Odin

* Traveler
* Warrior
* Prince

**Odin** is the God of Wisdom, War, and Death from Norse mythology. He is an Aesir God and the former Chieftain Deity of the Norse Pantheon before passing down the title to his son, Vidarr.

## Overview

**Odin** (Old Norse: Óðinn), meaning The Furious, is considered the chief god (known as an All-Father) in Norse mythology. He is associated with wisdom, war, frenzy, knowledge, battle and death and also magic, sorcery, poetry, the gallows, healing, royalty, prophecy, victory and the hunt, and is the husband of the goddess Frigg.

Odin is often portrayed as being an eminently honorable ruler and battlefield commander, but to the ancient Norse, he was nothing of the sort. In contrast to more straightforwardly noble war gods such as Tyr or Thor, Odin incites otherwise peaceful people to strife with what is a downright sinister glee. He maintains particularly close affiliations with the berserkers and other “warrior-shamans” whose fighting techniques and associated spiritual practices center around achieving a state of ecstatic unification with certain ferocious totem animals. He is also known by hundreds of names some which includes: Wodan, Aldagautr, Biflindi, Bileygr, Draugadróttinn, Dróttinn, Fengr, Fjölnir, Forni, Grímnir, Hangi, Hávi, Jölnir and Vegtam.

He only has one eye because he bartered the other in order to drink from the well of Mimir and gain its knowledge. He had many abilities like astral projection, shapeshifting and control of the elements and weather. He also could read magic runes that no one else could since he had hung himself from the World Tree Yggdrasil while inflicting self-torture in order to gain great knowledge.

Odin is the chief god of the Norse pantheon. He and his brothers Ve and Vili killed the frost giant Ymir and built the world from his body. He is also the father of most of the gods, including Thor, Vidarr and Baldur, who was later killed by a manipulated Hod with a dart of mistletoe. He is associated with his spear Gungnir, the wolves Geri and Freki and the two ravens Hugin and Munin, and the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

Odin is given primacy over female beings associated with the battlefield, the Valkyries, and he himself oversees the afterlife location Valhalla of Asgard, where he receives half of those who die in battle, the Einherjar. The other half are chosen by goddess Freya for her afterlife location, Fólkvangr. In Ragnarok, he gets devoured by the great wolf Fenrir.

## Appearance

As a god, Odin possesses the power to transform himself into numerous forms and appearances. There are, however, three forms he's most often appeared: The **Warrior King**, the **Old Traveler**, and the "**Prince Charming**".

### The Traveler

In the form of the Old Traveler, he appears as an elderly man with long silver-white hair and a matching long bear. He wears a gold-and-white monocle over his left eye, without the addition of the chain.

He also wears a gold-and-black hat, which is sectioned off into five sections that sport either the color black or gold: The top, middle, and bottom is gold, while the sections below and and above the middle one are black. The black sections feature blue orbs at the ordinal points: north, east, weast, south, and between the blue orbs are red dots.

He wears an old yet still noble-looking robe, which is short and blue with gold linings on the top and bottom of the collar, the sleeves of the robe, and at the front of his robes all the way down to the bottom of the robe. The rest of his robe is white with matching shoes.

### The Warrior

As the Warrior King, he appears as an old man in his 50s with a well-muscular body of a warrior, barrel-chested with massive arms, and a weathered face that still holds a certain regalness of a king. He has long silver-white hair and his remaining eye is a steel color, his empty left eye socket is covered by a black eye-patch.

He wears a suit of Bone Steel light armor underneath noble attire, as well as carrying with him his famous spear Gungnir to use as a walking staff. His pet ravens, Hugin and Munin, are often seen sitting on his shoulders.

### The Prince

As the "Prince Charming", he appears as a handsome young man in his 20s with long silver-white hair, styled into a big braid over his shoulder, and heterochromia eyes, his right eye is gray while his left eye is a crimson color - a glamor he created to hide his empty eye socket. He claims that this is his appearance when he was young.

## Personality

Odin is a patient, just, and wise god who strives to maintain the peace between the various mythological factions and pantheons within the supernatural world and is thoughtful of the lives of the innocents. Despite the colossal amount of enemies warring against him and his willingness to cause mass destruction when needed, he is compassionate enough to not seek the obliteration of the innocents of the opposing force, showing his merciful nature whenever he can. When he was the chieftain god of the pantheon, he was firm in his rule and did not hesitate to mete out justice onto those who threatened peace.

He is considered to be one of the wisest gods, admired by many for his leadership skill, which has shown through how he had effectively led the armies of Asgard into countless victories throughout the millennia in countless wars between pantheons and fractions alike. However, in his ancient eyears, he realized peace is the only way to truly unite the supernatural world together and became the benevolent, knowing, and peace-loving god he is nowadays. He is dedicated to using his power and influence to keep the peace between his pantheon and other factions.

He is a well-known seeker of knowledge, often leaving his duties as the King of Asgard to his brothers and children to discover new, and often forbidden, knowledge throughout both the mundane world and the supernatural world. Some of the most notable examples of his willingness to sacrifice in the name of new knowledge is when he sacrificed his left eye to the Well of Mimir, or how he hung himself onto the branches of Yggdrasil to learn about the Angelic Runes and used it as a foundation to invent the current Runic Magic system. He is also extremely cunning and sly, having a terrible habit of manipulating events to his advantage and making sure even the worst possibilities would be beneficial to him.

While he is undoubtedly a great and wise king who cares about the peace of his pantheon, his former well-known and much feared wrath would often show itself from time to time. When Hoder was tricked by Logi into killing his twin Balder and trigger the beginning of Ragnarök, he punished jötunn by killing his sons, Váli and Narfi, and used their entrails to bind him to a slab where a poisonous serpent would drop its venom onto Loki's face for eternity. According to Tyr, he also has a problem with dealing with his personal problems and past mistakes, and tends to solve them through trickery, lies, and manipulations, if not just out-right ignoring them entirely.

Another well-known trait of him is his lustful nature. He is extremely perverted, often harassing young women and going to strip clubs and brothels for entertainment. He also has a tendency to make fun of his Valkyrie bodyguards of their inability to maintain a romantic relationship, often making fun of them by calling them "*the Valkyries whose age is equal to the number of years without a boyfriend.*" It was because of his perverted nature that his wife Frigg had divorced him and moved back to Vanaheim, taking their sons with her.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose those of heavenly nature, pagan gods such as Odin are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals rumored to be capable of even killing immortals such as the pagan gods.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including pagan gods such as Odin.
* **Old Age**: Despite being a deity, due to a curse placed upon the Norse gods by the remnants of Ginnungagap, unless Odin consumes an Apple of Immortality grown by Idunn once a month, he will rapidly age into an old man and lost most of his divine powers over war and wisdom, though his immortality will still be active and prevents him from dying of old age like ordinary mortals.
* **Lack of Worship & Offerings**: As a pagan god, Odin gains more power from the prayers, offerings, and sacrifices from mortal devotees, and is dependent on it to maintain his immense divinity. If he stops gaining offerings from his loyal followers, his powers may become immensely weakened. Due to his essence being tied to the Western Civilization, he can gain power from those associated and symbolized by his divine domains, or associated with him or the myths surrounding him.

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to kill or injure fellow immortal gods like Odin. However, due to his immense power, only a chieftain god’s Symbol of Power is capable of killing him.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Odin can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
	+ **Longinus**: As the Longinus are Sacred Gears made out of Enochian metals of the highest-ranking, forged by Heavens' forges with the highest-quality Enochian technology and are imbued with fragments of the Biblical God's divinity, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Odin, to the point where he can never be reborn or resurrected again.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Odin can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* Odin’s name can be translated as either "master of ecstasy" or "master of fury, the furious."
* He gained his nickname, The All-Father, because of his status as the spiritual father to all the Æsir gods, as well as his heritage: his father was an Aesir, his mother was a jötunn, and Odin himself is also known as the Vanr god, Odr.
* In the Elder Futhark rune alphabet, he is associated with the *Ansuz* rune.
* The English weekday *Wednesday* was named after him (from Old English *Wōdnesdæġ*, "Woden's day").
	+ This explains Odin's current human alias "Mr. Wednesday".
* He stood in a blizzard for six days to learn how to use a smartphone.
	+ He endured weeks of motivational speaking to find how to have a successful afterlife.
* Several characters from J.R.R Tolkien's fiction were inspired by him. The appearance of the wizard Gandalf was particularly inspired by Odin's "wanderer" guise, whereas other aspects of the god directly influenced other characters such as Saruman, Sauron, Morgoth, and Manwë.
* Music inspired by or featuring him includes the ballets *Odins Schwert* (1818) and *Orfa* (1852) by J. H. Stunz and the opera cycle *Der Ring des Nibelungen* (1848–1874) by Richard Wagner.
* Many locations in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and England are named after him.
	+ The country Sweden derived its name from *Svidur*, one of his many names.
	+ Odin, a Swedish satellite used for aeronomical observations, is named after him.
* Human sacrifices were made in honor of him, with many accounts of even kings being sacrificed.
* *Odinism* is an off-set of the white supremacist movement who believe that Caucasians were made in the image of the old gods and that all other humans are beneath them.
* He is one of the few gods who actually believes in reconciliation between the different factions and pantheons.
* He hopes for a new future of his religion, a reference to modern Germanic Neo-pagan religions like Ásatrú, Fyrnsidu, or Irminism.