Jörmungandr (Witches of Midgard-verse)

* Eitr

*"The son of Loki and Angrboða who adopted the form of monstrous snake-like creature. Legends mentioned how Odin the All-Father casted the ever-growing young Jörmungandr in the oceans of Midgard to ensure he won't harm anyone — a decision that led to the serpentine Jötunn grew so large he encircled entire world and biting his own tail at the same time reminiscent to Ouroboros, earning him the moniker of World Serpent. During Ragnarök, Thor was fated to finally slay the serpent, but he would perish in his dying nemesis' venom."*
― Description of Jörmungandr.

**Jörmungandr** (ON:"the vast serpent") was the gigantic serpentine Beast-Jötunn son of Loki and Angrboda, brother of Hel and Fenrir, uncle of Skoll & Hati, and father of Hrimgandr and posthumous antagonist of *Little Witch Academia: Witches of Midgard* series.

## Personality & Character

As with in mythological accounts pertaining him, Jörmungandr was born to the trickster god Loki and Angrboda the mother of monsters. Due to the prophecy pertaining his future role in Ragnarök as the bane of Thor, the All-Father ordered Jörmungandr and his siblings to be brought to Asgard so he could determine their fate. Jörmungandr was banished to Midgard's oceans where he grew so large to the point of surrounding the earth and grasping his own tail simultaneously thus earned the moniker of World Serpent, whereas Hel entrusted with a permanent post in Helheim as its ruler and Fenrir locked away in Lyngvi, Asgard. Jörmungandr would surface from time to time, at one point getting fished by his arch-enemy Thor the Nordic God of Thunder with ox's head. During Ragnarök, he would reunite with his siblings Fenrir and Hel as they joined forces with Loki's army in the fateful great war against Gods of Asgard. The serpentine Jötunn was subsequently slain by Thor, who would then take nine steps away before succumbing to the serpent's Eitr poison that he had been spewing in the air during the battle.

As with Fenrir, Jörmungandr's predicament at hands of Gods of Asgard could be argued as self-fulfilling prophecy scenario, even though Edda of Vör's accounts suggested the siblings not as misunderstood as some people suggested nowadays. Inspired by how Thor nurtured Storm Weasels he accidentally created, they made an effort in educating the siblings. However, Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel were torn between the Gods' teachings and Jötnar's ideologies taught by their father Loki before deciding to fulfill their future role. Thor's famous attempt to draw Jörmungandr out from Earth's ocean was in response of the latter's confirmed rampage on unsuspecting mundanes' ships. Jörmungandr also confirmed to participate in Útgarða-Loki's contests by having the wise Jötunn chief disguised his tail as unassuming-looking cat Thor managed to lift in order to measure his nemesis' might. Seemingly a savage animal on the first glance, Jörmungandr was actually cunning and driven, motivated by the desire to avenge his ancestor Ymir as much as his father. In a way, he was the father of Frost Wyrms, a race of cryokinetic, demigod sea serpents born from his severed tail infused with Eitr in his venom that casted into Niflheim through a portal opened by Hel during Ragnarök and subsequently exposed to the realm of primordial cold's latent magic.

### Skills and Abilities

* **Beast-Jötunn Physiology**: Originally born with frail humanoid body, Jörmungandr was reborn into serpentine beast everyone recognized him as thanks to his mother Angrboða transferred his soul and essence into a snake-like creature she created via. her experiments with Eitr.
	+ **Incalculable Strength**: Thanks to his Jötnar lineage and nature of his Eitr-based serpentine body, Jörmungandr possessed a great deal of brute force comparable to Thor's own.
	+ **Supernatural Mobility**: Despite his size, Jörmungandr was deceptively fast and agile, able to keep up with the likes of Thor.
	+ **Supernatural Durability**: As Mjölnir was the only weapon devastating enough to injure him, especially in the hands of his nemesis Thor, one may conclude that Jörmungandr's serpentine body being extremely resilient to damage.
	+ **Eitr-Infused Venom**: Thanks to Eitr coursing through his very being in great concentration rivaled only by Great Lindworm, Jörmungandr's venom was the most potent in existence for being partly consisted of such mythical substance. In fact, such venom was what allowed him to slay Thor in the first place. His fossilized skull, which rested in the caverns beneath Mamba Island, was surrounded by a pool of Eitr.
	+ **Divine Energy Manipulation**: Like other Jötnar, Jörmungandr possessed divine energy coursing through his very being which he could manipulate for variety of purposes such as augmenting objects by infusing them, improving his magic, and create constructs.
* **Father of Frost Wyrms**: After ripping the tip of his own tail, Jörmungandr imbued it with his Eitr-infused venom before casted it into Niflheim through a portal Hel opened as Ragnarök commenced so that even if he perished by Thor's Mjölnir as prophesied, the serpentine Jötunn nonetheless survived by a race of monstrous progenies called Frost Wyrms who inherited a fraction of his powers. The greatest of his children was Hrimgandr, the patron deity of Tower of Frost Serpent of Naglfar.

### Tools & Equipment

* **Eitr**: Mythical substance said to be the origin of all living things yet poisonous at the same time. Jörmungandr's serpentine body was created by Angrboða out of Eitr. Out of her and Loki's children, only he who possessed Eitr coursing in his very being thus explained his venom's potency and ability to break down his severed tail into first generation of Frost Wyrms coupled to exposure to latent magic at Niflheim.

## Notes & Trivia

* Jörmungandr's design was influenced by Pangu Pythons, a race of kaiju-sized, evolved titanoboa from Chinese monster film series *Big Snake* and Mega-Kaiju from *Pacific Rim: Uprising*, something which intentional in BSoulstone's part to provide him distinctive appearance.

## Articles and References

1. ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/bsoulstone/art/Jormungandr-LWA-WoM-985162576

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