Ragnarök

Ragnarök, also known as the Twilight of the Gods, was a major battle fought by the Æsir and einherjar against the combined forces of the Muspels, jötnar, the souls of the unworthy dead, Loki, and his three children Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel. It occurred right as the Great Catastrophe struck the Earth during the Isu Era. The event was largely caused by the actions of the Isu Odin, who stole the mead of poetry from jötnar custodyAssassin's Creed: Valhalla – A Feast to Remember and then killed the Muspel warlord Surtr. Following the Great Catastrophe, it was remembered by the humans as a cataclysmic cycle that destroys the world so it can be started anew. For the Norse, Ragnarök represented an approaching ultimate battle that results in the death of many of their gods, including Odin and Thor, as well as the rebirth of the world through submersion into water.
==Mythology==
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events prophesied in the poem from the . In it, a recites information to Odin, seeing a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major gods—Týr, Freyr, Heimdall, and Loki among the casualties—the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors, . Ragnarök is an important event in Norse mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory throughout the history of Germanic studies.
==Prelude==
Among the Isu who predicted or were warned of that the Great Catastrophe, a number of them saw it as the culmination of Ragnarök for their species. When Fenrir's birth was seen as a key part of making the cataclysm a certainty, his father Loki smuggled the boy into the Æsir city of Asgard, fearing the jötnar the boy was born into would kill him. However, the Nornir had warned the Æsir leader Odin of Fenrir's role in his own death at the onset of Ragnarök and, while he kept his blood bond with Loki not to harm the child, Loki's inability to trust him and their respective machinations helped ensure that the Great Disaster came to pass.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – 
==Legacy==
When Desmond Miles averted the Second Disaster in 2012,Assassin's Creed III – Modern day the Instruments of the First Will member Isaiah, a former Templar, saw it as an attempt to circumvent the end of the next Ragnarök cycle. Affronted, he tried to use the Trident of Eden to bring about the world's destruction so he could position himself as ruler of what came after. His plot was undone with help from Minerva around 2016 during the Ascendance Event.Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods – 
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods 
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla 
**The Way of the Berserker 
**Wrath of the Druids 
**Dawn of Ragnarök 
**Mastery Challenge 
**The Forgotten Saga 
**The Last Chapter 
*Discovery Tour: Viking Age 
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Forgotten Myths 
*The World of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Journey to the North – Logs and Files of a Hidden One 
*Echoes of History 
==References==
Category:Norse mythology
Category:Battles
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