Odin (GfoW)

**Odin** (オーディン, *Ōdin*), also called the "**All-Father**", is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *Godfall of War* series created by Keith Lee and David Jaffe. He is the God of Wisdom, and Magic, ruler of Asgard and King of the Gods around the globe.

"*Ruthless? Barbaric? Heartless? That's Odin.*"

—Mimir, speaking about Odin.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Paul Eiding (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

* Hair Color: White
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: White
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 7 ft.
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

According to Mimir, Odin is 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 son was before Kratos killed him. This included the Titans, the Vanir and even the beloved son of Ares. Also, Mimir said that Odin is extremely clever, almost as clever as Odin believes himself to be, as he was able to figure out that Kratos and Atreus had an important role in the coming of Ragnarök, possibly due to Gróa's prophecy.

It is implied that he has an intense fear of Kratos as well like how his son had. However unlike Zeus, he knew nothing about him except that he is extremely powerful, having faced and killed 3 of his grandsons. In addition, Odin jealously guards all the knowledge and secrets he collected. He betrayed and deceived many revered figures in 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. It is also stated that Odin could be very cruel if pushed too far, as seen by his having tortured Mimir during his imprisonment every day.

He also ordered his strongest grandson to kill every Titan he could find and betrayed Ymir, at the beginning of all things under the self-righteous belief that he and the Gods were bringing order to the realms. In truth, he and his brothers believed that they were superior and deserved to be as such. Additionally, while he may've originally truly loved and cared for Freya he overtime feigned affection for Freya during their marriage just so he could learn how to use her Vanir magic for his own purposes.

Once he got what he wanted and Freya started to rebel against him, even going as far as to break off the marriage; out of rage, 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. Odin is 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 favor, Odin removed one of his eyes and imprisoned and tortured 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 Titan and have son 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.

Its 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. Odin is also manipulative and deceiver. He only "befriended" with Groa but only to kill her to steal her library.

Many individuals, such as Freya and Mimir, state that Odin is driven insane by fear of his own fate which is said to be at the hands of Titans, resulting in his paranoia and hatred of them. However, he is also envious and desirous of the Titans 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.

However, Odin is not complete 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 Titans, eventually marrying and conceiving Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus 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 Great 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 seiðr 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.

Their relationship eventually became strained when Odin became increasingly obsessed with Ragnarök and the Jötnar, which caused Freya to break off the marriage. From Odin's reaction to Freya's betrayal, it is obvious that he did have romantic feelings for her and felt a strong sense of betrayal from their divorce. 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 and even the Valkyries.

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 seek to prevent Ragnarök (an event that would go on to kill myriads of lives including innocent people) 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 Gods 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.

He is also known to have a great deal of confidence and trust in his sons Baldur and Thor unlike with his other son Tyr, likely as he knew that Tyr's peaceful nature was unfit for a God. Odin was confident Thor could single-highhandedly eradicate the Giants and considered Baldur his finest tracker. Although he apparently could not 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 Titan Guardian.

It is unknown if Odin's promise was sincere or just a lie to motivate Baldur, but as Baldur went along with it anyway, it can be assumed that Odin is willing to go to great lengths to reward and keep promises he made to his children should they remain loyal and achieve a significant enough deed. However, Odin has been shown to punish his children for their failures, the best examples being the imprisonment of Tyr after he correctly deduced his alliance with the Titans and revoking his promise to Baldur to lift his curse after his grandson's numerous failures to bring him Kratos and Atreus.

According to Mimir, Odin deceived Baldur that following Kratos and Atreus to Jötunheim would bring the cure for his son's immortality. 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 Titans, 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 but not letting anyone to harm his former advisor.

## Relationships

### Family

* Auðumbla (Great-Grandmother)
* Ymir (Great-Grandfather, Deceased)
* Gaia (Grandmother; Deceased)
* Búri (Grandfather)
* Ouranos (Grandfather; Deceased)
* Bestla (Aunt)
* Borr (Uncle)
* Alecto (Aunt; Deceased)
* Oceanus (Uncle; Deceased)
* Tisiphone (Aunt; Deceased)
* Hyperion (Uncle; Deceased)
* Megaera (Aunt; Deceased)
* Gyges (Uncle; Deceased)
* Aphrodite (Aunt/Daughter-in-law)
* Aegaeon (Uncle; Deceased)
* Cottus (Uncle)
* Rhea (Mother)
* Cronos (Father, Deceased)
* Vé (Brother)
* Fjörgyn (1st Wife, Deceased)
* Hera (Daughter/Wife, Deceased)
	+ Pandora (Daughter/Grand-Niece, Deceased)
* Zeus (Son, Deceased)
	+ Sif (Daughter-In-Law)
	+ Thor (Grandson)
* Hesita (Daughter)
* Poseidon (Son, Deceased)
	+ Amphitrite (Cousin/Daughter-in-Law)
	+ Triton (Grandson)
* Demeter (Daughter/Lover)
	+ Athena (Daughter/Niece-in-Law, Deceased)
	+ Palutena (Daughter/Niece-in-Law, Deceased)
		- Baldur (Grandson; Deceased)
* Hades (Son, Deceased)
	+ Persephone (Daughter/Sister-in-Law, Deceased)
* Helios (Cousin, Deceased)
* Eos (Cousin, Deceased)
* Selene (Cousin)
* Freya (Former Wife)
	+ Dyntos (Son)
		- Hephaestus (Grandson, Deceased)
	+ Eileithyia (Daughter)
	+ Ares (Son, Deceased)
		- Týr (Grandson)
	+ Hebe (Daughter)
	+ Enyo (Daughter)
* Apollo (Son)
* Leto (Lover)
	+ Artemis (Daughter)
* Leda (Lover)
	+ Pollux (Son, Deceased)
* Callisto (Former Lover, Deceased)
	+ Kratos (Son)
		- Lysandra (Daughter-in-Law, Deceased)
		- Faye (Daughter-in-Law, Deceased)
		- Calliope (Granddaughter, Deceased)
		- Atreus (Grandson)
			* Jörmungandr (Great-Grandson)
			* Fenrir (Great-Grandson)
			* Hel (Great-Granddaughter)
			* Sköll (Great-Great-Grandson)
			* Hati (Great-Great-Grandson)
	+ Deimos (Son, Deceased)
* Hermes (Son, Deceased)
* Hercules (Son, Deceased)
	+ Magni (Grandson, Deceased)
	+ Modi (Grandson, Deceased)
* Perseus (Son, Deceased)
* Minos (Son, Deceased)
* Aecus (Son, Deceased)
* Rhadamanthus (Son, Deceased)
* Peirithous (Son, Deceased)
* Muses (Daughters)
* Ceryx (Grandson, Deceased)
* Orkos (Grandson, Deceased)
* Theseus (Nephew, Deceased)
* Nyads (Nieces)
* Pegasus (Nephew, Deceased)

## Powers and Abilities

As the King of the Gods, Odin is incredibly powerful, possibly the most powerful of all the Gods, more so than even his sons Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. He along with his brothers Vé and Vili was designated as the strongest of his kind in their time.

### Powers

* **Godly Physiology**:
	+ **Immortality**: Odin, as a God, is immortal, having lived for many millennia. Only a sufficiently powerful weapon or an extremely powerful being like Fenrir can kill him.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Odin must have tremendous amounts of superhuman strength as the King of the Aesir, being at least stronger than Baldur and Tyr. It is even possible that his strength, if not in the physical sense, rivals and/or surpasses that of his son Thor, the God of Strength. The only known beings to surpass his strength are Starkaðr, Fenrir and Surtr, the latter of whom would take both Odin and Thor to defeat in Ragnarök and the former being the one destined to devour Odin to death.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Odin must be extremely durable as he was able to survive a clash with Ymir, the first being in existence and most powerful of the Frost Giants. During Ragnarök, Odin also survives a battle against Surtr, Ymir's brother and the strongest Fire Giant.
	+ **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.
	+ **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.
	+ **Realm Travel Block**: He prevented the travel runes on Tyr's temple from granting access to Asgard, Svartalfeheim, and Vanaheim.
* **Summoning**: As the Raven King, Odin is able to summon ravens to observe and gather information from them across the realms.
* **Shapeshifting**: As mentioned in the Lost Pages of Myth, Odin could shapeshift into a small or a big eagle.
* **Master Combatant**: As the King of Asgard, Odin must be an extremely proficient fighter with centuries worth of battle training and experience. Even during his younger years was able to kill Ymir along with his brothers. Alongside Thor, Odin would be capable of defeating Surtr, the Primordial Fire Giant and also a highly exceptional fighter during Ragnarök.
* **High 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. 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.
* **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.

### Weapons

* **Gungnir:** In Norse mythology, Odin possesses the Dwarven made spear, Gungnir, which always hits its target.

## History

### Past

#### Early history

##### Birth

During the reign of the Titans, Cronos was informed of a prophecy foretelling his eventual downfall at the hands of one of his own sons. To prevent this fate, Cronos swallowed all of his children, one by one. When Odin was born, his mother Rhea was distraught at the loss of her children and devised a trick to save him by letting an eagle carry the baby Odin to safety, while he was replaced by a stone wrapped in cloth which Cronos devoured, having mistaken it for Odin.

The eagle then carried the infant Odin to Gaia so that he would be raised and blessed with the strength to stand up to Cronos. During this time, Odin developed a deep hatred for his father, felt that the Gods were fit to be the supreme rulers of the world, and looked forward to the day he would finally release his siblings; one of Odin's drawings inside Gaia portray him opening Cronos' belly and setting them free.

##### The Great War

As he came of age, Odin decided to put his plans into action. Zeus freed his siblings and declared war on all of the Titans, thus betraying Gaia. The new rulers, calling themselves the Gods, fought against their predecessors with great ferocity and power. The battle between the Gods and the Titans formed the landscape, shaking the earth with massive earthquakes and crumbling mountains he, along with his brothers Vili and Vé killed their great-grandfather and anyone else who stood in their path, the blood of the dead drowned all Titans, except Bergelmir and his wife.

To end the war, Odin created the all-powerful Blade of Olympus, which was used to banish the Titans to the foulest pits of Tartarus, with Odin himself taking the place of the "All-Father". Odin would then create the realm of Midgard from Ymir’s torn flesh. Eventually, Odin would create the first Humans; Ask and Embla. At an unknown point in time, Odin would go on to form Asgard and declare himself the King of the Gods. He would also take control of Valhalla.

However, the Evils borne from the war posed another threat to the world, so Odin commissioned the Smith God, to build Pandora's Box in order to house the Evils. Unbeknownst to him, the Light Goddess called forth a power that transcended any God, Hope, and placed it inside the box to counteract the Evils should the box ever be opened. When Odin asked Hephaestus where to hide the box, the Smith God suggested that it should be placed on the back of Cronos.

Using the architect Pathos Verdes III, he constructed an enormous temple to house the box and then chained it to the Titan's back, sentencing him to wander the Desert of Lost Souls for all eternity. Little did the great Odin know that the events that had just transpired would eventually doom him. He would later use Valhalla as part of his future plans to try and thwart Ragnarök, a prophesied catastrophic event that would lead to an apocalypse to the entire world and the deaths of most of the Gods.

##### After the War

To prepare for this impending threat, Odin would permit only the best warriors who had died in battle into Valhalla. Everyone else he relegated to the icy wasteland known as Helheim. At some point, Mimir came to Odin with Mímisbrunnr, 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.

## Etymology

### Norse Mythology

Template:Wiki (Old Norse: **Óðinn**), also known as **Woden** and **Wotan,** was the Chief God of Template:Wiki.

Odin appeared in heroic literature as the protector of heroes; fallen warriors joined him in Template:Wiki. He had a mythical horse called Template:Wiki, who had eight legs, teeth inscribed with runes, and the ability to gallop through the air and over the sea. Odin was one of the greatest wizards among the gods and was associated with runes. He was also the God of Poets. His outward appearance he was an old man, with flowing beard and only one eye (the other he gave in exchange for wisdom).

He was usually depicted wearing a cloak and a wide-brimmed hat and carrying his spear Gungnir.

## External links

* Odin *Wikipedia*
* Odin *God of War Wiki*
* Odin *Heroes Wiki*
* Odin *Villains Wiki*