Three Platform Goddesses

Norns

"**The Three Platform Goddess"** also known as the **Three Norns of Fate**, are three of the many Gods that currently reside within the world of the Obelisk. The Three Goddesses consists of the three sister Goddesses that preside over fate, The oldest Urd, the Norn of the Past,Verdandi, the Norn of the Present, the middle sister and Skuld, the Norn of the Future, the youngest of the three sisters.

Despite the legends and myths of them controlling and manipulating fate, the Norns are in truth only capable of predicting and having visions regarding the past, present or future of someone and don't actually have the power to control a person's fate.

## History

The Three Goddesses were not always crippled. In the past, they were the most powerful of the secretive Valkyries, a group that served as Odin's main hand along with the Einherjar. In particular, what made them so useful were their visions which Odin would cross-reference with his own abilities of prescience in order to formulate his own plans. Such was the case during the manufactured war between Olympus and Asgard following Bivasbat's entrance into the tower, whom both societies' supreme gods sought to harm in order to pull the attention of the slumbering Heavenly Demon. However, they came to be crippled as they could not oppose the Elder God slayer, and were thus confined to the 16th floor.

## Temples

Norns's Temples* Urd's Temple
* Skuld's Temple
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The Three Norns have their own Separate Temples within the 16th Floor of the Obelisk that acts as their main means of communication and activity within the lower floors of the Obelisk due to their main bodies being confined to the 98th Floor of the Obelisk, the temples themselves acts as their Holy Territory and allows them the ability to briefly manifest themselves within the confines of their personal chambers.

## Trial

The Three Norns also play a role in the Trial of the 16th Floor. With it being one of the easiest Trial within the Obelisk.

The Player who enters into the Floor must simply pick one of the Three Norns, go to their Temples and receive divine advice or prediction from one of the Three Goddesses before being allowed to travel to the Next Floor.

If the Player Chooses to have their "past" examined and divine, they go to the Temple of Urd, If they desire to have their immediate present examined and divined, Verdandi and if they desire to have their future divine they should go to Skuld.

Once a player goes to one of the three temples and has their past, present and future divined, the trial is considered complete and they are free to go to the next floor.

## Fate Reading

By combining their three Powers and Authorities, the Three Norns where stated to be capable of reading the "Fate" of others. This ability was stated to powerful enough for the three of them to be capable of seeing specific events within the Past, Present and Future and see multiple timelines. However, its been stated that while this ability was superior to Apollo's authority to make Prophecies, their combined power to see possibilities was inferior to Kronos's own power.

As admitted by Odin, despite his own ability to look into “fate” and have prophetic visions, he required the assistance of the three Norns in order to narrow down and properly identify his visions of whether they were of the past, present or future. Odin particular needed their help in order to help him identify whether his visions were merely possibilities of possible futures or the single most definite future.

## Trivia

* Due to the obviousness of the Choices during the Trial for the 16th Floor, a Majority of Players tend to go to Skuld to have their future examined, while the rest go to Verdandi to have their present examined, while almost no one goes to Urd due to the majority of players having no interest in examining their pasts.