Odin

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* God of wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet

## Relationships

### Family

Frigg (Wife)
Thor (Son)
Týr (Son)
Baldr (Son)
Höðr (Son)
Váli (Son)
Víðarr (Son)
Loki (Foster brother)

## Appearances

### Appears in

1 episode

**Odin** (portrayed by Bjørn Sundquist) is a recurring character in the Netflix Original Series *Ragnarok.*

He is the almighty God of Wisdom, the King of the Gods, and best known as the **Allfather** (meaning *Father of All*) in Norse mythology. He is also the husband of the Goddess Frigg, the father of Thor and the foster brother of Loki.

After the battle of Ragnarök, Odin was thought to have died, but he had been reincarnated as the mortal, Wotan Wagner.

## Biography

Odin was born to the God Borr and the giantess Bestla.

In Norse mythology, Odin is a widely revered God associated with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet. He sacrificed his one eye to gain eternal wisdom, and could see into the past, present and future.

### In the series

#### Season 1

Odin is referenced in various points during season 1.

## Powers and Abilities

Odin possesses all the powers and abilities of a God:

* **Clairvoyance:** Odin can gain direct visual information about an object, person, location, or physical event through means other than the user's physical sight and allows them to act when they are unable to use their eyes and may be able to 'see' spiritual/psychic beings.
* **Absolute intelligence**: Odin has intelligence that is significantly above the standard genius-level intellect; possessing exceptional intellectual capabilities, mental capacity and concentration, mental calculations, memorization, perception, deduction, analyzation, cognition and competence, wit and ingenuity, prowess and knowledge, calculations, reading skills, learning capacity, thought process, intuition, and awareness, inventive capabilities, creativity, originality, etc., typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge. Enhanced intelligence is between 155 and 201 IQ, beyond that it would be considered supernatural intelligence.
* **Absolute wisdom:** Odin possesses great wisdom: a deep understanding and realization of concepts, common sense, people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgements, and actions while keeping these understandings. It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that universal principles, reasons, and knowledge prevail to determine one's actions. Wisdom is also the comprehension of what is truly combined with optimum judgement as to what action to take. Great wisdom and understanding may be a quality of the user regardless of age and experience.
* **Hunting Intuition:** Odin possesses extraordinary talent and instinct in/for hunting all things. He can track anything under any conditions, sense the weaknesses of their prey and exploit them and finally kill or capture their prey.
* **Insanity inducement:** Odin can cause madness in a person or group of people that have no mental illness, depending of the users will victims may go slightly loopy or lose total grip of reality becoming delusional, lose control over themselves, paranoid, catatonic or hostile. Owing to his association with berserker, the ability being centered in placing a person or a group of people under berserker rage, able to continuously fighting like fearless beasts.
* **Immortality:** Like all Gods, Odin possesses immortality: an endless lifespan, as he can never die, never age, and can shrug off virtually any kind of physical damage. As such, only beings with sufficient might that can kill him.
* **Magic**
* **Necromancy**
	+ **Death Inducement**
	+ **Reanimation**
* **Nigh Omniscience**
* **Precognition**
* **Predator Instinct**
* **Shapeshifting**
* **War Manipulation**
	+ **War Inducement**
* **Indomitable Will:** Odin has immense willpower and determination, capable of sacrificing his own eye to obtain more knowledge.
* **Blessing:** An appropriate ability for a God, Odin is able to bestow blessings onto people.

## Equipment

* Gungnir: Odin's supernatural runic spear. It's unknown what had become of it after his fateful death at hands of Fenrir.