Odin

**Odin** (Old Norse: **Óðinn**), also known as the **All-Father**, is the King of the Aesir. He is the eldest son of Collin and Bestla, the brother of Vili, Vé and Hœnir, the father of Thor, Týr, Heimdall and Baldur, grandfather of Magni, Modi, Forseti and Thrúd, and ex-husband of Fjörgyn, Hróðr, Blóðughadda and Frigg.

Working behind the scenes, the All-Father is the perpetrator behind the events of The Reggiesworld Trilogy, eventually setting the events of the series into motion by sending his tracker find the Guardian at Kratos' Cabin. Following the death of Baldur at the hands of Kratos, Odin comes to the fore and becomes the main antagonist of Ragnarök,

Seeking a status quo with the Spartan and his son, Atreus, the All-Father slowly but surely drives a wedge between the two of them by using Atreus' innate gift in ancient languages to his own benefit. Ever omniscient, he completely fools his enemies under the guise of Týr, allowing him to constantly stay one step ahead before being exposed *in extremis*. As the realms unite against him under the leadership of the Spartan, he is unable to prevent Ragnarök from happening. The All-Father then personally battles Kratos, Atreus and Freya in a last ditch attempt to save his crumbling kingdom, only to find himself on his knees. He ultimately meets his end in the arms of his former protégé. His captured soul was eventually destroyed by Sindri.

## Biography

Odin was a grandson of Eddward the first of the Aesir gods, who had sprung from Ymir, the first Giant and father of all life and one of the sons of Collin. However, unlike Ymir, Odin felt that the Aesir were fit to be the supreme rulers of the Nine Realms and so he, along with his brothers Vili and Vé killed Ymir and anyone else who stood in their path, with Odin himself taking the place of the "All-Father", after that, Ymir's blood drowned all Jötnar, except Bergelmir and his wife. Odin would then create the realm of Midgard from Ymir’s torn flesh. Eventually, Odin would create the first Mortals; Ask and Embla.

The moment Ymir was slain by Odin, it caused the creation of a reality tear, which caught the eye of Odin. After suffering a bout of existentialism, he came to realize that there is much more to them than the Nine Realms. With this realization, he began a massive research project to discover the secrets of the reality tear. This was also the beginning of his obsessive nature regarding knowledge, as he began aggressively gathering more knowledge and developed a great capacity and determination for learning. Around this time he built the realm of Asgard and declare himself king of the Aesir. He even cemented this with a Grand Lodge that he built above the reality tear and a research complex underneath the Grand Lodge where he would began gathering more wisdom across the Nine Realms.

Seeing the need to expand Asgard's forces, he seized control of Valhalla and the nine Valkyries who oversaw it despite the best efforts of their Queen to prevent this. He would go on to use Valhalla's endless supply of deceased individuals to create an endless supply of superhuman soldiers for the Asgardian military. This was part of his future plans to try and thwart Ragnarök, a prophesied catastrophic event that would lead to an apocalypse and the deaths of most of the Norse Gods. To prepare for this impending threat, Odin would permit only the greatest warriors who had died in battle to enter Valhalla to one day serve as his own personal army: the Valkyries serving as his recruiters and trainers in that respect. Everyone else he relegated to the icy wasteland known as Helheim.

At some point, Mimir came to Odin with Mimisbrunnr, a "Mystic Well of Knowledge" but it was really a well laced with enough magic mushrooms to give even a God as powerful as him visions. Odin was initially so impressed with this well that whatever he saw in his hallucinations made him start to tear out both of his eyes. Fortunately, he was stopped by Mimir from finishing the job and was convinced by Mimir that he had sacrificed his eye for knowledge. However, Odin instantly figured out that Mimir had fooled him but allowed him to become his adviser due to his immense intelligence. After he imprisoned his adviser, Odin removed one of Mimir's eyes and tortured him on a daily basis. Odin also searched for Brok and Sindri to construct a Statue of Thor within which to hide Mimir's severed eye. The Dwarves refused but were still forced to construct the statue.

Around this time, Odin also began marrying women and expanding his family, hoping to gain strong children. At some point during this quest, he sought out the Giant Skaði's hand in marriage, but when she rejected his affections, Odin tricked her into killing her own father out of pettiness, which inadvertently led to her succumbing to her fate. Odin also married the giantessFjörgyn, with whom he had Thor. Sometime after Thor's birth, Fjörgyn mysteriously died, leaving Odin heartbroken and alone for many years. Odin ended up marrying another giantess Hróðr who bore him Týr, and after that he married goddess Blóðughadda who bore him Heimdall.

Odin at one point met the stone giant Hrungnir and was so amused by the latter's gullible nature that rather than killing him immediately Odin invited him to Asgard and made him drunk and goaded him into all manners of boasts and antics, even taking the threat of Hrungnir killing all the Aesir and taking all the women of Asgard back to Jötunheim as a joke. However, it came to an end after another fit of laughter upon Thor killing the stone giant and being crushed by his corpse and Odin ordered all his men to remove it from Thor but none of the Aesir was strong enough to do so and Thor himself was too drunk to remove the stone giant off him until Odin's grandchildren Magni and Modi came and freed Thor.

After cementing his rule as the "All-Father," Odin continued to wage wars against the other realms, defeating and subduing Alfheim, Svartalfheim and Niflheim; Muspelheim and Jotunheim remained beyond his reach. He did not encounter any real difficulties until he and the Aesir encountered the Vanir, an opposing tribe of Gods native to the realm of Vanaheim; the two forces fought endlessly until finally they reached a stalemate. At this point, both sides grew tired of fighting, and Odin eventually agreed to marry Freya to end the fighting, and so that Odin may secretly learn her magic. Together, they produced Odin's youngest son, Baldur. For a time, the two appeared to have greatly cared for one another, with Mimir noting that their relationship seemed to echo that of Odin and Fjörgyn's, with Odin treating her in a loving manner and conceding to most of her wishes, giving the Valkyries some freedom when she wished it.

However, Odin reveals to Freya his true nature and demanded that he give her the same protection spell that she bestowed on her son. When this was refused, this angered the All-Father greatly and he proceeded to trash her room, causing Freya to leave him. Odin then cursed her to remain imprisoned in Midgard and to never harm another living thing, even in self-defense, out of petty revenge. To ensure that she could never leave Midgard, Odin proceeded to tie and bind several roots of Yggdrasil together into a knot using his magic, as he knew that the dragon Níðhögg, the caretaker of the world tree, would protect its roots and prevent anyone from undoing the curse.

Odin also sought the secrets of Jötunheim and the Giants. His son Týr attempted to open relations between them by inviting Odin to a summit with the Giants, but Odin only agreed to steal the secrets of Jötunheim. The giants saw Odin's sinister intentions and expelled Odin from Jotunheim, banishing with a curse that prevented him from ever returning. In response, Odin began a genocidal campaign to slaughter any giant the Aesir could find. This proved too much for Týr, who turned against Odin to help the giants cut Jotunheim off from the other realms. For this betrayal, Odin had Týr imprisoned and spread rumour of his death, all in the hopes having a secret war god would prove to be of use someday.

#### Meeting with the Ghost of Sparta

Three years after the beginning of Fimbulwinter, Odin showed up in the flesh with Thor to negotiate a *status quo* with Kratos and Atreus, secretly fearing what he considered to be a threat to his power. Aware of the precarious situation in which the Spartan and his son found themselves, caught between Fimbulwinter and Freya, the All-Father offered to forgive the blood debt the Aesir were owed for the death of Baldur while preventing Freyafrom hunting the two gods if, in return, they promised not to attack the Aesir again or seek out Týr. A simple "no" from Kratos was enough to provoke a brawl with Thor that sent the two brutes flying across Midgard. Odin took advantage of Kratos' absence to reveal to Atreus that he is no longer interested in Jötunheim and cordially invites him to Asgard for an apprenticeship before leaving. Lenient, he even offered to pay for the broken roof.

#### Master of deception

Having tipped Kratos off to Atreus' search for Týr, Odin went to the realm last rumored to house his son, Svartalfheim, and disguised himself as the Norse God of War so as to gain the other war god's confidence. Lo and behold, they "rescued" Odin and escorted him to Sindri's hideaway between the Realms without a hint of the All-Father's true identity. He spent his time with them advising against taking action against Asgard under a guise of pacifism, lead them into battle while refusing to assist them, and even refused to accompany them at all after seeing a hidden giant prophesy about how Asgard, alone of all the Nine Realms, would be destroyed in Ragnarök.

#### The search for ultimate knowledge

He watched with the rest of Sindri's guests as Atreus fled to go to Asgard. He found the privacy to grab the raven he had hidden in Sindri's closet and returned to Asgard as Odin just in time to stop Heimdall from killing Atreus. Odin showed Atreus his armies, the rooms of the Great Lodge, several generous gifts, and a broken mask. This mask had foreign languages only Atreus could read and a connection to a hole in reality Odin believed held the secrets to life's meaning and the afterlife of the gods. The next day, Odin sent Atreus, Thor, and Freyr's sentient sword to Muspelheim to locate a piece of the mask.

#### Second encounter with Kratos

Later, Odin takes Durlin with him to Kratos. When the Spartan threatened him with his newly forged spear, Odin reveals to him that Atreus is in Asgard and is doing well. After letting Durlin go, Odin tries to tell Kratos that he also wants peace as much as he does and that they could find it together. However, Mimir immediately see through the All-father's lie, but Kratos already knew of it as he doesn't believe in Odin's words. When Odin tells Kratos that his son is the key to being free of fate and prophecy, the spartan firmly tells him that Atreus is not a key. The All-father, knowing of who Kratos was, states to him that while he is not the god that he once was he has the chance to prove it again. When Kratos demanded that Atreus be returned to him under threat of facing what he once was, Odin heatedly asks him on what kind of god he would show and proceeded to ask if he ever knew about godhood, and if anyone had ever worshipped or prayed to him. He then mock the Spartan that he doesn't care for mortals beyond himself and the monster he once was. Just before departing, the All-father asks Kratos one last time, that if he fears he can never hope to understand, then he shouldn't wonder if Atreus will return to him before disappearing in a flock of ravens.

#### Revealing of the rift's origins

Back in Asgard, Odin gets into an argument with Thor in his private study on why he brought Atreus into Asgard and harshly sends him away. When Atreus arrives and asks Odin if his secret study room is the place where he killed Ymir, the All-Father reveals that the first giant was vessel of power and was a force of nature. He explained that in his youth, he was young and foolish and saw an opportunity to create something more in order to protect his own. In response to Atreus wondering on why he had built his great lodge on the very spot, Odin reveals that when he killed Ymir, he saw rift that is possibly the rift of reality, and when he looked inside there was something in there, whispering to him. When he though that it was over and that he could no longer look into the rift, he found the piece of the mask and knew that it would let him see all the answers he longed for. Approaching the rift, Odin tells Atreus that he knows that there is something more and that he wants to know of his fate.

#### We all make mistakes

When Atreus assumes that the next piece of the mask is in Helheim, Odin gives an order to Huginn and summons in Thrúd and Heimdall to accompany Atreus. Later, after Atreus and Thrúd freed the Hellhound Garm by accident, they immediately returned to Asgard with Heimdall, proceeded to report to Odin of what happened. A while later, he visited Atreus in his room and asked him on what happen. When the latter tells him that the last piece of the mask wasn't there in Helheim and that he himself was wrong, Odin assures him that [they] all make mistakes and that freeing Garm was a big mistake, since he is now spreading chaos into all the other realms, assuring Atreus that they are safe in Asgard. When Atreus wants to return to Sindri's house, Odin allows him to, asking him him to return the mask to him along with Ingrid, whom he does, the Allfather reminds him that if he is ready to resume his work, Huginn will be waiting for him at Kratos' cabin. Before Atreus disappears in a flock of ravens, Odin tells him to say "hi" to Mimir for him. Shortly after Atreus left, Odin resumes his disguise as Týr and goes back to Sindri's House.

#### Resuming the disguise

After Atreus helps his father and their allies in fending of the Hel-Walkers that were pouring out from rifts made by Garm, the disguised Odin arrives and, to prevent anyone from knowing that he has already known that Garm has been set free, pretended to be despondent and criticizes Atreus' actions, telling him that it was madness. Later, he greets Kratos and Atreus when they returned from stopping Garm. When he asks the duo of how it went, Kratos tells him that the giant wolf should no longer trouble them. When Atreus reveals to the others of Odin's obsession with the mask, the All-father, while in disguise, listens to Mimir scoffing that it is a fake and that Odin has been disorganizingly doing it for a really long time. After being given Atreus' journal, he proceeded to tell Mimir that he is wrong and though he reveals that while the Jötnar didn't create it, a few of them have seen it in their visions. Odin, while in the form of Týr, reveals that the giants don't know of the mask's origins but is said to gaze in to the secrets of creation. When Kratos asks him if it's an oracle, he states that it is much more and imagine if becoming one with something that grants infinite knowledge. The disguised Odin then lies to Atreus that it is the reason why Odin tortured him. He then gives it Freya, who reveals that Odin never shared her this obsession and that while he speaks the truth, his purpose is usually false.

#### The second piece of the mask

When Atreus returns to Asgard, he finds Odin reading a tome in his study room. Sensing Atreus, he reveals that Heimdall is dead and asks him if he knows anything about it. When Atreus states that Heimdall had struck Thrúd while in Helheim and that someone maybe found out and got even, Odin proceeded to ask him if Heimdall had something to do with it. In response to Atreus saying that he honestly doesn't know, the All-father claims that while he didn't believe that he didn't have anything to do with Heimdall's death he is glad that Atreus has returned. When Atreus reveals that he has misinterpreted the clue of the next location and that it actually means "the cry of first breath", Odin became enthusiastic as he immediately knew of the next location, and he tells Atreus to go find Thor so that he may accompany him while on the journey.

After Atreus retrieved the final piece of the mask in said location, which is the primordial realm of Niflheim, Odin arrives to congratulate him while at the same time ignoring Thor. However, shortly after, Sif suddenly arrives with the valkyries Hrist and Mist. When Odin demanded on why they have come, Sif reveals that Atreus' father Kratos had killed Heimdall, due to the evidence that Forseti had found. When Hrist and Mist were ordered to arrest Atreus, Odin comes to the latter's rescue and commands the two valkyries to leave him alone. The All-father then gets into an argument with Sif in which he dismisses her and proceeded to have a talk with Hrist and Mist. A few minutes later, when Thor was about to kill Atreus out of revenge for the deaths of his sons Modi and Magni, Odin tries to stop him, but Atreus was able to escape. Odin once again resumes his disguise and returns to Sindri's house via the raven he had in the closet.

#### Dropping the disguise

When Atreus returns with the mask to Sindri's house, Odin, in his Týr disguise, pretended to be surprised that the young Jötunn had gotten it. When he ask Atreus on what he saw through the mask, the latter states that he didn't get to use it. He then tells Týr, not knowing he is actually Odin, that the Aesir have found out about Heimdall's death which forced him to run, but Odin was unable to use the mask as well. The disguised Odin claims to Atreus that if he was unable to get answers from the mask then he had just stolen the All-father's greatest treasure, right after Kratos killed Heimdall. During a meeting with everyone, when Atreus states that they could use the mask to forge their own destinies, Odin tricks everyone into believing that Týr, which is himself, had a change of heart and reveals that there is another way into Asgard. However, Brok grew suspicious of this after Týr offhandily addressed Atreus as "Loki", which Týr had never done before . When the dwarf began prodding himover this, Odin lost his temper and pulled out a knife. Fatally stabbing the Dwarf in the chest, Odin drops his disguise and revealed his true identity, much to the horror of everyone present.

He then takes Atreus hostage and began demanding the mask. When a vengeful Freya began to threaten him, Odin states to her that killing Atreus is not part of his plan and that if he kills him, then their all equal for the death of Heimdall, since they got a bargain. When Freya threatened to kill Odin and Sindri begged her to save Brok, the All-father reminds her that she can't be in two places at the same time, forcing her to go and help Brok. When Kratos and Freyr moved forward, Odin threatened that if they move then he'll kill Atreus. When Kratos angrily demands him to release his son, Odin shot back at him saying that he's in control of everything and once again demanded the mask. Freyr reluctantly tossed it to him, but out of his reach. Taking advantage of Odin's distraction, Atreus assumes his wolf form and viciously bites the All-father's arm, forcing him to let go. Throwing Atreus aside, Odin immediately picks up the mask and opens the closet where he had hidden raven, allowing him to escape. However, before he could even fully escape with the mask, Kratos throws his Draupnir Spear at it causing it to fly out of Odin's hand and forcing him to escape empty-handed.

This event made them realize that Odin had infiltrated the whole time with the goal of obtaining the mask as soon as Atreus completed it. Furthermore, Odin's killing of Brok infuriated both Freya and later Kratos and they immediately swore revenge as well as committing themselves into setting Ragnarök into motion.

#### The All-Father's last stand

With his Tyr disguise now exposed, Odin fled back to Asgard, lamenting the loss of the mask but confident still that Atreus would eventually return with it in hand. Concurrently, the All-Father had to come to grips with the reality that Ragnarok was now inevitable and that it would only be a matter of time before his enemies came down upon him from all sides. Fortified but cornered in Asgard, Odin ordered full (and immediate) mobilisation of Asgard's military might; legions of Einherjar backed up by savage war-beasts, powerful Dwarf-built war-machines and spearheaded by Thor and the Valkyrie loyalists. To rub salt into the wound, Odin ordered the Midgardian refugees to man the Asgardian war-machines in a despicable attempt to stall his enemies' advance.

As the last of the preparations were being made, all of a sudden there came a colossal horn-blast echoing out across the realm. Recognising it as the sound of the Gjallarhorn, Odin realised that the End of the World was upon him and grimly readied his forces for battle. Shortly thereafter, the armies of Alfheim, Vanaheim and Helheim, reinforced by several Giants, burst out of their respective Realm Towers and fell upon the Asgardian forces. Unwilling to endanger himself, Odin chose to hang back and leave the bulk of the fighting to his subordinates.

As the invasion raged on, Kratos and Thor battled once more with Kratos emerging as the victor. Instead of killing Thor however, Kratos was able to convince the God of Thunder to stand down for their children's sakes. Seeing this, Odin teleported himself to them and demanded Thor resume the battle, telling him that he must kill who he says too. Having finally realised that Odin never cared about him, Thor dropped Mjölnir and openly refused. An enraged Odin immediately used his spear to impale Thor through the chest just as Atreus and Thrúd appeared. Odin tried to pin the blame for Thor's death on Kratos, but a horrified and enraged Thrúd ignored this and rushed to attack her grandfather. Promptly knocking her away like a toy with Mjölnir, Odin turned his attention to Kratos and Atreus. Wrongly pinning all the blame for his family's downfall on them, the All-Father personally engaged them in combat.

Odin was eventually able to magically freeze the two in place, but in his moment of triumph, he was immediately choked by Freya, who had cast a binding curse on his neck using his old noose. His ravens Huginn and Muninn eventually came to his aid and gave him just enough of distraction to shatter the ground beneath them and send everyone tumbling into his private studies. There, Odin, noticing that the rift of creation had gotten larger, made one last plea for Atreus to put on the mask and see what lies beyond. Unfortunately for Odin, Atreus chose his father over him and broke the mask in two, causing it to be absorbed into the rift in reality and disappear forever. Now completely furious that his plans were all for naught, Odin unleashed the full might of his powers against Kratos, Atreus and Freya. Working together, the trio defeated the All-Father and killed one of his ravens in the process.

#### Death

Bloodied and forced to his knees, Odin berated Atreus for his actions, claiming the two of them could've made the nine realms better had Atreus got him his answers. However, Atreus countered that Odin's quest for knowledge was never about the realms, but for himself. Even so, Odin still blamed Atreus for destroying his home, his family, and all of Asgard. Atreus angrily reminded Odin that it was his choice to kill his own son and betray everyone who ever helped him, but Odin continued deflecting the blame. Atreus gives Odin a last chance to stop this and be better, but Odin still refuses. Realizing Odin would never let go of his obsessions, Atreus chants a Jotünn spell that caused Odin's soul to be sealed away in a tiny metal marble that Atreus had in his pocket. Atreus, Freya, and Kratos debated on what to do with Odin's soul until a vengeful Sindri arrived. Sindri, still enraged, took his hammer and bashed the marble to pieces, causing Odin's soul to be destroyed and essentially wiping him from everything. This caused Odin to not be able to enter the afterlife, and instead cast him to oblivion.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

As the King of the Aesir Gods, Odin is by far the most powerful of his kind. He, along with his brothers Vé and Vili, were designated as the strongest Aesirs of their time. Contrary to his frail appearance, Odin is a frighteningly potent combatant, masterfully combining excellent fighting skills with his signature weapon and spellcasting to decimate and overwhelm foes, and proved to be a formidable opponent to Kratos, Freya and Atreus after they had been fighting in *Ragnarök*, holding all three off for a long enough time before being overwhelmed.

* **Immortality**: Odin, as a Norse God, is immortal, having lived for many millennia. Only a sufficiently powerful weapon or extremely powerful beings like Fenrir are prophesised to kill him.
* **Superhuman Strength:** As the King of the Aesir, Odin has strength that exceeded other gods, such as Baldur and Tyr. Although apparently inferior to Thor in terms of raw strength, Odin still displayed roughly comparable levels of physical strength to Kratos after he was weakened from his battles in *Ragnarök and Thor*, being able to physically push Kratos away when he impaled the Leviathan Axe on his shoulder with Gungnir, and free himself of Kratos's grip and at least briefly push him to his knees before Atreus and Freya attacked him simultaneously. While impersonating Tyr, he displayed the strength to lift and push heavy weights down, as displayed when with a single hand, he pulled down a wooden board and later easily pushed down a statue in Alfheim. He was also able to easily physically overpower and push aside Light Elves when they came close him, as well as nonchalantly drag one with a single hand.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Odin is extremely durable as he was able to survive a clash with Ymir, the first being in existence and most powerful of the Frost Giants, and had fought in many wars as the leader of the Aesir, including battles with the Vanir. During Ragnarök, Odin was able to withstand a prolonged battle with Kratos, Atreus, and Freya, shrugging off being struck by the Leviathan Axe and Kratos's punches and enduring a vicious beatdown from them with only considerable injuries, still surviving before Atreus finally withdrew his soul into a mural.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Odin has show to be able to move incredibly swift in combat being able to deliver fast and precise strikes with his spear and being able cover large distance almost instantly during his battle with Kratos, Freya and Atreus. Odin can also further increase his speed with magic.
* **Magical Mastery:** Odin is an extremely powerful and skilled sorcerer, being a master of many magical arts, including ancient magic. He also learned Seiðr from Freya. Odin is also the only one from the Aesir Gods who use magic which along with his physical abilities makes him even more formidable.
* **Spellcasting**: Through Freya's teachings, Odin learned a wide variety Seiðr spells and curses that he has used both for his own benefit and to severely harm his enemies these being all the spells and curses that he has used during history:
	+ **Black Breath**: Corruption of magic Odin created to act as a deterrent to those who wanted to reach the highest mountain in Midgard. Only the pure Light of Alfheim could dispel it.
	+ **Curses**: Odin can cast curses so powerful that not even Freya is able to lift them despite her own highly stated Vanir abilities. He can prevent people from leaving a Realm, as well as transforming the Valkyries into monstrous, physical versions of themselves, an act that made them unable to carry out their duties of transporting those killed in the battle to Valhalla.
	+ **Concealing Spell:** Odin can conceal events that happen to others, even if the person is a powerful seiðr who is able to see into the future.
	+ **Knowledge Absorption**: Odin can somehow absorb people's knowledge into himself using magic as he did with the seiðr Gróa.
	+ **Protection Magic**: He can cast powerful protection enchantments on objects making them unbreakable, such as making the tree Mimir was bound to invulnerable to Thor's hammer. Odin also cast a warding spell around Atreus, Heimdall, and Thrud to grant them immunity to Helheim's cold.
	+ **Regeneration**: Odin can use his powers to infuse strenght and regenerate health, as demonstrated when the Valkyries Hrist and Mist invoked the All-Father twice during their battle against Kratos and Atreus.
	+ **Realm Travel Block**: He submerged the temple of Týr that was in Asgard, thus preventing access to Asgard, Svartalfheim, and Vanaheim.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Odin could shapeshift into many different beings. He could take on the forms of existing people, with an implied prerequisite that they be still alive for him to do so, as with Týr. Additionally, he is confirmed to take on the form of a Dwarf in Svartalfheim walking on a bridge that spits at Kratos and his companions (with him likely dying sometime between the events preceding and succeeding Ragnarök).
	+ **Energy Projection**: Odin has the ability to project powerful beams of glowing purple magical energy from his hands or from his Gungnir spear.
	+ **Teleportation**: Odin can teleport in a flock of ravens.
	+ **Summoning Ravens**: Being the God of Ravens, Odin can summon and control ravens to do his bidding.
	+ **Elementokinesis**: Odin is a master of elements and can wield powers from different attributes, being able to wield them in an array of different ways each, and shift between them freely. He can surround himself in elemental barriers, or even bombard foes with multitude elements at once which can affect the terrain the hit by them, such as setting them ablaze, freezing it or poisoning it.
		- **Pyrokinesis**: Odin can wield fire and use it in the form of fireballs which can incinerate the ground, cause explosions, or even wield it as a flamethrower.
		- **Cryokinesis**: Odin can wield ice and uses it, mostly in the form of icy projectile which can freeze the ground, or even as a potent cold beam to the same effect, albeit on a larger scale.
		- **Geokinesis**: Odin can manipulate the earth, creating shockwaves, or by fracturing the ground, causing minor but visible changes in the landscape.
		- **Toxikinesis:** Odin can utilize poison, used in the form of toxic green projectiles which can infect the ground.
		- **Umbrakinesis**: Odin can wield darkness as a form of offense, employing it in the form of projectiles or ground shockwaves. He can also combine it with his Ravens in the form of energy spheres surrounded by black feathers which when they explode on contact, can cause temporal blinding by obscuring surroundings.
	+ **Immobilization**: Odin can cast a spell on anyone that can render them immobile for a few seconds, which can allow Odin to use this to his advantage in attempting to finish them off

### Abilities

* **Master Combatant**: As the King of the warlike Aesir, Odin is an extremely proficient fighter with centuries worth of battle training and experience. Even during his younger years, he was able to kill Ymir along with his brothers. Combined with his magical abilities, Odin was able to temporarily outfight both Kratos and Atreus and even hold both them and Freya back in a vicious battle before ultimately being defeated.
	+ **Hand-to-Hand Combat Expertise**: Odin was proficient enough in unarmed combat to effectively handle Light Elves with his bare hands while disguised as Tyr.
	+ **Master Spearman**: Odin was extremely skilled with his spear, Gungnir, performing swift slashes and stabs with it and able to push back against Kratos using the Leviathan Axe and even impale him at one point, killed an exhausted Thor with a single stab in the chest.
* **Genius-level Intellect:** Odin is extremely intelligent and clever, as even Mimir, the smartest being alive in all the Nine Realms, acknowledged his cleverness, saying that he is almost as clever as he believes himself to be.
	+ **Master Strategist and Leader:** Odin is an exceptionally cunning strategist and charismatic leader, able to effectively lead Asgard into numerous wars to victory, with only the Vanir under Freya's leadership being able to withstand him. He also strategically bound the curse that kept Freya on Midgar in Vanaheim and even had the insight to use Yggdrasil roots as the catalyst, ensuring Nidhogg would intervene if she somehow managed to enter Vanaheim.
	+ **Master of Deception and Manipulation:** As Mimir is stated, Odin is an exceedingly accomplished and cunning liar and manipulator. He was able to convince Freya that he truly had changed in their marriage for decades and make her teach him her magic, and trick Tyr into allowing him to meet with the Giants, with neither of them managing to catch on to his deception until it was too late. Odin even managed to successfully impersonate Tyr for a prolonged period of time, completely fooling even Mimir and Freya despite their own intelligence and experience with him. His manipulations were enough to even make Atreus open up to him by putting up a highly convincing facade about his so-called true intentions and offering him knowledge, with Atreus only fully defying him with help from Kratos and Mimir's inspiration. According to Freya, Odin's purposes were always false, even when telling the truth.
	+ **Deductive Analysis:** From having heard the prophecy of Ragnarök , he was able to figure out that Kratos and Atreus will play a part in it. Odin was not fooled by Mimir's lie that he had sacrificed his eye for knowledge, correctly deducing that Mimir had fooled him and the well of knowledge was actually just filled with magic hallucinogenic mushrooms to give even a god visions. He also figured out the locations of the pieces of the Mask from Atreus translating the language on the pieces.
	+ **Master Torturer**: Odin was known to be a very creative and skilled torturer, as he personally tortured Mimir for many centuries, to the point that Mimir said that he would rather die than continue to be tortured by Odin.
* **Cooking**: While impersonating Tyr, Odin displayed a remarkable amount of skill in cooking, far surpassing the results of Brok's cooking and even awakening Mimir's appetite, though Brok considered the disguised Odin's cooking to be nothing more than 'passable dirt soup'.

## Appearance

Since Odin is arguably the most important God in Norse Mythology, and considering his total absence in The Reggiesworld Trilogy, his exact appearance has long been shrouded in mystery, leading to the issuance of many hypotheses among the community. Not only the All-Father's appearance is the complete opposite of that of his Greek Brother Zeus, but the Reggiesworld Series also depicts him as something totally different of what we are used to see at cinema. As expected, the All-Father indeed appears as a rather old man, frail in stature, especially compared to the more muscular gods like Zeus or Kratos. This impression is further emphasized by his average height - he is barely taller than Atreus - making him appear much smaller and seemingly weaker than many major characters in game.

Odin is also notorious for having lost his right eye long before the events of the series, a price he paid for his obsession with knowledge. As such, he constantly wears an elegant eyepatch made of brown leather, adorned with a silver button right behind his ear. Likely due to his millenial age, Odin displays an advanced baldness and though his grey hairs are still carefully groomed, the same cannot be said of his shaggy beard hairs and moustache. The right side of his emaciated face is covered of elegant nordic tatoos, his blue gaze is cold and calculating. As for his forearms, they are naked and covered in tattoos as well. When Odin actively uses his dark magic, his tattoos are glowing with a beautiful purple light. His fingers are overloaded with gold rings, a rare ostentatious sign he dares to display.

Odin is shown wearing an elegant and comfortable light blue tunic seemingly made of high quality wool, a good part of which is adorned with golden embroidery emphasizing his status as the King of the Aesir. When he needs to travel inbetween the realms, a large and thick brown cape grants him additional protection against the cold, completed by an elegant nordic cold hat, very similar to a chapka. Generally speaking, his outfit remains rustic and without extravagance, especially considering his high position. As his status made battles with potential enemies few and far between, Odin nonetheless uses Gungnir as a retractable cane when walking here and there, though it can immediately be used as the deadly weapon it is when necessary. Last but not least, a pair of brown nordic boots perfectly complete his getup. All in all, Odin is depicted as what he truly is: a sorcerer, someone working behind the scenes who only comes to the fore as a last resort.

## Personality

Odin is shown to be an exceptionally cruel, selfish and deceitful man, but he was also patient, devious and, as Mimir puts it, "almost as clever as he thinks". More than anything, Odin was a man obsessed with a desire for control, most crucially of his own fate, but also of other people and realms. This drive for control is what initially led to him murdering Ymir and creating the world, naming himself "All-Father" in the process, in order to cement himself as the supreme authority of the Nine Realms.

According to Mimir, Odin was extremely paranoid about anything and everything that he believed would possess even the slightest chance of threatening his rule and that of the Aesir, much like how his Greek counterpart Zeus was before Kratos killed him. This included the Giants, the Vanir and even the beloved God of War; Týr, his own son. It is implied that much like Zeus, he has an intense fear of Kratos. Unlike the Olympian, however, Odins fear was tempered by his knowledge of Kratos' power, not only being aware of the fate of the Greek pantheon, but also of him having faced and killed Modi, Magni, and Baldur. This lead to him being more subtle and pragmatic in his dealings, trying to manipulate the Ghost of Sparta in various ways, rather than trying to destroy him outright.

Odin jealously guarded all the knowledge and secrets he collected, betraying and deceiving many revered figures in Norse mythology who possessed knowledge that he did not and once he obtained them, he disposed of them cruelly. Mimir stated that Odin is obsessed with prophecies of the future, stylizing himself to be "all-knowing and all-seeing" but more importantly, motivated to control the future, his fate, and every realm. Mimir exploited this to become his adviser when he offered him a "well of knowledge" that allowed him to see visions, not knowing that it was really a well with water laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms. Due to this thirst for knowledge, this ended up costing him his right eye. Odin was also obsessed with an ancient mask that can grant him infinite knowledge, which Mimir acknowledged as the All-Father's "greatest passion".

Odin's cruelty can be seen by his having tortured Mimir every day for 109 winters, with Mimir himself admitting that there was "no end to his creativity", to the point death seemed preferable to remaining Odins prisoner. He ordered his strongest son Thor to kill every Jötunn he could find and betrayed the Jötunn Ymir at the beginning of all things under the self-righteous belief that he and the Aesir were bringing order to the realms. In truth, he and his brothers believed that they were superior. Additionally, while he may have originally truly loved and cared for Freya, once the goddess wished to break off the marriage, Odin banished her to forever remain in Midgard, as well as robbing the goddess of her warrior spirit; therefore, rendering her unable to directly harm anything, even to defend herself. To add insult to injury, he wrongfully corrupted the Valkyries into monstrous beasts by condemning them to physical forms out of his spite for Freya's rebellion, an act which ended up dangerously overflowing Helheim with the souls of the departed in the process. Finally, he left the Nine Realms to suffer during the Desolation, closing Asgard's gates. It would also be revealed that he continued his attacks on Vanaheim, seemingly in the hope of tormenting Freya further, branding her a traitor to her own people, though this would later prove unsucessful.

Odin was also shown to hold petty grudges to an almost hilarious degree, as he never forgot that Mimir had outwitted him when they first met. When Mimir finally fell out of favour, Odin removed one of his eyes as revenge for his trickery, before imprisoning and torturing him daily for over a century. In addition, when he lost the arrangement he made with the disguised Hrimthur in finishing Asgard's walls, he feigned to keep his end of the bargain to allow the builder to speak with his queen, Freya, only for the All-Father to then double-cross the Giant and have Thor kill him. In addition, when Skaði spurned his affections, he deceived her into killing her own father during a hunt, causing Skaði to succumb to her own grief shortly after.

It's implied that Odin may possess both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex as he genuinely believes that his way is the only way, and that the Aesir are destined to be the Supreme Rulers of the universe yet seemingly loses any and all composure when someone or something comes along to challenge these beliefs.

Many individuals, such as Freya and Mimir, state that Odin was driven by fear of his own fate which is said to be at the hands of Giants, resulting in his paranoia and hatred of them. However, he is also envious and desirous of the Giants' abilities of precognition, wishing to use such abilities to alter his fate when Ragnarök occurs. Perhaps this is the one thing that the All-Father and Kratos, who doesn't believe in fate, have in common and would agree on.

Overall, Odin's depraved actions throughout the centuries have led him to be wholly despised by many figures, such as the Vanir, Freya, The World Serpent, Mimir, most of the Valkyries, and even the Huldra Brothers Brok & Sindri.

However, Odin was not without the ability to feel love and trust others. He was known for having genuinely fallen in love with Fjörgyn despite his subsequent hatred for the Giants, eventually marrying and conceiving the mightiest of his sons Thor with her. Her death caused such grief and sadness to Odin that even Mimir acknowledges that Odin was distraught and lonely after the death of his great love.

To alleviate his pain and put an end to the Aesir-Vanir War, Mimir suggested that he married Freya. During this time, Mimir noticed the same happiness Odin had with Fjörgyn resurfaced and while he married her partly to end the war (as well as to learn her vanir magic), Odin treated Freya in a loving manner and conceded to most of her wishes, in fact fulfilling so many of Freya's desires that Mimir said that even he lost count of how many wishes that Freya made to Odin that he willingly granted. He was willing to give the Valkyries some measure of freedom because Freya wished it.

That relationship eventually became strained when Odin became increasingly obsessed with Ragnarök and the Jötnar, with the final blow being when he asked Freya to give him the same invulnerability she gave their son, Baldur, which caused Freya to break off the marriage, having seen how her spell drove Baldur insane.

It's implied that in the beginning Odin's intentions were noble, if misguided, and he genuinely wanted what was best for his people and everyone else in general as he seeks to prevent Ragnarök (an event that would go on to kill myriads of innocent people including the Aesir and the Vanir) from happening. Centuries of reigning undisputed with unlimited power as well as a lifetime of failed trials however, had gradually hardened him to the point where he was unable, or perhaps, unwilling to accept that his actions and the actions of his fellow Aesir was having a negative effect and was in fact leading them all ironically into causing the very disaster that he was trying so long to avoid.

Odin was an exceptionally gifted manipulator, exploiting and deceiving others with shocking ease, and had no compunction about lying or misleading to achieve his goals. Mimir at one point notes that people like Odin lie "on principle", whether they need to or not, sometimes even knowing they won't be believed, merely as a way to show their control over reality. Lesser examples include covering up the truth about Hrimthur building the walls of Asgard, in order to agrandize the Aesir, or lying to Atreus how he lost his eye, claiming he lost it gazing into a rift left behind after Ymirs death.

He intitially befriended the giantess Gróa and traded for her knowledge, but once the seer learned of Ragnaräk, Odin betrayed her trust and killed her in order to steal her library. According to Mimir, Odin deceived Baldur into believing that following Kratos and Atreus to Jötunheim would bring the cure to his immortality. Odin also tricked the latter two by taking on the form of Týr, attempting to take advantage of Kratos and Atreus' better natures to manipulate the pair, along with those of his ex-wife Freya, her brother Freyr, and the Huldra Brothers.

Odin's skill for manipulation extended even to his own family, in particular in his sons Thor, Heimdall and Baldur. He mercilessly bullied and belittles Thor in almost every interraction between the two, in an effort to undermine him and keep him under control; He drove Heimdall into fanatical devotedness towards him, and as a reward gifted him the Gjallarhorn and the duty to protect Asgard against intruders and despite being unable to lift the invulnerability spell that Freya placed on Baldur, Odin promised his son he would find a way to lift the spell if he found the Jötunn Guardian.

In addition, Odin has been shown to punish his sons for their failures, the best examples being the imprisonment of Týr after he correctly deduced his alliance with the Giants and revoking his promise to Baldur to lift his curse after the Light God's numerous failures to bring him Kratos and Atreus.

He also seems to be willing to take mercy on his enemies should they provide amusement for the All-Father, as shown when rather than killing Hrungnir, one of the Giants, Odin instead was highly amused by his gullible nature and chose to have him amuse him and his court, as well as forget any personal offences as long as said offender would willingly prove to be a value to him, as shown when he allowed Mimir to become his advisor despite knowing all along that Mimir had fooled him into removing his eye and even Mimir acknowledged that Odin trusted him for a long time until Odin eventually took Mimir's advises of peace as disloyalty and bound him to his prison tree, not letting anyone but himself harm his former advisor.

Odin also had a reputation for being a drunkard. Mimir and Freya attest to this in their accounts of him. According to Freya, after Hrimthur completed the wall that encircled Asgard, Odin barged into his and Freya's bedchamber half-drunk and enraged before noon. Mimir also speculates that on how Odin came across a shard of the aforementioned mask was due to him getting drunk and convincing himself that he can change his own fate, then pranced around the Nine Realms until he found a suitably mysterious "bauble to fit the bill".

Ultimately, Odin's selfishness and his obsession with knowledge is his lasting legacy to his family and to his followers. His actions, since they focused solely for his own gain, led to parental neglect for his own children, whom he uses only to do his bidding. This leads to a rippling effect throughout his family, such as how Thor treats his own sons Magni and Modi. Adding to his neglect, Odin noticeably brushes off his own children when they desire for an audience with him, such as Heimdall's one-sided desire to please his father. This distance also proves advantageous to Odin as he is seen as an authoritative figure with a cult-like following, even to his own family, so his flaws and his true nature can remain hidden from them. It is one reason why when he spends a lot of time with Atreus to make the mask used to see through realms, causing others to get noticeably jealous of the latter, since he got a lot of attention from the Allfather. Atreus' quick knowledge in translating and explaining the studies and texts Odin has been trying to study for years also sparks hidden jealousy within Odin, which he does not show explicitly to keep Atreus close.

This all comes to a head during the Invasion on Asgard in Ragnarök, where Odin was shown to have a strong disregard for the Midgardians that he had captured, as he was willing to let them die during Ragnarök. Because of his selfishness and indifference, he was also willing to sacrifice anything/anyone just for his own reasons and purposes. Odin was also a narcissist, as he strongly denied any of the crimes he had really committed and would often shift the blame for them on others, even on his own enemies, regardless if they had done something wrong or not.

Ironically, despite his obsession for control, Odin's undoing is a result of his own lack of self-control, needlessly murdering Brok in a moment of impatient rage when the dwarf begins to question him. This one act of senseless cruelty is not only what leads to his enemies unleashing Ragnarök, but it is ultimately is leads to his death. After Kratos, Atreus and Freya all elect to leave Odin's soul inside a marble, locked away but alive, Sindri crushes it with a stroke of his hammer, avenging Broks murder at the hands of the All-Father.