Skaggi

**Skaggi** is one of the ruling gods of Thryndaheimr, and is known as the Goddess of Thieves, Schemes, Bargains, Luck, Secrets, Concealment, and Wealth. She is the patron god of the Greel race, and granter of boons to all of Thryndaheimr's thieves and conspirators. Ever a conniving sneak that meddles in the affairs of others, Skaggi is an opportunistic burglar and habitual liar that delights in the exploits of mortals and regularly sticks her hands into the cogs of fate, either to her own ends or for the simple delight of sabotage.

## History

### Before the World

The nature of Skaggi's birth is not well known, not even to the likes of the Hrogni, seer of secrets and first of the witches. Whereas Aragni stepped out from the molten blood of the earth and Faethir fell from the great storm clouds above, Skaggi simply appeared among the gods' company as if from nowhere. But in the great chaos that was born of Nifrothr and Usparr's collision, it was this strange goddess who first came forward with the plan to fell the world-giant and fashion a world of its parts. The other gods were hesitant to trust this interloper, whose intentions even the wise Hrogni could not see, but they failed to offer a better plan and thus united to bring battle to the giant.

#### First Battle for the World

The first battle for the world was brutal and bitterly fought by the gods. While the others all played their role, the devious Skaggi was nowhere to be seen. Thinking themselves abandoned, the battle-weathered pantheon thought to flee their doomed encounter with the world-giant and her many daughters. It was only at their darkest moment when suddenly, one of the daughters of the titan was inexplicably wounded and unable to follow her sisters. Instantly, the cunning beast-goddess, Skoldr, was upon the hapless creature and tearing her apart. Unable to save her, the world-giant wailed in despair and descended on the goddess of the hunt in a fit of sorrowful rage. With the giant's back turned, Faethir leaped far into the sky and struck at her foe, knocking her down and scattering her daughters. Without hesitation, Aragni threw great iron chains over the fallen titan and moved to secure them, but found her hammer missing from her side. As the world-giant began to rose, Faethir reached for another thunderbolt but too could not place it. The gods were nearly routed before, suddenly, the trickster goddess Skaggi appeared atop the head of the creature, forge-hammer and thunderbolt in hand. Before the world-giant could react, Skaggi hammered the bolt of lightning into its skull with a force that betrayed her thin stature. The giant fell, dead at last, and her daughters fled out into the chaos. The gods were triumphant, but not according to their own plans; only Skaggi stood so tall and proud with all the glory of the world-giant's defeat to herself and the tools she had borrowed.

### Forging of the New World

With the world-giant slain, the gods of the new world set to shaping it piece by piece, using the raw material that fell from the giant's body and the stuff of chaos that lay beyond. Skaggi, uniquely, had little interest in this process and was content to watch from afar as the other gods did their labors. Even Skoldr was quick to hunt down the fleeing Jodunni and mark stretches of the world as her own. The forge goddess Aragni warned the idle goddess that she would have little claim to this new world if she did not take the initiative. A calm Skaggi boasted that in reality she alone had every claim to the new world as the one who slew the world-giant, at the brink of the goddesses' defeat no less; she then asserted that by right she is welcome to any part of this world should she desire such. However, she was ultimately content to allow the other goddesses their own dominions within this world, asking only that hers was the right to visit those dominions as she pleased. Begrudgingly, the other goddesses accepted her terms and went back to their own works, while Skaggi the vagrant goddess watched on.

#### The Greel

When the other gods were settling their realms, Skaggi found the cavernous underbelly of the new world a suitable lair for herself. There, she stashed many curios and treasure she had stolen, borrowed, or otherwise procured during her many schemes. It was also here where she first found the Greel; a sneaky race of creatures that had wormed their way into her own dominion and were promptly filling their pockets with her rightfully acquired goods.

## Appearance and Depictions

Many races make deals with Skaggi, but none so intimately as the Greel race who owe her a collective debt for access to their enigmatic fate-twisting tales.