Ragnarök

**Ragnarök** (Old Norse: Ragnarǫk, "Fate of the Gods") will be the great war that will destroy the world in the far future, according to Norse mythology.

## Mythology

In the Norse myths recorded in the Poetic and Prose Eddas, Ragnarok will follow Fimbulwinter, three great and deadly blizzards. Wars will slaughter most of the world's people as they grow mad from hunger and fear, the sun and moon will be devoured by the great wolves Skoll and Hati, and the great serpent Jormungandr will break free, drowning lands in great waves and releasing the undead ship Naglfari from the far east.

In three worlds, three roosters will crow, and the fire and ice jotnar will march to Asgard. Odin will lead the Aesir gods and the einherjar to fight the jotnar, but the great wolf Fenrir will kill and eat him, and Vidarr will avenge his death.

Loki will slay Heimdall, Asgard's guardian, but he will die from Heimdall's blows.

Thor will be slain by Jormungandr's venom, though he will kill the great serpent.

Tyr will die fighting against the great hound Garmr.

Surtr will burn all of Asgard and everyone remaining, until he dies from his own wounds. The ruins of Asgard and many other worlds are then drowned in a great ocean, with only a forest remaining on an island where the last two humans, Lif and Lifthrasir, hide. When the great waters recede, the world will be restored as a lush realm, and the two humans repopulate the new world with their offspring.

Among the deities that will survive Ragnarok will be Baldr, his brother Hodr, the brothers Modi and Magni, Sol (with her daughter), Vidarr, and Vali. Their new kingdom, the successor of Asgard, will be Gimle.

No matter whatever Odin can do, he will never be able to stop Ragnarok. That may have been the reason why the goddess Hel orchestrated Baldr's death, mainly to protect him from being forever lost to the coming turmoil.

## In the Rabydosverse

In Novantirna mythology, Ragnarok is known as Raginarôka, or Bon Jandâru in the Novantirna language. It will be a time of great horror, when darkness and fire will devour the Multiverse.

"Ragnarok", in Novantirna slang, means "utter ruin".

### Novantirna version

The Novantirna version of Ragnarok is slightly different:

* Odin will not be swallowed and digested (or suffocated) by Fenrir, but Fenrir will tear Odin's body to pieces with His teeth. Fenrir dies as Odin impales His jaw, but as He exhales His final breath, His body explodes in a burst of knowledge and magic. Fenrir's body is then torn to shreds by the magical explosion, down to the smallest fragments of dark matter.
* The Death of Odin tears the universe apart with the resulting magical storms, causing physical matter to distort and demons to be unleashed everywhere to feast on everything that remains.
* Not all the einherjar will die. Over four nonillion angels will survive the destruction of the Multiverse to gather every remaining survivor, and rebuild the universe. They will be known as the Divine Remnant, among the new gods of the next universe.
* Odin may die, but whatever that is left of him becomes pure knowledge and magic. This same force can be used by the Divine Remnant to achieve the impossible task of reshaping the universe from chaos.
* Helheim (Saloi) will be slightly ruined by the Ragnarok War, but still survives. In some accounts, Hel is killed by her father or one of Loki's monstrous lieutenants, and is succeeded by her eldest daughter. In others, Hel survives but is greatly injured, so she passes the throne to her daughter while she retires and rebuilds Paradise.
* Ragnarok will not be the last war: that will be the utter extermination of all the demons responsible for starting Ragnarok. After that, the new gods will usher in an age of everlasting peace.

### Novantirna version B

But should ever Ragnarok be able to be prevented, Novantirnas believe that Odin would eventually use all the knowledge His very being accumulated to reveal His true form as an aspect of a supreme being, "one greater than even the Six Forces, Who created them before the beginning of time."

Odin will then lead all the virtuous people to destroy the forces of evil, who have gathered to destroy them, their Creator, and the universe, but with the defeat of all evil, the universe is remade into a realm of high freedom and true justice.

## Trivia

* "Ragnarok", like "Valhalla", are cliche names used for pop culture works themed after Norse mythology.
* Vozonid mythology also involves the world being drowned by a great sea, except the sea is made of a black water that dissolves anything it touches, located below Hell.