So according the Norns the problem arising from us
preventing Ragnarok is that, well, apocalypses like that need to happen at
somewhat regular intervals. Apparently
they’re roughly the equivalent of wildfires, periodically everything needs to
be burned to replenish existence and avoid stagnation. To offer support of their statement they
pointed out that although the winter part of Fimbulwinter wasn’t happening…humanity
seemed to be making good progress towards the whole brother killing brother part
of it. The Dodekatheon aren’t exactly
helping very much in that regard.
Thankfully, however, they say it doesn’t have to be Ragnarok. Any mythic end of the world scenario will
work, apparently. My gut reaction is to
try to steer things towards the Teotl end of the world myths. The Black Tezcatlipoca’s already been more or
less responsible for the end of the reign of every sun save himself; perhaps he’d
be willing to help end another one.
But obviously that whole scenario’s something we’re going to
have to put quite a bit more thought into.
For now we still need to get down to Helheim. Speaking of; the lack of sleep seemed to be
getting to some of the other members of the band. Apparently divine fortitude doesn’t help you
go without it quite as well on Yggsdragsil as it does in Midgard. And we never really had an opportunity to
rest all that much on the way down.
So when they offered to watch over us so we could get a
night of sleep if we’d check out something for them we agreed. They were concerned that the Well of
Hvergelmir. It’s run dry, which means
both that Yggsdragsil lacks the water it needs and that the rivers of Midgard
will run dry. Since they can’t go to
check it they asked us to. It’ll add
time to our journey, sure, but it’s also a chance to rest. And it’s clear that some of the members of
the band need it badly.
The well in question is fifteen miles across and at least
eight deep, all but three of which are blocked by an enormous dam being
constructed by an army of somewhere around two hundred undead Svartalfar. So…hopefully we can manage to punch a hole
through it before the whole army of them realizes that we’re there.
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