Victor Elysan

> "He is trying to kill you and you are hitting him with the blunt end?"
> "I'm not like you."
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**Victor Elysan** is the protagonist of *The Prophecies of Ragnarok* trilogy. He works as a professor in New York City and winds up in Hotel Fen after he wins a radio contest for an all-expense paid trip. He is the love interest of Silje Storstrand.

## Appearance

Victor stands at 5'9". His black hair is just long enough to look shaggy if he doesn't style it back away from his face and his blue eyes are an ethereal color that practically glow in intensity. He has a fairly lean build, though there's a hint of muscle underneath. As well, he has reading glasses that he wears occasionally.

## Personality

Victor is very family focused and a born nerd. Both of his parents are teachers, and when he was little he idolized his father teaching at a big university. He loves his mother dearly, and despite some of the things his father has put his family through he does still love his father. They are important to him, and he wouldn't have followed in their footsteps if they weren't.

He's also a fiercely loyal person. He will fight to the ends of the earth for both family and friends, no matter what it might cost him. He's self-sacrificing to the point of dangerous, and yet it also does show just how deeply he cares for those he keeps around him.

Romantic wise, Victor hasn't had a lot of luck in love but he's a shy romantic at heart. He's the kind of guy that believes in soulmates and love at first sight, as well as the sacred must of mistletoe at Christmas.

## History

### Childhood

Victor has two cats, a younger sister, and parents who are on their way to getting divorced. His father is also a teacher, but while Victor is genuinely interested in history and mythology, his old man might’ve enjoyed the adulation of his starry-eyed young students a little too much.

### Hotel Fen

Victor is just checking into the hotel when he first meets Silje, who has just come in from a hiking trip with some of the other guests of the hotel. After sharing a long elevator ride with her up to the eight floor, the two part for their respective rooms that are side by side. An accidental nudge of the adjoining door has it open so he catches her in only a towel fresh from a shower and as an apology, he invites her to lunch. While hesitant, he's grateful that she agrees to lunch and accepts his apology for the accident. On the way down, during their conversation she jokes that that Fen might be short for *Fenris* and the elevator stops seemingly in protest. With an apology issued though, the elevator continues down to the lobby.

After some talking and lunch, the two go on a 'wolf hunt' to see just how many wolf images are hidden around. The hunt leads them outside as they take a small hike and discuss destiny and free will. Victor believes that there is such thing as soulmates and destiny, but that you also have the option to take hold of your own life and steer it with your decisions, a la free will.

A nap and a strange dream about a brown haired woman on a beach later, Victor wakes to find he'd written some runes in his leather bound notebook during his sleep. Before he could fully question it the hotel loses power and he moves out of his room to find Silje standing at the elevators on her way out. A strange sound from down the hall lures them away from the elevator to check it out, but are scared when loud banging from the room's adjoining door startles them. They retreat back to the elevator, fully intending to take the stairs to the lobby. However, the door handle has become a wolf's head and refuses to budge and let them pass. Deciding it's not real safe at the hotel anymore, they go into his room to pack his things so he can head to Oslo with her. While helping him, Silje spots his notebook with the runes scribbled across the page.

Before she can ask him about it, the wolf's head in the bathroom transforms into a real wolf and attacks them. Abandoning most of their things, they escape the room but the wolf bursts into the hallway with them. Victor pushes Silje out of the way and wrestles with the wolf, eventually falling through the door of the stairwell and down the stairs, killing the wolf. They slip onto the next floor and Victor uses the wolf's body to barricade the door.

Just as they turn to head down the hallway, they hear a soft mewl and find a black Norwegian forest cat beneath the wolf's carcass. The cat takes an almost instant shine to Victor, though she doesn't seem to appreciate Silje much. Eventually, Victor is able to get the cat to let Silje look her over and discover that the hind leg is injured. They decide to keep her with them while they make their way through the hotel and he names her Ada.

The three slowly make their way through the hotel; the hotel seeming to force them to zigzag their way to the lobby, with the knobs of the stairwell doors magically transforming into wolf heads or just refusing to twist for them. On the sixth floor, they see writing on the windows however to Victor it just looks like runes while Silje confirms that it spells out *H-E-L-P*. The two start to hear wailing and sounds from the rooms around them, pushing them to flee. They get separated for a moment when he pushes her through the stairwell door but it slams closed before he can make it through. Once he's able to get it open and slip through he doesn't really push to answer her for what happened, just insisting they continue moving.

On the fifth floor landing they meet Erik, another guest of the hotel that Silje seems to know. Victor can't help be wary of him, considering he's the only other person that they'd run into. Ada takes his side in the matter, but Silje seems both relieved to have another person with them and glad that one of the people she'd spent some time with before Victor showed up is safe. Tension builds between Victor and Erik, not helped that the man insists on putting himself between Victor and Silje constantly. Everything builds against Victor when on the third floor he can hear whispering in a language that neither Erik or Silje seem to understand but sounds like plain English to him.

The second floor sees the tension come to a crashing climax when they're attacked by two large wolves that fight Victor but eventually follow his orders to leave. Freaked out by Victor's ability to control the wolves, Erik accusing him of being the cause of all the weird things happening in the hotel and tries to shoot him. Ada heroically saves Victor before the two men come to blows in a full on fight. Erik pulls a knife on Victor and the two scuffle over it before Silje intervenes and takes the knife from them both.

While distracted by a vision, Silje doesn't realize until it's too late that Erik pulled her hand with the knife and stabbed Victor in the stomach. With Victor reeling from the knife wound, Erik tries to strangle Silje, but summoning the last of his strength, and with Ada's help, he's able to force Erik off her before the man retreats and leaves them alone on the floor.

Silje tends to Victor's wound as best she's able while the two come to realize that the couple from their visions had been them in a previous life. Sigridr and Vidar. Ada brings Silje the medicine cabinet key, leading her back to it and the closet with some spare bedding and clothes. Using the supplies, Silje better patches Victor up as they talk about what they remember and reconcile.

They get a few hours of sleep, the storm raging on outside the hotel as they get some rest. Once awake, Silje and Ada leave him resting under protest to scout the vending machine and grab some food and drink. Coming back to him with food, Silje also tells him about a secret passageway that Ada showed her. They agree to eat first and then after a small argument where Victor refuses to let Silje check it out alone, the three of them head back to explore it. While it doesn't end up being a way out for them, what they find is a workshop owned by the dwarf, Ivaldi. The dwarf turns out to be a good friend to Ada, and who knew Silje's and Victor's past incarnations. As he gifts them with their old possessions and some armor and weapons, they speculate about Loki and what he wants from them. As well, how Sigyn, Loki's wife in the old myths, might have actually been Sigridr but with the stories having been twisted in translation.

A large shadow creature breaks into the workshop and tries to abduct Silje, however Victor, Ivaldi and Ada work together and fight it off. After making sure that they're all unscathed, they follow the tunnel carved by the creature. On their journey they run into a ghost that bears a striking resemblance to Vidar and tells them that he and many others have been trapped here in the hotel. He calls Silje a valkyrie and tells her she already knows how to release him, to release them all.

Another large creature comes into the tunnel with them and envelopes Silje in a dark cocoon and Victor, Ivaldi and Ada fight hard to free her from it and the strange cocoon. In defeating the creature, it breaks into tons of soft glowing lights that fill the tunnel and Silje finally comes to. Using her valkyrie power, with Victor sharing his strength and power to her, she frees all of the souls that had been trapped.

Moving forward through the tunnel, they find a crystal cavern where Erik, now known to them as Fenris, is waiting. A large battle ensues and Silje is wounded in the process, Fenris catching her side with his jaws after he transforms into his wolf form. Seeing red for her injured, Victor finally defeats him by ripping his jaw apart — ironically fulfilling the foretold prophecy.

With the cavern collapsing around them, Victor carries Silje out, promising to give her a unicorn house so long as she stays with him. Once out, Ada brings him a sewing kit and, after a small concerned talk about what he had to to, he sews her wound up to ensure she'll make it to the hospital. She passes out while he finishes up and he carefully gets her settled in Ivaldi's car. When she asks him where they're going, he simply answers, "Home."