Ginnungagap

The Ultimate God of the Empty (Unknown artist)

## Names and Epithets

### Aliases

Ginnungagap, Tehom, Sheol, Gungunningap, Oblivion, Pralaya, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, Non-Existence

### Titles

The Void, The Abyss, Shadow of Odin, the Yawning Void, the Outer God, GodVoid, The Lord of the Abyss, the Shadowverse, the Embodiment of Ginnungagap, the Shadow of God's Shade, The Gap

## Personal Info

### Personify

Oblivion, Nonexistence, the Void, Amorality, Nothingness, Emptiness, Vacuum

### Occupation

God of the Void, Progenitor of the Nordic Pantheon

## Extra Info

### Dislike

People disturb his sleep or enter his kingdom

## Portrayal

### Voice Actor

Hibiku Yamamura

**Ginnungagap**, also known as **Oblivion**, is the primordial God that created the Norse Pantheon, as well as the embodiment of the void that existed before the creation of the Norse realm, Ymir and Surtur. Ginnungagap is and dwells the primal void that encompasses the Nordic realm and Yggdrasil with its nine realms and countless timelines, serving as a gap between the Nordic realm and other universes, existing in silence and seemingly sleeping forever.

Ginnungagap was one of the first humans created by the Lord God Yahweh to be worshiped as a deity, having been one of the first gods to exist. He is one of the oldest gods on Earth, over 200 million years-old, having emerged a few million years after God breathed into the nostrils of the first Tetrapod to give it lungs. When Earth was still with its first dinosaurs emerging and all lands were one on a single continent called Pangea, Ginnungagap was there, sleeping in the depths of the abyss.

## Overview

Ginnungagap is the Norse primordial god who embodies the primeval void of chaos and nothingness that existed before the creation of the realm and the Norse Pantheon. Ginnungagap is one of the oldest gods on Earth, born to an unnamed father and mother, born during the Triassic period as a human, in this case, one of the primordial humans created by Yahweh. He eventually ascended his spirit and became a high-level divine spirit, known among mankind as "gods".

Contrary to popular belief, Ginnungagap is older than his eponymous realm, having been created to be a kind of realm where he could sleep. Ginnungagap had also created four guardians to watch over his realm, who turned out to be the progenitors of the Norse Pantheon, such as Ymir, who was killed by his descendant Odin.

Ginnungagap appears as the primordial void in the Norse creation account. The Gylfaginning states: "Ginnungagap, the Yawning Void... which faced toward the northern quarter, became filled with heaviness, and masses of ice and rime, and from within, drizzling rain and gusts; but the southern part of the Yawning Void was lighted by those sparks and glowing masses which flew out of Múspellheim". In the northern part of Ginnungagap lay the intense cold of Niflheim, and in the southern part lay the equally intense heat of Muspelheim. The cosmogonic process began when the effulgence of the two met in the middle of Ginnungagap.

## Appearance

The true form of Ginnungagap is difficult to describe, due to the fact that it is the primordial personification of oblivion and non-existence, being indescribable and devoid of any form or appearance. Its believed true form is that of an impersonal emptiness that seems to encompass the entire Nordic world. In reality, it looks more like a black hole than anything else in the universe. It can also sometimes appear as a humanoid being made of smoke and darkness.

In his human form, he appears as an androgynous teenager with long dark purple hair that reaches past his feet, while his bangs cover his left eye. He has red eyes, fangs and pointy ears. For clothing he wears a sleeveless open-back dress including a collar with gold beads covering his throat. The chest piece is black while the rest of the dress is white, and the gown splits open at his outer thighs which would free his legs for movement. He is always barefoot.

## Personality

Ginnungagap is a chaotic and amoral entity, showing complete amorality to anything around it or is in a state similar to unconscious. The only times it shows interest is when a power of overwhelming power and authority seeks to speak it, like God's Norse avatar Fimbultyr, and the Allfather Odin.

Even in his human form, his personality remains chaotic and sinister. Like all gods of darkness, he is manipulative and uses nightmares to erode a person's constitution for the purposes of possessing them, in order to take over his host's body. Despite his frightening personality, he has a great deal of knowledge about the universe and other entities beyond him.