Rán

### Nicknames

Ran, Old Woman Rán, Trashlady of the Nordic Sea, Old Mother of the Waves, Bag Lady Ran (by Magnus Chase)

### Titles

Goddess of the Seas and Fishing Nets
Goddess of Drowning Seafarers
Personification of the Seas
Capturer of Seafarers
Lady of the Sacred Net

## Family

### Parents

Unnamed Æsir Father
Unnamed Jötunn Mother

### Children

Nine Billow Maiden
* Blóðughadda (daughter)
* Bylgja (daughter)
* Dröfn (daughter)
* Dúfa (daughter)
* Hefring (daughter)
* Himinglæva (daughter)
* Hrönn (daughter)
* Kólga (daughter)
* Uðr (daughter)

Gerðr (step-daughter)
Freyr (step-son-in-law)

### Grand-children

Heimdallr (grandson)
Fjölnir (step-grandson)

### Others

Children of Rán (creations)
Davy Jones (creation)

## Personal status

### Affiliations

Gandvik
Æsir Gods
Sea-Jötnar
Norse Gods
Norse Cosmology
* Jötunheimr

The Earth (formerly)

## Powers

### Powers

Norse Deity Physiology
* Æsir/Jötunn Hybrid

Net Creation
Death Inducement
Ocean Embodiment

### Power-ranking

Bottom-ranked Primordial-class Deity

**Rán** is the Æsir Goddess of the Seas, Storms, and Fishing Net. She is also the queen of the Sea-jötnar - a branch of jötnar who specialized in water or sea-related sorcery.

She is the wife of the Elder Jötunn of the Seas Ægir, and with him mothered the Nine Billow Maidens - Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dröfn, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Uðr - Mother of the god Heimdallr. Through her marriage with Ægir, she is the step-mother of the beautiful Gerðr - wife of the Vanir god Freyr. She is also the creator of Davy Jones - the demon who drags the souls of human sailors to his lair underneath the seas.

She rules from her palace underneath the dangerous sea Gandvik - the location where Miðgarðr (the Earth) and Jötunheimr formerly met before the gods decided to retreat back to their respective cosmology. As the goddess of fishing nets, she decorated her halls with the souls, bodies, and various trinkets she gathered from her enchanted net.

Rán (pronounced "RAN") is often anglicized as **Ran**.

## Biography

Rán (Old Norse: "robber") is an Æsir goddess associated with the sea, often considered to be the personification of the more sinister aspects of the sea. Rán is attested in the *Poetic Edda* and the Prose Edda, written during the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in both *Völsunga saga* and Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna; and in poetry, such as Sonatorrek, a 10th century poem by Icelandic poet Egill Skallagrímsson.

Her husband is the Jötunn Ægir ("sea"), and they reside on Miðgarðr at the bottom of the Ganvik sea (known today as the Baltic Sea). While most jötnar are at odds with gods, Ægir and Rán share a friendly relationship with them and are known for hosting elaborate parties for them. The goddess is frequently associated with a net, which she uses to capture sea-goers. According to the prose introduction to a poem in the Poetic Edda and in Völsunga saga, Rán once loaned her net to the god Loki.

She and Ægir have nine children: Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dröfn, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Uðr who represent the spirits of the waves.

### Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

#### The Sword of Summer

When Sam and Magnus went fishing in Jötunheimr and caught the World Serpent, Jörmungandr, the goddess then emerged from the sea and pleaded with them to release the World Serpent. Magnus, however, agreed to do so only in exchange for Sumarbrander and one of Idunn's apples (both of which the Rán had in her net), much to the goddess' dismay.

Rán loves scavenging for junk, shipwrecks and even the souls of the people who have died. She captures all the discarded items in a monumental net that swirls around her constantly, trapping anything that comes near within it, only to come out if the net is cut, which was highly unlikely although Magnus did threaten to as a bargaining chip to force Ran into giving them Sumarbrander and of Iðunn's apples of immortality. She envies the amount of junk which the Great Pacific Garbage Patch holds and wants it all to herself. As she said, Magnus had now made an enemy of Rán and would be no doubt stirring up trouble in the next few books. Although most of the content of her net were pure useless junk sometimes she does find extremely valuable things such as Sumarbrander and the Apples of Immortality occasionally.

She got very frustrated with her husband, Ægir, God of Alcohol, so naturally, he spends most of his time in the ale shop and not with Rán, his wife. He is randomly obsessed with microbrews and keeps going on about them, as the annoyed Rán says.

#### The Hammer of Thor

Magnus mentioned Rán and her husband when planning how to beat Loki to Naglfar with his cousin.

#### The Ship of the Dead

Njörðr and Ægir both mentioned Rán. Her husband mentioned her when saying he promised to kill Magnus if he sees him while Njörðr mentioned her when stated the different aspects of the sea that they rule over and control.

## Appearance

Due to her half-Jötunn heritage, Rán stands at ten-feet tall. From her appearance, it could be asumed to be once beautiful, but her pearlescent skin was withered, her seaweed-green eyes were milky with cataracts, and her rippling blonde hair was shot through with grey like blight in a wheat field.

From the waist up, she wears a blouse of silver chain mail encrusted with barnacles. Spinning around her like a dancer's skirt, a watersprout swirled within a silver fishing net a hundred yeards in diameter. Trapped in its weave is a kaleidoscope of ice floe, dead fishes, plastic garbage bags, car ties, gorcery carts, and other assorted flotsams. Ghostly bearded faces, gasping and terrified as they tried to reach the surface; hands clawing at the ropes swirl in net.