Escape from Olympus

In a snowy forest, a blonded man with a large mane wanders through, exhausted, he starts hearing eagles fly high above him, the sky lights up and a thunderous noise is heard, it sounds wounded, like an animal that's been hit in the leg. The man stumbles through the forest, hiding from the eagles in the trees. He looks at something in his hand, a thunderbolt, he smashes it down onto the ground and several lightning strikes portrude through the eagles, killing them; this enrages the eagle pack, who charges forwards. The man, scared for his life, throws himself into the snow. and covers his head, hoping for the worst, eventually, he falls asleep in there.

When the man wakes up, his hands and legs are tied together and he's being carried. Taken to a Viking Outpost, the Viking Chief demands to know his name, to which he answers Dunor. He responds by saying that he comes from Greece, and when asked why, he says he's looking for his father. When asked who his father is, he looks up and says his name is Odin, they all laugh and say that he's insane, but Dunor quickly frees himself and uses the lightning to destroy the entirety of the Outpost in an array of fire. Dunor interrogates the Viking Leader and he answers that he can only get to Asgard, where Odin is, through the legendary Bifrost. Dunor asks how he can get to the Bifrost, and he says that only Heimdal can activate it, when asked where he is, he answers that Heimdal usually peridically guards the Bifrost, and the Bifrost connected to the world lays as north until the land ends. Dunor steals the Viking's horse, and takes off into the forest, while the Viking Chief looks on angrily and curses him, he looks towards the rest of his vikings, saying that he'll spare some of his wealth so that one of the best bounty hunters in hte north can bring them the head of Dunor.

Meanwhile, back in Olympus, Zeus is shown having sex with some poor woman, he lays back in bed; when suddenly an eagle arrives through the room, scaring the woman, the eagle brings Zeus the news, who acts horrified and smashes a mirror. The eagle leaves, and Zeus explains to the woman that Gods are undergoing a problem, as their powers and influence are ceasing, and the prophecies are running out, leaving their fate unscripted and their structure in chaos. He is shown to be very weak and meek and not all that powerful since his Thunder has been stolen, he gets up and teleports the woman off from Olympus, before going over to the balcony of his temple, and looking down at Greece, and beyond into the snow. Zeus storms into Hera's chamber, comfronting and cursing her as a whore and wench, Hera replies that Zeus has slept with more women and therefore cheated on her than she could count in a lifetime, to which Zeus eventually slaps her after much mockery, spitting on her; he reveals that he's not angry because she had an illegitimate child, but because that child was accepted into the Pantheon. Zeus replies that Hera will pay by her son: Hephasteus' blood, and then storms out of the room.

Dunor rides his horse through the forest for a day, eating berries in the forest and getting accustomed to the northern setting, he hunts a wolf via the usage of his hammer and tools, and then uses him to make a coat. His god-like powers have almot entirely dissappeared by now both because he's nowhere near his homeland and because the Allfather has willed it so, and this is shown when he struggles against a pack of wolves but eventually defeats them. By the morning, Dunor has found himself inside a village, he strolls in in his horse and leaves it at an inn. Dunor gets introduced to the locals, including a young girl called Sif. It's revealed that this village is partially inhabited by half-Jottunns, and is a crossing between several realms, which means that he must be getting closer to Heimdal. He starts getting accustomed to the Norse lifestyle, getting handled more clothing to replace his shitty white robes, and talking more with Sif, getting to know her and the village customs, although he still has the paranoia.

He falls in love with Sif, but just when he's about to lay with her, the inn door gets knocked. Dunor goes to open it and sees a biped, quite big armored-clad bear who introduces himself as Rustt. Rustt walks in, basically forcing himself into the inn, and eats some of their salmon, devouring down on it. He reveals he's here for he who called himself Son of Odin, Dunor brandishes his lightning, which greatly hurts him, burning his arm a bit. Dunor turns the table over and lashes at him, firing an arsenal of several crossbows at him. Rustt even manages to shoot Dunor through the wall, lunging at him and mauling him, causing several scars, however, Dunor launches a thunder which knocks Rustt away, Rustt lunges at Dunor, who guides him through the village, in a chase where they go through basically every house, with lightning strikes that occassionally hit the ferocious bear, who lands a couple of hits. They eventually end up in the frozen riverside of the village, where they fight underwater, before striking themselves into the mining system of the village, there, Rustt manages to impale Dunor through a stalagmite. When he's about to deliver the finishing hit, the mob of halfbreed Jotunns that makes up the populace of the town charge at the bear, who swipes away the people he can, giving Dunor enough time to rip himself off the Stalactite by breaking it off the floor with a thunder that strikes into the cave, ripping it off his body and then stabbing Rustt through the shoulder with it, wounded, the bounty hunter runs away into a waterfall.

Dunor returns to the village, and the very next day they celebrate a funeral for all those who were killed by Rustt, where Dunor gets to witness Nordic Funerals for the first time. His wounds get healed by Sif, who takes care of him as he's wounded. That night, Sif and Dunor fuck. Sif asks for Dunor's hand, however, he tells him that being married would be much too dangerous, as she'd aready seen. Sif asks who Dunor really is, and he just says that he's not from there, that he's from Greece, Dunor starts describing Greece to Sif. Just as this happens, one of Zeus' eagles flies overhead, signaling his presence. Dunor reveals that his father is looking to hunt him down, as he's discovered that he's not really his son, but rather the son of someone from those parts. Sif presses Dunor to tell her who she thinks her father is, and Dunor finally reveals he believes his father is Odin, Emperor of the North, and that's why he must get to Asgard. Sif reveals that in a forest near this place there were several hidden Jotun runics that might detail the way to Heimdall. Sif says that he'll take Dunor to the forest, but warns him that it's a very dangerous place, as the Járnviðr, as the forest is called, is theorized to be home to dangerous Troll-like flesh eating creatures. Zeus' eagle, incredibly cold and near death, observes and records the conversation while Zeus himself observes from his penthouse in Olympus, silently, but formulating a plan.

The following day, Dunor and Sif take off towards the **Járnvior**. As they get there, all the land begins to dry out, the snow begins to dissappear into what's basically just endless dunes of white sand completely covered in long thin trees, where occassionally, prey can be found hanged on. Dunor and Sif struggle to navigate, and when Sif tries to find her way back, they find that they're completely lost. They start wandering, and both start getting paranoid and hallucinating, with Dunor seeing Zeus' birds all around. Sif suggests to follow the path that has the biggest tree clearings, as it looks like the path where Jotunns would've gone through. They access through this big tree clearing, but don't manage to find anyhthing but an increasing number of dead animals that start out from little birds to rabbits to foxes to wolves to things as big as bears. Eventually, they have to stop for camping. Dunor starts consider to tell Sif that he's already a Greek God, but before he can do that, trolls appear from inbetween the trees, strange grotesque beings made out of moss, flesh and stone, who detain the couple, taking them into a cave and knocking them out.

It cuts to the inside of a cave behind a waterfall, a wounded Rustt cures his wounds caused by the fight, and examines his broken crossbows. Suddenly, an eagle crosses through the waterfall, which Rustt immediately claws down and begins to devour. Another eagle crosses through once again, but before Rustt can also hunt it, it opens its mouth, revealing a vortex that shows Zeus, trying to communicate with the bear hominid. Zeus calms him down, explaining the eagles were his and that he was talking to him from a whole different land, Zeus explains that he saw what he'd done with Dunor, and that he was very impressed. He introduces himself as a God, and says that he'll pay him all the riches he desires if he manages to kill Dunor and bring the Thunderbolt to one of his eagles, promising him a legendary statue and a place amongst the greats of history. Rustt accepts, but says that if he learns to use the Thunder he might become unstoppable. Zeus has taken that into account, he shows something to Rustt: a revolver, and says that it's a weapon from the future, Rustt just needs to aim somewhere, press the trigger, and the person will be dead. Rustt takes it, and decides to accept the deal. The Eagle closes the portal, and details Rustt with all the information he has of Dunor's whereabouts.

Meanwhile, Dunor wakes up with spice falling on his face, he wakes up tied by several bandages holding him together to a large stone, and sees that he's being prepared to be cooked, and that since he's naked he has no weapons anywhere near him. He looks around and sees that he's surrounded by the Trolls, who now play with the weapons as if they were children's toys, he struggles, but cannot free himself due to his significant lack of strength by that point. The Trolls start mocking him, and one even burps an entire skeleton unto him. They also reveal that they've finished spicing up Sif, revealing her to be tied and gagged over a giant melting pot of Troll Soup, ready to be dipped in and soup. The leader of the Trolls, the *Mountain King*, is seen feeding the remains of what looks like a dwarf to a strange large beast, and then starts mocking Dunor, saying that a desperate Sif already told them all that you were the son of Odin, they laugh at him, as he plays with the Thunderbolt, after swishing it however, he accidentally activates it, and a large explosion occurs, knocking the pot over and burning several Trolls to death, while also knocking the rock where Dunor was tied to over and allowing him to break free of his bondage, he lunges at the Mountain King, beating the shit out of him like this were Shadow of the Colossus as Thunder falls erratically in the background. Dunor grabs the bolt and stabs the Mountain King with it, causing him to blow up in an array of lightning that flashes literally everywhere in the room, Sif climbs through the arm of another troll, using her longsword to cut the troll's head off, which falls off and smashes the shorter trolls. Sif reunites with Dunor, and they stare in horror as the entire Troll colony exits out of the cave tunnel and begins chasing them, slowly morphing into a singular rock-like monstrosity that somehow crawls through the ever-narrowing cave, jumping through obstacles. After the trouble seems like it's done, the *Yule Cat*, pet of the Trolls, jumps out of the narrow stretch and chases them both, who are stuck between the Cat and a mountain of children bones blocking the exit, they jump away at the exact same time, and the Yule Cat slams right into the bones, making them spill over and reveal a narrow crack in the wall in which they escape into another subsection of the cave.

Sif and Dunor come out in a strange mystical ice cave, covered in Jottun runes, that depic the 9 realms of the North, and the Bifrost connecting each one, as well as a large carving of Heimdall, blowing his horn. Sif discovers that through the horn, a map is depicted that ledas to the North Cape, Heimdall's residence in Midgard, and an exact way of how to get there. While she notes it down, Dunor walks around the cave, discovering an ice grave for an ice giant named **Fárbauti**. Before he can even touch it, Sif gasps, grabbing his arm, before pulling him away, revealing that Laufrey was king of the Ice Giants, and is now dead Now armed with the map. Sif notices that the roof above them is pretty much just dirt, and Dunor decides to strike lightning down to break through it, they wall climb out of there, pushing their backs against eachother, and eventually get out of the cave system. They reminisce about what they've just lived while walking through the now ending Troll Forest, talking about their experiences before reaching the riverside. Sif makes a makeshift boat, and they start sailing the nearly-frozen river back towards the village, Sif reveals that the Jottuns that live in the village were forsaken by the rest after the betrayal of their rogue leader, Farbauti, who led a rebellion because he wanted to open the Jottuns up to more realms and people, and so he was cursed with mummification, now sleeping in the cursed lands where wretched and villains fester around his body. They share a romantic night as they sail down the river towards the village, and Dunor really starts to feel home. Eventually, the boat stops, and they get off by a path leading to the town.

Everything's covered by a heavy blizzard, which obscures their view, and when they get there, the town is completely vacant. Sif and Duran walk in, looking around for anyone, but nobody's home, they discover corpses, and even some of Zeus' eagles festering down on the corpses, an enraged Sif breaks down, Duran blames himself, knowing that all this misfortune came when he went in, he gets reprimanded by Sif, Duran tries to persuade Sif to come to a safe place, for surely they shall be coming for her as well, but she just screams at him to let him die. Duran runs away from Sif, into the abandoned forgery that he'd spent some time at, now barely standing. Through the window, he can see a silhouette slowly walking from the blizzard towards him, at first, he thinks it's Sif, but then it starts looking much bigger: it's Rustt. One of the bars in the window is blown open by a bullet, smoke comes out of Rustt's new weapon, and he blows it off. Rustt demands that Duran comes out to face him like a man. An enraged Duran walks out, dropping the Thunderbolt on the floor, he says that the Thunderbolt's his, that he doesn't care anymore. Rustt takes it, observes it, and then drops it into the snow. He says he's here for his life, and starts blasting shots towards his direction, one of which hits him in the gut. Unable to fight back, Duran hides behind the rubble as Rustt pursues him on all-fours, sniffing after his direction, three eagles circle above him. And one goes down, the eagle dissipates into a cloud of smoke, before his 'father': Zeus, appears infront of him. Zeus asks him sarcastically if he's having enough fun yet. He berates him for ever trying to resist his way or for ever trying to Escape from Olympus, and says that what will happen himself only has himself and himself to blame, saying that he'll never be as good as the other ones, that he's a joke and that he deserves to die, calling him his name: **Hephasteus**, God of Forgery. He says that no matter how hard he tries he's no God of Thunder, before dissappearing. That gives Duran an idea, he quickly scrounges for the Thunderbolt, picking it up, before going back into the Forgery. He starts forging something while Rustt approaches him, something strong, durable, using the power of the Thunder. He smashes it down with all his strength, a weapon for all eternity. He finishes it and lifts up his new hammer: the **Mjölnir**, a half-hammer half-axe weapon that utilizes the thunder.

Duran steps out of the Forgery, and confronts Rustt; who lunges at him, firing several shots that Duran manages to reflect with his hammer, however, he falls in great pain when his bullet wound is grazed, falling to the floor; Rustt approaches him, about to deliver the final blow, however, an unknown force heals his wound, and he launches the Mjolnir at Rustt, hitting him in the head. Nevertheless, the bear continues to be up, he picks up his revolver, aims it at an unarmed Rustt, and is about to pull the trigger... When the Mjolnir comes back, hitting him in the head again and knocking him out for good. Duran stands on Rustt, he lifts the Mjolnir, hesistating, before bringing it down and decapitating him. The Eagles all gather around Rustt's body, and begin feasting off it, as a horrified Zeus looks on in horror, screaming at him. Duran symbolically cuts the illusion in have, grabs Russtt's head, and makes it into an armor. He goes to the Inn, where Sif is found packing her things, throwing Russtt's head to the bed, telling her she can have him. Duran says that the only way to make justice is to tell the Gods themselves, and Sif decides to stay with Duran in his journey towards Asgard.

Sif and Duran exit the village's perimeter, they look at eachother and nod, Duran slams the hammer into the ground, rupturing the entire village away with a massive crack, and making it into a very small floating island that floats by the river into the open sea, simulating a Nordic Burial. They start walking through the woods, Sif is now wearing Rustt's head as a cape, she asks if she thinks that the Northern Gods are in his side, Duran shrugs; before they can continue any further, a beast stands infront of them: an eight-legged horse who gestures for them to get in its back. Sif whispers the name 'Sleipnir', Duran asks who that is, Sif turns towards him, saying that it's Odin's Horse.

From above it all, a man with an eyepatch stares down at the globe, saying: "I wait for you... My Son... **Thor**"