I Took Over the Sun God
Chapter 206

The Great Serpent Jormungandr Returns

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Orlog?

Hearing Ra and Odin speak, people began wondering what Orlog was. Those who knew little or nothing about Norse Mythology were especially lost. But if they did not know, they could always ask the all-knowing internet.

Soon, questions about Orlog were everywhere online across Blue Star, and the term shot up the search rankings.

"Orlog? What's that? Is there a god by that name in Norse Mythology? How have I never heard of them?"

"Can someone who knows this stuff explain what Orlog is?"

"'At times, the Three Norns wove a vast web of fate, stretching from mountains in the far east to the Western Sea in the far west. Its threads resembled wool, but their colors changed constantly. A black thread running from south to north marked death. As they worked their shuttles, they often sang a solemn song. They did not weave the fate of all things according to their own will, but blindly obeyed and carried out the will of the eternal law of the universe: Orlog, the oldest and highest Sovereign of All Things, without beginning or end.' That's how the Poetic Edda, handed down from the Middle Ages, describes Orlog. From the sound of it, Orlog seems to be something like the laws of the universe or fate itself."

"The laws of the universe? That somehow reminds me of the Outer Gods in the Cthulhu Mythos."

"Come on, those are completely different things. Norse Mythology predates the Cthulhu Mythos by ages. Even that rumor going around online—that the Cthulhu Evil God has existed for hundreds of millions of years and humans only recently wrote about him—doesn't make Orlog an Outer God. Plenty of gods can be seen as embodiments of universal law. Taiyi God of the East is one of them."

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