Odin (CoH)

## Odin

Killing and torturing those whom he believes posed a threat to his quest for knowledge

### Goal(s)

Discover the secrets of all of creation from the reality tear in his study (failed)
Kill Ymir and take the throne as the ruler of the 9 realms (succeeded)
Have Thor wipe out the giants of Jötunheim (succeeded)
Kill anyone who stands in his way (mostly succeeded)
Eradicate the entire Jötnar race for refusing to share their secret wisdom with him (partially succeeded)
Find a way to enter Jötunheim and steal the giants' secret knowledge and wisdom (formerly)
Find a way to avert Ragnarök (temporarily succeeded)
Master the Vanir's magic and art of Seiðr for his own purposes through his marriage with Freya (succeeded)
Kill Freyr and massacre his Vanir family (failed)
Find and capture the Jötnar guardian for being a nuisance of his plans (abandoned)
Gain the secret knowledge of Jötunheim (abandoned)
Recruit and bond with Atreus (succeeded; but backfired)
Help Atreus fulfill his destiny as the "Champion of the Jötnar" to learn the secrets of creation (failed)
Kill Thor for "turning on him" (succeeded)
Kill Atreus, Freya, Kratos and Mimir for ruining his chance of getting all the answers he wanted (failed)

### Crime(s)

Abuse of power
Animal cruelty
Blackmail
Brain washing
Child abuse
Conspiracy
Corpse desecration
Corruption
Curse inflicting
Defilement
Domestic abuse
Filicide
Fraud
Impersonation
Invasion
Manipulation
Mass genocide
Mass murder
Mind-breaking
Mutilation
Necromancy
Parricide
Pollution
Psychological abuse
Sabotage
Slander
Slavery
Stalking
Torture
Treason
Tyrannicide
Unethical experimentation
Unlawful imprisonment
Usurpation
War instigation
World domination

## Chronological, Professional & Political Information

### Previous Loyalties

* Himself
* Æsir
* Ásgarðr

### Previous Education

Essence Instinct and Intense Occult Study

### Previous Occupation

* King of the Æsir
* King/Lord of Ásgarðr
* Ruler of the Nine Realms

## Personal Statistics

### Relative(s)

* Ymir (great-grandfather) †
* Auðumbla (great-grandmother) †
* Búri (grandfather)
* Borr (father)
* Bestla (mother)
* Vili (brother)
* Vé (brother)
* Fjörgyn (1st wife) †
* Hróðr (2nd wife) †
* Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán (presumed lovers)
* Frigg (3rd wife) †
* Freyja (4th wife)
* Gunnlod (possible lover/lover in Norse mythology)
* Gridr (possible lover/lover in Norse mythology)
* Thor (son) †
* Meili (son)
* Týr (son)
* Heimdall (son) †
* Baldr (son) †
* Sif (daughter-in-law)
* Nanna (daughter-in-law)
* Mangi (grandson) †
* Modi (grandson) †
* Havi (grandson)
* Foreseti (grandson)
* Thrúd (granddaughter)

### Victim(s)

* Ymir
* Gróa
* Brokkr
* Thor
* Numerous Jötnar
* Numerous Dwarves
* Numerous Vanir
* Numerous Elves
* Numerous Mortals

### Pet(s)

* Huginn & Muninn
* Geri & Freki
* Sleipnir

## Items & Equipment

### Previous Item(s)

* Mask of Creation (formerly)
* Draupnir (formerly)
* Odin's Noose (formerly)
* Magic books (formerly)

## Powers and Abilities

### Previous Power(s)

* Elementokinesis
* Life Manipulation
* Cryokinesis
* Soul Manipulation
* Geokinesis
* Mind Manipulation
* Pyrokinesis
* Sense Manipulation
* Toxikinesis
* Probability Manipulation
* Umbrakinesis
* Curse Manipulation
* Bifröst Manipulation
* Power Nullification
* Shapeshifting
* Divine capabilities
* Energy Projection
* Biological immortality
* Regeneration
* Nigh-omniscience

### Previous Magic(s)

* Magic knowledge and mastery
* Immobilization
* Spellcasting
* Realm Travel Block
* Rune Magic
* Teleportation
* Bifrost Magic
* Vanir Magic
* Seidr Magic
* Elemental Magic
* Mystical ravens
* Summoning

### Previous Skill(s)

* Genius-Level Intellect
* Deductive analysis
* Master strategist
* Leadership
* Social Influence
* Master Combatant
* Spear Mastery
* Manipulative charisma
* Torture methodology
* Culinary skills

### Previous Abilities

* Superhuman Strength
* Superhuman Speed

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (Foreign)

Example

**Odin**, also known as the "**All-Father**", is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *WGL's* *Creed of History* series created by Sam Register and Bob Haney. He was an Isu revered as chief deity in both Norse and Germanic mythology.

The leader of a group of known as the Æsir, he was convinced in his youth of the racial superiority of his people over the Jötnar, Odin drew the first blood when he slew Ymir after a climactic duel and thus crowned himself King of the Æsir.

Along with his fellow Ásgarðrians, Odin waged countless wars against the main faction of Isu who were later remembered as the *jötnar*, and managed to bring all the realms all under Ásgarðr's complete ascendancy for knowledge.

As the war continued into a stalemate and after being warned of the upcoming disaster while promised to a certain death, Odin became obsessively determined with finding a way to change his fate, and avoid dying by every means.

It was a cause that later motivated him to steal and activate a prototype method of salvation engineered by the Capitoline Triad in the hopes to reincarnate in the distant future and impose his will on human history in future begetting later.

The All-Father reached the peak of his power after the inconclusive war when he married a Vanir woman. Their union brought peace and a relative prosperity as the Æsir King genuinely fond of her, who managed to soothe his bellicose mood.

But as time passed, Odin grew increasingly paranoid and gradually betrayed his closest advisors. He then commanded the infamous genocide against the ones who prophesied his demise, yet another demonstration of his limitless depravity.

Neglecting Frejya, he spent a great deal of time trying to unfold the secrets of life and death in a fruitless attempt to change his fate, ruthlessly robbing the realms from their sacred knowledge and collecting even more divine, godly titles.

His actions finally turned the Vanir goddess against him, and an outraged Odin cursed his former love by banishing her to Midgard for eternity, while robbing her from her warrior spirit. He then sealed the access to some key realms for safety.

Working behind the scenes as the estimated year of the darkest catastrophe drew closer, Odin is eventually the perpetrator setting behind the events of the series into motion by sending his tracker find the Guardian residing inside a cabin.

The All-Father remains absent throughout the whole time but his shadow covers Kratos and Atreus as they slowly but surely make their way to Jötunheimr. But travelled to the Dwarf land, when his son was kidnapped by a Muspel warlord.

The excursion resulted on his son's death. The death of the warlord at the hands of Kratos, which triggers Fimbulwinter - and thus signaled that the final clash between multiple clans that would take place during the disaster was imminent.

Having had time to study Kratos and learn what the Ghost of Sparta did in his homeland and, more importantly, that Atreus was secretly seeking Thor's lost brother, Odin decided it was time to take a more cunning - and even viciously - approach.

Introducing himself as a benevolent person, Odin showed up at Kratos' cabin in Midgard with his oldest son sought out a status quo with the former Spartan and his son by offering a broker peace and inaction in exchange to prevent Ragnarök.

Though his offer was rebuffed by Kratos, Odin had slowly but surely driven a wedge between the two of them by using Atreus' innate gift in ancient languages to his own benefit, convinced that the boy is the key to break free of his sealed fate.

Ever omniscient, he successfully fools his enemies under the guise of Meili, allowing him to constantly stay one step ahead before being exposed *in extremis*, which ironically pushes Kratos' group to instead initiate Ragnarök than prevent it.

With a part of Baldr's consciousness sent to Hel's possession on Niflheimr, Odin embarked on a journey to meet him one last time as enemy troops gathered in Ásgarðr's borders, in preparation for Ragnarök and preparing to attack the Æsir.

Eventually, him, along with his trusted followers and Loki, already beforehand had inserted his DNA in the human gene pool through the use of a mecha Yggdrasil before preparing battle, though the events don't exactly go just as prophesied.

As the realms unite against him under Kratos' leadership, he failed stopping Ragnarök from happening. Odin's nature is revealed to his followers and family by his use of refugees as human shields, which leads those like Sif and Thrúd on defecting.

The All-Father first promptly betray and killed his son, after he had a change of heart. After a lengthy battle against his grandson, Atreus and Frejya in a last-ditch attempt to save his crumbling kingdom, only to find himself going on his own knees.

He ultimately meets his end in the arms of his former protégé. His captured soul was eventually destroyed by Sindri for killing his brother shortly after, as the solar flare hit the earth causing a destructive cataclysm between the realms.

Despite it, Odin still survive Ragnarök through reincarnation. Odin would soon be reborn, in 9th century CE, as the Viking raider and shieldmaiden Eivor who soon becomes embroiled in the Assassin – Templar conflict that central to the series.

The leader of a group of Scandinavian Isu called the Æsir, he was known in Norse mythology as the king of all gods, associated with wisdom, healing, death, knowledge, and war. He was the original owner of the Spear of Eden Gungnir, and was also the father of Víðarr, Baldr, Thor and Heimdall, all powerful gods in their own right.

Eventually, him, along with his trusted eight and Loki, inserted his DNA in the human gene pool through the use of Yggdrasil, dying on the battle that ensued shortly after, as the solar flare hit the earth. Odin would be reborn, in 9th century CE, as the Viking shieldmaiden Eivor Varinsdottir. Selfish and deceitful, but loyal, Odin's obsession with avoiding his fated death causes him to imprison Loki's son Fenrir, and betray his brother, Tyr. With Juno's assistance, Odin succeeds in finding a way for him and a few trusted followers to survive Ragnarok through reincarnation. Odin is reincarnated in Eivor Varinsdottir, a 9th-century Viking raider who becomes embroiled in the Assassin – Templar conflict central to the series.

"*All your efforts to evade destiny will only fling you further along its course. If you're not careful, you may be the author of your own destruction.*"

—Loki, to Odin.

## Appearance

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### Appearance

* Hair Color: Brown
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Abilities and Powers

As the King of the Æsir Gods, Odin is by far the most powerful of the Norse Isu and his kind. Contrary to his appearance, Odin is a frighteningly potent combatant, masterfully combining excellent fighting skills with his signature weapon and spell-casting to decimate and overwhelm foes, and proved to be a formidable opponent to Kratos, Frejya and Atreus, holding all three off for a long enough time before being overwhelmed.

### Powers

* **Immortality**: Odin, as a Norse Isu, is immortal, having lived for many millennia. Only a sufficiently powerful weapon or extremely powerful beings are able to kill him.
* **Superhuman Strength**: As the King of the Æsir, Odin has physical strength that exceeded other gods, such as Baldr and Týr, albeit inferior to Thor. Odin was able to impale Ymir with Gungnir, spilling his lifeblood. He also displayed somewhat comparable levels of physical strength to worn out Kratos, being able to push him away when he impaled the Leviathan Axe on his shoulder with Gungnir, free himself of Kratos' grip and briefly force him to his knees before Atreus and Frejya attacked him simultaneously. While impersonating Meili, 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 Álfheimr. He was also able to easily 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 Æsir, including battles with the Vanir. During Ragnarök, Odin was able to withstand a prolonged battle with Kratos, Atreus, and Frejya, quickly shrugging off being struck by the Leviathan Axe and Kratos' punches and enduring a vicious beatdown from them with only moderate injuries, still surviving before Atreus finally withdrew his soul into a mural.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Odin has been shown to be able to move with incredible swiftness in combat, being able to deliver fast and precise strikes with his spear and being able to cover large distances almost instantly during his battle with Kratos, Frejya 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 Frejya. Odin is also the only one from the Aesir who use magic which along with his physical abilities makes him even more formidable.
	+ **Spell Casting**: Through Frejya's teachings, Odin learned a wide variety of 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:
		- **Dark Magic**: Odin has the ability to project his dark magic in various ways, mostly in the form of bright, purple energy. When he actively uses his magic, the tattoos on his forearms glow with purple light.
			* **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 Álfheimr 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.
			* **Summoning Ravens**: Being the King of Ravens, Odin can summon and control ravens to do his bidding.
		- **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, Axel, and Thrúd to grant them immunity to Treachery's cold.
		- **Regeneration**: Odin can use his powers to infuse strength 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 Ásgarðr, Svartálfaheimr and Vanaheimr.
		- **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 Meili, Heimdall, and Týr. Additionally, he is confirmed to take on the form of a Dwarf in Svartálfaheimr 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.
		- **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 multiple elements at once which can affect the terrain 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 projectiles 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.
	+ **Bifröst Energy Manipulation:** Odin is able to use energy of Bifröst for various purposes; the most common being concealing his spear and then summoning it at whim, channeling it with him to make Gungnir to make him more potent and many more. Not only that, his mastery of Bifröst is such that he is immune to this kind of attack.

### Weaknesses

* **Cold Temperatures**: Originally mentioned by Mimir, it is unknown whether or not Odin is strong enough to survive the conditions of the ninth circle of Helheim. This weakness is implied, as he gives Atreus, Thrúd, and Heimdall magical blessings to protect them from the freezing conditions.

### Weapons

**Gungnir**: Odin wields a Dwarven-made spear, Gungnir, which always hits its target. Gungnir usually takes form of a staff, but can change its shape when Odin is in combat. It can be turned into a spear, or it can be partially morphed into a whip which is usually combined with his magic to vastly extend its length and empower it to cause devastating Bifröst shockwaves.

## History

### Past

#### Early years

##### Born and defeating Ymir

Odin was born as one of the sons to Borr, son of Búri, the first of the Æsir Gods, who had sprung from Ymir, the first Giant and father of all life, and to the *jötunn* Bestla. However, unlike Ymir, Odin felt that the Æsir were fit to be the supreme rulers of the Nine Realms and so he, along with the help of his brothers Vili and Vé, he killed the proto-being Ymir and and anyone else who stood in their path, with Odin himself taking the place of the "All-Father", where after that, Ymir's blood drowned all the 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 Humans; Ask and Embla.

#### Creation of Ásgarðr

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 Ásgarðr, one of the Nine Realms of the Isu Era and declared himself king of the Aesir after gaining control over it.

Subsequently, after building another civilization within Asgard which would be known as Gladsheim, he even cemented this with a lodge that he built above the reality tear and a research complex underneath the Great Lodge where he would begin 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 indefinite supply of superhuman soldiers for the Ásgarðrian military.

Subsequently, after defeating Týr in battle, Odin became the single leader of the Æsir, the group of Isu who had established itself in Ásgarðr that constantly clashed with several of their neighbouring regions, with the defeated Isu turning into his counselor. Odin also established a blood bond with the *jötunn* Loki, who he brings to his territory to serve as his confident and ally by Týr's side. It was also during this stage of his life that Odin fathered the first of his offspring, Víðarr and confronted Múspellsheimr's ruler Surtr for the first time, a fight which he emerged victorious from.

### Æsir-Vanir War

After cementing his rule as the "All-Father," Odin continued to wage wars against the other realms, defeating and subduing Álfheimr, Svartálfaheimr and Niflheimr. Múspellsheimr and Jötunheimr remained beyond his reach. At some point, He did not encounter any real difficulties until the Aesir encountered the Vanir, an opposing tribe of Gods native to the realm of Vanaheimr; Ásgarðr enters into a war with Vanaheimr, a conflict so fierce that threatened to extinguish both Isu clans.

During the hostility period, Odin fathered his son Baldr, a product of a passionate romance with the Isu adventurer Frigg. At some years point, the two forces fought endlessly until finally they reached a stalemate and eventually both sides grew tired of fighting. However, in a reputedly uncharacteristic display of selflessness, Odin sacrificed his relationship with Figg and eventually agreed to marry Freyja, sister of Vanaheimr's leader Freyr, so as to end the fighting and hostilities with the Vanir, and so that Odin may secretly learn her magic.

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