Legend had it that the Asgardians were "immortal."
Their bodies could perish and be destroyed, but their souls would all be welcomed into a glittering golden palace—Valhalla.
Valhalla was the heavenly realm of the Aesir, also known as the Hall of the Slain. It was a magnificent hall within Asgard that could not be touched from any material plane.
It was not only the spirits of the Aesir who went there after death.
In myth, mortal heroes and kings who worshipped All-Father Odin could also earn His approval through valor and sacrifice. The Valkyries would carry them to Valhalla on their winged steeds, where they could feast and drink with the heroes of ages past, gaining another form of immortality.
All-Father Odin Bor'sen, who conquered and unified the Nine Realms and led the Aesir to their peak, left no remains behind.
He dissolved into specks of golden light, which drifted away on the winds of the Realm Eternal in Frigga's arms.
At his funeral seven days earlier, a suit of armor and ceremonial robes Odin had worn in life had been placed on an ancient longboat and sent out across Asgard's ocean toward the endless stars.
In Asgard's Golden Palace, the brothers Thor and Loki stood apart beneath the throne reserved for the King of the Gods.
In the great hall, the handful of surviving high-ranking warriors of the Realm Eternal's army and the elderly members of the Aesir stood on either side. The goddess Sif stood at the front. Her severed right arm had been replaced with a dark silver arm of Uru, enchanted metal, and a sword hung at her waist.
Queen Frigga stood beside the vacant throne, her fingertips brushing its dark golden armrest. Her eyes were calm. Gungnir, the Eternal Spear that Odin had always held