Hell Has No Ox-Head Horse-Face, Only Big Golden Guys Waving at You

Odin and Hela were the "twin gods" of Vrykul legend.

No one knew where things had gone wrong, but in the Vrykul legends of this age, the other Titan Keepers who should also have become Vrykul gods had vanished without a trace.

Aside from isolated places like Brunnhildar village in the Storm Peaks, where Vrykul still worshipped Thunderlord Clan Thorim, Vrykul across the rest of the world had only these two faiths.

Perhaps Odin had done it deliberately.

After all, in the ancient age, his relationship with his brothers and sisters had always been terrible. And Odin, who was determined to shape the Stormforged in preparation for "Ragnarok," clearly had no intention of sharing his own "fishpond" with the other Keepers.

The birth of Hela, the goddess of death, had been a regrettable accident. But there was no denying that Odin, that stubborn and self-willed bastard, bore one hundred percent of the responsibility for Hela's tragedy.

Tempted by the knowledge of death, he had personally turned a loyal, kind, powerful Sea Witch who worshipped and obeyed him into a monster whose heart had been devoured by hatred and despair.

Odin knew that perfectly well. That was why he refused to discuss anything related to Hela, painting her and her followers as evil beings who had to be eradicated within his Skyhold.

But guess what?

Hela herself had failed to live up to expectations.

After suffering that tragedy, she had actually allowed the despair and pain within her to reshape her, ultimately choosing to consort with the servants of the Old Gods and becoming precisely the kind of "monster" Odin had described.

She and her Helheim abyss had truly become the place of death and evil most feared by the Vrykul.

Of course, Odin and Hela shared the same arrogance. For