Sleipnir

*This is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*

**Sleipnir** or **fire horse** is a fast Norse mount that can charge against the Greed while leaving a fire trail behind.

## Ravens tree

In a forest on the third island of the Norse Lands setting, there's a giant tree (Yggdrasil) with a colossal twisted whitesh trunk sided by two enourmous ravens (Hugin and Munin) guarding it.

Paying three gems at the tree makes Sleipnir appear in a round of lightning and thunder.
After that, the powerful horse is available to ride for twelve coins.

## Speed and stamina

Sleipnir is fast walking and running, and it's slightly faster on plains.
It uses the regular method of grazing on grass to fully recharge it's stamina, and have the well-fed buff.

It has an average stamina pool, that regenerates really fast when it’s walking, meaning that even if it does not stop to graze, in a few seconds it will be ready to run a good distance again.

Among all Norse mounts, Sleipnir has the best overall mobility.
It's the best for moving all around the land during all seasons, except the winter, when it cannot graze, and the cat chariot becomes the best option.
However, due to its fast stamina regeneration while walking, the fire horse is still a very good mount for moving around on the snowy days.

As it has a formidable defensive ability, Sleipnir is an excelent mount for scouting the land beyond portals.
When doing so, the fire trail can be used preemptively on portals without triggering them, to burn any incoming greedlings as soon as (and if) they come out.

## Blazing charge

### Knockback effect

Trigger for the special ability
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The main ability of the Sleipnir is to charge forward, knocking back any greedlings, crushers and breeders in its way. This ability can be extremely useful during Blood Moon as the knockback could be used to buy time for the monarch's power to recharge and the archers to deal damage without the wall in the risk of falling down.

### Fire trail

The secondary ability is that using it's ability to charge also leaves behind a trail of fire. This in tandem with it's ability to knockback enemies makes Sleipnir one of the best mount to deal with Blood Moon waves.

## Norse mythology

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In Norse cosmology, Yggdrasil is an immense and central sacred tree, at which the gods meet for their daily assemblies, and around which everything else exists.
There, Odin, who owned Sleipnir and a pair of ravens, has sacrificed his life.
In *Two Crowns*, Yggdrasil is clearly seen in the horizon of the fifth island.
The giant tree in the forest of the third land—although not so big as the one seen on the fifth—is very likely to be Yggdrasil as well, mainly due to the animals living on it.

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In the Norse myths, Hugin and Munin (“thought” and “memory” respectively) are pet ravens of the Norse god, Odin. Odin’s ravens fly all over Midgard (Earth) collecting all of the information they can in order to report it back to their master.
In *Two Crowns*, the two ravens on the Sleipnir's tree are not speaking to anyone, but solely observing everything.

In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is the eight-legged horse ridden by Odin.
It is the child of Svadilfari and Loki, who is considered by some savants in Norse folklore the god of fire.
Sleipnir is yet described as the best of all horses.
In *Two Crowns*, Sleipnir's eight legs can be seen when pawing the ground, and when sprinting, sometimes leaving behind a trail of sparks and fire in it's way.

## History

 2021-12-10
 2021-11-16
 Introduced.

## References

1. ↑ For an extensive discussion about this mount's name, see this thread.
2. ↑ Yggdrasil on *Wikipedia*.
3. ↑ Odin on *Wikipedia*.
4. ↑ Huginn and Muninn on *Wikipedia*.
5. ↑ Sleipnir on *Wikipedia*.
6. ↑ Loki § Origin on *Wikipedia*.