. All of which will be getting their own pages that will be linked below!
Jörmungandr
Fenrirsúlfr
Hel
== Theme Song Lyrics! ==
=== Power Snake (Jörmungandr's Theme): ===
Deep beneath the surface
Lurks a mighty beast
A reptile of the ocean
A viper unleashed
This creature is enormous
With fangs as tall as trees
The wretched spawn of Loki
That was banished to the seas
Eyes glowing red in the dark on the ocean floor
As the serpent awakes
Powersnake
You will fade under the shadow of the
Powersnake
The wingless dragon
Storm fiend
Rival of the thunder god
Stronger than all
Powersnake
Driven out by Odin
No place to call his home
Cast out to the ocean
To the great unknown
His lust for vengeance rising
With the power of the waves
This dear abomination of a child
Has many names
Lindworm, king of serpents
Girdle of the realm
This guy has nothing left to prove
With size that overwhelms
Jörmundgandr, Midgard serpent
Bane of Thor
The snake will get his sweet revenge
Come the final war
Eyes glowing red in the dark on the ocean floor
Mighty serpent
Roaring in the deep, he's a beast that devours all
And the serpent awakes
Powersnake
You will fade under the shadow of the
Powersnake
The wingless dragon
Storm fiend
Rival of the thunder god
Stronger than all
Powersnake
So elusive and mysterious
Nessie is no match
The only thing in all the seas
Thor could never catch
With scales tough as shining steel
And steel in heart and mind
Across the world and back again
His body he can wind
The powersnake will drag you down
And drown you in his flesh
Beware to swim, and fear the sea
He likes his dinner fresh
Powersnake
You will fade under the shadow of the
Powersnake
The wingless dragon
Storm fiend
Rival of the thunder god
Stronger than all
Powersnake
=== Hel (Hel's Theme): ===
Deya
Grima
Deya
Grima
Deya
Grima
Far to the north
Through the ice and snow
There's a realm in the dark of the underground
Hidden deep below
Where we all must go
Is the land of the dead and the frozen
Master of the underworld, the queen of twilight
Sovereign of the mortals, she will claim your soul
The mistress of the void
With your death in her mighty grasp
When your path is at its' end
Goddess of the underground
Who's to blame
For the pain of the wicked?
Helbound in her lonely crown
And only the one eyed knows why
Deya
Grima
A monster in their eyes
She was thrown from the skies
In her fall she was crippled and broken
Creating a fiend
It was easy enough
With a beast in control of the harness
Deceived by them all
She was crowned in her hall
As the mother of the sick and unchosen
Master of the underworld, the queen of twilight
Sovereign of the living, she will claim your soul
The mistress of the void
With your death in her mighty grasp
When your path is at its' end
Goddess of the underground
Who's to blame
For the pain of the wicked?
Helbound in her lonely crown
And only the one eyed knows why
There is no escape
The gods will end up dead
Go through the gates of Hel
And to the lordess of decay
Deya
Grima
Deya
Grima
Goddess of the underground
Who's to blame
For the pain of the wicked?
Helbound in her lonely crown
And only the one eyed knows why
=== Chain Breaker (Fenrirsúlfr's Theme): ===
Dark and ancient whispers echoes through the night
Tales of desolation as the end of time is drawing night
Bringer of destruction the wolf is growing strong
He was locked in godly chains that wouldn't last for long
The leash could not domesticate the violent beast within
And when the bane of Odin howls the eternal night begins
When the twines that hold him start to yield before his might
The day will come when Skoll and Hati devours all our light
Chain breaker, he's howling in the night
Chain breaker, brings havoc with his might
Chain breaker, devouring the light
Chain breaker
Chain breaker, he's howling in the night
Chain breaker, brings havoc with his might
Chain breaker, devouring the light
Chain breaker
The gods sought help from dwarven hands to forge a mighty bind
Created out of mysteries too great for mortal minds
They started with the roots of every mountain they could find
The spit of birds, and breath of fish with women's beards entwined
They thought they were so clever when they brutalized the beast
But when his vengeance is at hand he'll have a bloody feast
When the twines that hold him start to yield before his might
The day will come when Skoll and Hati devours all our light
Chain breaker, he's howling in the night
Chain breaker, brings havoc with his might
Chain breaker, devouring the light
Chain breaker
Chain breaker, he's howling in the night
Chain breaker, brings havoc with his might
Chain breaker, devouring the light
Chain breaker
The earth is shaking, mountains breaking the wolf will be unchained
Sky is falling, Fenrir howling the stars will lose their place
Jaws wide open, vengeful with a fire in his eyes
He will swallow everything between the earth and sky
Chain breaker, he's howling in the night
Chain breaker, brings havoc with his might
Chain breaker, devouring the light
Chain breaker
Chain breaker, he's howling in the night
Chain breaker, brings havoc with his might
Chain breaker, devouring the light
Chain breaker
He is the breaker of chains
== History of... ==
=== Jörmungandr: ===
==== Synopsis ====
In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, pronounced [ˈjɔ̃rmoŋˌɡɑndr], meaning "huge monster"), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Old Norse: Miðgarðsormr [ˈmiðˌɡɑrðsˌormr]), is a sea serpent and the middle child of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children by Angrboða—the wolf Fenrir, Hel, and Jörmungandr—and tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. The serpent grew so large that it was able to surround the Earth and grasp its own tail. It is an example of an ouroboros. As a result of it surrounding the Earth, it received the name of World Serpent. When it releases its tail, Ragnarök will begin. Jörmungandr's arch-enemy is the thunder-god, Thor.
==== Sources ====
The major sources for myths about Jörmungandr are the Prose Edda, the skaldic poem Húsdrápa, and the Eddic poems Hymiskviða and Völuspá. Other sources include the early skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa and kennings in other skaldic poems; for example, in Þórsdrápa, faðir lögseims, "father of the sea-thread", is used as a kenning for Loki. There are also several image stones depicting the story of Thor fishing for Jörmungandr.
==== Stories ====
There are three preserved myths detailing Thor's encounters with Jörmungandr:
===== Lifting the cat =====
In one story, Thor encounters the giant king Útgarða-Loki and has to perform deeds for him, one of which is a challenge of Thor's strength. Útgarða-Loki goads Thor into attempting to lift the World Serpent, disguised by magic as a huge cat. Thor grabs the cat around its midsection but manages to raise the cat only high enough for one of its paws to leave the floor. Útgarða-Loki later explains his deception and that Thor's lifting the cat was an impressive deed, as he stretched the serpent so that it almost reached the sky. Many watching became fearful when they saw one paw lift off the ground. If Thor had managed to lift the cat completely from the ground, he would have altered the boundaries of the universe.
===== Thor's fishing trip =====
Jörmungandr and Thor meet again when Thor goes fishing with the giant Hymir. When Hymir refuses to provide Thor with bait, Thor strikes the head off Hymir's largest ox to use it. They row to a point where Hymir often sat and caught flatfish and where he drew up two whales. Thor demands to go further out to sea and does so despite Hymir's protest. Thor then prepares a strong line and a large hook and baits it with the ox head, which Jörmungandr bites. Thor pulls the serpent from the water, and the two face one another, Jörmungandr blowing poison. Hymir goes pale with fear. As Thor grabs his hammer to kill the serpent, the giant cuts the line, leaving the serpent to sink beneath the waves and return to its original position encircling the earth. The Eddic poem Hymiskviða has a similar ending to the story, but in earlier Scandinavian versions of the myth in skaldic poetry, Thor successfully captures and kills the serpent by striking it on the head.
Thor's fishing for Jörmungandr was one of the most popular motifs in Norse art. Four picture stones that are believed to depict the myth are the Altuna Runestone and the Ardre VIII image stone in Sweden, the Hørdum stone in Denmark, and a stone slab at Gosforth, Cumbria by the same sculptor as the Gosforth Cross. Many of these depictions show the giant cutting the fishing line; on the Altuna stone, Thor is alone, implying he successfully killed the serpent. The Ardre VIII stone may depict more than one stage in the events: a man entering a house where an ox is standing, two men leaving, one with something on his shoulder, and two men using a spear to fish. The image on this stone has been dated to the 8th to 10th century. If the stone is correctly interpreted as a depiction of this myth, it would indicate that the story was preserved essentially unchanged for several centuries prior to the recording of the version in the Prose Edda around the year 1220.
===== Ragnarök =====
As recounted in Snorri's Gylfaginning based on the Eddic poem Völuspá, one sign of the coming of Ragnarök is the violent unrest of the sea as Jörmungandr releases its tail from its mouth. The sea will flood and the serpent will thrash onto the land. It will advance, spraying poison to fill the air and water, beside Fenrir, whose eyes and nostrils blaze with fire and whose gape touches the earth and the sky. They will join the sons of Muspell to confront the gods on the plain of Vigrid. Here is where the last meeting between the serpent and Thor is predicted to occur. He will eventually kill Jörmungandr but will fall dead after walking nine paces, having been poisoned by the serpent's deadly venom. Thor's final battle with Jörmungandr has been identified, with other scenes of Ragnarök, on the Gosforth Cross.
==== Analysis ====
Thor's fishing for Jörmungandr has been taken as one of the similarities between him and the Hindu god Indra, who in Vedic mythology slays the dragon Vritra, and has also been related to a Balto-Slavic motif of the storm god combatting a serpent. An alternative analysis of the episode by Preben Meulengracht Sørensen is that it was a youthful indiscretion on the part of Thor, retold to emphasize the order and balance of the cosmos, in which Jörmungandr played a vital role. John Lindow draws a parallel between Jörmungandr's biting of its own tail and the binding of Fenrir, as part of a recurring theme of the bound monster in Norse mythology, where an enemy of the gods is bound but destined to break free at Ragnarök.
=== Hel: ===
==== Synopsis ====
Hel (Old Norse: [ˈhel]) is a female being in Norse mythology who is said to preside over an underworld realm of the same name, where she receives a portion of the dead. Hel is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century. In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egils saga that date from the 9th and 10th centuries, respectively. An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, is generally considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various Migration Period bracteates.
In the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, and Heimskringla, Hel is referred to as a daughter of Loki. In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Hel is described as having been appointed by the god Odin as ruler of a realm of the same name, located in Niflheim. In the same source, her appearance is described as half blue and half flesh-coloured and further as having a gloomy, downcast appearance. The Prose Edda details that Hel rules over vast mansions with many servants in her underworld realm and plays a key role in the attempted resurrection of the god Baldr.
Scholarly theories have been proposed about Hel's potential connections to figures appearing in the 11th-century Old English Gospel of Nicodemus and Old Norse Bartholomeus saga postola, that she may have been considered a goddess with potential Indo-European parallels in Bhavani, Kali, and Mahakali or that Hel may have become a being only as a late personification of the location of the same name.
==== Entymology ====
The Old Norse divine name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō- 'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan- 'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan). It derives, ultimately, from the Proto-Indo-European verbal root *ḱel- 'to conceal, cover, protect' (compare with Latin cēlō, Old Irish ceilid, Greek kalúptō). The Old Irish masculine noun cel 'dissolution, extinction, death' is also related.
Other related early Germanic terms and concepts include the compounds *halja-rūnō(n) and *halja-wītjan. The feminine noun *halja-rūnō(n) is formed with *haljō- 'hell' attached to *rūno 'mystery, secret' > runes. It has descendant cognates in the Old English helle-rúne 'possessed woman, sorceress, diviner', the Old High German helli-rūna 'magic', and perhaps in the Latinized Gothic form haliurunnae, although its second element may derive instead from rinnan 'to run, go', leading to Gothic *haljurunna as the 'one who travels to the netherworld'. The neutral noun *halja-wītjan is composed of the same root *haljō- attached to *wītjan (compare with Goth. un-witi 'foolishness, understanding', OE witt 'right mind, wits', OHG wizzi 'understanding'), with descendant cognates in Old Norse hel-víti 'hell', Old English helle-wíte 'hell-torment, hell', Old Saxon helli-wīti 'hell', or Middle High German helle-wīzi 'hell'.
Hel is also etymologically related—although distantly in this case—to the Old Norse word Valhöll 'Valhalla', literally 'hall of the slain', and to the English word hall, both likewise deriving from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- via the Proto-Germanic root *hallō- 'covered place, hall'.
=== Fenrirsúlfr: ===
==== Synopsis ====
Fenrir (Old Norse: [ˈfenrez̠]; "fen-dweller") or Fenrisúlfr (O.N.: [ˈfenresˌuːlvz̠]; "Fenrir's wolf", often translated "Fenris-wolf"), also referred to as Hróðvitnir (O.N.: [ˈhroːðˌwitnez̠]; "fame-wolf") and Vánagandr (O.N.: [ˈwɑːnɑˌɡɑndz̠]; "monster of the [River] Ván"), or Vanargand, is a wolf in Norse mythology. Fenrir, together with Hel and the World Serpent, is a child of Loki and giantess Angrboða. He is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, Fenrir is the father of the wolves Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson, is a son of Loki and is foretold to kill the god Odin during the events of Ragnarök, but will in turn be killed by Odin's son Víðarr.
In the Prose Edda, additional information is given about Fenrir, including that, due to the gods' knowledge of prophecies foretelling great trouble from Fenrir and his rapid growth, the gods bound him and as a result Fenrir bit off the right hand of the god Týr. Depictions of Fenrir have been identified on various objects and scholarly theories have been proposed regarding Fenrir's relation to other canine beings in Norse mythology. Fenrir has been the subject of artistic depictions and he appears in literature.
==== Attestations ====
===== Poetic Edda =====
Fenrir is mentioned in three stanzas of the poem Völuspá and in two stanzas of the poem Vafþrúðnismál. In stanza 40 of the poem Völuspá, a völva divulges to Odin that, in the east, an old woman sat in the forest Járnviðr "and bred there the broods of Fenrir. There will come from them all one of that number to be a moon-snatcher in troll's skin." Further into the poem the völva foretells that Odin will be consumed by Fenrir at Ragnarök:
Then is fulfilled Hlín's
second sorrow,
when Óðinn goes
to fight with the wolf,
and Beli's slayer,
bright, against Surtr.
Then shall Frigg's
sweet friend fall.
In the stanza that follows the völva describes that Odin's "tall child of Triumph's Sire" (Odin's son Víðarr) will then come to "strike at the beast of slaughter" and with his hands he will drive a sword into the heart of "Hveðrungr's son," avenging the death of his father.
In the first of two stanzas mentioning Fenrir in Vafþrúðnismál Odin poses a question to the wise jötunn Vafþrúðnir:
In the stanza that follows Vafþrúðnir responds that Sól (here referred to as Álfröðull) will bear a daughter before Fenrir attacks her, and that this daughter shall continue the paths of her deceased mother through the heavens.
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