Loki
Neither an Aesir or a Vanir, he is the son of two giants and yet the foster-brother of Thor. Loki embodies the ambiguous and darkening relationship between the gods and the giants. He is dynamic and unpredictable and because of that he is both the catalyst in many of the myths and the most fascinating character in the entire mythology. Without the exciting, unstable, flawed figure Loki, there would be no change in the fixed order of things, no quickening pulse, and no Ragnarok.
He is responsible for a wager with a giant which puts Freyja into peril but by changing both shape and sex (characteristics he has in common with Odin) he bails her out. He helps the Gods and gets them out of predicaments, but spawns the worst monsters ever seen on the face of the Earth: Fenrir and Jormungandr. His other children include the goddess Hel, and Sleipnir, Odin’s 8-legged horse.
Divine Domains
God of Mischief
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