Gleipnir

Gleipnir is the name of the first brig built in Valhalla. Alf had long objected to one being built as he felt it unwise to keep ones enemies within their base. Enemies who needed to be housed for a time were usually remanded to walrus cages.
== Spoilers ==
When Wulfgar was caught in 2230, Death listed plans for a brig on the Alopex bulletin. The ravine then refined the design, with Alf only noting once that he felt it unwise, but the ravine decided to build it anyway. Violet felt it was a bit too humane and perhaps too flimsy a design when she visited Wulfgar there. It was link labeled Gleipnir upon its completion. The finished brig featured barred inner walls, detector fields, systems to keep occupants alive and prevent them from linking out. The exterior featured buttresses.
Marduk was imprisoned there after Valknut's project Beta. Mishka's Tikari found him there, and detonated upon seeing Vibeke, burning half her face off, killing Marduk and blowing a hole in the wall through which Wulfgar escaped. Alf simply stated this this was exactly why he was against the brig in the first place. It was not rebuilt.
== Behind the Scenes ==
Gleipnir is the name of the cord that bound the Fenris wolf in Norse mythology. Wulfgar's comment that it smells like fish breath is a reference to one of the strings components, the breath of a fish. Other components from myth include the sound of a cat walking, a woman's beard, the roots of a mountain, sinews of a bear and some bird spit.
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