Ymir of Jotunheim

*“Abi Eodauga makes the world more interesting but less safe. Magic... if magic means letting people do what they wanted to do, or be what they wanted to be... then this will be the age of cruel winds, the age of people who become as wolves, who prey upon each other, who are no better than wild beasts. Twilight will come to the world, and the places where the humans live will fall into ruins, flaming briefly, then crashing down and crumbling into ash and devastation.”*

 -Ymir of Jotunheim

## History

The son of a Frost Giant chieftain and a human woman, Ymir was given armor and a weapon, and sent on a quest to find a worthy opponent. Ymir was an adventuring companion of Abi Eodauga, and helped him come to power in Nadezhda. After defeating the Windwalker, he unified the Frost Giant tribes and became the first King of Jotunheim.

## Personality

Ymir looks forward to the end of the world, for it will give him the glorious war and combat that he craves. Unflinching in battle, he revels in his size and strength. Being a Half-Giant, he is caught between two worlds, and is not sure where he belongs. He wants to prove himself to his Frost Giant kin by being the undefeated warrior in Jotunheim. At the same time, he recognizes his human lineage, and has a great deal of empathy for those who lack his power and armor. To this end, he believes that those with strength must use their strength to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

## War of the Philosopher-Kings

A close friend of Abi Eodauga's, Ymir would rally the frost giants for war, intending to join Nadezhda's invasion of World's End. He would face invasion by the northern Final Empire, against whom he would fight bravely. Nonetheless, Twin-Emperor Brennen had recently acquired arcane weaponry from Arendur, which he would use to devastating effect. The Kingdom of Jotunheim would fall, and Ymir would perish in the fighting, making him the first monarch to die in the war.

In truth, Ymir would be captured and his brain extracted into one of Brennen's Brain Cylinder's. It has persisted in solipsistic darkness for half a century.

## After the War

During the Third Northern Expedtion, Hugo Hawkins would install Ymir's brain cylinder into a gargantuan control drone. Enraged by the Reich's conquest of Utgard, Ymir would go on a rampage to the west, eventually finding himself in Ostoria. There he would find Queen Damaris Tkerekin, the daughter of his old comrade Dolom Tkerekin and a dedicated foe of Utgard. He would pledge himself to her service - with the promise of rulership of Utgard should her forces succeed. Despite his return, the remaining Frost Giants - led by King Aur-Hreng - would refuse to acknowledge the leadership of the grotesque construct that claimed to be their former monarch.

## Great Awakening

Ymir would participate in the Long War, with a monomaniacal focus on his quest to destroy the Windwalker forever. He would survive and make a home for himself in Dragonsmouth, feeling shunned by the giants of his native Utgard. Determined to transcend his mechanical body, Ymir would tap into his innate half-giant psionic powers - grown mighty since the Great Awakening - to commune with the mysterious Unbodied, and become Uncarnate, immortal and unshackled from the flesh.