Jormungandr

### Symbol

A circular ouroboros, evil aligned followers use an ouroboros in an infinity loop

## Influence

### Spheres of Influence

Brotherhood, Devotion, Loyalty, Giants, Cycles, Prophecy

## Description

Jormungandr is the god brotherhood, devotion, loyalty, giants, the continuation of cycles and prophecies. He is associated to snakes, infinity and soothsayers. He presides over the interconnected-ness of all things.

## History

Jormungandr began his life alongside the other first gods Amarinthinos breathed life into. His duty was simple enough, make sure that cycles started back up after they had ended, but he soon grew tired of his task, what would go wrong if one or two cycles didn't start back up again he thought. Amarinthinos soon took note of his roguish behaviour but rather then condemn him, Amarinthinos helped him understand by bestowing upon him an understanding of all things rivaling his own, he made the ouroboros feel what everyone and everything else felt, made him understand that which connects all things. Awoken from his stupor, Jormungandr went on to take better care of following cycles to their new beginnings as he now understood that shirking on his duties would cause instability elsewhere and add to someone else's troubles, which he would in turn feel. This also had the unintended side effect of widening Jormungandr's social sphere, he would regularly talk to the other gods truly understanding their plights, becoming good friends with a number of them, which is why it came to be that he became the god of brotherhood.

## Worship and rituals

Jormungandr’s followers are many and diverse, in fact a large part of them are giants, it’s believed that Jormungandr was the primordial essence from whence they originally hailed from. He is also the source of their prophecies, garnering a very important role in their culture.

His humanoid followers similarly tend to be soothsayers but he also has popularity with all those that may want to see what the future hold in store for them. He’s also worshipped by groups that value brotherhood, sports teams, platoons, assassin’s guilds, any kind of organization that values unity might pay homage to the world serpent in one way or another.

Although he is usually represented by a circular snake eating his own tail, his more shadowy followers worship a serpent in an infinity symbol eating it’s own tail. This second group of followers are notoriously secretive and not few are even aware of their presence, after all, why would a good aligned god have an evil following? No one is certain as to where these followers sprouted up from, but they’ve reportedly been working on finding a more reliable way to create quasi-liches, rather then wanting to extend their lives, they are looking to internalize them, marking themselves onto the very fabric of the world. As of yet they’ve had very little luck in the matter, but Jormungandr’s tail has been itching as of late and that is never a good sign.

Jormungandr’s festival with the most importance is New Years, usually attributed to Jormungandr thanks to his theme of leading the old cycle to the new one. Sometimes a circular firecracker will be set off in his honor, but otherwise Jormungandr is pleased as long as people are celebrating together.

Another one of his famous stories has the snake locked in combat with another world serpent, Jormungandr fought with a ferocity not usually attributed to the world serpent and only won because of the aid he received from Asphodel. Both gods refuse vehemently to talk about the incident and the other world serpent has drifted into obscurity since.